Investment Diary

 During this quarter of 2026, we are experiencing Trump-initiated war on Iran. The oil prices surge due to the strait of hormuz blockade, the stock market is facing uncertainty. I decided to keep DCA on SGX and Sheng Siong because their solid balance sheet which I believe they can sail through such a crisis especially  SGX is the monopoly play in Singapore, as I foresee there will be many IPOs coming due to compelling stability, strong currency and foreign asset managers interested in EQDP expansion and Sheng Siong growth story supported by more BTO projects. I had closed Mapletree Industrial Trust because I don't see any growth in this REIT, will use the fund to DCA SGX and Sheng Siong, meanwhile the fund in the MMF now. In US market, I investing on MSFT, SP Global and SoFi whenever there's a chance. Sell put option Sofi to collect premium and willing to buy the shares if the share price fall below the strike price. I was expecting the share price dropping massively after ear...

This portfolio only concentrate on small amount of DCA monthly. As Trump commenced global tariff causing market uncertainty, I remind myself to keep investing on the good fundamental businesses when temporary weakness. I viewed tariff won’t last long so I continued to invest only in DBS because the price seems to reasonable yet slightly expensive. In second quarter, after reading  sheng siong's annual report  on expanding their outlets which align HDB Master plan and upcoming CDC vouchers, may boost their revenues that given me a sense of confident in Sheng Siong future growth and their defensive approach. I just need to remind myself Sheng Siong does contribute massive dividend but the future value and increase dividend are worth to invest in this portfolio. Decreasing DCA in DBS because the price is overprice  while NII start to slow down as the fed cutting rate. The third and last quarter, I continued to DCA in Sheng Siong for its strong fundamental during thes...

Recently, I read the MSFT earnings and caught my attention that they had 9,000 layoff restructuring for AI revolution. MSFT is scaling data centre faster than competitors, the main strategy is to migrate work load  to azure in the result of increase high-margin recurring income. Cloud and GitHub will provide synergies to the mircosoft ecosystem. Whether the market down or up, it's foreseeable that migration is still going on. I bought some when there was a short-term weakness last week. Considering PE 36 and MSFT is near monopoly and higher switch cost using AI integrate all their services for the future. Long story short about the cloud segment, they are creating synergies by surrounding Azure.  I adding small portion of sofi and CrowdStrike due to temporary drop. I increased my position SOFI after their earning report released. I so confident at Anthony Noto's leadership, they raised new common stock for growth strategy in the future. This company will take advantage of cryp...

 I just added more shares in Crowdstrike, a leading cybersecurity service in the industry. I believe Crowdstrike will continue grow based on P/S, FCF are increasing despite the target price down by the experts. In the recent event, APT actors are attacking essential services in the countries and global company like Microsoft is facing the similar threats and stop hiring certain nationality in the respective department. Those hackers are not doing this for money purpose but might be pursing national interests. Many experts down Crowdstrike target price due to believing the price has been perked therefore it led to slight dipping by institution/ retail investors. I believe Crowdstrike has strong growth in computing cloud despite AI still in early stage and the Big three cloud company (Amazon, msft and googl) are still growing their service which creating a demand in security cloud space.

We are in the middle of 2025, there are Trump tariffs and wars in the rest of the world created uncertainties may affect our investment returns or performance.  My investment portfolio overall still growing despite having heavy weightage of Palantir, which I am still confident to hold. In order for US government to create efficiency on defense sector, Palantir is the only trusted software to organise LLM. The more chaos in geopolitics, the more stronger Palantir will be. There’s some upside awaiting for them to commit in private segment. The valuation is inflating and speculative right now.  I been buying S&P Global at the range of  $478- $500, refinance and M&A will be the potential drivers to move the credit rating when US rate cut. I will keep buying S&P Global whenever I see there's opportunity arise it'll going to be my core equity in the future, as I consider this company carries strong fundamentals, cash generator and strong cash flow despite economic t...

Recently, I and my gf discussed about weathering the storm of our future and we concluded that there’s a need to build a portfolio. We are considered a young couple waiting to collect key and we need some funds such as renovation, expenses and protect our downside.  I projecting this fund (building the foundation) as mid-long term 3-5 years. After we should able to proceed growth index or stock pick in small allocation. I believe using S&P 500 as a benchmark is reasonable because the holding majority derives from US and tech stocks. During the drip cycle we need to buy even more than usual DCA to beat S&P 500. I suggested investing small amount of world index as a foundation since she has mild knowledge about investing. World index ETF is the safer to invest passively in the long term which adjust the market cap over time by geographic basis. We aware the world index is not a growth massively than S&P 500 or Nasdaq but it provides us a good sleep during uncertainly. O...