anyone care to advice whether i should buy into the market now or wait, the question is no one know when is the bottom.

i was thinking to buy 20 lots at a time, i am for long term investment.


need help for the following :

resort world
genting
maybank

bad choice

or other suggestions

thank you

20 lots as in 200 units or 2000 units? Please do not confuse us
If you can stand market turbulance for 30-50 years like me, then you can start accumulating now. If you can only stand for 5-10 years, you should wait at least until next year to start accumulating.

RM200k is not a small and not a huge amount, but if invested wisely, it will be worth millions in 20-30 years time. A simple calculation of RM200k compounded 10% pa for 20 years would give you a nice number of RM1.35million.

1 lot is 1000 units? no

hear good things about resorts and genting, development in singapore and uk, sell assets ....

maybank is heading south recently, so i maybe is good time to accumulate some?

i can wait maybe 20 years if the "mild seven" don't kill me first

I don't know whether you are familiar with stock market or not first. But it is important to know all of them and full aware the risj first before start investing.

On currently market condition, don't need to rush to buy, market won't shoot up far overnight as current market is on the way down, not in bull run stage.

Different individual has different risk appetide, so can't say which one is good choice or bad. It depends on individual liking as well as willing to take those risk. It is better you start up your initial targetted stocks then other can comment on it and discussion grows from there.

Cheers.

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Added on July 1, 2008, 9:25 pm'Heard' is not good enough to justify the decision on your hard earned money in stake. (no offence)
Should at least knowing with facts and news of it.

Sell assets doesn't always mean good for the company one. It depends.

This post has been edited by cherroy: Jul 1 2008, 09:25 PM

Now, 1 board lot = 100 units.
If you are talking of 1 lot = 1000 units, then I think your RM200k can't let you buy much at one go.
Talk about RESORTS for example, the closing price was RM2.57.
If you want to buy 20,000 units at a time, your cost would be RM51,400.
So, RM200k would only allow you to buy at 4 intervals, which is not good enough at current levels.

Since you are not only going to get one counter, you need to further divide the investment into smaller tranches.
I would suggest you to accumulate around 5 lots at a time, which is what I am doing currently.
That way, you will have more chances of lowering your cost each time the prices dip significantly.

thank you bth jordy and cherroy

will cont to monitor the market first

helo .....I just newbie here.....why don't you try to invest in the stock option.............as low as usd1.00.......

Hi,

What are you trying to say? Please elaborate more. How to invest in that with such a low price ?


Thank You.

i think i will just buy stocks; i.e. main board, with dividend and hope for capital gain in long term type of stocks.

never like the idea of options, warrants of any type or any kind of funny "name" things sold by finance people

very old fashion type of guy

i am new in town but not newbie

In investment world there is no new fashion or old one, as long as one can gain in the targetted investment product, it is deem a good fashion.

Options, warrants and those derivatives are best in the eye of issuers most of the time. They are the ultimate winner in those derivatives products while you all fight between yourself, because it is a zero sum game sometimes. One winner money come from one loser money, while issuers enjoy the commission, no matter who win and loss, typically eg would be futures market. <-- a zero sum game.

Don't get me wrong. Those derivatives product can be a good tool for hedging purposes. But only play with/invest into them if one knew what he/she is doing.

since when 1 lot is equal to 100 shares, is this government approach to persuade people to trade in stocks????

You can say that
It is a move to encourage more youngsters to get involved with investment, by having the chance to buy with a lower limit.

there is no perfect timing to enter the market. But when u ask how to invest 200k... i guess ur not prepared anyway

200k is considered a huge amount man (at least for me)..
better plan probably for urself lo... dont risk ur capital

Diversification, understand what's available to you.

Which asset class fits your risk profile the most?

For example, you might want to do intracommodity hedging, short us dollars, long agricommodity or short oil, long us dollar.

There are plenty of ways to invest, but first understand why you want to invest in the first place. Is it to amass wealth, or just to generate addtional income?

Please always do your own research before investing in any asset classes. Even the right bets might be a losing bet (Goldman Sachs)

buy some consumer prod counters la....Apollo foods, Nestle

i am also searching for some counter worth for LR investment.PBB , Nestle, IOI, Digi for my choice.But in the market condition now,it is possiblt tat market will going to recession or slow down only.so For 200k,if i am u,i think will still will wait to see the market condition.personally i belive that next few months or the beginning of next year would be the best time to enter.

my 2 cents..

"Hope"? Mate, do yourself a favor. Take the 200k, go to OSK investment bank, open an account and let them invest it for you. They only charge 20% of any profit they make for you on a monthly basis, and there is no charge if they don't make you any profit. If this is your retirement fund, u don't want to be HOPING that it's going to give you a return. Ur obviously gonna need more help then u realize.

OSK investment bank, if lose $ dont charge me?
if lose all then. how lolz~
interested here. mind to share more?

LOL...i think better u buy a property with this RM200k.
you can take a returns of 7-8% return each year