It is correct to use margin financing in bad market in order to capture the opportunity. Using margin in bull market means buying more stocks at its peak price and that guarantee downfall.
I differentiate bear market into "small bear" and "big bear". Small bear means market down by >20% but less than 50%. Big bear means market down by >50% just like 1997/8 and 2008 crisis.
In big bear market, investor better sell every stocks and run even making a loss because there are a lot more to fall and the bear period will be long. In small bear market, investor should accumulate undervalued stocks to capture opportunity and wait for better days ahead.
I think what happens now is small bear. Hope I am right.. Many analysts and economics also think we will not be in recession in coming one year. Hope they are right..
only use margin fund after market crash like early 1999 and end of 2008 and early 2009 but only person with experience and patient and no itchy finger,i already standby coupled of millions from maybank ready for next market crash (don`t kown when,akan datang)
Jon Choivo sifu can you elaborate name of the stocks referred? Is it SP Setia for property? Petrol retailer should be either HRC or Petron true? As for HRC so margin financing behind drop from RM 19?
It means, you can now buy property development companies that pay out dividends of effectively 24% per year at roughly 90-95% discount to revalued book value.
It means that the petrol retailer and refinery company is now selling at 1.5 times earnings or 66.7% earnings yield.
Posted by value88 > Nov 24, 2018 09:39 AM | Report Abuse
It is correct to use margin financing in bad market in order to capture the opportunity. Using margin in bull market means buying more stocks at its peak price and that guarantee downfall.
lizi..actually value88 and choi is perfectly correct
"It is correct to use margin financing in bad market in order to capture the opportunity. Using margin in bull market means buying more stocks at its peak price and that guarantee downfall."
want to make some real money , want to make a name for yourself, must take some risk.....better still focus and sailang and margin at times....some more, margin during a hot market no use one.....sooner or later lose back every thing plus interest......margin at times like this, can keep the winnings.
qqq, so far i have been very successful in sailang using margin during uptrend...same like doing business, u must know when to attack and when to defend...have some business sense plz.
"There is simply no telling how far stocks can fall in a short period. Even if your borrowings are small and your positions aren't immediately threatened by the plunging market, your mind may well become rattled by scary headlines and breathless commentary."
But for a levelheaded investor who's not deep in debt during a market crash, there are "extraordinary opportunities," Buffett added.
In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Buffett suggested that greed was a primary driver of margin debt.
"Borrowing money is a way of trying to get rich a little faster, but there are plenty of good ways to get rich slowly," Buffett said. "And - you can - you can have a lot of fun while you're getting rich as well. My partner, Charlie, says that there's only three ways that a smart person can go broke. He says, 'liquor, ladies, and leverage.'"
Posted by lizi > Nov 24, 2018 10:26 AM | Report Abuse
haha....newbie...
Posted by value88 > Nov 24, 2018 09:39 AM | Report Abuse
It is correct to use margin financing in bad market in order to capture the opportunity. Using margin in bull market means buying more stocks at its peak price and that guarantee downfall.
slowly and slowly finally this joker is reveal himself...as i always said his reason here is just to find a water fish and promote his fund. I wonder how many idiots invested into his fund until the next JJPTR case explode. Haha
But oddly, i think i was much more hardworking back in the day when it came to stocks, rather than now, when i have comparatively more time.
I think its mainly because i've already all the annual reports in KLSE. So now, im more focused on expanding/refining my thinking and finding blind spots. Which comes from reading books that are not annual reports, meeting wiser people and living life a little more.
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Flintstones Very impressive Jon Choivo. You can manage your full time auditor job dabbling in the markets everyday? 24/11/2018 10:05
As you can see below, its a joke ;) I'm just going to assume things got lost in translation over the internet, instead of any malicious intent.
Having said that, i must thank you for saving me a couple thousand in JAKS-WR by reminding me its an order form. If not for you, i would have only found out potentially a few hours later or even a day after. Which would mean i was unlikely to have been able to sell it all for a small profit.
Allow me to return the favor by answer the Airasia question seriously.
Airasia is currently 2.41% of the fund. And i'm definitely open to increasing it to 5%-7% of the fund. However, this position increase is only after other positions are increased.
Which i should be able to with the financing in place.
The thing about airasia is, its an incredible business that was a pioneer in certain practices in the airline industry, which makes it currently, the airline with the lowest CASK in the industry, currently at 2.02 US Cents Ex-Fuel. This is compared to 2.34 US Cents Ex-Fuel back in 2014.
Given the standard inflationary pressure of about 4% per annum. This is utterly incredible. The last few years, they have maintained it around there.
What are some of the measures they did to get such low CASK?
The main one is when they pioneered the method of buying hundreds of planes upfront over a long period, enabling them to get in some cases 30-50% discounts and the ability to modify the planes to their own specs. They then leased these planes to their affiliate companies across ASEAN.
They bought the planes so cheap, that they can actually make a profit selling it AAC Aviation in the sale and leaseback. Which is almost reminiscent of the deal Sapura did with Seadrill on the floating rigs. Except in this case, Airasia, like Seadrill is getting the good end of the trade.
The sale makes sense for AAC because interest rates in the US is so low and in the reach for yield, airasia can probably give them an IRR of more than 7-10% on the planes, and still make a profit on the sale due to how cheaply they were bought.
I personally have no preference in regards to them holding the planes or not. But i'm leaning slightly to holding the planes.
The problem now for them is, this method of operation, is copied everywhere now, with many players ordering hundreds of planes upfront as well. So for once, AIRASIA will be having very serious competition from the likes of LION AIR etc.
But at a normalized PE of about 6-7 times earnings, and a big dividend coming up. One would argue it is more than priced into the current price of the company.
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Sneaky jon doubled position at 2.71.
Price go holland mai go holland loh. We can go visit amsterdam smoke some pot.
Go from holland to africa also can. We can go visit lion and eat lion meat burger.
As long as investment thesis don't change, i can buy till 10% of portfolio. But bolui!
Unker, want sponsor my airasia position boh hahaha
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CharlesT If i were jon i will buy more airasia....jon is this what u r going to do? 24/11/2018 10:46
CharlesT At one time jon asked me to lend him money so that he can buy more airasia...i scared so i no reply pretending never see his message...
I no scare airasia no up but i scare airasia up but jon never pay me back only 24/11/2018 10:49
You are not wrong. This was something i considered very deeply.
However, as you can see in my reasoning above, i think 30-40% margin is conservative enough.
I intend to constantly pare down the borrowings. When market gets hot, i expect the margin loan to be fully paid off and not utilized.
===== 3iii "There is simply no telling how far stocks can fall in a short period. Even if your borrowings are small and your positions aren't immediately threatened by the plunging market, your mind may well become rattled by scary headlines and breathless commentary."
But for a levelheaded investor who's not deep in debt during a market crash, there are "extraordinary opportunities," Buffett added.
In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Buffett suggested that greed was a primary driver of margin debt.
"Borrowing money is a way of trying to get rich a little faster, but there are plenty of good ways to get rich slowly," Buffett said. "And - you can - you can have a lot of fun while you're getting rich as well. My partner, Charlie, says that there's only three ways that a smart person can go broke. He says, 'liquor, ladies, and leverage.'"
I don't think much explanation is needed. You yourself can observe the demographic and the quality of investors here. Its probably better for them.
I've recently sat down with a friend, whose family owns a brokerage in Malaysia. A quick hint, it has the lowest transaction cost around for cash. And he stated that less than 25% make any money. Those that beat FD, even less.
Even the US market retailers are flowing in bulk to ETF's and Indexes.
China index is also one of the best for the next 10-30 years imho. If you studied a little about human history and why some societies made it, as well as the securities markets there.
==== Fabien Extraordinaire Jon, noticed u kept asking ppl to put money in FD and China index.
what's ur intention, really? lol.. 26/11/2018 14:41
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Posted by CharlesT > 2018-11-24 07:10 | Report Abuse
No worries, u either make more or lose more only