I just borrowed this book, Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader - By Richard Smitten,  from the library yesterday. Basically Jesse Livermore is known as the world's most famous stock trader, having made millions, lost it, and made it again.

 Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

In the earlier article on the benefits of ETFs, we talked about why ETFs can be a better option compared to unit trusts. Now, we look into the ETFs available on the Singapore stock market. It's amazing that there exists instruments which can be potentially useful, yet few have heard of it, or even use it.

Myth 1: ETFs do not yield dividends

Fact: There are SGX-listed ETFs that pay dividends to investors. ETF fund managers determine if dividends arising are better utilised re-invested or distributed as income to investors.

Not too long ago, Singapore swapped out the STI with a new FTSE ST Index. The only problem with that was that the old sub indicies, such as transport, commerce, property, etc were also swapped out. And on top of that, some pricing disagreements between the providers and the users came about, resulting in a lack of public information regarding the FTSE index.

As a result, people relied on free websites to get their current ST index number. None of the brokerage platform provided the ST index real time.

However, good news have arrived! The FTSE ST Index, as well as all their sub-indicies is now available!

Go view the FTSE ST Index and their sub indicies on yahoo!

All the sub indicies charts are also available on Finance Kampung.

This site aims to make stocks trading and investment as simple and easy to understand for the uninitiated newbies.

We aim to provide investment information in a very concise and clear way, while covering as many topics as possible.

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 Another interesting article on Peter Lim, The 'Remisier King'. One thing I did find interesting was his life story. The part on him living with 3 brothers, 4 sisters, fishmonger father and housewife mother. Look where that brought him today? Maybe all mothers should be housewives.. Seems to be more productive than 2 income family.

The New Paper 26 August 2007 - Karen Wong

 Read this article recently, and I'm sure most of your have also read it from somewhere, especially if you do stocks trading or investments of any kind. Just decided to reproduce here.. Quite a number of lessons to learn.