I started serious Investing Journey in Jan 2000 to create wealth through long-term investing and short-term trading; but as from April 2013 my Journey in Investing has changed to create Retirement Income for Life till 85 years old in 2041 for two persons over market cycles of Bull and Bear.

Since 2017 after retiring from full-time job as employee; I am moving towards Investing Nirvana - Freehold Investment Income for Life investing strategy where 100% of investment income from portfolio investment is cashed out to support household expenses i.e. not a single cent of re-investing!

It is 57% (2017 to Aug 2022) to the Land of Investing Nirvana - Freehold Income for Life!


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"The market is not your mother. It consists of tough men and women who look for ways to take money away from you instead of pouring milk into your mouth." - Dr. Alexander Elder

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Saturday 28 March 2009

Does Shorting always win in a bear market?

One honest Guru said that (still many gurus are not telling us much about their losses in shorting the market), he gave back huge bulk of his profits built thus far from the last plunge.

The only Gurus that never lose anything are those who no longer trade; but, just continue to sell and advise Magic Stone.

I always like to remind myself on this ...

Stock picking is part science, part art, part luck, part intuition, and always uncertain - "not precisely knowing."

There is no Holy Grail and Magic Stone on stock picking and will NEVER be as everybody has enough money to buy Magic Stone (but Sharks and Lions have plenty of automated computer aided Magic Stones), and once many people have the Magic Stone, it is not going to be effective as the Sharks and Lions are at the top of food chain will finally eat up those below the food chain such as sardines and zebras; and that is Law of the Jungle and Law of the Sea.

So those who does not know the skills of shorting, are you really worse off???? Think about it.

I think I am better off to be an American cockroach in active investing. Eat when there is "food" to be found, and can survive without "water" for 1 month and without "food" for 3 months. Have strong stomach to go empty and high level of pain threshold will help me through for years to come.

Or alternatively, think like property investors (not flippers) who will never see any unrealized losses throughout their holding period.

or like my late father-in-law he never, ever lost anything in his leftover share holding, and in fact his sons made some nice profit as they got these shares FOC from his will.


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