This site is build for the sole purpose of one objective, of “recording” down my financial knowledge, my experiences, my track records my methods and strategies and how I react to the random walks of financial markets.
I would like to eventually join one of the big investment banks like (Think Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley operating here in Singapore), and more prefably other buy-side financial institutions, investment firms, private equity, hedge funds or arbitrage trading house.
Home Grown in Singapore, and since 23, I have started trading on Wall Street, particularly NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOE, going through the hardship, risking my personal money, reading books, books and more books on the financial markets.
I have decided to sink in deeper, at 24 by looking into resources online about trading, since information is all over the internet domain. The last word from ManageMoneyOnline.com, ‘Online’, meant that the use of information online and science to aid in money management, trading and investments.
Today, with the majority of exchanges routing through high speed network computers, the history of pit traders, high tech and sophisticated computers will take precedence. Added to the recent globalization, most markets are starting to get inter-linked and correlated, and different asset classes and securities prices will be harder to value.
While preparing for my Finance MBA when I was 25, I had to look at how business are run and managed, business management, economics, and etc, which eventually had some linkage to business and finance. Also researched into how finance firms run their operations, how funds are managed, how brokers run their brokerage, how to attract investors, and some other trading related techniques and money making strategies.
In year 2010, I am hesitant on taking up the MBA or the CAIA academic credentials which I intend to drag, probably because part of the time devoted to managing my trading positions which takes about 2-3 hours of my life every trading days.
Having “lived” longer than any other retail traders / investors, I have implemented successfully strategies, integrating some of the professional tools like statistical arbitrage, hedging, modern portfolio management, risk. Tons of excel spreadsheets full of Financial Maths formulas, with internet enabled computers automating the process of calculation and decisions making, onto the Stock equities and Option derivatives markets
This is my journey of my personal investment and commitments I took, and the life long skills which I will carry through my life.