This is a recent strategy which I am experimenting on my CFD account which I will be explaining more in detail when I have the time to blog the full implementation on it.I recently opened a short position in UMS Holdings at the price of $0.66 for 50,000 shares.This was somewhat a different strategy I have for my main portfolio which focuses on dividend income strategy and will remain the core of it for the most part of things.UMS has been a very popular stock in the past 2 years due to their recent semi-conductor upcycle, which seen their stocks price goes as high as $1.30+ prior to the bonus offer 1 for 4 sometime during this same time last year.Since then, their results this year have not been particularly good, with the trade war between the US and China impacting the demand production

There are a few companies that will be going ex-dividend on Thursday. In other words, you need to own them before that day in order to receive their dividends. Let’s dive into three such companies. Best World International Limited (SGX: CGN) Best World is involved in the development, manufacturing and distribution of top-end skincare, personal care, nutritional and wellness products, to customers through its direct-selling network. The firm is dishing out 1.2 Singapore cents per share for its third quarter as a special dividend. For the company’s latest quarter, revenue spiked 96.8% to S$92.1 million, up from S$46.8 million a year ago. The improvement was mainly due to the full commencement of the franchise segment in China from July 2018. Meanwhile, net profit surged 145.3% to S$29.9

With no clarity how Trump-Xi meeting at the G20 summit in Argentina would pan out, UOBKH believes that the market will be taking flight into safety stocks with strong fundamentals. Thus, moving forward, UOBKH recommends investors to reposition their portfolio with such stocks to build up portfolio resilience. Investors Takeaway: 4 Cash Rich Companies With Generous Yields ST Engineering Despite registering slightly weaker 3Q18 results, UOBKH believes that ST Engineering’s long-term value remains intact. ST Engineering’s internal operating cash flow will also be sufficient to fund its dividend payout of $0.17 in 2019, based on a payout ratio of 85 percent. This implies an attractive yield of 4.9 percent. ST Engineering’s recent acquisition of MRAS is in the midst of getting cleara

Demand in the semiconductor market can be volatile over the short-term. According to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, the worldwide semiconductor market rose 21.6% in 2017. In 2018, however, growth is forecast to slow down to 15.7%. Such cyclicality is normal for the semiconductor industry. Investors who are investing in semiconductor-related stocks should look at the long-term trends instead. Investors can learn about growth trends in the industry by looking at large semiconductor manufacturers. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, or TSMC, is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry. I recently looked at what the company had to say about the semiconductor industry’s growth in its 2018 second-quarter earnings conference call transcript. TSMC�

Benjamin Graham, who was Warren Buffett’s mentor, once said: “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” What Graham meant is that in the short-term (days and months), stocks can fluctuate wildly. But in the long-term, companies with strong earnings tend to do better than those without. The best shares of the decade Over the past 10 years, the 15 best-performing stocks in Singapore’s market are: 1. AEM Holdings Ltd (SGX:AWX); 2. Best World International Limited (SGX:CGN); 3. BreadTalk Group Limited (SGX:CTN); 4. CITIC Envirotech Ltd (SGX:CEE); 5. Straco Corporation Limited (SGX:S85); 6. UMS Holdings Limited (SGX:558); 7. Tianjin Zhong Xin Pharmaceutical Group Corporation Limited (SGX:T14); 8. China Sunsine Chemical Holding