Institutional Inflows and Outflows A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. IHT Wealth Management LLC grew its position in Signature Bank by 2.7% in the 1st quarter. IHT Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,296 shares of the bank's stock valued at $674,000 after buying an additional 60 shares during the last quarter. Bank of Marin boosted its holdings in shares of Signature Bank by 6.0% in the second quarter. Bank of Marin now owns 1,247 shares of the bank's stock valued at $223,000 after acquiring an additional 71 shares in the last quarter. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Signature Bank by 54.2% during the second quarter. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC now owns 222 shares of the bank's stock worth $40,000 after acquiring an addit

Recession is kicking in - what to do now? Latest news by CNA states Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, etc are retrenching staff. Recession is kicking in marking a negative impact towards the year end of 2022. As I mentioned in my previous posts that market moves in a cycle. If we calculate the 2008 recession, we add another 14 years (7 years x 2 cycle), 2022 is the year of financial crisis though banks stocks in SG are not affected in this case. What should we do during this recession? If some of you are holding large amount of different stocks and not in financial constraints, HOLD ON to your stocks to wait for rebound. Either sell once the price meet your breakeven price or a little higher instead of waiting for 20 to 30% profit as 2023 may or may not be in good positive rebound. If you a

Among the 3 major banks, investors putting in their monies into these 3 big banks who not only backed by govt and MAS but also has good dividends payout. As the prices for these banks are very high, to buy 1 lot is about 12,000+ for OCBC, 30K TO 35K for UOB and DBS. Another cheaper option with good dividends is HONG LEONG FINANCE. Hong Leong Finance has been around many years and they are popular among the Pioneer Generation where they put FD in those days and even now. My favourite is UOB, DBS AND HONG LEONG FINANCE. As inflation keeps going up, bank stocks are still a safe haven to invest in. However, dont put ALL INTO ONE BASKET. Diversify.  Happy Investing:)

SVB AND SBNY For those who are caught off-guard to sell off before the suspension, may have to buy right now to break even your losses. I trust that these shares will move up quickly so that we can recover our losses to breakeven or make a small profit. But be cautious as we dont know what will happen but PRAYER IS IMPORTANT.

WHAT ARE YOUR TRADES TODAY?There are many types of investors here - Low, Medium and High Risks Investors, Amateurs,  Seasoned or Professionals, Dividend Investors. Short term or Long Term Investors. Whichever type of investors we are, we all have one goal, ie. To grow our money, make money for our retirement or to feed our lifestyle.I am a conservative short term investor because to me, life is unpredictable and market volatility has been unpredictable too. As the pool of investors has grown larger than before, I would be more cautious in my trades given the economy is much affected by external factors such as Viruses (Covid-19,  Monkeypox,etc), mother nature such as floods, Tsunamis,  earthquakes, etc as well as "man-make" wars.My trades includes strong growth tech stocks (

I think the world has gotten used to Covid-19 after 2 years. Life cannot be on a standstill just because of a virus. If you google list of virus history, you will notice that virus outbreak happened every 2 to 5 years.Previously, the outbreak on SARS (2003), MERS (2012) , EBOLA (2014), COVID-19 (2019), MONKEYPOX (2022), not counting some other virus outbreak in other countries.The world has to live with famine, drought, floods, etc as climate change and mother nature of Typhoons and Earthquakes or Tsunamis hit the various parts of the world. Whether Monkeypox is serious to take the world by storm, it is still in the early stage. Of course, pharmaceutical stocks and vaccines will be rising while other industry will be falling. Every industry has its peaks and lows. Most countries will do a

Things to know before you tradeFirst and foremost, know your risk appetite.  If you are low risk, medium risk, high risks, there is a stock screener which you can use to select stocks based on your risk profiling.Secondly, after knowing which category of risk profiling you are, select stocks based on instrinsic value, P/E  ratio, history and strategy of companies as well as the management. Why isvthis important? If you have good products and bad management with bad strategies, then chances of growth is unlikely. What we want to buy is cheap, good and growth companies.Thirdly, diversify your money into different sectors. If you are teaching your children to invest, start with REGULAR SAVINGS PLAN for a start. If you are a newbie or seasoned or professional trader, then the compani

How would you trade during Earnings Season?Earnings season is a good gauge on how well or bad the company perform. However, one quarter or half yearly earnings results does not necessarily mean that the company is performing well all the time ir performing bad all the time. We need to look at historical performance of 5 or 10 years to see if the earning results truly reflect the life or death of a company.I strongly believe that during the Earnings Seasons, it wiĺl give me a roughgauge on whether to increase or decrease my investments. Earnings report on why or how the company is doing plays ian important factor. For example, EV industry are badly affected by the Covid-19,  manpower resources, parts shortage, etc. Personally, many of you would agree that EV is the future of motor indu

Personally I am not interested in Investing Influences for 2 reasons. (1) Are they paid influencers who share based on the company's scripted message?  (2) Did these influencers buy the stocks and have proven track record? Everyone likes to hear the good news and not bad news. Even bad news if put in the positive spproach may not sound so bad news. Similarly I DO NOT FOLLOW INVESTING INFLUENCES despite I spent lots of time on social media platforms, reading news and articles. In Mass Communication and Sales & Marketing,  there are different ways of speaking to touch the psychological and emotional needs to get your AUDIENCE TO BUY THE PRODUCTS. Dont be fool.  Even in Real Estate Sales, the trainee is taught on what to say to the potential buyer to make the buyer feel pro

Shortage of chips should drive Intel and AMD higher but it was not the case. Moreover populace has always been increasing where family members have at least more than 1 laptop/computer and Laptop and computers have seen an increase in price of at least 10% because I checked latest models and prices every week at Department Stores such as Challenger and Harvey Norman. With shortage of production of chips, I am shocked to see the Tech Stocks plummet 5% or more. It is not logical at all. Shortage of chicken or fish dtives up the price. Shortage of chips drive down the price. I trust that AMD, APPLE AND INTEL will be bullish and will grow stronger than before.  Have faith in these companies.