This week, we are very please to introduce sidney ..
Investideas: You have a very special nick. Why are you using this nick and what does it mean?
Sidney is my Christian name. It has no specific meaning, although people remember me more easily as my name syncs with Sydney.
Investideas: What can you tell us about your background ?
By all counts, I’m a late bloomer in almost every aspects of life. I do not belong to the generation of catching spiders although I remembered that one of the most happy times during childhood, is catching fighting spiders and placing them in match boxes with a leaf. Anyway, I do not need to go very far to catch them. My living room had them. EEKKSss.
I was educated in UniSim and graduated in Oct 2010. Looking back, this was probably my greatest achievement. I am proud of being self-sufficient to put myself through. But If you recall the fable of “7 years of feast followed by 7 years of famine”, this is how I felt at the end of every semester when I had to PAY the school fees.
Quite coincidentally, I was “retrenched” the day I knew I was going to graduate. I left the financial industry for a few months, enjoyed a few moments of rest (although no real peace of mind) and re-joined my previous boss when they needed people back.
I almost did a 720 degrees career change. In hindsight, luckily I didn’t. I realised my weakness lies in not having focus in delivering true value to the organisation, rather than losing interest in the financial industry.
I am resolved to take CFA this Dec with a peer. I decided it because during the period of being retrenched, I realised how vulnerable I was. For every Sidney that can do the job, there were a few thousands more who wanted the job and can probably do it better than I could. It lead me to thinking about what value means to an organisation. If you do not have specialised experience and know-how, you are easily dispensable. Luckily i have another friend to study together, especially for people like me with 60% willpower most of the time.
InvestIdeas: How long have you been investing / trading ?
I started investing about 3 years ago. My first stock was in Popular Holding. I bought at the top of the market and am still holding it as a form of reminder. Mistakes are good teachers if we learnt the lesson. Otherwise, we’ll keep paying school fees – until we learnt.
InvestIdeas: What is your Investment Strategy ?
I remember the initial stage when I first got acquainted with investing. I would just blah blah all sorts of investment theories which I had learnt or read about. Now, I think the best way to learn a craft, is to first listen and observe…………
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