Have We Not Learned

This same thing I have seen over and over again in my life as an investor / stock trader. If you know what I mean, the year 2014 appears to be a speculative year again. People just like the excitement although they do know that what they are doing is a negative sum game. If it is a negative sum game, why bother? Well, if you look at Genting or Genting Malaysia's shares, we can basically understand - there is never a year where Genting will be on...

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Bursa Should Regulate This Immediately

The sell down in Sumatec, PDZ and a few small caps with huge volumes caused significant losses and uncertainty to investors and traders. As I have said before, brokers should be allowed to regulate themselves and protect themselves, i.e. manage their own risks. However, I do not think there are rules currently to stop/regulate the measures to limit margin financing for certain stocks. If a market is hot and heady, like the market was over the last week, ANY brokers would have in their arsenal the CAPACITY and ABILITY to derail sentiment. Even among...

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Gainers & Losers

From Think Big: The average S&P 500 stock is up 5.89% year-to-date, and 65.4% of the index is in the black for the year.  Below is a list of the 40 best performing S&P 500 stocks so far this year.   As shown, there aren't any 100% gainers in the index through today, and we're going to need to see some big gains over the next three and a half months if the index is going to register any "doubles" this year.  Newfield Exploration...

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