chillout! nothing to worry about. latest Non-Farm Payrolls indicate US is recovering. Good News! A retest of 1700 may be the best buying opportunity available.

also, one shouldn't be so focused on the cost. the biggest cost is yourself, not the broker. its only you that makes the good/bad investment decisions, therefore it is up to you to do the work, and take responsibility, and not be blaming the broker or the market if things go wrong.

lastly, the more often you trade, the more money you make for Bursa and the Government. not yourself. the costs quickly escalate because of the amount you pay for clearing fees and stamp duty. its is by far the largest transaction cost. NOT the brokerage.

Example:

Buy 3000 Tasek shares @ 16.00

Cost of shares 16.00 x 3000 = $48,000
Brokerage = $8.88 (CIMB Nominee A/C)
Contract Stamp (1 for every $1000) = $48 (Government)
Clearing fee (0.03%) = $14.40 (Bursa)

You can clearly see that contract stamp and clearing fee alone account for 87.5% of the transaction (one-way) cost. 87.5%!

hard to say. all seem to provide decent service. after all, competition is intense. i just use CIMB because it is the most convenient for me. the 8.88 brokerage is decent. broker assigned to me is a very nice lady. always laughing, and very pleasant. no complaints from me.

but also have old account with Maybank Invest and inactive account with OSK. also okay with these two. Maybank Invest has very nice offices, especially the branch in Klang (Menara Trend).

I prefer the n2n plaform to trade. excelforce is okay, but only works in explorer, which sucks for a mac user like me (have to use Oracle Virtual Machine). Charting, OSK is the best because you can get 10 years historical data (fiinancial times - get up to 30 years).

ya. unfortunately KLCI must re-test 1700 before going up again. at some point in future. if you buy a good company, then it shouldn't be affected much. see what happens when the US Non-Farm Payrolls get released in 12 minutes. hoping for good news!

i was so tempted to sell. it rose by almost 0.60, 1 week after i purchased. but i had to remind myself that i originally bought to keep for fundamental reasons. my original TP was 3.00 in december. i also find it very difficult to add lots to rising shares, in a rising market.

Oh. how could i forget...

Carslberg - I love beer!
GAB - who doesn't love Heineken and Guinness
Wing Tai - Uniqlo, Top shop, Pumpkin Patch etc.... and Property. (I usually don't like unrelated business, but i make an exception in this case)

tell me about it. not surprised. the rise from 1.89 - 2.85 happened so fast. still no one wants to sell shares below 2.50 which is a good sign, especially considering volume has dropped significantly. same thing happened to power root. volume dried up for 2 weeks, then magically volume picked up yesterday and today, and BANG 2.20!

WTF!!! 3,164,400 share for ESOS???? RM2,056,860??? Are you kidding me!!!

Currently watching (some from Felicity's blog - Serious Investing);

Tasek - We all know how much Malaysians love cement, right?
Lafarge Cement - ditto
Aeon - We all know how much Malaysians love shopping, right?
Aeon Credit - We all know how much Malaysians love credit, right?
Allianz
Public Bank
Tune Insurance
Alliance Financial
Axis REIT
MBM Resources - Hino & Perodua
Diabochi - We all know how much rubbish lies around everywhere, right?
Adv Packaging - ditto
Apollo Foods - We all know how much Malaysians love sweets right?
Hup Seng - I like cream crackers
Oldtown - I like coffee
Johore Tin - We all know how much Malaysians love condensed milk & biscuits, right?
Tambun - Affordable housing is important now and in future
Hua Yang - ditto

(Unusual - interesting companies)
Formosa Prosonic - I like car audio & hi-fi - Kenwood/JVC - DY ~9% - revenue almost 10x market cap - ridiculous!
Classic Scenic - Small cap - Picture frames? - high DY
Latitude Tree - Small cap - Play on US housing recovery

the only think thats going to derail this is 'black swan' events like a major attack somewhere, general strike or rioting in kuala lumpur. and i can't predict or plan for that, except to have some cash handy and supplies under the stairs...

thanks. actually thank Harta management for their excellent execution and respect for minority shareholders (who can put a price on that).

but taking a "big picture" look around, it seems that Europe is finally waking up to the folly of austerity, and the US has finally turned a corner. what this generally means is high, highs globally (i'm hoping), punctuated by minor "crashes" along the way.

i think the penny dropped, when i realized that the cyprus fiasco barely registered on the markets. it really gave us an indication of how bullish the momentum currently is. now is the time for buying. not selling. as far as i'm concerned.

yeah i guess going from 8.00 to .40 meets the definition of falling knife. just like Transmile and Ekran (which have gone to jeero) are ahead in the "falling knife" game.

good things are never on sale. never cheap. only time you will find this stock cheap again is the next stock market crash in 3-5 years.

in addition, these excellent companies like Digi, Harta, Dutch Lady etc is like trying to find diamonds in africa or oil in deepwater. very rare and very hard to find. on bursa generally speaking. every uncle and auntie with a sundry shop thinks they can list, therefore we have a plethora of mediocre, poor and fraudulent companies on the exchange with no incentive to clean it up. i don't like that at all.

which brings me back to why i believe harta, time.com, public bank etc will continue to go higher in a bull market, because there is no other viable alternative for fund managers to park their money. do you think for a minute they are buying MAS or dare-i-say KNM??

don't worry. whilst you guys are till obsessing about knm, i bought power root at 1.49. today it touched 2.20 (up almost 70 cents in 2.5 months). that increase is MORE than the value of one knm share. who says i'm not having fun?

there will be a pullback. but maybe not a major one. this stock is easy to trade because it is making very clear consistent horizontal support and resistance lines (on a technical chart). support is currently 2.10, then 1.90.

going on the "gap" up in the KLCI the day after elections, there has to be a pullback to close this "hole" in the chart (you can see this only on a candlestick chart, not line graph). just have an order queued at 1.88 (although it may not test this level again). You can set it for up to 2 weeks on CIMB itrade (which i use, and recommend).

i'm waiting to buy more time.com and harta

Its in a downtrend. has been since '08. only a blind man is unable to see this.

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jeeeez! stop wasting your time here. this stock is fundamentally and technically finished lah. time to book your loss, and start looking at the oldtowns, power roots, cbips, air asias, diabochis, nestles, dutch ladys, axreits, wingtais, hua yangs, tebraus .... buying stocks is not that hard.

stop looking for cheap cheap, like when you go shopping at Tesco. that mindset will lose you money!

exactly. do what you do when you look for airfares. do you even bother looking at MAS website for short-haul flight? i don't.

in addition, if you're a smart investor, you'll note, certain sectors are more rewarding to invest in, than others. certain sectors, like plantations (two or three), fmcg/consumer, financials and packaging trade at higher multiples and attract much more of a following.

power root is smack-bang in the middle of consumer/fmcg, in particular halal coffee beverages. awesome. and its not a mixture of different businesses, therefore lacking the unnecessary complexity in trying to decipher what is going on.

one will should also be aware of the stronger USD, vs weaker commodities. in particular, coffee has been hammered over the last 12 - 18 months.

http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-coffee-c-streaming-chart

which strangely is around the same time the rally in oldtown and power root began...

i'd like to know what is wrong with this stocks' fundamentals. can you enlighten me?

as far as i can tell, seems like a growing profitable company, focused on one business (simplicity - which i like). as a result, its price is appreciating.

with a distinct lack of decent counters on bursa, i like this bright spot.

but it looks like we're in a bull market....so who knows. maybe 2.00?

aiyah! i mis-read. i thought 100 lots. my bad! :)

the usual media pump, as insiders dump, on retail investor and epf buying. classic malaysian stock promotion tactics. disgusting as per usual.

this is a okay/decent counter. it is also in an uptrend currently. financial results are not spectacular, but then again, no other postal service in malaysia. much like airport is controlled by MAHB.

there is a good reason why people are advised not to put all eggs into one basket (of course if your net worth is rm20-50 million, i guess rm500,000 is small change)

you have rm500,000 cash for one stock? hmmm...might be wise to consult a professional advisor. one that is not conflicted, that is someone who is independent of a brokerage or investment bank. maybe kcchongnz?

could be the next "padini" in terms of stock performance. and i think you know how long that stock has been on a bull run for...

@Tan Cobby How wait for a pull-back and buy back in. we're only getting warmed up here. as long as earnings keep improving, which i don't see any problem with, we should see this counter keep moving up. this stock is showing extremely strong bull momentum, in a bull market, this can keep on going for another 2 years.

you know its knm when its down 8% in 1 day. classic knm price action. very very reliable. don't need a crystal ball for this stock.

thanks. i needed a good laugh. you're a funny man, jimmy. anyone told you that.

you enjoy getting kicked in the balls and punched in the face over and over again is it?

@deadman - you can see on chart, monday after ge13, price "gapped" up to 1850. you can see a big hole/gap/space, in the KLCI where this happens. it is pretty damn obvious. you can't miss it. this space/gap/hole needs to close before KLCI can move up higher. which means that most stocks will have to correct down in June/July, before we can move up. a buying opportunity, just not for Parkson stock though...

who really cares why. all that matters is its going up like crazy. meantime everyone else is focusing on MAS, KNM, Lonbisc, Parkson. Whats up with people these days?

its also one of the "very rare" companies with LOTS of related third party transactions (RPTs). i'd be very careful if i were you.

no. the problem is people still seeing MAS as a viable investment or trading vehicle. its time to break up. as in ex-girlfriend or ex-dividend or ex-wife. say "see you later", and never look back. of course feel free to fly MAS whenever you want. but don't buy shares for goodness sake!

sorry to here that vinvin, the dot com boom i take it. better than those investors that bought hwa tai industries at 100.00 in 1997.....down to 0.50 today. talk about getting wiped out.

okay. granted. but what has that got to do with keck seng. are you suggesting that they are committing fraud?

conservative. i don't think so. ultra stingy and selfish. if you don't want to share the spoils, then don't bother listing your company. otherwise where are the returns for shareholders? do you think they have created value for shareholders over the past 20 years? this company pays less dividends the Riverview Rubber! come on! what up? so selfish and stingy ah? must compete with YTL is it?

gas is leaking big time indeed

how was the champagne and crackers yungshen? did you recover from hangover from celebrating the fabulous quarterly report whereby general lee reported an 'outstanding' profit including an astounding .4% margin, leaving all competition in the dust....

then again. i could be wrong. who really knows?

you're probably right. rental might be affected from Dayabumi refurbishment, no Suria KLCC rental included in div payout and Petronas & Maxis locked into fixed, long term lease agreements. little scope for appreciation. the speculators made the most money here i think.

solid financials ie quarterly report. can't argue there. management is delivering. so what more do you want lmfhau? especially in this sea of deceit and mediocrity in bursa.

holy molley batman!!! 6.80??? wtf!

@deadman. yup. thats exactly what went through my mind. this kind of volatility is highly unusual for a REIT type investment. in fact, it is probably the most volatile stock on the exchange right now. thats why i booked my profit @ 7.13 (on monday) and walked away. that money is heading to AXREIT

how to not make money with RM1.20 per year in dividends?

thanks for the feedback guys. i will ponder and get back to you.

this is not some penny stock counter to be gambling. its 3.32 ny friends. better have 33200 ready to play 10 lots. otherwise....genting highlands....blackjack or baccarat....do they have punto banco?

why is this stock trading at the low end of its 52 week range?

thats exactly what happened to me. so i borrowed one of their dongles for RM100 ringgit deposit "trial period" and finished the quota in 3 days. bunch of bastards i tell you. by far the worst service and worst internet experience i have ever had in malaysia. i regret the day i said yes to YES. i suggest you say NO and stay away from these vampire leeches.