Personal Finance and Investment Thoughts. All posts are personal opinions and thoughts.
My first job as a telecommunications engineer paid about MYR2,300 (~USD600) a month. That's pretty reasonable for an entry level job in Malaysia but boy sometimes it seemed that I could never make any headway with my savings. If only I knew then what I know now about managing personal finances. I didn't really keep… Continue reading Financial Advice For My 23 Year Old Self
Today the US Fed raises the rates from 2% to 2.25%. The stock market has been embroiled in a sea of red declines since October and the rising benchmark borrowing interest rate has been blamed as one of the causes. Actually the long term trajectory of the interest rates has been on decline since 1980.… Continue reading US Federal Interest Rates
About 70% of the trades in the US stock market are made by computers. That means that there are many computer programs that automatically buy and sell stocks everyday without human intervention. The programs take in a variety of inputs such as the news, analyst reports, financial performance, economic data, etc. and then make a… Continue reading It’s Not You, It’s The Machines
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