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Oceanus coming back to long term horizontal support of 30c. My hypothesis is that the recent week is a whipsaw. This stock has been on the downtrend for 12 months. For the past 2 years, Oceanus has been always been holding well during CNY period. My holding period will at least 3 months, giving extra ...
Doing a quick installation of XAMPP on my macbook now. And if you wonder why I'm doing this post, the reason is simplicity. With a single installation you get Apache and MySql up and running in less than 10 mins. Here comes the difficult part. Tomcat is not part of the default installation. Configuration of the ini and conf files is needed to get it running. Trying out if mac …
With reference to the previous post. I have try to improve the code so that enum will become extensible. The code will be broken down to 2 parts. The abstract version and the implementation Abstract enum class public abstract class AbstractEnum { private final String name; private static int nextOrdinal = 0; private final int ordinal = nextOrdinal++; protected …
Enumeration is often used when the list of variable is always fixed. For example the days in a single week can be written as: public enum Day { SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY } However there is often a problem of testing the Enumeration. I have to get back to my codes to know the violations of using default enum. I believe enum cannot exist …
As of now, I've completed 10 chapters of J2EE unleashed. Not going through the chapter in order, reading in a mix of what I know that can be make better use in my current project and what …
I’ve created another blog “Better Programs” to journal my experience during programming and charting my goal. Hope I will be able to take baby steps to achieve what I expect to achieve in the long run. It is definitely not easy continuing down the path of IT. But nothing is going to be easy with ...
I feels great to have a new year resolution that span out over several years. So before the start of the new year, I've already been chipping away part of the 10,000 hours I set out to achieved. It definitely does give a sense of having your feet on the solid ground and walking step by step towards your goal. My new year resolution at least for this and next 2 years is to …
I shall start of the introductory post with the title "hello world." This is the first program that most programmer starts with. Remember the joy and excitement getting a program to run? It seems ages ago that I actually had experience the same feeling as poly year 1. public class HelloWorld{ public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println(" hello world"); } } …
Dec 29 (Reuters) – Following is a list of the upcoming release dates for the quarterly earnings of top Singapore-listed companies. All dates are confirmed except those marked by an asterisk (*), which means this was the date when the earningswere released in 2010. DATE COMPANY RICS PERIOD Jan 14 Singapore Press Hldgs Q1 Jan ...
How is 10,000 hours related to investment? According to “The Outlier,” this is the amount of hard work required to become extraordinary people. On the average, it will take 5 years to clock that amount of hours. Investment could be in monetary terms or temporal. Statistically, most of the top 20% performer will draw super-normal ...
#1 – Skeptical Be skeptical of what experts, analysts, journalists, reports, brokers, fund managers, financial advisers, professors, etc, say. He mentioned that 80% of the finance professi …
Investment ideas Capitaland – undervalued Conscience Food Holdings – undervalued Fraser and Neave – unlock value of prop arm Gallant – undervalued Net purchase/sales by substantial shareholders Amtek – net buy Cambridge Industrial Trust – net sale FirstReit – net buy Guocoleisure – net buy KS Energy – net buy Mewah – …
Sideway trend. This counter will be like another UOL. Undervalued property play with grade a office and possible sale of buildings to unlock value. The CEO quite good at acquiring buildings and value add the buildings with retail shops. Mandarin Gallery, 8mil+ from 3 mth rental, at orchard belongs to them. They also own several ...
good news more than bad news. market reacting well to good news. us market only bear down 1%+ ytd asia market all crawl back the losses (possible higher low? nobody knows to be exact) only few missile drop over there (sorry if i sound very cruel), with us ship going over, you think north korea ...
[Graham investor] Score one point if a stock passes each test and zero if it doesn’t. The maximum score is 9. Net Income: Bottom line. Score 1 if last year net income is positive. Operatin …
Here is my take: Stmt of comprehensive income Gross profit for jan-sep decrease by 0.6% but this quarter improve by 41% qoq. However when going further down, the numbers don’t look a …
While I’m away, I’m busily preparing myself for more FA and come to understand it is not something you can understand in one or two months. Probably, I would focus more on the property, reits and commodities sector as banking balance sheet is much too complicated to understand. As both sectors are highly leveraged, it ...



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