Another piece well written by KC. I always enjoy when I read your article.
To be frank, as a finance graduate, I myself also does not imply so many thing during my analysis. One of my professor told us that most of these jargon and formula was designed to let those people with non-financial background to think that investing is deep and complex so that we can earn big fat bonus and most of the time the people that develop financial theory and design financial derivatives do not actually know what they are doing. That is why we have sub-prime crisis in 2008.
Looking forward for more article from you and have a nice day,
Nothing to add except a bad carpenter blames his tool.
Secrets of the tycoons ..........the secret of the tycoons is that they all have margin accounts, they all have higher risk appetite than their neighbors at one stage in their lives.
.....but they come a time when they all sought safety in a CFA and university professor designed portfolio of relative safety with all the Greek alphabets regarding risks and returns.
Margin calls is not the end of the world.....one day I will produce a proper article on a portfolio using KYY as a case study......Mr Koon admitted margin call but is it end of the world? In the case of KYY , a margin call can still come when he is up 300 % for the last 12 months......you cannot understand that unless I show you how.
And the bottom line is that the performance is still better than without margin account. It can be proven conclusively......it is so counter intuitive but true.....once I show you how.
You can start a margin account, up 500 % at one stage and have a margin call when you are still up 300% if you buy enough stocks right at the top.........it is just a matter of arithmetic.
Posted by Desa20201956 > Feb 26, 2016 04:49 PM | Report Abuse Margin calls is not the end of the world.....one day I will produce a proper article on a portfolio using KYY as a case study......Mr Koon admitted margin call but is it end of the world? In the case of KYY , a margin call can still come when he is up 300 % for the last 12 months......you cannot understand that unless I show you how. And the bottom line is that the performance is still better than without margin account. It can be proven conclusively......it is so counter intuitive but true.....once I show you how.
Good good good. I promise I will help you to compile the data, and analyze too if you don't know how to. But bear in mind we must use a complete and established records, say at least for the last 5 years with an assumed investment outlay, say RM50m and say with another 50% margin.
For your ease of study, you can study the last 5 years articles written in i3investor to get those actual stocks purchased and sold.
If you are a bit slow, just take a bit more time to think about it.
Margin account is based on your equity.....as long the shares go up, your equity increases, bankers give up more money....it's called a virtuous feedback loop.
That is the secret of tycoons.....if you want to write an article on the secret of tycoons write about the virtuous feedback loop.
This time i totally agree with murali n tomm. Facing an empty shell is very tiring. However whatever you sound out, u will only hear back empty echoes...
Kcchongnz, finally, this is what i wish you write. Can ask how to derived the standard deviation of portfolio? I had hard time getting correct std dev for my calculation. Do i use annualised return monthly and see std dev past 12 months? If portfolio jist started how to get this trailing 12m std deviation? Appreciate your helP here.
Posted by paperplane2016 > Feb 27, 2016 05:39 AM | Report Abuse Kcchongnz, finally, this is what i wish you write. Can ask how to derived the standard deviation of portfolio? I had hard time getting correct std dev for my calculation. Do i use annualised return monthly and see std dev past 12 months? If portfolio jist started how to get this trailing 12m std deviation? Appreciate your helP here.
It all depends on what the usage is. For Sharpe ratio, use annualized std obtained from daily share price return is good enough.
Annualized std = daily std *sqrt(260) I think VAR uses daily std.
But this VAR thingy has no use in real life investing. Why do you want to know about VAR?
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Posted by buddyinvest > 2016-02-26 16:00 | Report Abuse
Desa & KYY now play golf.