Breathe of Fire

Breathe of Fire represents a technique performed within meditation to sustain, and in some cases, increase your natural body temperature keeping you immune to the effects of cold climate. This technique is ancient, going back nearly 900 years in Tibet. There are monks sitting outside in very cold conditions, often with snow on the ground, be shirtless and stay within a harmonized state of meditation. I would also see people dumping freezing cold water inside a bucket on them and they would remain in meditation completely unharmed by it.

My Trading Method (Part 4)

The following is the final part of an article series which details my method of operating in the stock market. Click here for the first part (on selection), here for the second part (on initial entry and its sizing) and here for the third part (on taking profits). In the final part of this series, it deals with pyramiding.

My Trading Method (Part 3)

The following is the third part of an article series which details my method of operating in the stock market. Click here for the first part (on selection) and here for the second part (on initial entry and its sizing). In the third part of this series, it deals with taking profits.

My Trading Method (Part 2)

The following is the second part of an article series which details my method of operating in the stock market. Click here for the first part, which deals with the selection of possible candidates in the watchlist. In the second part of the series, it discusses initial entry, position sizing, and portfolio allocation.

My Trading Method (Part 1)

My purpose of writing this series of posts is to lay out my method of operating in the stock market. This process outlined here is by no mean an original creation of my own. Rather, it is a synthesis of many different ideas which I have learnt from other great investors in the past, after many painful years of trial and error. For this reason, I have decided to release the information contained herein for free.

The Great Paradox

It is an adage in the stock market that you should “buy low, sell high”. It sounds very logical to most people. After all, the most natural way to make money is to purchase a good at the moderate price and sell it to someone else at a margin. However, what everyone knows isn’t worth knowing and what everyone does isn’t worth doing. Some experienced investors do not consider it the best way to make money in the stock market, and even think that it could be a recipe for disaster.

On Charting

When it comes to technical analysis, there are two extreme schools of thoughts. The first group are the pure technicians, who regard fundamentals as unnecessary information that is ultimately discounted in a stock’s share price. The other group are the pure fundamentalists who only believe in data in the balance sheet and disdain chart analysis as something akin to reading tea leaves. In my opinion, price charts are very useful, but they are not as magically predictive as some chartists claim.

Lucky Becky

When it comes to being lucky, many people have had the experience of gaining something for nothing in their lives. It could be winning a little lottery in the company’s annual dinner, making a staggering sum in a casino, or just picking up money on the street. While most of them attribute these kinds of things to sheer coincidence, there was a woman who proved that luck is more than just random chance.