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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

PASARAN MERUDUM - APA YANG PERLU DILAKUKAN - Nik Zafri

Penafian : Diminta tidak menggunakan sebarang hasil tulisan saya termasuk yang berikut sebagai satu keputusan untuk melabur. Ianya sekadar panduan. Dapatkan nasihat dari pakar.

Kita melihat pasaran saham menjunam selepas PRU 14. Di sinilah ujian kepada pelabur terutamanya reaksi emosi terhadap pasaran.

Saya bukannya pelabur yang hebat tetapi berdasarkan pengalaman, suka saya menegur sikap tipikal para pelabur Malaysia :

Saya lihat pelabur suka menandaras saham pegangan mereka kepada harga belian dan harga jualan. Pada saya, sepatutnya apabila berlaku kejatuhan, kita perlu melihat banyak aspek, bukan terus melakukan jualan besar-besaran dan menanti pasaran pulih kembali.

Antara aspek yang perlu kita perhatikan ialah siapa "loosers" dan industri manakah yang sebenarnya mengalami penyusutan... Jika pelabur membeli saham yang tidak berkaitan dengan syarikat yang jatuh harga sahamnya, kekalkan dahulu pegangan, jangan jual walaupun kita lihat harga saham yang kita beli itu juga mengalami sedikit penurunan (kerana penurunan ini sebenarnya bersabit dengan "psikologi" pasaran bukan menandakan ekonomi akan hancur)

Lihat dahulu pengumuman syarikat yang pelabur beli sahamnya itu, dapatkan maklumat/risikan dari sumber yang betul, atau tidak salah jika kita melawat syarikat berkenaan untuk mendapat penjelasan dan nasihat.

Apa yang perlu dilihat ialah : adakah :

a) pendapatan mereka menyusut atau masih berjalan seperti biasa,

b) adakah terdapat sebarang tanda negatif dalam penyata imbangan mereka - rujuk nota pada akaun mereka atau

c) ianya adalah isu urustadbir korporat yang tidak telus

Jangan terpengaruh dengan khabar angin walaupun disokong dengan fakta/hujjah yang tidak jelas. Pelabur sendiri perlu membuat analisa ke atas data berkenaan sebelum membuat keputusan. Kadangkala ada segelintir broker pandai memberikan alasan, kononnya, harga saham "x" akan jatuh, lalu pelabur pun mudah percaya dan mengikut pendapat (yang sebenarnya) spekulasi untuk mempengaruhi psikologi pelabur dan menguntungkan “si spekulator"

Jika pelabur panik, mungkin pelabur akan mengambil tindakan kurang rasional seperti membeli kuantiti saham pada kaunter lain dalam jumlah yang lebih banyak untuk menutup kerugian kita.

Saya pernah menyatakan bahawa : Pasaran Saham adalah ibarat perniagaan – begitu juga dengan FOREX, ianya mempunyai potensi keuntungan atau risiko kerugian. Jika pelabur hanya inginkan keuntungan semata-mata dan tidak dapat menerima kerugian, maka pelaburan kita sudah menjadi satu PERJUDIAN.

Malaysia masih memiliki pelbagai "kusyen" (minyak dan komoditi dll) apabila pasaran saham mahupun kewangan menampakkan kejatuhan kerana Malaysia mempunyai pengalaman yang luas dalam mengendalikan masalah ekonomi. Malah dengan menghapuskan GST dan tidak terus mempraktikkan SST dalam tempoh yang agak lama akan meninggikan kuasa belian (ianya untuk kita rakyat sebenarnya)

Ada pelabur beranggapan bahawa mereka perlu membeli saham yang diniagakan dengan rendah minggu ke 52 - dakwa mereka ianya adalah satu pelaburan yang baik. Pelabur tidak sedar kadangkala ini hanyalah perangkap nilai (value trap) yang diletakkan dalam "laporan spekulator" yang dihias dengan “data-data yang cantik tetapi amat berbisa”. Ingatlah Pelabur tidak tahu dan tidak mungkin dapat meramalkan dengan tepat betapa eratiknya pasaran ini.

Apabila pelabur membeli tanpa berfikir kerana mengharapkan saham berkenaan akan melambung naik di suatu masa, sebenarnya pelabur telah melakukan silap besar. Memang tidak dinafikan, trend ada menunjukkan apabila pelabur menggunakan kaedah ini, maka ada kemungkinan harga itu akan melambung. Tetapi pada saya, pelabur perlu memeriksa "feasibility" dan "viability" (kebolehupayaan, kebolehlaksanaan) prestasi atau projek syarikat yang pelabur beli sahamnya itu dan bukan mendengar khabar atau sekadar berasa puas hati dengan “order book value”

Ada juga spekulator yang bersembunyi di sebalik "brokerage" yang menyarankan agar kita membuat pertaruhan "leverage". Sememangnya melabur secara marginal dan "leverage" berpotensi untuk memberikan pulangan yang tinggi tetapi ianya juga mempunyai risiko kerugian yang amat besar.

Jika kita tidak pasti dalam suasana ketidaktentuan pasaran, elakkan membuat pelaburan seperti ini. Mengambil "leverage" memerlukan pelaburan yang menguntungkan mengikut kadar faedah pembayaran di atas modal yang dipinjam. Ya, mungkin juga ketidaktentuan dalam pasaran dalam tempoh jangkapendek, cara ini boleh berjaya tetapi pelabur mungkin tidak dapat mengawal perasaan apabila pasaran merudum.

Saya berpendapat, jika membeli berdasarkan margin, ianya akan menghadkan opsyen dan kita mungkin terpaksa menutup posisi kita.

Saya lihat, rata-rata pelabur bijak dalam membuat perancangan kewangan namun kurang pula bijak dalam mengawal perasaan. Ini bererti perancangan kewangan yang diperbuat itu tidak ada "Plan B" iaitu jika berlaku kejatuhan harga, apa yang perlu dilakukan. Sikap ini akan menyebabkan kegagalan dalam mewujudkan koreksi pasaran dalam tempoh jangkapanjang.

Satu lagi kesalahan bagi pelabur kecil ialah mereka menghentikan Pelan Pelaburan Bersistem dalam Dana Ekuiti apabila pasaran merudum. Ini menunjukkan sikap tidak sabar pelabur. Sebenarnya pelaburan dana ekuiti yang bersistem adalah bertujuan melatih disiplin semasa fasa "bearish" dan ianya lebih berbentuk jangkapanjang. Jika kita membatalkan pelaburan di tengah-tengah perjalanan, maka sebenarnya kitalah yang rugi.

Perancangan/pengurusan masa amat mustahak dalam kita melabur dalam dana ekuiti. Ini kerana kita perlu bersabar dalam melihat pada terma-terma perjanjian yang kita tandatangani dan sentiasa bertanya sebelum menandatangani sesuatu perjanjian. Apa yang penting kita lihat antara lain sekurang-kurangnya ialah kemungkinan naik turunnya kadar faedah (serta apakah jaminan syarikat pelaburan berkenaan jika ini berlaku) dan juga tempoh perjanjian (kerana kita dapat menjangka berapakah keuntungan yang kita telah buat dalam masa suku, tengah dan hujung tahun (dikalikan pula dengan tempoh perjanjian)

Kita juga perlu pandai meramal suasana ekonomi dan sistem perbankan dan kewangan tempatan dengan mengambilkira perjalanan/perkembangan ekonomi di seluruh dunia.

Nota/Hint/Isyarat : Pasaran sedang mengalami pembetulan (correction) dari bearish ke bullish. Mudah-mudahan, sejurus sebelum Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2018 dan 2 minggu selepas Hari Raya Aidilfitri, saya menjangka pasaran akan pulih kembali (tanda-tandanya telah ada saya perhatikan)

FDI baru, penyenaraian baru dan potensi pelaburan baru bernilai berbillion ringgit sedang menanti dari dalam dan luar negara. Janganlah dirisaukan sangat.

Jika tidak pasti dengan apa yang saya perkatakan ini, maka tumpukan sahaja masa dan pelaburan kita kepada pelbagai Amanah Saham yang dijamin kerajaan atau Dana Bersama (Mutual Fund) - malah insuran sekalipun - atau menyertai pelaburan dalam bentuk Simpanan Tetap (FD) - ini semua lebih selamat.

Monday, June 09, 2008

The Star Global Malaysians Forum - Posted: 15 February 2006 at 6:51pm

Quickies on Global Economy

2004 - catching up. 2005 - a bit slow. 2006 - moderate perhaps at 3.5 %. average growth.Progress in developing countries - coming up fast. Performance in US, Europe and Japan - moderate. South East Asia - forecasted 5-6% growth (2006)

Key Global Issues requiring attention 2006 :

* employment,
* inflation,
* surging/fluctuation/control of oil price,
* deficit,
* stock market and other investments,
* balancing liquidity and interest rates,
* Global Exchange Rate/Fiscal policies - review and improve till the best is achieved,
* Disease & Epidemic Control
* Terrorism
* Price of Non-Oil Commodity
* Natural Disasters

Good News?

* Property Market - potentially booming
* International Trade - still OK
* more Free Trade Zone (hopefully)
* Food & Drugs Industry - still OK
* Service industry - still OK but be more susceptible 'on things happening around you'

Alert?

* Agriculture/Biotechnology - focus on domestic growth rather export,
* International Conventions - 'walk the talk - not talk the walk' - no lip services,
* More FDIs
* More financing and debt relief
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 6:03pm

I think almost all quarters relevant have unanimously agreed that the stock market and the economy will see a better performance this year.

Since earnings from export have now shown signs of good performance, the GDP will definitely rise to - if not = 6% at least > 5%. I'm also 'betting' on this year's GLC's improved performance and FDI pouring in. I must say that I'm quite impressed with 'positive' signs been happening around me since nearly a week now (that's explains my 'long dissapearance' from this forum topic for almost a fortnight. Well, been roaming in the physical world to run some 'experiments') such as smooth mergers and acquisitions of finance/banking sectors, current stock value on the exchange, increased interest in Mesdaq, - hmmm...we should be lucky I guess.

I wanted to be optimistic for just this moment - The above concise statement would definitely be 'absorbed' into the 'uncertainties' to 'restore balance' especially those related to interest rates, oil price, policies, inflation, ringgit alignment, technology etc. The 'balancing restoration' will create the 'cushion' for future impact.

Yeap...I think we're quite ready...

p.s. 15/03/2006 - forgot to add another issue - employment...I'm also quite happy to see some 'corporate sectors' especially banking/finance move to take in graduates - training and paying them more handsome allowances - eventually employing them.
The Star Global Malaysians Forum - Posted: 19 May 2006 at 9:17pm

I'm sure you all have seen the headline today in the Star - Stock Market Plunge (all over the world!) I'm not commenting so much on this but the following are some interesting views of mine that you may want to read.

There are too many intellectual views on inflation all over the globe but most of these ‘speculations’ if not treated carefully could be extremely misleading. Of course, inflation happens… and off late this issue tends to be ‘connected’ to the ever rising global crude oil price although this is not only the cause..

Returning to the basics, when services and products/goods prices started to experience a certain rate of increase or we start loosing our purchasing power (or your money becomes worth less than before) then it is very safe to define that ‘these are signs of inflation’. Measuring inflation is usually benchmarked to a basket of services and products/goods on our side and on the production side mainly known as PPI and CPI. Again, these only serve merely as guides as they are still based on conventional random analysis, sampling and ‘playing with a bunch of datum’. But then, how come the CPI rate has remained stable (example in KLCI) despite these rising prices? It’s not just energy alone, there are other rising items as well. Think of other commodities such as health and education. Don’t forget the property market (prices,mortgage,taxes and maintenance)

US Federal Reserve rate hike? This is nothing new!. From my sources, rates have been hiked ‘regularly’ since the last 2 years and I’m sure most economists (be it ‘K’ or ‘P’) and investors will agree with me that that regular hiking will hurt the growth of economy. Another issue is policy making addressing the risk of inflation – another no ending issue! (all depends on future data and ‘blah’, ‘blah’)

To aggravate situation further – SPECULATIONS -spreading ‘DEFCON-type panic’ in the market. Even before the Fed announce the hike, the stocks, bonds, commodities started to be traded lower. Banking and Financial institutions increase their prime lending rate and guess what? Sit back, you’ll be experiencing BLR turbulence known as loans, cards, property etc. etc..

Sometimes unnecessary panic or ‘being too cautious’ may also lead to ‘smart opportunists’ taking advantages. (test the market with 'shocking rumours substantiated by 'so-called' data and see what happens) The 'best' part is that the Feds will still increase the rates even in this ‘simulated chaotic’ situation. I have seen too many times - 'false alarms’/’rumours’ (at first) of rate hike by manipulators/speculators eventually becoming a ‘real one’ (later) eventually due to news of banking & financial institutions 'prematurely planning their ‘rate increasing program’ and sudden change in investment behaviour towards stocks/bonds/commodities/derivatives/futures etc.

Well, it's a common thing, an enemy will attempt to weaken the spirit of another enemy before attacking them.

I have always stressed in this thread :

a) ‘don’t panic’..’relax’,
b) give it just a little bit time,
c) analyse and verify the source of information first..

But some 'smart' people just don’t listen - finally it falls on deaf ears ("Nik you're just being paranoid") Perhaps I am too small to talk

Ok enough with lectures..this time I really wanted to hear something from all of you...please don't turn this into a too hot issue...(even if it does...I won't blame you.)

What is our next action? How to tame inflation? I'll tell you later
Just got an e-mail (Judging by the style of query, I think the person is either 'economist' or could well be 'an investor') asking me 'what is 'asymmetry'?

Click Here for the definition on the web especially :

"Unequal distribution about one or more axes"

"a branching pattern or shape that lacks a line of symmetry on either side of a median plane"

"Irregular, uneven; without symmetry; having no center or axis where something can be divided evenly"

and on the question how asymmetrical factors relate to the stock market or in the context what we're talking now...KLCI...Click Here for a sample research....(and a very good one too)

Then I think having read these, the forumer will agree on the use of the word 'asymmetry'...

And on the final question of how to become a good 'forecaster' (like Ariffin), in theory, you should first determine 'standard deviation' (e.g. 150-200) and 'correlation efficient' (0.90++) with a typical disclaimer that the price may fall within +/- 2 or 3 times the standard deviation. Alas, this is only a theory - I'm still biased to 'empirical factors' (experience) and 'justification of figures' + 'hunch/intuition' (of course with these combined strengths, you can almost determine the deviation and correlation + tolerance)

But I sincerely wish you would talk openly in this forum as we need your inputs as well. Don't just 'peep-in' and become 'observers'.
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The Star Global Malaysians Forum - Posted : 03 January 2007 at 12:21pm

arifin34 wrote:
Oops.... sorry again. I'm apologising cos I don't want to offend anyone, esp. to you all, my dear friends. Oklah, I'm just an ordinary 'economic chartist' (Fred Tam prefers me to stake claim as a 'chartist' or 'technical analyst' - that's coming directly from him) who happens to be trained in develoment economics.... so I think I understand quite a bit on what the other forumers are talking about in this tread (most of you are really farsighted - that augurs well for this thread

hey Brigitte aren't the GMN people up there thinking of awarding some kind of Awards as an added incentive?!).

I said 'quite a bit' cos nobody actually knows what's going to happen in the real world. Economists are good (very good) at making simplifying assumptions in their analyses. No two economists think alike, I guess... that's why some people even make jokes about the economics profession - a dismal science they say! Why, even the famous London School of Economics placed 'Economics' under the Social Sciences. And mind you, that was George Soros' alma matter!

The other irony is that not all economists are exposed to the capital markets (bourses included) even though (to me) "the stock market is the panaceae of capitalist economics"! Most economists I knew were at lost when discussing about the stock market - they knew about the theoretical objectives of having one but not of how it works, and more importantly how one can read and figure out the direction of the trends. That's FORECASTING... and I have learned it not at the universities but purely thru SHELF STUDY.

I hope you people realise what I'm trying to say. You see, the good point is: You don't have to be an economist to be a stock market expert but having some economics background really helps - even though sometimes the two don't jive. And last but not least, brush up your knowledge in ICT (e.g. master the tools in the softwares) ..... and become more of a 'pakar ekonomi' & 'pakar IT' rolled up into one, as in the lyrics of 'Keranamu Malaysia'. Then you'll be unbeatable.... and with a bit of luck you can even Beat the Markets!

Bye, c u next year!

From an 'economic chartist' (or ist it a 'charting economist'?).

I like to agree to Fred Tam. I share the thinking that an economic chartist is also a technical analyst (not 'or' but 'and') - you're just being humble..that's all.

Lemme have the honour of 'analysing' you Bro Ariffin, I haven't done this in a long time - so you must excuse my rusty knowledge

Technical Analysis

Although in your posts, there are still conventional patterns of taking into account past investment returns/prices and relating price vs current value of expected cash flow from investment, I've also noticed some strong elements of quantitative investment analysis in almost ALL your posts which relates further to other variables (e.g. account ratio? - overpriced stocks or stocks with higher ratios of market price to equity book value may generate lower risk-adjusted returns) and there have been attempts using chaos, fractal, & neural. (am not sure about AI)

Charting

Then I'm assuming, you start plotting past prices vs time using charts to detect downward/upward trend which you have always 'predicted' to continue (trend persistence).

You're not too fast cos' it's dangerous for investors but you 'play along' with the flow of 'educating cum alerting' so that people like me can understand and absorb what you're talking about.

To all forumers, charting is not simply hypotheses but it requires a gread deal of experience cos' investors are getting more knowledgeable everyday. It's not simply depending on softwares or system that proclaimed can do everything for you.

Charting 'the bro Ariffin way' (or Fred Tam's way) can also ascertain the trend limit based on peaks/troughs connections and resistance/support levels, osciillators/schochastics - price positioning measurement vs low/high price/momentum and of course empirical factors - using your intuition to expect some 'drastic/erratic' volatilities and investor's psychology.

- that's where we (and/or 'investors') know when to buy or to sell or simply put as 'bear/bull' (also very useful to 'futures' as well)

Additionally - what johndoe said in his views on KLCI 07 is also very accurate - "The stock market is just like wheat harvesting. After a great harvest, the farm must be burned down into ashes creating a natural fertilizer for the next planting/harvest"

whereby I self-termed as the fiscal first quarterly effect - usually after December, there'll be a year-end liquidity rise & tax loss trading reduction - so you should be expecting good times for January, February (but probably not end March) unless what have been promised are being fulfilled -> implementation/performance/ transparency <- the real stuff that I like to see (This para is also self-explanatory of why in some posts, I'm a bit reserved in the KLCI future predictions - but this 'reservation' doesn't imply that I'm pessimistic)

Thus, the abovementioned JohnDoe's views should be intergrated with ariffin's charting/analysis - then investors should be safe!

On my side ; on the other hand; have always been 'picked up here & there' (multiple styles) of looking into the trend + asymetrical/psychological effects (spectral) on stock values/economy - triggered by political party assembly, elections or equivalent (depending on the chosen candidates - what they talk about/promise, economy gameplan, policies etc.), Yes...corporate good governance, delivery systems, book value, blah-blah-blah as well.

Other psychological factors may also relate to 'force majeur elements' that I've mentioned in one of my recent posts, such as war, environmental issues, natural disasters etc. Don't forget big events such as games & competitions (spurious correlation) such as World Cup, Olympic Games etc.

Other variables - currency movement (depreciate/appreciate?) vs inflation vs growth, inequilibrium in trade balances etc. Investors must also have knowledge on the industries/products/operations/core-business processes that they have interest in.

To be on safer side, Ariffin + John + Nik's modus operandi - you'll be a super knowledgeable investor..hehehehe.