speaking like a true jockey....

.... after that can play with spiders.

A lot of people seems to be worried about opportunity cost....
I mean it's easy to look back and say.....
for example....
one can easily say...
' I saw many people eat Wantonmee at 11 sen....'
but since CNY, I did not not so much spare money to chiak the wantonmee like crazy......
now that bloody wantonmee is almost 40 sen...
there goes that big opportunity cost....
If only I ........................

Well I dunno ......
looking back is easy....
we can tell which one exactly is an opportunity and which one isn't..............
and what if the opportunity ...... is actually a pitfall?
yeah... what if I buy at 11 sen ....
and that bloody stock fell back to 9.5 sen?

so I am one who knows not how to count opportunity cost........

If no quick profits why you want to be in so early?

Would that then be defined as an opportunity?




anyway .....
'hold if fundamentals are still good' got different meanings one leh...
some hold the stock... cos they feel the stock is worth more.....

on the other hand...
some could have bought the stock at the wrong price....
and because they bought at a high price...
they feel they are compelled to hold the stock...
since they feel 'fundamentally the company is still good'.....
so they hold and hope their 'investment' recover.

Huh?
This is a new type of opportunity cost. LOL!

huh?
no wrong price?

Can just buy any good stock at any price and just hold the stock?

So gark, I tell you stocks is so easy to make money.



This post has been edited by Boon3: Mar 12 2015, 08:32 PM

I did fake trading for many years ........

Sorry but I seriously do not agree with you at all and I am absolutely amused and bewildered by your definition of opportunity cost.

Well how does one know that when one invest in stocks, one will EVEN make money?

Yes, I understand that if you do one thing, it will prevent you from doing others....


Placing your money in fd prevents you from investing in stocks. Winning or loosing is a different story.


Well... exactly.

the point is simple: winning or losing is a different story.

If that's the case.... how do you define it exactly as an opportunity cost?

LOL!

I dunno how cos when I trade a stock, I never will have the balls to say I will win cos there's a chance I could have screwed up my reason to speculate and trade the stock wrongly.

Paper trade my friend.

Never be silly and simply pay tuition fees learning stocks.

Tuition fees in the stock market is no like any other.

There's a chance one can lose so badly that one will lose their life worth of trousers.




Opportunity costs?
LOL!
If you want to be good in the market...
Throw that away.
Learn how to trade/invest in the market....
Know and understand the risks involved at all times.

That's more important.....

If you know that well, you will understand why and when to buy and not buy a share.

Actually I do not know what you are trying to reply...........

simply borrow here and there .... have to pay tax one you know.

Yes, some, investors, do look at ratios, like ROE.
some look at profit margins.
some look at profit growth.

for them, as long as the ratios do not deteriorate drastically, they will maintain the company as still strong.

for example, during the tech boom, some companies were growing at 20% growth yearly.
Which such a growth, the company was expected to make more money year.
Hence, the market was willing to pay a higher pe premium for the stock.
when the growth stopped (and in fact, some turned into losses), the market sold these stocks off...
cause these high flying companies weren't going to make such good money any more.
the fundamentals changed.
the boom was gone...

in a sense, we saw this happened exactly with our OnG stocks....

that's what I know ...
however, since I am a trader...
you better not take my words as the holy gospel....

.... yes... longer term..... LOL!


so why rush?

the other problem is 'good fundamental stock'...

LOL!

sometimes... every investor is so damn certain about their 'fundamental good' stock.

reason is simple.

after they buy....
how can the stock they purchase not be 'fundamental good'?
LOL!
die die also they argue their stock is fundamental good....
for example.....
some would die die argue Maybulk is a fundamental good stock.

......


macha!

no agree..

Haha...we can always not agree ma....

So last nite you say there is no 'wrong' price.
Now there is 'bad' price.

Bad price and wrong price got what difference?