$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$  Honestly? I didn’t “enter” the stock market… I kinda tripped, fell, and slid into it like a clumsy penguin 🐧💸😂 It started with: “Eh everyone making money… why not me?” Next thing I knew, I was opening a trading app at 2 AM thinking I was the main character of Wall Street 😎📱💵 Then came the 7-2-1 Rule reality check: 10% win 💎 20% survive 😐 70% (me) holding bags like free goodie bags at NDP 🎒😭 With November’s volatility, it really felt like the market looked at me and said: “Let’s test your mental strength today.” And my portfolio replied: “I choose pain.” 😭📉 But still… I kept going. Why? Because deep down inside, I believed I could level up from “newbie potato” to “enlightened investor.” 🥔➡️🧙‍♀️✨ So how did I really stumb

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ Initially entered singapore stock using dbs vickers. After that used fsm, tiger and moomoo to buy and trade. Eventually still prefer to use tiger to buy sg and us stocks. Later on tried also options on moomoo and tiger, but still preferred tiger options and now doing more options on tiger to help mitigate risks and improve earnings. [Smile]  

As a child, my goal was to retire by 40. However, as I grew up and entered the workforce, I realised it would be much harder to achieve that goal with inflation & bracketed as a lower income earner. By 2012, cryptocurrency was becoming a buzzword. everyday Joe's were investing and that it just wasn't for Wall Street. Over the past three years, I’ve doubled my crypto & stock investments, holding a steady yield  thousand throight those years. Recently, I’ve decided to push for that 40-year retirement, hopefully through investing and a few other social experiments. 

Stock investment started somewhat with "buddy's briefing". Have been through the different types: run-away, diamond hands, tuition-paying and enlightened. Recently, tilt more towards strong stocks for passive income.

Only 10% of people make money in the stock market. Twenty percent break even. And a whopping 70% lose money. This is the famous “7-2-1 Rule.” With the volatility we’ve seen this November, it sometimes feels like the market was designed specifically to torment that 70%. And yet, people—myself included—jump in anyway. So… how did I stumble into it? It wasn’t a buddy’s push, or some secret nemesis plotting to ruin my life. And the apps? They didn’t recommend me anything. No, my story is a mix of curiosity, accident, and a little bit of human instinct. When I first opened a trading account, part of the reason was the classic advice I read about investing: “100 minus your age” (or some say 110) should be in stocks, to beat inflation. It made sense on paper—I wanted my money to grow faster than

Weeeeee down they go getting used to this ⭐🐯

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This November’s volatility really showed me what “diversification” means — I’m in stocks, gold, and bitcoin, so I basically got to lose money in three different ways at once. When everything falls together, it forces you to rethink your risk tolerance, but it also teaches you to stay calm and understand your own limits better. I’m definitely the type who got pulled in by platforms and curiosity. I was just browsing, and all the “Top picks,” “Beginner-friendly stocks,” and market discussions around me pushed me to open an account. One tap later, I placed my first trade & only then did I realize that real market volatility hits way harder than the theory. Right now, I’d call myself the “tuition-paying but getting enlightened” type. I accept losses as part of the learning curve, and I’m

The Diamond Hands Type: the more it falls, the more I feel like buying. META, UNH, NVO, CRM, ADBE..... wow... all look so attractive but my bullets all used up already. If I say stay at this level till i got my bonus in Jan 2026, will I be bashed?

Last week, after publishing a medium- to long‑term bullish view on U.S. equities in the piece titled “Government Reopening: Why It Could Ignite the Next Leg of the U.S. Stock Rally” equity indices did not immediately reverse higher, but instead remained stuck in a weak, choppy range near the lows. This time, the focus is on why U.S. equity indices are currently trapped in this kind of weak consolidation, and how retail investors should respond and hedge risk.​The global market is now in a dangerous transition characterized by a “macro data blackout + liquidity repricing,” during which index directionality is weak, but volatility pricing is prone to s

This is a brilliant question. Thanks @koolgal for tagging! I have been a victim of Buddy Briefing of course. But I don't like to blame anyone - the final decision is mine after all. But the real killer was the nemesis plotting by the RM in OCBC which did me in, in a very big way. So much for professionalism. I would love to think that I am The Enlightened Type:. However, I am enlightened enough to realise that I am not - not yet at least [Smile] As of now I am more of The Diamond Hands Type: and prefer to add on dips. One thing God has Blessed me is the patience to hold on.

🌟🌟🌟I believe that I am the Enlightened type.  I have seen the cycles.  I have paid my tuition (Top Glove anyone?). I have held through horror flicks, the rallies and the zombie markets.  I now understand that the 10% do not just buy low and sell high.   They buy and hold through the noise. I have learned that : Diamond hands are great, but only if you are holding diamonds, not meme rocks. Runaway types often sprint to the next FOMO trap. Tuition payers eventually graduate that is if they stay curious and humble. The enlightened ones?  They don't chase hype.  They have stopped asking  what is hot, rather they ask what is durable?  They have paid the tuition and kept the receipt.  When the markets dips, they reflect.  They sip kopi and

The Diamond Hands Type: the more it falls, the more you feel like buying. It is sometimes too hard to resist.

The streak above the 50-day MA for the $S&P 500(.SPX)$ ended today at 138 days. ImageHere are all the other long streaks above and what happened next. ImageYes, some lead to trouble, but most of the time it wasn't really that bad.ImageThe $Cboe Volatility Index(VIX)$ keeps grinding higher while everyone pretends the market is calm. Higher highs, higher lows, rising RSI. That is what a real volatility trend looks like. Friday’s small pullback did not change anything. Pinning 20 into settlement tells you hedging demand is alive and well. When spot leads futures like this, it is a classic risk-off tell. Conditions are tightening beneath the surface. Vol is firming, not fading. You can either listen to the

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$$Alphabet(GOOGL)$ 🤞🙌📈💹 Best buddies briefing by Barcode fr @Barcode best buddies briefing by barcode just dropped and it’s giving full origin story energy. like every storyline in that post could be someone’s villain arc or glow up arc and she just laid it out like a whole menu. the way she breaks stuff down always makes me stop scrolling for real. feels like one of those moments where you look at the pullback then look at yourself and go… yeah ok that’s definitely my type. 🔍📈 i’m locked in 🧃 y’all gotta slide in here and claim some coins, this one’s too easy to miss 🧃 <

$Bank of America(BAC)$ The latest Global Storage Technology Report indicates that starting in the second half of 2025, the storage industry will formally exit its previous adjustment cycle and enter a recovery phase characterized by structural differentiation. The NAND market will be the first to enter a mid-to-upward cycle, while DRAM will see robust growth driven by high-bandwidth memory (HBM), though average selling price (ASP) increases will be limited. Meanwhile, small-cap Korean semiconductor equipment and materials stocks face multiple growth pressures. Currently, the industry's core growth momentum has shifted from traditional storage to HBM. Coupled with the sustained recovery of downstream demand for servers, solid-state drives (SSDs), an

Diamond hands for sure. I am not interested in making quick money because that hints at trying to play the volatility, and I simply don't have the time and energy to keep a tight watch. But I have paid for the tuition before, and that lesson is precious. We have to learn our limits and avoid going for future tuition classes. After all, Buffett said "never lose money" - don't go in with the mindset that you are ok to lose it all, invest in something where the fundamentals are sound, where there is a reason you investment could be worth your time. I would like to think that in the long run, I'll be winning. So diamond hands it is.

Stumble via platform pushing with all the vouchers of free trades. For me I feel I am the tuition paying type, really did learn alot such as my risk tolerance after losing money.