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Online Trading: The Obvious Lie

This is a three-part article on “Online Trading: The Obvious Lie” which was originally posted at www.financialscents.com. The market is a pipe-dream to many and an office to others. What’s real and why do some make it while others wipe out? Part 1: Online Trading: The Obvious Lie – Part 1 The second instalment asks […]


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WEEKEND MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGE – Saturday 31 March 2018

GIVE (Read before you watch the video – Link at the end) This three-minute Academy Award winner for Best Animated Movie is not just about a great piece of entertainment. It has so many deeper lying messages but one clear lesson … It is all too easy to judge and be selfish when we don’t […]


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WEEKEND MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGE – 19 January 2018

Failing at anything is a common occurrence. Small failures like burning the dinner, not screwing the lightbulb properly, etc, happen from time to time. We think nothing of it and life goes on after we rectify the situation. So why do we allow the larger failures to kill our motivation, end our dreams and halt […]


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How To Avoid Getting “Scammed”?

To be fair, not all scams started with the intention to scam. Its just that the business model was not properly thought through and it ended up looking like a scam.   Can you blame the victims? I don’t think they all fell for greed or were conned through ignorance and gullibility. If the scheme […]


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What Have We Become?

Some time back, I made a posting on Facebook after the Liverpool vs Manchester United match and had a string of other comments that followed. Even my Mom got in on the action. Followers of my postings on Facebook would have noticed that my Mom and I are rather tight and that we share a […]


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Choose – It Makes You


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My Life, My Trades & My Bowl Of Salad

I love to cook. I love preparing food for my family to eat. And my family loves eating what I cook for them. But there’s more to just cooking than meets the eye. Today, when it is so convenient to order in or “ta pau” or just eat out, why, in my busy schedule do […]


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If You Talk The Talk, Then Walk The Walk

Parent to child; “You must study hard, spend 6 years in primary school, 4 to 5 years in secondary school, 2 to 3 years to get a diploma and another 3 to 4 years to get your degree before you can consider a professional job. Life is not easy and there are no free lunches. […]


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WPODT: Book Launch – Kuala Lumpur & Penang

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Goals & Success

Here’s an excerpt of the final part of my new book, “Winning Psychology of Defensive Traders”, so that it gives you something to be motivated by while waiting for its release in January 2014 … In closing, allow me to share some personal experiences that have seen me through the toughest times of my life […]