Trading the Philippine Stock Market

[innosoftcebu]

Make sure you do your homework for this stocks ha. You can either be long for them or trade them as their values increase, as what these guys are doing in this thread. My reason for staying long in a stock is dividends not capital gains.

bought my first stocks today.. BDO and LPZ.. gi tuition fee man dayun ko.. haha.. pero ok lng.. way kurat.. Happy trading mga bisdak traders.. n_n

[redhorse1L]

Make sure you do your homework for this stocks ha. You can either be long for them or trade them as their values increase, as what these guys are doing in this thread. My reason for staying long in a stock is dividends not capital gains.

Bro, mohatag ba sila in advance kung kanus-a sila mo-hatag ug dividends?
So far, wala man kaayo schedule of dividends for this last quarter.
Currently, I'm holding ALI,RFM, and MEG.

[techguys]

AP is bouncing back today.. nice..

ako man unta ilisan ug MEG pero ako nalang gicancel kay nisaka naman

[techguys]

murag pareha guyd ta style run bro but nahan gyud ko mukat-on ug swing trading kay dako kaayo gains pero di paman ko kabalo sa technical analysis.

Make sure you do your homework for this stocks ha. You can either be long for them or trade them as their values increase, as what these guys are doing in this thread. My reason for staying long in a stock is dividends not capital gains.

[innosoftcebu]

Whos your broker? Citisec has a schedule of the dividends per stock. Normally they are yearly and added automatically into your account.

Bro, mohatag ba sila in advance kung kanus-a sila mo-hatag ug dividends?
So far, wala man kaayo schedule of dividends for this last quarter.
Currently, I'm holding ALI,RFM, and MEG.

[rescyth]

IMHO, LPZ is ok for it is building a base and heavily supported ni siya sa mga traders.. LPZ is good for day trading or quick tsupits ni siya for now.. My main concern for LPZ is extremely overextended ni siya gihapon ang price and dapat pa ni siya to consolidate. If naa naka profit niya sell it..

For FGEN avoid lang usa ko coz overall trend sa daily chart where I am trading at is still going down..

Ep, dli ba d i pwede ka short ug stock dha?

[rescyth]

Price parts.

sell/buy it @ market price

[techguys]

sell/buy it @ market price

mao man ako gihimo pero wa man nahalin. basin akung pilion ang pinakaubos nga price.

[techguys]

unsaon pagconvert into COL2x? thanks

Never expected the ghost month brought lots of good opportunities to earn money. Its been really a very good month for me.. I'm very much excited for the coming Santa Claus Rally in the BER months..

I hope DOW will close green tonight and much better if triple digit green.. hehehe.. Nakaconvert na diay ko into COL2x bro.. Pareho nata.. Nindot jud diay ni ang ilaha margin account dako jud ang tabang to boost atoa earnings..

[vondave]

Guys, based on my experience since I've starting swing trading side by side with my value investing just to test it, I'm becoming convinced that trying to time the market leads to only modest gains at best. It's better to stay invested in the market. The last two investing books I've read recently both point to studies that show interesting facts that are repeated in this article I'm sharing. Historically, huge chunks of a market's gain in any given year happen in only a few random days during the year. So if you are out of the market (or out of a particular stock) in the 5 or 10 best days of the year, you've missed out on much of the ride up.

Check out this article, coz this pretty much summarizes what I'm becoming convinced of based on tough experience. You can loose 1/2 of your Investment Returns by Missing the 10 Best Days? - Manage Your Life on Shine

How are you swing traders here doing guys? Do you guys monitor your portfolio values at the start and end of every month? If so, how are your numbers?

Let me just share my portfolio's total gains over the last 6 months using value investing approach. Please note guys that these numbers are based on my overall portfolio's net capital gains plus dividends on a per month basis:

March (+) 7.81%
April (+) 10.19%
May (+) 1.7%
June (+) 6.25%
July (+) 4.37%
August (+) 3.65%

On my swing trade side, I've made 10 swing trades, 6 are closed and 4 are still open. Net gain for all swing trades as of today is only P6,124 for investments totaling P242,061 (total ni siya from overlapping trades). This computes to only 2.53% gain for roughly 2 months work.

Clearly, staying invested instead of trying to time the market didn't work in my experience. Am sharing this so I can get some benchmark numbers from you guys whether swing trader mo or value investor.

I like technical analysis guys. Don't get me wrong. That was my main approach early in my trading career but I've racked up unimpressive numbers on the months that I traded using technicals. I'd like to believe I'm above average at reading charts but my experience and close monitoring of my portfolio's progress every month seems to tell me my worst months were when I traded in and out. My best months came when I chose only value stocks and held on to them until predetermined target prices were reached.

How do your numbers compare with mine guys and what is your trading strategy. Thanks.

Good luck to us all. By the way, first trading day of September and I already gained 1.64% overall on my portfolio, and I didn't make active trades at all!