New Article In Money Sense May - June Issue

Hi, it's been a while since I updated my blog. In the interim, I would like to hype something - articles that came out in the May-June issue of Money Sense.

Hope you could support the magazine.

@#$%

After ranting during my last post, I was looking forward to some positive posting. Little did I know Friday would be another one of those @#$% days.

What's worse than being left out of the market?

Knowing what to buy, being held back by fear, then realizing your error after.

I'm talking about MPI. Metro Pacific Investments.

As early as late last year, I was already looking at this stock. It wasn't because of the FS, it wasn't because of the charts. It was purely on gut feel and knowing what kind of businesses they have.

You might say that's a load of crap, but I was really looking at it. Think about it, a tollway business, property (and a possibility of selling Landco Pacific), and more importantly two hospitals.

Followers and readers of my blog for a long time would have read an entry of mine last November regarding healthcare, albeit short. So if I'm bullish on healthcare, naturally I'd be looking at MPI with keen interest.

Last post I said I don't normally hype stocks - and I'm not hyping it now. Because if you've seen its performance yesterday +28% from its Thursday close, then you'll know that hyping is the last thing on my mind.

I was again left out. What's worse, during the morning, I called up my broker, and out of instincts, I said could you check up MPI for me?

@#$@#$#@$#@.

What ever your comments are of this post - or of MPI - what I can say is that in the future, MPI will be big. You will have to take a long view. And with Manny Pangilinan sticking around, MPI might well be Manny Pangilinan's Investments.

In 2006, I kicked myself in the arse because I also made another mistake - with IPVG. During that time it was just doing 1.00.

Crap.

Disclaimer: Again, I'm not offering investment advice for you to buy or sell MPI, or any other stock for that matter. The decision really rests on you. Know what you're getting into first before you take action.

Left out of the Market

I've been out of touch from the stock market since people started calling the market a bear. Yet since last December, stocks have quietly gone up by an average of 20 or so percent. Hell hath no fury than a bear market rally.

As I read somewhere, timing is everything. It's that art that only a handful of people have learned. Or even understand. It's not just with the stock market that timing is key, in business, in life, in love life, or in loveless life. Timing is always crucial.

Nobody can predict the direction of the stock market. Neither do the pundits and know it alls who annually send out price targets.

Those who entered the market in 2007 are still busy counting their losses while those who're experienced in trading must be laughing all the way to the bank (provided the bank is not yet in default).

Ever since I got back to working, I've had little time to look at the market, much less to trade. So for those who are intent on learning how to trade, make sure that you have time on your hands. Otherwise, you'll just join the ranks of the weeping toms.

Ever since I started blogging, I never failed to write about trading, investing, et. al. I usually avoid endorsing or rumor-mongering a particular stock. I don't know if it appeals to readers, though I really couldn't care less.

In a bull market, everybody is a genius because anything you buy goes up anyways. It's in the bear market where the machomen are set apart from the sissies.

I'm neither though I still long for the bull market days.

Blog articles like these are what happens when people like me don't get to enjoy the upswings of the market.

So enough of that I guess, back to work work work! More on investments and less of my complaints in my next post.