Investment

Investment

Gain a holistic understanding of crucial investing concepts ranging from the stock market to real estate through in-depth analysis and explanations.
29
Sep

Google – The Best Business in the World?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel Overview Google is the search engine of the world and needs very little introduction. There’s an extremely good chance that if you are reading this article...
27
Sep

Google Services

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel Overview Google Services is the company’s current cash cow and only profitable segment. This segment comprises the advertising businesses: Search, Youtube, the Google Network business; as...
11
Sep

What is Venture Capital (VC)?

By Jay Jia. Edited By Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel.  Overview From the perspective of investment behavior, venture capital (VC) is a form of investment in the research and development field of startups, early stage and emerging...

Embecta – A Spin-off Play

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel.  Overview On April 1st...

Regulations on Cryptocurrency

Written by Sterling Xie. Edited by Swastik Patel. Overview As a rising market, cryptocurrencies have...

The Value of Cryptocurrency

By Sterling Xie. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview Cryptocurrency seems to be such a foreign...

The Tale of Micron and the DRAM Industry

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel.  Overview Micron is a semiconductor company founded...

Current Real Estate Market Conditions

By Soham Aher. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview There is a low danger of another housing market slump in the United States, and research predicts that home prices will rise...
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History of Mortgage Bonds

Written by Hrishikesh Menon, Edited by Swastik Patel Overview Mortgage-backed securities or mortgage bonds are one of the greatest financial inventions of the 80s. It has revolutionized the bond market...
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Buying Property 101

By Sterling Xie. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview While buying property is often one of the most stressful parts of your life, there are a few  steps that you can...
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Alibaba: An Even Better Buy Than Before

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel.  Overview Alibaba is the largest retail commerce business in the world by Gross Merchandise Value and is the third largest Chinese company,...
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Role of Bonds in a Portfolio

By Sterling Xie. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview We’re often told to “diversify our portfolio” to balance our investment risk, but we’re never told what that truly means. It could...
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How Inflation Affects Real Estate

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview Over the last 10 years, inflation in the US has been less than 2% annually. Unfortunately, this is set to change....
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Warner Brothers Discovery – Value Yet to be Discovered

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel  Overview In April of 2022, AT&T marked the end of its 4 year relationship with WarnerMedia. The telecommunications giant had acquired the...
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How Bond Market Prices Fluctuate

By William Cao Edited by Swastik Patel  Overview/Introduction It is safe to say that the stock market is currently not seeing its brightest days, as index funds such as the...
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Price to Earnings Ratio

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Swastik Patel  Overview Regardless of whether you have knowledge about stocks, you may have heard of the price-to-earnings ratio. It is one of the most...
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Meta – a Tech Giant in Crisis?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview In October of last year, Facebook rebranded to Meta. This was done to draw attention to the company’s ongoing investments into...
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The NASDAQ is in a Bear Market – Now What?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The Nasdaq has just closed at $13,301 – marking a 21% drawdown from its peak and signifying the start of a...
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When Should You Buy A Stock?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Assuming you’ve found a company that you believe to be fundamentally good and want to invest in, the next question you’re...
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Breaking Down the Hype Around Dogecoin

By William Cao. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar Taking a Step Back into History If you have been on the internet throughout the last decade, then you have probably heard of...
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Facebook – a Safe Value Proposition

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Facebook needs no introduction, it is the largest social media company in the world, owning 4 of the 5 most popular...
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Key Lessons From The Market Wizards

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The Market Wizards is a classic trading book written by Jack D. Schwager and published back in 1989. It features a...
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What Determines the Price and Coupon of a Bond?

By Aidan Hackett. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Bonds are instruments of debt. Companies use bonds as a way to raise capital without diluting shareholders equity. To a business, a...
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Role of Bonds in a Portfolio

By Aidan Hackett. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. What are Bonds?e A bond is a unit of debt, usually issued by a government or company. They have regular payments called coupons...
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Bond Investment Strategies

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview All liquid assets have various investment strategies, even bonds. Bonds may seem like a “boring” investment and it is meant to have...
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How Easy is it to Get Rich from the Stock Market?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Getting rich. It’s the goal of many, if not most people in the world. After all, money can solve a lot...
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Selling Cash Secured Puts

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Have you ever wanted to own stock but it was too overpriced for you to buy it? You wait weeks or...
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Hedging – Why and How?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Hedging is a strategy employed by investors and traders in order to limit the risks of existing positions. In a sense,...
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What are REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview A REIT is a company that raises capital from a group of shareholders in order to purchase and manage a portfolio...
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Market Sentiment – Why the Market Always Moves Against You

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview It is a pretty well-known fact that around 80% of retail traders either lose or break even in the market. But...
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What is the VIX?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview VIX, which stands for the CBOE’s Volatility Index, is a real-time index that measures the volatility of the market. Often referred...
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Amazon – Still So Much More To Grow

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview What was once a small online book retailer has since evolved into the 5th largest company in the world with a...
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Basic Candlestick Patterns

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Candlesticks are a powerful tool used to track the price movements of a stock. In a previous article, we covered the...
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The Moving Average Crossover – A Simple Strategy

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The moving average crossover is a powerful strategy that can be used to follow trends in the market. It usually consists...
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How to Create the Perfect Stock Portfolio

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Behind an incredible stock portfolio lies hours and days worth of research and homework. If you’re willing to put in the work,...
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The Longest Bull Market in History

By Aidan Hackett. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview From the 9th of March 2009 to the 20th of February, the US stock market grew almost 4 times – 380%. By...
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How to Sell Options

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview There are 2 types of options contracts: calls and puts. Most options traders trade long calls or puts. But where do they...
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Introduction to Moving Averages

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The moving average is a popular indicator used to analyze the price movements of a particular stock or equity. It aggregates...
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Introduction to Risk Management

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview You’ve probably heard the cliche “don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” and while it is a cliche, it isn’t...
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Can You Time the Market?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Since 1926, the S&P 500 has had an average annual return of 10 to 11%. That means that $1,000 dollars invested...
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Alibaba: A Risky Value Proposition

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Alibaba is the largest retail commerce business in the world by Gross Merchandise Value,  the second largest Chinese company, and has...
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McDonalds: The King of Fast Food

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview McDonalds is a fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1955. Since then, it has grown to be the world’s largest fast-food restaurant...
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How to Obtain a Real Estate License

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview To pursue a career in real estate, a real estate license is required. Although it is not a lengthy process, it is...
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Bitcoin’s Bearish Fall

By Puja Shah. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview A few months ago, you may have heard of quite a rumble of discussions about cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin, and how it seemed...
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5 Richest Towns in the US

By Puja Shah. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview You’ve most likely seen really nice, expensive houses before and you’ve probably also thought that those who buy them are pretty wealthy....
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Introduction to Crashes and Bear Markets

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview You’ve likely heard of the 2020 stock market crash, the 2007-08 financial crisis, and the DotCom bubble. During these events, the...
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Peter Lynch’s 6 Stock Categories

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Stock categories are a great way for us to divide our investment portfolios and assess how diversified and/or volatile we can...
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What is the U.S. Treasury?

By Aniket Bose. Edited By Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The U.S. Treasury was created in 1789 and is primarily the government department that is in charge of issuing all bonds, notes,...
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Types of Stock Market Indicators

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Market indicators are quantitative and are used to explore stocks or other financial index data in an attempt to display moves in...
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An Overview of Bonds

By Michael Feng. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. What are Bonds? In order to mitigate risk and protect their portfolio, many investors diversify their portfolio by investing in not only numerous...
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Introduction to Activist Investing

By Michael Feng. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview While people are focused on trading stocks and turning a profit, they often ignore the key concept of investing: owning a stake...
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The 2011 Debt Ceiling Crisis

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The term “debt ceiling” depicts the maximum amount of money that the U.S can borrow, and it was created under the Second...
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Black Monday the 2nd: 1987 Crash

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Black Monday occurred on October 19, 1987, where financial markets all over the world crashed immensely, with the U.S stock market specifically...
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The 2010 Flash Crash

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The 2010 Flash Crash occurred on May 6, 2010 which caused many major stocks and indexes such as Dow Jones Industrial Average,...
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Dot-com Bubble

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The dot-com bubble of 2000 was a financial crisis led by the crash of internet company stocks. It was a bubble created...
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Staying Smart about Stocks

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview It is important to know that a low P/E ratio is generally better than a high P/E ratio before investing in the...
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Swing vs. Day Trading

By Arjun Chandrasekar. What’s the difference between swing and day trading? Well, day traders have multiple positions which they open and close through the day. Swing traders make trades that...
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