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Financial Instruments You Can Invest In

Blogged By: Low Hang Wei @ February 22nd, 2007 - 2:19 am

As promised in my last post, I will introduce the common financial instruments that investors use to build their wealth. Before I go on, let’s just have a disclaimer… I make no representation that I’m an expert in investing and my purpose is only in opening up your mindset. Investing is subjected to risks and I do […]

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Why Is Investing Necessary?

Blogged By: Low Hang Wei @ February 20th, 2007 - 11:38 pm

Like many others, I didn’t see the point in investing until a few months ago, so I’m writing this post to encourage investing. I remember that I was only 16 when I was first fascinated by stocks, bonds and derivatives, but I never put a single cent into investing until recently. Looking back, I have […]

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My Mutual Fund Tracking Spreadsheet

Blogged By: Low Hang Wei @ February 11th, 2007 - 11:52 am

I started investing in Mutual Funds two months back and just came up with a simple spreadsheet to track my investments and here’s a screenshot:

I have hidden 3 columns of data: initial value, current value and number of units for my own privacy and so that you do not laugh at the puny amount of money I have. Anyway, […]

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Income for January 2007

Blogged By: Low Hang Wei @ February 1st, 2007 - 2:29 am

It’s the end of the month and here’s what I’m going to do again: posting about my income for the month. However, I think there is not much details to post about, since the figures are not big numbers, so I will just casually mention that I made about $200 profit through my websites for the […]

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High Yield Investment Schemes

Blogged By: Low Hang Wei @ January 28th, 2007 - 3:11 am

Recently, I seem to see quite a lot of High Yield Investment Programs around, guaranteeing returns of a few percent a day. I see such advertisements even on my University’s email public folders and I’m quite disgusted to see an increase in student scammers. Few percent gains each and every day adds up to very good returns. However, […]

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