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Anonymous

18 Jan 2020

Stocks

How much worth of stocks do you typically buy at once?

I'm using DBS Vickers, and considering investing in the long term using my monthly salary payouts (that I save around ~1.5k per month left after ETF, STI and parents). How often do you recommend I buy stocks or REITS if I'm looking to grow my money? Is there anything as buying too little worth of stocks at once?

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For sgx, any amount above 8k is the magic number due to the commission charged by brokerage

Cedric Jamie Soh

16 Dec 2019

Director at Seniorcare.com.sg

I buy as much as I can, monthly.

Seriously, not trolling. I buy as much as I can, so what I am trying to say is that, you should invest as you can comfortably can, don't compare with others.

I can invest for 100 years and I probably cannot match what Warren Buffett buys in 1 day. :)

Buy the max you can monthly (or quarterly) and future you will thank you.

Stanley Lim

16 Dec 2019

Co-founder at Value Invest Asia

Think of it in term of percentage.
If you have a reasonable expectation on how big your portfolio will be in 1 or 2 years time, then you can work backwards to see how many stocks you want in a portfolio. If you want about 20 stocks, it means you will buy about 5% per stock.

It Depends on your portfolio size.

if I allocated $10k to a stock. Maybe the first position I'd take is 4K? This is for the purpose of entering in more tranches should the valuations get cheaper.

Hope This helps!

Bjorn Ng

14 Dec 2019

Business Analyst at 10x Capital

It really depends. I can have like 5 stocks on my watchlist, but if none of them meet my valuation c...

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