To me, the 3 reasons that drive me to consider migrating out of Malaysia are:

1. High corruption level in the government and GLCs. This is causing high wastage in many gov projects in exchange for the benefits of a small group related parties or families.

2. Quota system that lowers the standards and competitiveness - in both education and SMEs. That's why nowadays you can't find any great or even moderate innovations to start from local universities or private sector (SMEs) from Malaysia.

3. Technology and globalization is bringing the world closer as we and our next generations will need to compete against the world. If we continue to hold back on progress due to (1) and (2) above, one day our country will fall further back in the force of globalization. It will get worse when our natural resources begin to run out.

Globalization is making race a less important factor. You can see in the US, the most successful or innovative companies are founded or run by people of various races. So if the government continue to practice policies that favor a specific race or group (that usually benefit a small group or related parties), then majority of the people of that country will have to pay the price and fall behind in the world.

Warrant issuers don't normally manipulate prices to kill off warrant traders. They make money from the increased commission (due to more trades) and from the spread of warrant buy/sell prices. They will also hedge/protect their position against the warrant traders by purchasing the mother shares if the warrant is in the money.

It will be great if the articles in this series covering O&G companies are translated to English.

Congrats to rIch for topping the list. Thanks to invest88 and Tan KW for their efforts.

My style is more investor than trader, as I only picked one trade in Oct and keep it till today. In real life, I do have this pick in my portfolio, among others, but this pick has proven to be the biggest winner.

In comparison, KLSE rose about 100 points (~6%) in the past 3 months.

As a lesson learn (for myself at least) to take away from this contest, perhaps it is a good strategy to focus on few good stocks in a kind market condition, instead of switching in and out of many stocks. I resisted temptations to switch to other "hot" stocks such as Instaco and LBS warrant, and I believe that has proven to be the right step.

Of course, some may disagree with it, your opinions and thoughts please..

Hi Mr Tan, please see my portfolio for my stock pick and hold selection for 2014: http://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/pfs/20919.jsp

Too bad I couldn't make it to meet Mr Koon in person. Hope that cpteh and others who met him will share more on how the meeting goes..

Thanks for the sharing Mr Koon. I'll certainly take a deeper look into this stock tomorrow.

buy 250000 DAYANG-CF

I'll start with 100k cash.. no picks for now as I'm negative with Sept..

My portfolio here: http://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/pfs/20919.jsp