DOW closed higher ... 16,065. That is a record high ... as economic data pointing to improving of US economies, and they are talking about possibilities of QE tapering again ... that will bring volatility in our market.

KLCI has been down for three days ... perhaps a short profit-taking correction after a huge surge the other day.

Good morning ... I am back in my blog. It is around 5.40am now ... the nearby surau sembayang-Fajar. This is my normal time I am awake, checking on markets. Then, I will take a short while to jog. Yes, I have not been exercising as I should have for years since I came back to KL ... busy-busy-busy has been the main excuse. I am slowly getting back into jogging .. hope to be able to run a 10k-run in coming months, and complete it. I could not finish a 200 meter jog at the moment. Haha.

While I do read many books to learn since I was involved in trading markets, I will encourage newbies-novices to read some books, to grab some concepts in trading. I think the MINDSET related books are good ... for the start. Understanding that market is emotionally driven(rather than FA or TA) ... controlling our decisions(of buying and selling). Those books that will keep us motivated, keep us in up-mood even tho when we are being in challenging positions ... and showing us few ways where we could maintain our positivism!! We do need to be able to push ourselves further when we are learning to trade as it is THAT challenging.



I do like a book by Jerome Tan "From bankruptcy to multi-million". Simple thin book to bring along, easy reading kinda book ... where we could be reminded of many things we are doing ... may need some changes.

Another good book to change our financial mindset is by late Dennis Ng. It is sad that such a nice man passed away at age 43. RIP. Well, in page 47, Dennis written that 'Stocks without dividends are liabilities'.

Yes, I am motivated again to change ... with 2014 nearing, new year resolutions time, yet again. I do not believe much about those year-end resolutions making, as majority of us could not maintain the pace for a year. Planning for monthly basis, quarterly basis .. half-yearly basis is more practical. Many of us do plan in weekly basis ... or in daily basis.