Via Bursa website under announcements, it is the fastest result posting, keeps updating every 10 mins or so for the whole day.

Newspaper can be 1-2 days late and company website up to 1-2 weeks later. Annual report up to 1 year late ...

You cannot be faster than insider... before the result is made public you can see insider already start buying or throwing... so no point trying to chase/dump when result announced. You can rarely profit in this unless the counter has low interest/liquidity...

Of course better announcement will lead to better prices and vice versa. The trick is not to see Q on Q as most business have fluctuations. You need to see the overall picture and future prospects. Investing in equity is not about looking at past performance but making a judgement on the future growth performance. A stock can keep on going up for ages and then hit a speed bump and then diminish. Also the market is not rational, good stock can be under priced and bad stocks can be over priced. The market has it's own sentiments and emotions. Never let those get in the way in your investments.

Basically you need to look at future prospects and researching past performance can never tell the picture accurately...

EPF is considered Institutional clients and nowadays brokerage is fully negotiable and if you buy yesterday and sell today doesnt mean that they will not make money, they will look at the overall pic. they might have bought at a much cheaper price a week or a month ago.

For not so interesting company, just read the Quater reports. For interesting company and to see more info on thier activities, then I read for cover to cover. Particularly on the company progress updates, CEO salary, shareholder and assets.

I always see the CEO salary and board of directors first especially the CEO is the owner. If the CEO salary is extremely high compared to profits/revenue, then it is a sign that the company is not shareholder centric and is milking the company for personal gains. Most probally this company will not be minority shareholder friendly. Also this means the board of directors is not really that independent.

Warren Buffett only draws USD 100K a year as CEO....now you see why he is well liked by investors.

If a company earn 5 mil a year and the CEO salary is 15 mil, what does that tell you? If even the company is not performing well, yet the CEO get multi million bonus then how? Also he pay himself with lots and lots of cheap options.? All this is on the expense of the shareholder. 

To value a company you MUST think like an OWNER (indeed you are since you are a SHAREHOLDER). If you are the owner and yet you pay salary to those highly paid under performance CEO, what do you think?  Worth it?

No there are no CEO salary in Malaysia which tie to dividend if you are asking...

there are a few foreign brokers here in malaysia namely CLSA, Nomura,McQuarie,JPMorgan,Credit Suisse and UBS operating in Malaysia, most foreign will trade thru these brokers

There is no capital gain tax for foreign derived income/profits in Malaysia.

Unless you are resident local income tax does not apply to you. However you must check on local country withholding taxes for foreigner income.

For example if you get dividend from USA, you are subject to 30% witholding tax.

Derivative hedging means making a bet on the future movement of currency, either up or down.

Ie. USD is currently 3.05. The company expect the currency to go lower to USD 3.00. The company have 6-month sales target of 10 mil usd.

They hedge RM/USD exchange rate in the future at 3.05 by setting up contract to sell let says 10 mil USD to be delivered in 6 months time + about 1% contract fees.

If at end of 6 months average USD is now 3.01, they lose money from their sales (10 mil x (3.05-3.01) = -400K USD.

However they also earn from their derivative contract (10mil x (3.05-3.01)) - (100K contract fees)= +300k USD
If at end of 6 months average USD is now 3.08, they make money from their sales (10 mil x (3.08-3.05) = +300k usd

However they will lose from their derivative contract (10mil x (3.05-3.08) - 100k contract fees = -400k usd

In both scenario they minimize their gain/loss

However if sales drop and currency goes out of control, they will suffer huge losses...from derivative play

Example sales drop to 5 mil and USD shoot up to 3.20

Sales gain is 5mil x (3.20-3.050 = + 750K usd
Derivative = 10 mil x (3.05-3.20) = - 1500K usd

Proper hedging is part of managing the company as in risk management. Without hedging the profits can swing wildly. However one must differentiate between hedging and speculating. Usually those with big profit/loss due to derivatives is due to speculation. Hedging attempts to maintain the risk.

Air Asia/Mas hedge against fuel oil increase.

Manufacturer hedge against raw material price like tin, steel, latex etc etc

Most palm oil refinery hedge against palm oil price increase.

Export centric company hedge against forex.

Looking for past hedging is acceptable, but a proper hedge done correctly will have small gain/loss. If big gain loss mostly the company is speculating and/or the hedge is temporary and can swing back the other way (profit vs hedge amount) later.

Example of big hedge is IOI's palm oil hedge which temporary loss billions but later made back from increasing profits from sales of palm products (higher priced). Or MAS big gain in hedging, but later pay back in loss of profits due to high fuel price.

Example of speculation is china aviation oil, in which the company speculate oil price to go lower, in amount way higher than sales/profits. In the end the company almost declared bankruptcy if the parent company did not bail it out.

Read more at... http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Belgiu...nOilDebacle.pdf

Best to look for company hedging amount (reported) which is not higher than sales and at reasonable rate (not too high/low ie. speculative)