® [continuation from Relaxed Stock Market Investing (part 1) ] ® #4. STRIVE TO BEAT INFLATION, NOT THE MARKET Maybe it would be more appropriate to say it this way: “strive to beat inflation, or a long-term safe financial investment like a 10-year Government Bond, whichever is higher.“ ® Forget about earning +30% or more [...]

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® Who would you rather be? ® Just like in many things in life, we have a choice on whether we want to be: ® An investor who stares all day on his monitor, who is thrilled when stock prices go up, and devastated every time stock prices go down; or ®  An investor who [...]

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In Part 1, we talked about the PSE and those people (and institutions) that we get to be with when we invest in the stock market (we called them the market “players”). ® In Part 2, I introduced you to the “T+3″ rule, and we gained appreciation of its importance. Also, we had an illustration [...]

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In my previous post, I introduced you to our stock market, the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). ® We’ve learned that only through PSE can we buy or sell stocks of publicly-listed companies in the Philippines. We also had some discussions about its functions, particularly about the PSE having a power to create and enforce its own [...]

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If the answer is YES, then let me first give you a guided tour of our very own stock market  — the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). ® ® ® ® In the Philippines, when we do our Christmas shopping, we usually go to Divisoria or Baclaran. Of course we have other choices —- we also have [...]

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Many Filipinos are still with the idea that investing in the stock market is reserved only for wealthy people. They think that investing in stocks is a rich man’s game. ® I would not be surprised if it is one of the top reasons why, based on the survey by the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), [...]

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A good number of people has asked me, “Where can I put my money now?” ® And then they go on talking about how much is that “money” that they plan to put into something. Some have Php10,000, others have Php50,000, still others have more. ® I am not sure whether it is the reason [...]

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® I give up. As much as I want to share my own version of these golden rules, I guess nobody can say it better than the author himself. ® I am talking about the legendary investor Sir John Templeton’s “16 Rules for Investment Success” which was originally published in 1993 in World Monitor: The [...]

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