I am not a full time trader and thus, this should not be taken as financial advice and do not apply to the full time professionals.I have been meddling with investment since 2019. Started this as a newbie, I made many mistakes - pressed sell when it was meant to buy, using excessive leverage, investing in stocks without proper research, allowing my emotions to take over my entry and exit plan … … all these are necessary “school fees” that we pay so that we can be more successful overtime. (And I am still paying some of these recurring fees)It is important not to spend money meant for neccessities and essentials on trading. We should have a property and have enough for the monthly family needs.  Previously, I was spending late nights to trade the US market. It was affecting my family r

Stock review – VISA 2nd Dec 2021$Visa(V)$ has dropped much for the last few months. Some have advised that this is good value now. Before we think of buying, let us look at some of the fundamentals. There were some concerns raised in a recent dispute with $Amazon.com(AMZN)$. VISA has advised that they are working this out with Amazon to address the issues. Screenshot above is taken on 2nd Dec 2021 4.21am ESTP/E (TTM) - 33.79 & EPS (TTM) – 5.63. Comparing with a close competitor Mastercard $MasterCard(MA)$ whose P/E (TTM) is 39.38 and EPS (TTM) is 8.13, VISA seems to be “cheaper” (P/E). VISA has clocked revenue of $2

‌$Meta Platforms, Inc.(FB)$‌has suffered much losses recently after a weaker than expected guidance.  Though the quarter's revenue fell short (estimated $29.57B versus actual of $29.01B), the EPS was better than expected (estimated $3.19 vs actual $3.22).Some notable concerns have been raised:Quarter's daily user is lesser than estimated, arriving at 1.929B versus estimate of 1.93BReality Lab (which is researching and creating the various A/R, V/R hardware) conctinued to suffer losses since 2019.  This is an important pivot for Meta and currently, there are no signs that Meta is in the lead in any metaverse domain as yet.Europe's privacy issues (extract from their SEC submission):The tech giant took issue with European privacy

Black Friday did not end well with the global market.  Omicron (a Covid19 variant) has crashed the markets, leaving Dow Jones down by 900 points.  This has created few considerations - will the market continue to fall because of the omicron.  Personally, once the vaccine makers bring assurance about the effectiveness of their "current" vaccines, the market concerns should be brushed away.  However, let us remain cautious as we approach the week.Despite this, I have done my research for few companies and these are my technical setup to take (LONG) positions.  Note that I have done my checks on these companies and thus, do not forget your due diligence as we have different investment strategies, risk-reward tolerance and investment timeline.Some of my favourites incl

This has been a week of much losses with most of my holdings in red.What could have accounted for such a red week for most stocks? Omicron started the decline that led to travel restrictions & banning of flights for selected African countries Federal Reserves (potentially accelerating) tapering Federal Reserves to raise the interest rates faster to address the “non-so transitory” Inflation Investors turning to value stock instead of growth Profit taking after a good run $DiDi Global Inc.(DIDI)$ De-listing > with concerns spreading to other China stocks Latest non-farm payroll 210K was a far cry from the expected 550K (as per investing.com) though the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2% instead of the 4.5% expected We need to diff

World Health Organisation WHO has named the new African variant omicron and expressed concerns for this. USA has joined several European countries to limit/ban travels from African nations. this was the black swan that caused Dow Jones to tumble 900 points in a single day, its worse since October 2020. together with the lockdowns in Europe and other countries, the coming days can get rocky. there is coordinated strikes expected across few countries for $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ and this can cause some disruptions to their busiest black Friday, cyber Monday weekend. from my investments, the only stock that turned green is $Baidu(BIDU)$as they rolled out robotaxi in Beijing. while it i

Here is another websites that I use:2. Investing.comI have set up a (free) account with investing.com. There are some similarities with Yahoo Finance but I love the following features:Economic Calendar - that I can customized by countries and also importance (1 to 3 stars).On top of economic calendars, they offer pleasant layout of holiday calendar, earnings calendar, dividend calendar and more.Favourite feature - Technical analysisThe technical analysis provided by investing.com is one of my favourites.Using $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$(1 Day period) as example, this techical analysis is a good and easy way cause they have included the common indicators used by most. Thank to the colour coding of green for buy and red for sell, it is easy to

How to find entry for Alibaba$Alibaba(BABA)$Approaching this using technical analysis using the 1D chart, it seems that there is a forming of a double bottom.  Usually, a potential reversal may follow. thus, I propose to watch the coming few days to see if it breaks the previous low. if it does not break the recent low, we may see a reversal. this would be the point that I may place another position as I dollar cost average (DCA) this stock.note that I am intending to hold this for a long time frame for years. I will look into such technical approach only after I have qualified that the company has good fundamentals and reach a fair value. please do your own due diligence as we may have different strategy coming to trading an