Life Recipe – Investing in the Four Ingredients of Life

 Life Recipe – Investing in the Four  Ingredients of Life

In my 23 years of stay on this planet, I can summarize the four things we need to have a life on this planet.

• First is time.
• Second is health.
• Third is relationships.
• Fourth is something to do and look forward to.

I call these the four ingredients of life. Let me explain why this life recipe.

Stocks Assistant - A Free Mobile App for Philippine Stock Market

How do you monitor the performance of your Philippine stocks? What tools do you use in your stock tradings? Do you keep a notebook and pen? or do you use Excel files?

Well, let Stocks Assistant assist you wherever you are!

 

Stocks Assistant is a free Filipino-made mobile application developed by Fina Mesina.It is available free in both iOS and Android devices. This application contains 3 calculators that automate some of the basic computations used in stock market.

Is now the right time of investing in Philippine stock market?

Is now the right time of investing in Philippine stock market?

How do you start investing in the Philippine Stock Market? This is one common question from new investors who are just to start investing in the Philippine stock market.

To help you get started, I dedicated two pages that outline the basics and essentials of investing in the Philippine stock market for beginners who have zero knowledge of what Philippine stocks investing is all about.  You can check below pages:

Beginners’ Corner

How to start

But is now the right time to start putting your money in Philippine stocks?

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Well no less than the president of the Philippines has given center stage the favor and recognition Philippines is currently enjoying and earning now from different respected financial institutions around the globe.

If foreign nations and institutions believe of the good future of Philippine stocks, then the more reason s we have now to keep invested in good quality Philippine stocks.

Below is an excerpt of President Noynoy Aquino’s SONA 2012 last Monday.

 Ang dating sick man of Asia, ngayon, punung-puno na ng sigla. Nang nagkaroon tayo ng positive credit rating action, ang sabi ng iba, tsamba. Ngayong walo na po sila, tsamba pa rin kaya? [Applause] Sa Philippine Stock Exchange index, nang una nating nahigitan ang 4,000 na index, may mga nagduda. Ngayon, sa dami ng all-time high, pati economic managers, nahirapan yata sa pagbilang, at ako rin po ay nagulat: nakakaapatnapu’t apat na pala tayo, at bihira nang bumaba sa 5,000 ang index. [Applause] Nito pong first quarter ng 2012, ang GDP growth natin, 6.4 percent; milya-milya ang layo niyan sa mga prediksyon, at pinakamataas sa buong Southeast Asian region; pangalawa po ito sa Asya, sunod lang tayo sa Tsina. [Applause] Kung dati po, tayo ang laging nangungutang, ngayon, hindi po birong tayo na ang nagpapautang. [Applause] Dati, namamalimos tayo ng investments; ngayon, sila na ang dumadagsa. Ang mga kumpanyang Hapon, sa isang pagpupulong po namin, ang sabi ay, “Baka gusto n’yo kaming silipin. Hindi nga kami ang pinakamura, pero una naman kami sa teknolohiya.” Pati pinuno ng isa pong malaking bangko sa Inglatera, kamakailan nakipag-usap sa atin, ang sinabi, maisali sana sila sa ating kinukunsulta sa usapang pinansyal.

Sa bawat sulok ng mundo, nagpapakita ng paghanga ang mga komentarista. Ayon sa Bloomberg Businessweek, and I quote: “Keep an eye on the Philippines.” Ang Foreign Policy magazine, pati isa sa mga pinuno ng ASEAN 100, nagsabing maaari daw tayong maging, and I quote, “Asia’s Next Tiger.” [Applause] Sabi ni Ruchir Sharma, pinuno ng Emerging Market Equities and Global Macro ng Morgan Stanley, I quote: “The Philippines is no longer a joke.” At mukha naman pong hindi siya nambobola, dahil tinatayang isang bilyong dolyar ang ipinasok ng kanyang kumpanya sa atin pong bansa. [Applause] Sana nga po, ang kaliwa’t kanang paghanga ng taga-ibang bansa, masundan na ng lokal na tagapagbalita. [Applause]

This is definitely a good news, but we also have to bear in mind that developments like will be more evident in a much longer timeframe of investing. Doing short-term pursuits because of this may not be sustainable.

Personally, I believe that Philippines is one of the prime countries to benefit from continuous outsourcing of jobs from abroad. We’re fluent enough with the English language and have established a good reputation in terms of working relationships with our clients. In fact, Philippines was recently tagged as number one in terms of business language fluency. Recognitions like this give us Filipinos the advantage to receive more jobs from foreign countries. I hope that time will come when Filipinos will no longer need to go abroad to look for jobs as job themselves will start looking for great Filipinos to do them.   

Have fun investing (while it’s a great time now)!

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Simplify all the analysis - Easy Investing with Strategic Averaging Method (SAM)

How to invest in Philippine Stock Market with Strategic Averaging Method (SAM) of Bo Sanchez’ Truly Rich Club

There are basically two ways how to invest in the Philippine stock market.

You can either be an investor or a trader.

Some call it passive investing versus active trading.

In a nutshell, passive investing in stocks is a long-term approach ranging from few to several years timeframe whereas active stock trading is a short-term strategy with days or few weeks duration. Active trading means buying and selling every few days or sometimes even within a day. Passive investing just keeps on buying carefully chosen stocks and seldom sells.

We’ve already covered the four rules of making millions in the stock market by being an investor.

Rule #1: Invest Small Amounts Every Month for 20 Years or More

Rule #2: Invest Even When There’s a Crisis

Rule #3: Invest Only in Giants

Rule #4: Invest in Many Giants

Needless to say, these are relatively safe stocks investing strategy, but also a pretty boring one. HAHA

If you stick to this strategy, you definitely need three things: money, discipline and patience.

Good thing Bo Sanchez’ Truly Rich Club has its third alternative – and it’s called SAM, short for Strategic Averaging Method. This has some minor but profitable differences compared to the common Peso Cost Averaging method outlined above.

The whole story is contained in his book The Turtle Always Wins so you can grab your copy in bookstores to get the complete picture of it. But even before that, Truly Rich Club has already introduced SAM to all its members in its June 2011 stocks updates

Read below Truly Rich Club’s discussion of what SAM is all about and the why the club has shifted to this kind of strategy of investing in Philippine stocks market. I was about to simplify it but I think Bo has already nailed it, so let’s just hear read from him.

What’s the sure way to know if you’re addicted to the stock market?

Question: What’s the sure way to know if you’re addicted to the stock market?

Going into consolidation perhaps??

Answer: Quite simple, when you look at the beauty of mountains, you can’t help but figure out the immediate/major support and resistance, entry and exit points, and other technical indicators. HAHA

Have fun investing (in this mountain of wealth)!

(Photo taken by an officemate at Palawan)

             

PS1: If you want to be an affiliate of Bo Sanchez’ Truly Rich Club, giving you an opportunity of a passive income, you can check it here!  Join the club here!

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PS3: Grab your chance to have the full version of Investing in the Philippine Stock Market for beginners! Check it out here!

How’s the Philippine Stock Market now? - 2012 COL Financial Mid-Year Market Briefing on July25

2012 COL Financial Mid-Year Market Briefing is set on July 25!

If ever, this will be my second time to attend COL market briefing. The first was last year which was held at the same stunning Meralco Theater. COL regularly holds sessions like this as part of their service to their clients. Last time, they gave attendees a wristband with the word Citiseconline engraved on it! 

We’ll also have the same set of speakers including April Tan, Head of COL Research and Juanis Barredo, COL’s Chief Technical Analyst. In essence, they’ll cover Fundamental and Technical Analysis of the present situation of Philippine Stock Market. I have a feeling that COL Chair Edward Lee will also have a sharing time.

Click here to Register now.

Its caption says It's more fun investing in the Philippines as long-term prospects remain attractive.

I just can’t wait the ending of this long-term investing!  HAHA

Have fun investing (indeed)!

PS: In case you can’t attend for any reason, you can surely download their presentation from their site few days after. But if you want to get to see other investors like you, and enlarge your views about your fellow investors, this is definitely a great opportunity.

Last year, I realized how diverse investors could be. There were obviously big guys who attended, wearing all those kinds of formal suit; but there were also ordinary people who even brought their children to the event. Hmm, market briefing turned into family bonding, why not? HAHA

How to open a stocks trading account and invest when outside the Philippines

How to open a stocks trading account and invest when outside the Philippines

Opening a stock trading account for your investment in the Philippine stock market can still be possible even if you’re outside the Philippines, as in the case of a working OFW or anyone has decided to stay for good in other country. We’ll show  shortly below the step-by-step procedure you can follow if you’re part of those new heroes we have in our present time and want to start investing in the Philippine stock market.

Fortunately, with the advent of internet, you don’t need to be in the Philippines to invest in stocks of companies enlisted in the Philippine Stock Exchange.

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Three steps on how to invest in the Philippine Stock market

The Four Rules of Making Millions in the Stock Market

The Four Rules of Making Millions in the Stock Market

How to invest in the Philippine Stock market doesn’t have to be difficult for every beginner investor.

While the subject of stocks investing is easy to appear as complicated, having the basic essential principles can save you a lot of headaches and eliminate the analysis-paralysis that many new investors tend to experience at the early stage of exploring investing in stocks . This in turn causes them not to act any further on their initial interest into Philippine stocks - a sad ending to a supposedly happy story to revamp and improve better their financial lives.

That’s the reason why I’m not really a fan of giving so much information in this blog  - to avoid my readers of an information-overload. I’d rather give one practical investing point each week that you can apply right away than give you a buffet of information you’ll never be able to digest. 

That also pushed me to write a stocks investing book for beginners, and labeled it as a “quick-start kit”. The point is to help you start quickly but not carelessly. (For beginners, you can get your copy here).

In Bo Sanchez’ first stocks investing book, Bo helped simplified investing by giving four simple basic essential rules you can easily follow as investors in the Philippine stock market.

Outperform 90 percent of all the traders trying to “time” the market

Fearless prediction: You will outperform 90 percent of all the traderstrying to “time” the market

Here’s the last month’s update of Bo Sanchez’ Truly Rich Club regarding how the members should invest in the Philippine Stock Market.

I’m deliberately sharing this to you to pass on the good opportunity we have now as investors.

If you’re quite updated with global financial news about the world economy, you might be familiar of the spreading news and experts opinions that Philippines is one of the countries best positioned for growth. You can search the internet now and see those many news articles highlighting the potential of the Philippines in the coming years.

Going back, as you probably know, the club gives regular stock update to its members to help them in taking charge of their investments in the Philippine Stock Market.  This is in addition to the empowering Wealth Strategies, inspiring ebooks, live MP3’s and a whole lot more of materials that will keep pushing you to keep working towards achieving your financial goals!

More importantly, the regular stocks update will remind you to be faithful to your investments.

Sometimes, when nothing much is happening in the stock market, or when there’s so much happening as the stocks start going higher, the temptation to sell immaturely rises to a higher level too. You’re easily controlled by what you see and thus by your emotions.

While you can certainly have the profits from doing so, it will surely not work for you in the long term.

Remember one of our golden rules as investors in the stock market following the Strategic Averaging Method (SAM) strategy of Truly Rich Club - just keep on being fully invested and focus on your job and/or business.

In other words, focus on your cash machines and not on stocks.

Find ways on increasing your cash flow and add a part of them to your investments. Just buy the stocks recommended in the club and let it grow through time.

Selling time only comes when they reach their target prices (or near).

That’s why goals are important because it will remind you on what not to do during boring or challenging times. Our target prices are a reflection of those important goals as investors.

So keep those goals in your heart. And time will come when as predicted fearlessly below, you will outperform 90 percent of all the traders out there who are trying to “time” the market.

Sounds exciting, right? You bet!

Read below stock update!

Have fun investing!

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Investing in the Philippine Stock Market Tip #2 - Make your transaction worth at least 8k

If you really want to get the most out of every peso you put in the Philippine Stock Market, then this stocks investing tip can help you in your strict measures.

Our Tip #2 is this: Make your transaction worth at least 8000.

This second tips only rests on maximizing what you can get from other fees and commissions charged to you aside from the gross amount of your transaction.

If you remember, we have discussed in this blog the costs of trading and found out that you can actually own your first company with even just less than 5000 pesos.

But how do you make sure that you’re optimally invested? That you’re not wasting any centavo in your investments which could otherwise work hard for you?

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Stocks Investing in Philippines - How to start for beginners

How to invest in Philippine stock market for beginners is now in a pdf ebook!

And I have just finished the full version of the book – Investing in the Philippine Stock Market: A quick start kit for beginners!

Its brief version has been given away early this year!

Now, its full version contains more in-depth discussion of the basics every new investor in the Philippine stock market should know.

It’s perfect for beginners, those starting from scratch, and even for those who still have some questions on how the Philippine stock market really works.

You’re just three steps away to have your own copy of the full version of Investing in the Philippine Stock Market – A quick start kit for beginners 

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That's it! Just a sweet investing note this Sunday!

Have fun investing! 

Omeng

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How to invest in the Philippine Stock Market - Plant during planting time!

Here’s one important point to answer how to invest in the Philippine Stock Market.

For the past few months, our favorite stocks have been stagnant, seemingly like going nowhere. The market was clearly moving sideways. In those stages of the stock market, traders are waiting for some signal before putting their money into the stock market.

But investors are different.

Investors simply keep on buying their carefully selected stocks without minding the sideways movement of the Philippine stock market.

They know that how to invest demands only one answer – and that is to keep buying below their buy-below-price and then wait for their great stock to reach their greatest potential or their target prices.

The buy-below-price is the only figure they need to avoid chasing the stock all the way up grabbing good stocks at good prices.

Now the Philippine stock market is starting to rise up. For several days, the stock market is like a fresh grass in the morning – green.

Times like this clearly show the value of planting time. When stocks are moving sideways, investors are happy that they’re given more time to accumulate their great stocks at still lower prices.

Below is a good article of Bo Sanchez on this great habit for investors – an easy way on how to invest in the Philippine Stock Market.

Have fun investing!

PS1: If you want to be an affiliate of Bo Sanchez’ Truly Rich Club, giving you an opportunity of a passive income, you can check it here!

PS2: Make sure you’re part of our private Facebook group – Investing in the Philippine Stock Market – Tips and Tricks!
PS3: Download Bo Sanchez' My Maid Invests in the Stock Market... and Why You Should Too! (for FREE) Click here to download!