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I Am Not Leaving AKLTG!

For the record so that the confusion and speculation stops … AKLTG stands for Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group. This company is owned by my good friend Adam Khoo. I am not a partner or associate of AKLTG. I am just Adam’s good friend and I happen to be teaching under his roof by his […]


May Day Food For Thought – 1 May, 2012

INFLATION OR STIMULATION? Someone asked me why thoughtless lavish spending encourages inflation when it helps to stimulate the economy … In one small example, buying an apartment you can’t afford then defaulting on the downpayment means that your thoughtless spending just helped to raise the price of properties unrealistically and returning the apartment doesn’t bring […]


Weekend Food For Thought – 28 April, 2012

Just How Do Singaporeans Live? The cost of a one bedroom apartment in Tg Katong/Paya Lebar is now S$900,000. The cost of any small car in Singapore now comes at a minimum of $100,000. (That’s not even considering the $90K COE for a 2L car.)   You need to be a millionaire to afford a […]


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Weekend Food For Thought – 07 April, 2012

DEFENSIVE TRADING – EPILOGUE Trading and driving are alike in so many ways. And the way you drive betrays they way you will be trading. Rules of the road are set up for safety reasons just as we set up rules for ourselves when we trade. These rules keep us on the safe side of […]


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Weekend Food For Thought – Mar 24, 2012

DEFENSIVE TRADING – LESSON 5 Over the last four weeks, we’ve looked at some of the most effective ways to avoid getting our trades into unnecessary risks including ~ • how we position ourselves in the market in Lesson 1, • why losses are more important than profits in Lesson 2, • what we can […]


Weekend Food For Thought – Mar 16, 2012

DEFENSIVE TRADING – LESSON 4   Trade because you have a trade. Never trade because you have to trade. That simply means that if you don’t have anything to trade, don’t trade anything. It also means that you should only trade when there is an opportunity for a low risk trade. What it mostly means […]


Weekend Food For Thought – Mar 09, 2012

DEFENSIVE TRADING – LESSON 3 Never add more risk to higher risk. The first thing you will say when you read that is, “I know that.” But do you really know? So many people I have met know this but still don’t practice it. In fact, they do exactly the opposite. In 2008, 60 Billionaires […]


Weekend Food For Thought – Mar 03, 2012

DEFENSIVE TRADING – LESSON 2 The market will give you what it wants and it will take what it wants And that is why I don’t bother with profits and instead place my focus on losses. The market will give you whatever it feels like giving you. On a generous day, it’ll give you more […]


Weekend Food For Thought – Feb 24, 2012

People often ask me what I mean by “trading defensively“. That is a very simple question with a huge base of answers of which some are really common sense stuff that we do in our every day lives. So starting this weekend, I will be delivering a series of five lessons on what I do as […]


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Weekend Food For Thought – Feb 11, 2012

This week’s thought comes from my reply to someone who asked me something about the market in a way that most people would ask – as if Traders knew the future … Conrad, where do you see the economy heading? … what do you think the market is going to do? … is XXX a […]