Singapore Fintech Festival 2019

Another year, another booth.

This is turning into our annual flagship event.

What an enormous turnout this year!

Our booth was teeming with visitors, and that kept us so busy all three days.

We needed to bring in a lot of staff to cover too.

This year's event covered over 60,000 delegates and 6 halls of the Singapore Expo!

Saxo Fintech Conference 2019

Another fantastic event by Saxo Capital Markets this year, riding on the back of the MAS' Singapore Fintech Festival.

This year's lineup was quite stellar, and had the support of MAS even.

The standout speaker was Chris Colbert of www.chriscolbert.com and his views on disruption and innovation. Basically innovate or die. Also a very valuable recommendation to read about Project Aristotle and the tremendous impact it has had since.

We also had Rebecca Martin from MAS' APIX speaking about the latest API Exchange.

As usual were the evening networking drinks.

All in another fantastic event.

My Saxo P&L 2019 October

Ooh la la!

What a beautiful month October has been for me.

Just look at that. 3.9K in the green.

It has actually given me hope for the remaining two months of the year, with a 75 trade limit, to try to work towards breaking even for 2019.

Let's go for that!

Of course, November has begun nicely though as I lost a wee bit through the HSI volatility.

Need to be careful and find better and more certain winners!

HUAT AH!!!

2019 Dividend Accumulator October

October has been another really good month for dividends!

Many of the stocks I hold for dividend income paid out in October, so it's been a bumper month.

This is probably the most I'll ever earn in dividends in a month with what's left of this year.

Long may this continue as I work my way towards FIRE!

Must aim for even higher payouts next year!

03 October $78.12
03 October $21.14
04 October $117.19
10 October $46.82
11 October $19.33
18 October $78.54
22 October $6.77
23 October $165.24
23 October $303.44
23 October $80.46
24 October $225.06
25 October $54.00

Total Dividends for October: $1,196.11

Total Dividends for 2019: $6,170.67
Average per Month: $514.22

Fourth Berserker Rage of 2019

It really pains me to write this.

I thought that I was over this drug habit.

The last time it happened was all the way in March?! Can't believe I had a relapse :(

Anyway, this was purely Tesla fault. Damn you TSLA!!!

Tesla announced its Q3 results which were through the roof, and its share price rocketed 20% the day after the news broke.

The night before, I'd always made about $800 shorting TSLA as I felt the price overshot too much and I read many articles detracting the Q3 results as trying too hard to push for profit and yada yada.

Last night as the market was about to open, I was still sitting on a nice couple of hundred profit.

Then it began shooting even higher and I kept shorting TSLA!

From $298 at the open, it just traced up slowly but surely all the way to close at 4am at $328!

Who can believe that?!

Anyway I in-out a lot and kept losing.

I would win a bit if I longed, but then I'd short again and lose tons.

All in, I lost all my profits plus another $2,100.

Tamade.

Pui!

#TSLAQ

Gold ETF Luncheon With SSGA

Was invited to participate in the State Street Global Advisors' Singapore luncheon with Gold as their main focus of the lunch.

It was quite interesting because this was in tandem with the representatives from the World Gold Council.

Here were the two main slides to take away.

Should I buy gold now?

It Was Only Just A Dream

Some words of inspiration.

For the investing front.

My Saxo P&L 2019 September

Darn.

A poor reversion to the red.

I was actually green all through the month until the last week when a serious of bad trades like shorting TSLA, Crude Oil and some FX screwed all my profits up and went into loss.

I have three months remaining to try and shore things up to make my investments look more decent.

Jiayouz!!!

2019 Dividend Accumulator September

The month that has gone felt like a rather dry month.

Might be a September thing, but I also trimmed various positions in anticipation that October will be a turbulent month.

Hopefully can keep good dividends coming!

05 September $21.29
13 September $19.47
20 September $143.02
25 September $25.67
25 September $21.47
25 September $39.44
25 September $52.11

Total Dividends for September: $322.47

Total Dividends for 2019: $4,974.56
Average per Month: $414.55

My Saxo P&L 2019 August

Oh my.

This is my most profitable month this year.

It is still not a lot, but firstly, green is great. More importantly, I've managed to stem the red tide somewhat.

Hopefully I can go on to go green for the rest of the year!

I actually still have quite a large deficit to make up for this year.

Will keep trying.

Spirits up!