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PLAYING & PROFITING FROM DIVIDENDS…

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Monday, March 19, 2012, In : Trader202: Tips & Tricks

Lot of public listed company on Philippines Stock Exchange regularly pays dividend, this could be stock or cash. Regular dividends are usually paid at a specific time of the year, short term traders are very aware of it. Sometimes, companies give special dividends but not regularly… it happens only when such a company experienced high profitability on that year.

To profit on this, the concept is simple. Buy shares of the company before the dividend declaration or after the declaration. Usual...
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ON THE FIRE...

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, In : Company Information

Cautious trading lifted share prices slightly higher as investors reduced property shares in favor of industrial and power-related stocks. The benchmark PSEi index rose 6.28 points, or 0.14% higher from Monday, to close at 4,282.62 on moderate trading volume.

Prices could move sideways again today as investors remain cautious of developments and even surprises coming from abroad. Steps to solve Europe’s credit crisis seem to have stalled for the meantime just as US’s economy has continued ...
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CHRISTMAS MIGHT LOOK BLUE...

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Friday, December 2, 2011, In : Company Information

Lower than expected GDP growth in the third quarter pulled local share prices lower on Tuesday, its ninth in the last ten trading sessions, as investors reduced holdings and took profits from select blue-chip gainers. The PSEi main index fell 16.84 points, or 0.39% lower from Monday, to close at 4,211.04 on robust trading volume.

Megaworld Corp. (MEG) said it will invest up to PhP7.0bn for the development of a 550 hectare area within the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga. The real estate giant p...
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THE ROLLER COASTER RIDE ON OUR MARKET.

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Friday, October 14, 2011, In : Company Information

Once again, the PSE index rises sluggishly with a flat 0.35% increase, proof of the continued caution exercised by the market. With the sole exception of the Industrial index, which lost 0.55% of its previous value, all sectoral indices ended positively but with miniscule growth. The continually volatile mining and oil sector index received the highest index movement at 1.6% advance upward. Market advancers still beat decliners 84 to 64, with 34 unaffected issues settling the score. There wer...
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THE BAD & GOOD NEWS

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Tuesday, August 16, 2011, In : Investing

The recent surge in volatility has been bad news for developed markets. While the Philippine market has corrected because of the global macroeconomic headwinds enumerated below, there are also good news for the Philippines because of numerous factors.

The Bad News:
1) Standard and Poor’s historic downgrade of the US credit rating
2) Talks of a double-dip recession in the US has resurfaced
3) European debt crisis spreads to Italy and Spain
4) Possible downgrade of the credit rating of France i...
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PRECIOUS METAL INVESTMENT

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Friday, August 12, 2011, In : Trader202: Tips & Tricks

In the past, people have invested in gold or silver as a method for storing value when a currency was losing its value. But today, our currency is no longer backed by gold per se. It is backed by the gross domestic production of the nation. Now there are many other reasons people have for investing in these precious metals. For the last several years, the consumption of gold, silver, platinum and palladium has far exceeded its production. This is coupled by the fact that the market price of t...
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NEW PSE TRADING HOURS

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Investing

Referring the memorandum TPA-No.2011-0030. The board of directors of the Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. approved the extension of trading hours from it current schedule of 9:00a.m.~12:10p.m. to 9:00a.m.~3:30p.m. The plan of implementation shall include two phases as follows:

Phase 1 – Effective October 01, 2011
9:00a.m.~1:00p.m.

Phase 2 – Effective January 01, 2012
9:00a.m.~12:00p.m.
1:30p.m.~3:30p.m.

The implementation of the new trading schedule would entail amendment to certain sections of ...
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OUR TIME IS NOW!

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Thursday, July 28, 2011, In : Investing

Over the past few weeks, the US has been wrestling with a crippling budget deficit as well as a potential default. If a new policy on the country’s debt ceiling is not agreed upon by the politicians before August 2 (exactly 8 days from today), we might just witness a US default for the first time in history. A looming downgrade by credit ratings agencies on US debt is also a distinct possibility. A continent away, European leaders are brainstorming on how to pull the region out of a potenti...
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