This blog is authored by an old multi-bagger blue chips stock picker uncle from HDB heartland!
"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
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
It is here where I share with you how I did it!
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CW,
ReplyDeleteAnd these folks don't watch the news or newspapers...
What? You mean there's a thing called ponzi scheme?
Eh? Got MAS investor alert watchlist?
http://www.mas.gov.sg/IAL.aspx?sc_p=A
temperament,
ReplyDeleteBernie Madoff this kind I'll tip my hat off to him.
He even fooled the regulator, savvy millionaires, sophisticated investors, fund of funds pros, etc.
Why?
Bernie never promised 20% returns a year. He just "returned" a respectable 10% consistent return year after year. Which is not that much different from the 8% so called "long term" return that quite a few bloggers have parroted.
Hey! Even CW's returns is not that far off from Bernie Madoff's! LOL!
This kind I have nothing to say if scammed. The scammer too high level :(
But c'mon! Most of the scams in Singapore aren't even "sophisticated"...
If you want to be "politically correct", you can call them "intellectually challenged", "children of the soil", "God's special people" or whatever sounds nicer.
Whenever I'm fooled (and I had been at work and in the markets), I'll readily admit I'm idiot, stupid, dumb, naive, gullible, air-head, low IQ, slow, dim-witted, and so on. On myself, I rather not sugar-coat it. Why be condescending and patronise myself?
I rather practice: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!
I see gullible customers every weekend. These are the customers who approach promoters and ask which brand is the most popular or what brands to recommend to them?
Its like flashing a big neon sign above their heads: "I'm a bei kambing".
"Scams" need not be about investments.
We can see it in everyday life.
False prophets, politicians who promise free this free that (lucky majority of Singaporeans reject these snake oils; we vote for big daddy that raises taxes and tariffs), "friends" who borrow money but never repay, and best example of all:
financial freedom seekers who pay hundreds to thousands in course fees for information they can easily get from XXX for dummies books.
And the most GULLIBLE of them all - those who really believed EVERYONE and ANYONE can be successful in investing!?
No, I have no time to be a bleeding heart. I'm busy making sure I'm not on someone else's menu!
The concept behind the equation is - Greed. Everyone wants more. No wrong. But whether you got the big head for the big cap :p
ReplyDeleteOne rule I keep in mind that saved me from investment scams. Invest only in regulated products. Unfortunately, this rule also kept me out of bitcoin. Nevertheless, like CW said, don't be greedy. If the price of being safe from scams is to occasionally miss out monstrous trades like bitcoin, so be it.
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