*** Philippine stock picks thread ***

[scalpel]

Van,
pareho tayo excited ako during weekdays and lonely on weekends kasi walang stock market. i wake up early to to check on the DOW the night before because we usually follow its trend.
What's the news with eei? nasa 52 week high na... what's the target?

PS. Para sa atake sa puso...may naka standby akong isordil...hhehehe

Morrissey, I think technistock ( now: pinoyfinance.com) is worth it. Dati namamahalan ako pero sulit nman. It's complete with news, charts, automatic ticker when you're monitoring a particular stock, you see the foreign brokers- who's buying and selling,etc. i also used to subscribe to Mr. Bearbull for 2 years...pero 50/50 din ang hits nya. now i just read his column sa inquirer.

hindi ko mahabol yun px... bilis ng bus !

[van_wilder]

its not gambling addiction... im excited about the market not the gains... i love the trading and the action sa stock exchange not just the benefits... kung hold for a long time masmalaki pa rin yun mga tsupiteros... tried and tested na yun... kasi kung hold for long... accdg to a study by citigroup, it would multiply by 3.5 (not sure yun exact) after 25years...

sa mga tsupiteros, 3-5% every 3 days... x ilan 3 days sa isang month x 12 (1year) x (25)... hundred fold... di pa kasama annuities...

if you hold long, please do keep in mind the inflation rate and the rule "a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar tmorrow..." baka matalo sa time-value ng money, masmaliit ang gains...

[scalpel]

Yup, i agree with van. I used to trade long term for 2 years, and tried tsupitero for the next 2 years... got better results with the latter. I actually got burnt a lot during the first 2 years because i didn't cut my losses. I still have PNB, and MERB which i got 4 years ago... d na bumalik sa buyng price ko.

[davy88]

masubukan nga magtsupitero, pero parang mahirap lang mag 3-5% lagi up everytime magtrade, of course may mga losses din. still have to follow the 8% cut loss rule.

Read lang kasi in forbes that the long term investors are the ones who really made it big today, long term as in 20 years and more.. sila warren buffet long term holder yan, and the guys who bought microsoft, etc nung hindi pa kilala and held upto today thousandfold na kinita... same with google.

sundan ko nalang kayo dito, might make a lot of money!

[davy88]

sorry wrong company, google had just had their IPO one or two years ago... but the people who bought ang held google made a lot of money.

[prinsipe]

basta magandang company ang agyan mo ng pera sulit sa long term...yun nilagay ko sa PX and PXB around 60% na ang itinaas kaya ayus na rin...will hold on these stocks up to end of this year.

ayus din naman ang tsupitero pero kainlangan lang lagi ka tutok sa market...which in my part di ko kaya gawin kasi nasa Middle east ako (5 hours delay) kaya sara na ang market sa Pinas nagsisimula pa lang ang araw ko.

[morrissey_05]

naalala ko tuloy commercial ng IBM, ung mamang ferry captain..."soybeans are up? Sell." :D



hmmm, how does that work? market commentaries? tracking of select stocks? or parang ticker tape, pero binabasa?

me ganitong radio station ba dito sa pinas? that would be nice.

better yet, metro-wide WiFi para maka browse ng www.pse.org.ph. wishful thinking B)

i would think parang binabasa siguro yun starting with the more active stocks, gainers and losers.

i'll ask a friend.

meron isang radio station na FM that gives updates on the stock market, pero updates lang.

[scalpel]

Fm 104.3. Channel 32/ ANC also.

[morrissey_05]

i will agree with van and scalpel on this one. the long term buy-and-hold strategy has many flaws, i think. one is: with the capital that you have, maybe you can get better gains daytrading. i dont remember the others hehehe

ive found that short term trading using technicals is the best way for me to reach my goals. a fund manager told me a good conservative target is 35 % capital growth in one year. so that means i do good in three trades to earn say 10 % (my usual target for gains) from each trade and coast along one trade to earn 5 %. ayos na!! you've beaten inflation almost three times over! then there's still sweldo and other sources of income. tapos 35 % ulit the next year.

i think its not gambling. with technicals, the odds are around 3 to 1 in favor of gains. pero if you get hit, cut loss agad, assuming you do have a target. people lose money by hoping the stock bounces back so they can break even. bad mistake. know when to take your loses so you can fight another day.

and technicals needs a lack of emotion, meaning no greed and a lot of patience. it gives me target prices for gains, and a cut loss target in case something goes wrong. simple lang diba?

ive read a lot of books on trading, and the most common advice is, control your emotions. hard to do, but ive come to realize its possible.

[van_wilder]

warren buffet? he is the smartest investor for me... what he tells you is not what he really does... and what we do know about him is the opposite of the real warren... he would tell you to do long-term but he only shows us around 10% of his transactions which is the long term... yun 90% company raiding lang gingagwa nya...

one good trader would be soros... one billion dollars in one day... kaboom!