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Seven new strategic industries in China – Investment in high-growth sector?

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The State Council of China announced which will set targets for the seven new strategic industries which are divided into seven categories, including energy saving, new generation of information technology, biotechnology, and high-end equipment industry as a pillar industry of national economy; As for the new energy, new materials, new energy automotive industry is the leading industry.

According to the target of The State Council, these seven industries will account for 8% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the next five years. In 2009, GDP reached 34 trillion (RMB), with the estimated average annual growth of 8%, the contribution by the seven industries to the GDP in 2020 would raise to 15 %, which is 4 trillion!

In the next decade, China will be the most rapidly growing market in the World. And Hong Kong, as a bridge between foreign investors and China, which will be the best investment platform for China’s economic development.

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Enhancing your portfolio returns through ETFs

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• Evaluate how ETFs work
• The advantages and disadvantages of investing in ETFs
• How to enhance your portfolio returns though ETFs
• Various types of strategies and tactics

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Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor

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This is an in-depth and multi-media review by Buffett Wealth author Robert Miles of simple principles used by Warren Buffett to become a multi-billionaire. Beginning students as well as professional investors will be informed and entertained by Buffett’s practical, value-based, and ethical investing methods.

Outline:

• 4 ways to create wealth
• The difference between rich and wealthy -  one temporary and the other more permanent
• Why Warren studies the best in every field of endeavor
• 3 lessons from Buffett's mentor
• What you need to know about yourself to be a successful investor
• Why every investor should prefer down markets
• 5 criteria Buffett looks for in an investment
• What you can learn from Buffett's investment mistakes
• 5 principles from the next Warren Buffett
• The circle of wealth: how Buffett plans to give all of his wealth back to the world

Synopsis: Buffett Wealth Workshop 1

There are four ways to wealth and only one involves skill. This presentation explores the easily learned beliefs and practices of the world’s most accomplished investor. Without ever starting or operating his own business, Warren Buffett has created enormous wealth by investing in other people’s businesses.

As a young boy in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett began his investing career with a modest investment of $100 and transformed it into over $100 billion -- one of the largest fortunes ever. According to Forbes magazine, Buffett is the second richest person in the world. And he did it by sticking to his principles, staying clear of unfriendly deals, and going into business with people he likes, admires, and respects.

Learn about "margin of safety" and why it's one of three important cornerstones and lessons taught to Warren Buffett. Understanding and only investing within your circle of competence is an overriding theme of building Buffett Wealth. An excellent example may be his billion-dollar purchase of Coca-Cola, a product he understands and consumes daily.

Gain insight into Warren’s mentors and what they taught him. Find out why you should think of a stock like a bond when calculating values; the world’s greatest investor believes that all investing is value investing; see how Buffett calculates a stock’s value. Learn to recognize the never-before-seen "Mr. Market," that fictional character created by Buffett’s professor to help explain the two extremes of the stock market: fear and greed.

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Emotional Investing vs Intelligent Value Investing Using Fundamental Analysis

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• Emotions and Human Behaviour.
• Emotional and Psychological Aspects of the Stock Market.
• Emotions and Myopic Reasoning in the Stock Market.
• You know the Price but do you know the Value.
• Price is What you pay, Value is what you get.
• An Experiment for a Paradigm Shift.
• Fundamental Analysis – The Top Down Approach – Economic Analysis, Industry Analysis, and Company Analysis.
• Economic Factors affecting the Stock Market.
• Industry Characteristics. Capital Expenditures and Efficiency. Automobiles and Chewing Gum.
• The Two Aspects of Company Analysis. The Qualitative Aspect and the Quantitative Aspects.
• How to Win the Stock Market Game. Know your Stocks, know their businesses and know their values. Wait for Crisis and Undervaluation.
• Warren Buffet’s Lessons on the Qualitative Aspects of the Business. Good Business and Mediocre Business. The Concept of Durable Competitive Advantage.
• The Toll Gate Characteristic of PLUS and the Rebuy Characteristic of Coca Cola.
• Businesses that have Toll Gate and rebuy Characteristics.
• Three Approaches to Quantitative Valuation:
  1. The Income Approach
  2. The Earnings Approach
  3. The Asset Approach
• An application of the Three Approaches. A search for Undervalued Malaysian Stocks.
• An Overview of the Malaysian and Singapore Stock Market.
• Summary, Questions and Answers.

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How to identify growth companies

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• The characteristics of growth companies
• How to identify companies with high potential growth and earnings power
• Identifying companies in blue oceans

Topic:

Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor

Highlight:

This is an in-depth and multi-media review by Buffett Wealth author Robert Miles of simple principles used by Warren Buffett to become a multi-billionaire. Beginning students as well as professional investors will be informed and entertained by Buffett’s practical, value-based, and ethical investing methods.

Outline:

• 4 ways to create wealth
• The difference between rich and wealthy -  one temporary and the other more permanent
• Why Warren studies the best in every field of endeavor
• 3 lessons from Buffett's mentor
• What you need to know about yourself to be a successful investor
• Why every investor should prefer down markets
• 5 criteria Buffett looks for in an investment
• What you can learn from Buffett's investment mistakes
• 5 principles from the next Warren Buffett
• The circle of wealth: how Buffett plans to give all of his wealth back to the world

Synopsis: Buffett Wealth Workshop 2

Bid on an actual business purchased by Warren Buffett and uncover all the lessons learned from this transaction. Understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative forms of investment and how Buffett calculates and discovers them.

Carefully review Buffett’s actual stock portfolio and see what you can learn from it. Discover why successful investors concentrate their ownership into a few wonderful stocks. Find out why Berkshire goes against conventional wisdom and refuses to split its stock.

Hear about Warren Buffett's mistakes and what lessons you can learn from them. This presentation reveals and debunks many myths about investing, wealth creation, and Buffett himself. It describes who the next Warren Buffett will be and what his investment principles are. It explains "the circle of wealth" and how most of the Buffett Wealth (his and his shareholders) will be given back to the world. Finally, it explores some of life's lessons from a man of wealth, genius, power, and character.

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Emotional Trading vs Intelligent Trading Using Technical Analysis

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• Emotions and Human Behavior.
• The Emotional and Psychological Aspects of the Stock Market.
• What is Emotional Trading and Why are Stock Market Participants Exposed to this form of trading.
• Greed, Fear and Market Myopia causes Emotional Trading.
• Emotional Trading is like trying to get to an unknown destination without a map!
• You need a Map for Trading and that map is a price chart of the stock that you intend to trade. Using the price chart and peripheral indicators, you can see how the price performed and where it is most likely to go.
• The Analysis of Charts is Technical Analysis.
• Western Technical Analysis and Charles Henry Dow. The Dow Theory – the basis of Western Technical Analysis.
• The Dow Theory and the Principles
• The Price to Volume Relationship
• The Psychological Aspect of Transactionary Volume. Volume confirms price action.
• Momentum and Price:
  1. Wilder’s Relative Strength Index – RSI and
  2. George Lane’s Stochastics
  How to use Momentum concepts to your Advantage.
• Eastern Technical Analysis: Candle Stick Charting. Munihesa Honma and the Sakata School of Candle Charting. Sakata Sen Ho.
• The Candle Chart: The Body (jittai) and the Shadows (kage)
• Candle Power. The Advantage of Candle Charts.
  1. The Visual Impact
  2. Ease of Reversal recognition
• The Length of Candle showing volatility, momentum acceleration and deceleration of momentum.
• The Doji. Its significance and meaning. 4 types of Dojis.
• The Strength of Candle Reversal Patterns. One Candle Reversal pattern – the hammer, hanging man, inverted hammer and shooting star. Two Candle Reversal Patterns – The Pregnant (harami) Patterns, the Engulfing (tsutsumi) patterns. Three Candle Reversal Patterns – The Morning Star and Evening Star Patterns.
• Complimenting Candle Charts with Western Technical Indicators.
  Candles and Volume confirmation, Candles and Momentum Indicators – RSI & Stochastics.
• The Engulfing (Tsutsumi) Pattern in the Sept 11. 2001 Market Crash.
• Charting Softwares for Candle Charting.
• Summary, Questions and Answers.

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Derivatives Market – Make Profit In Both Bull and Bear Market

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In 2010, securities derivatives (including derivative warrants and CBBC) in Hong Kong is the world's highest turnover, the turnover of derivative warrants and the percentage of total market turnover increased both in 2010, turnover from 2009 66billion (accounting for 10.7% of total market turnover) increased to 108 billion (accounting for 15.6% of total market turnover).

Average daily turnover of derivatives contracts is 466,082, 18% higher than in 2009. Hang Seng Index futures is still among the most actively traded products, accounting for almost half of all futures trading, as of the end of 2010, the Hang Seng Index futures open interest has 88,816, while the China Enterprises Index futures, there are 94,734 open contracts.34.Options market trading volume rose in 2010, stock options, is still the most actively traded options products, trading volume increased by 28.8% over 2009. It is a remarkable fact that, Hang Seng China Enterprises Index options products and have substantial growth in turnover, increased by 58.6% and 48.4%.

As of the end of 2010, the Hang Seng Index (HSI) only 5.3% higher than the end of 2009, the above figures mean that even if the stock market increases are limited, you can also make profit, by investing the Derivatives Market