Investing with insight
Have you seen those charts on Yahoo Finance beta Charts?
Wickly impressive!
Yahoo Finance has up the ante on Google Finance.
I recently came across ShareJunction and sign up for their service.
Each day, at the end of market, ShareJunction sends me a summary of the Singapore market including STI Index changes, Top Actives, Top Gainers, Top Losers.
I have not been actively trading shares but I find the summary useful to keep tab on the market pulse.
This service reminds me of ShareInvestor, yet another Singapore stock market information website. ShareInvestor started 5 years ago (if I remember correctly) and provided similar service, including individual forum discussion for each counter.
ShareInvestor later grew pretty success (my perception) but gradually lock up every bit of information that was initially provided free. I stopped visiting them when everything I clicked required me to sign up.
I do not blame ShareInvestor for trying to be profitable. However I was secretly hoping someone would take up the challenge and make investment information free again. So imagine my smile when I found ShareJunction.
My wish is that they can sustain on the ad driven model and continue to provide information freely. The way information should be.
If you invest in Singapore Stock Market, you will not be disappointed to give ShareJunction a visit.
A question CPF investors often ask is, how do you compare the return between using CFP to invest and leaving the CPF monies in the CPF account?
CPF monies earn a risk free interest rate of 2.5% p.a. for Ordinary Account and 4% p.a. for Special Account. The interest is computed monthly and, compounded and credited annually.
To make things a little complicated, CPF investment is usually make through an angent bank which charges transaction fee and service fee. On top of that some unit trusts fund also charges a fee for purchase or redemption.
Taking all these into account, how to compare the return?
Let me introduce a tool to do that.
Continue reading ‘CPF Unit Trust Investment Profit & Loss Calculator’
Looking for a good charting software that is free or low cost. (Free is of course best)
It dose not need to have fancy functions. Charts on Yahoo Finance are fine but I like to be able to draw some trend lines for example.
Any suggestions?
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