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LIVING DAYLIGHTIN STOCK MARKET:MONETIZINGYOUR PROFITSIN 8 DAYS

3 Foreword

4 Preface

7 Chapter 01 The Common Fallacies in Stock Trading

Chapter 02 Landmines in Stock Trading

Chapter 03 Getting Started from A to Z

Chapter 04 Constructing Your Proprietary Trading Indicators

Chapter 05 Understanding Market Fundamentals

Chapter 06 Rule Number 1 Risk Management

Chapter 07 Integrate, Monetize & Reap Consistently

Chapter 08 Real Successful People in Trading

Featuring Fiona Tam, James Leong, Benny Lee and Jonathan Quek

Chapter 09 Your Future in Trade Living

Chapter 10 A Glimpse into the Future Market

12 Epilogue

14 Introduction of the Author and Coauthors

CONTENTS

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For most people, the shares market is an enigma, but not for DAR Wong.

In this new book, DAR extends a helping hand to those traders who are looking to demystify their local shares market, be it in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand or Hong Kong. DAR knows in first-hand what it’s like to struggle in trading without proper knowledge and good mentorship. In this book, he hopes to provide both.

Regardless of you being curious about the shares market, just starting out in the shares market or a trader struggling to find their feet in the shares market, this book will be a welcome addition to your library.

For the curious or new trader, this book will give you the essential knowledge to learn the shares market’s language and geography. Through learning them, you will pick up the skills and confidence to navigate your way through the various trips and traps that are ambushed in shares market!

For the more experienced (and new) traders, DAR gener-ously lays out in detail a clear and concise methodology on how to identify and trade for instant opportunity in the shares market. By following his methodology, DAR teaches you how to monetize the profit within 8 days.

Instead of just talking about the rich opportunities in the shares market (as long as you know where to find them), DAR spends considerable and valuable time, space and energy on discussing the ways to succumb the biggest challenge: RISK.

DAR precisely articulates the pitfall of shares market and focus on the necessary importance for every trader to first learn about how to manage their trading risk, be-fore tapping the profits. No matter how good a trader’s methodology can be, it will be worth next to nothing if a trader neglects the risk. It will not take too long for the trader to quit before he/she can even become competent in trading.

It’s pleasing for me to see DAR has avoided in taking the easy road in writing this book. Usually, people are easily at-tracted to books with contents of bed-of-roses. However, DAR has not taken the easy route by featuring only the sweet stories. He has kept it real by telling the truth on how fast you might be wiped out in market downswing if you choose to ignore the essential risk management.

Hence, the first rule to succeed in shares market trading is risk management. A trader has to learn to manage his/her own risk and survive the pain periods of losing inflict, be-fore enjoying the sweetening rewards that will come later.

Trading is not an easy business. It takes knowledge, appli-cation, self discipline, new habits and many repetitions to condition the trader into the market until he/she becomes seasoned. Therefore, keep on reading, comprehend, in-vestigate and validate the ideas that DAR shares with you in this book. You will soon find yourself on a clear path, although sometime bumpy, to trading success.

Brent PenfoldSydney, AustraliaTrader and Author of “The Universal Principles of successful Trading” (Wiley)

FOREWORD


PREFACE | By DAR Wong

My first book - “8 Ways to Invest in China’s Emerging Markets” was mostly talking

about Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) and stock investment. Many readers made handsome profits by betting their investments listed in the book from early 2009 to end 2012. Person-ally, I am a Derivatives trader in Forex, Commodities and Financial Indexes. Trading in stocks is just my side-income and I have always preferred to “play” on a longer time horizon, es-pecially after the market entered into Recession in 2008. Investing in stocks from 2009 to 2012 was a perfect tim-ing to take a profitable ride with QE1 and QE2 policies implemented by U.S. Federal Reserve.

When many readers began to call me Stock Guru after I accurately pointed out the potential China stocks andfinancial instruments before their bull runs, I received many requests to conduct stock trading classes, which Ihad never conducted before.

To modify my stock trading method from long-term investment to short-term speculation, I have to make adjustments in my parameters and calculation of risk management. In 2013, I imparted this trading meth-

This is my second book. After my first book was published in 2009, I have decided not to write any more books. To me, writing is one of the toughest jobs on earth. It takes up so much of your time over the duration of a few months, makes you sacrifice your sleep, diverts your focus from all your other priorities, makes you dig into multiple researches, develops a stiff neck and “burnout” your brain!

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odology of 8 days’ strategy to 2 secu-rities houses in Singapore, namely MayBank Kim Eng Securities and CIMB Securities. Many clients made profits on-the-spot during the 1-day class by learning how to spot stock entry with higher winning probability.

Every time I demonstrated a stock rotation, I would use DZH NextVIEW Advisor Pro system that could do thetask efficiently. Unfortunately, I have been very tied down by my work as a Fund Manager and could not con-tinue the class after mid-2014. Due to many sincere requests from clients and their referrals, I decided to pen down the methodology in this book.

In my years of touring as speakers, I met many people who are still searching for successful trading for-mula. Many others are just “betting” on what they heard from someone else, without concrete findings. This is one of the most dangerous way to trade and the fastest way to lose all your monies!

Trading is not gambling. It is a busi-ness activity. In this world, all sorts of businesses boil down to transactions between buyers and sellers. The ul-timate objective is to create a profit from making the transaction, be it a buy low now and sell at a higher price later, or a sell high now and buy back at a lower price later.

Likewise, trading is about making a transaction. The unique part of this business activity is that there is no physical asset and you only take ad-vantage of price changes. Thus, there is no hassle of logistics, transport, delivery of products, inventory check, production, labor management, de-sign and feasibility, etc. Whatever you do, focus on making profits out of price movements in your advantage just like how you would have done in

any other businesses!

Simply enough, if you will never stick to a losing business for a long time until you lose all your capital, then there is also no reason why you should sit in a losing trade until it busts your account.

There is this ancient Chinese story as below:

One day, a General led his troop of knights to a river bank. He was not sure how deep the river was and hesitated to give his command for crossing. He glanced around and saw a shepherd who was about 10 years old with his herds.

The General asked: How long have you lived around here and do you know this territory well?

The shepherd replied: I live here since I was born and I know this territory well enough from this field to the opposite hilltop.

The General asked again: Then do you know how deep is the river? Can my knights cross the river safely?

The shepherd grinned: No prob-lem. I’m not sure how deep the river is but your knights will sure

make it to the other side of the bank. The river is only about 10 horses in length!

Immediately, the General led the knights across the river. When they waded into the middle of the river, the water level almost covered the saddles and caused panic to the steeds. Without hesitation, the Gen-eral ordered retreat to the river bank.The General was infuriated and held the little shepherd high up in the air. He took out his sword and ques-tioned if the shepherd was a spy sent by the enemy’s camp.

The little shepherd was fear-strick-en and answered: You are a grown man and should be wiser than me! Look at the ducks there. They are fat and short legged, however they can “walk” their way across the river. Your horses are all strong and tall. How could they not make it across the river while the ducks could?

If you are smiling at the shepherd’s answer, then how many of you out there in the market actually listen tothe ignorant advices of others and endanger your own investment?


Only when you go into the water, you would know how deep it is and find ways to swim across. Likewise, when you know you are going into the water, you should make suf-ficient preparations to ensure your survival!

Hence, this book will prepare you with sufficient skills to survive before you wade into the unknown waters.Do not bet on the element of luck or punt your fund thinking that you could afford to exchange it for biggerreturns. All winning strategies are based on 3 simple rules:1. Develop a system with higher win-

ning probability;2. Safeguard with calculated risk;

and3. Repeat it continually with stock

rotation.

Before I round up here, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the co-authors, who spent their time tocontribute in this book. All of them are busy people and had made great efforts to meet my deadline before the publication. May all my well wishes go to Fiona Tam, James Leong, Benny Lee and Jonathan Quek to achieve further milestones in their future endeavors.

I will never forget the 4 most im-portant persons, who have helped to shape me up in my career path. They are Matthew Png, Foo Ji Nan, Brian Loo and Tan Bong Lin, who gave me lots of opportunities dur-ing my corporate days since 1989 and shortened my learning curve. The 2 trading masters who have put market intelligence in me are Master Mitto-San and Master Zeeki. Without them, I would not have found the magical correlations of time versus price parameters.

Before this book was sent for print-ing, it has taken a lot of hard work from Kalm Wong to do the proof-reading. Another credit goes to Hammond Tan who agreed to do the editorial work for this book. Of course, the support and recogni-tion from A. Rasheed and Seeni JG are deeply appreciated for putting their trust in my professionalism of writing this book. During our road show trip to China Guangzhou in June 2014, they volunteered to provide their resources to me without hesitation when they knew that I was in the midst of writing this book. I would like to take this opportunity to compliment their business integrity and good ethics through many months of my per-sonal evaluation.

Another person that deserves a lot of credits from me is Carl Tay. After he completed the Bullet Training series in early 2013, Carl has helped in many of my seminar and class events by being a photographer. Though this has been his hobby for many years, his willingness to contribute and continual eagerness to learn from seeking my tutelage have captured my special atten-tion to him. If you agree the cover picture for this book looks great, that’s the skilful work of Carl.

Lastly, nothing would have realized today if not for the continual support of my parents and family. My Dad and Mom are my 2 greatest beings on earth, who never have any doubts on me and my capabilities. My fellow siblings, namely Karen Wong, Verlyn Wong, Charmaine Wong, Kalm Wong and Lloyd Fu are all supportive family members, who have always trusted my judgment though the boat does rock sometimes!

Thanks to my beautiful daughters, Natalie Wong and Brilliana Wong, who always find me a nag but still willing to confide in me when they have worries. My happiest moment is to have the company of all my nephews and nieces and seeing them grow up with good social values. Most of them are in teenage years now and doing pretty well in their academic performances.

Perhaps, one of the motivations that make all successful and seasoned traders go on battling the market from day to day without giving up is family support and bondage.

Being a trader is not an easy task. Be-ing a full-time trader is even tougher if you are not supported by your family members in times of depres-sion. Therefore, trust and bondage with your family and loved ones are essential strength to see you through all these ordeals.

I wish and hope that all readers will gain profits consistently and be a happy trader after reading this book.

With health and abundance,DAR WongDecember 2014 | Singapore



Chapter 01

The Common Fallacies in Stock Trading

In market trading, there are winnings and losses. The “known secret” is concealed in many areas, such as fun-

damental reading, technical skills, Risk: Reward ratio, money manage-ment and personal experiences. However, it will take many years to master each of these areas and combine them to become a suc-cessful and profitable trader.

Trading and investment are totally different. In stock (also known as equity) trading, there are experts who talk about using market mo-mentum for short-term specula-tion while other experts empha-size on value-investing. The fast entry-cum-exit actions by the first type of market traders can even be executed as intraday transac-tions, or up to 3 weeks perhaps. On the other hand, the latter will do in-depth research on financial ratios and a company’s economic health before stepping in to hold for 3 years or even longer.

It is obvious that speculative trad-ing goes for a quick rise in share values of a listed company (com-monly known as “listco”). The win-ning principle lies in the amount of losses you can tolerate, in ex-change for the potential profits of expected rise during the calculated period (short-term). For value-investing, by parking your funds in some equities, mostly blue chips or dividend stocks, you place a bet on the core portfolio to make steady gains in book values and consistent dividends over the next few years.

Regardless of the strategy used, it is important to measure your buffer fund to maneuver in the markets without jeopardizing


your daily rice bowl. Do not dive into the market with the hope of buying a Ferrari over one night or few months if you could not even afford to lose one. What you heard from the horse’s mouth might not be true every time, despite the fact that you could have profited from the last 9 rounds of trade!

There are people who commented that equity market carries the lowest risk. This is only true if you know very well what kind of risk you are going to take and are aware of how deep the pit-hole is, if you accidentally fall into it. Ironi-cally, many retail traders invest into a counter by picking hearsays from a third party withoutknowing the background of the company. This can be disastrous if you are oblivious to the potential drawdown in prices, target price of profit exit and the potential losses from establishing the trading size in that particular counter!

Some intermediate investors who have managed to find ways to survive in the market for more

than 5 years will adopt the averag-ing method. This is equivalent to Kindergarten mathematics, hop-ing that the reversal upturn of the share prices will flip previous loss-es into profits. Unfortunately, such a trade plan may take few months or even up to more than a decade to break even or make money. In most cases, stock investors of such strategy will tell you that they have not really made much money even after many years of trading in the market.

In some rare but often seen cases, many investors hold a particular counter for many years in red. They often brag to friends that these as-sets are meant as dowry for their daughters or business capital for their sons in the future. Sadly, the company that has been invested may be delisted due to bankrupt-cies or business failure. Many such cases have happened in the past and shattered the confidence of long-term investors.

In my years of speaking in public seminars, many retail investors

told me that stock markets are meant for big fish (players) only. Small players are always swallowed as dinner by the big boys, like fund management, treasury institu-tions, proprietary trading teams, stock operators, etc. My immedi-ate response to these people is to advise them to control their trading exposure, otherwise they will never start making the sweetening profit from market. From the above con-versation, it will not be difficult to guess that those who made such comments have not made any reasonable good profit from the market before!

It is true that trading does not make profit all the time. Some-times you win and sometimes you lose. However, you cannot let the market decide your range of Profit and Loss, just like any common man-in-the-street would believe in this fallacy. In my teaching, right from the moment you establish a new trade entry, it must already be accompanied by planned risk ver-sus target exit for reward. In other words, you decide the amount of loss from each of your new trans-action. Of course, value-investing will practise differently in this case as the landscape of investment will be set on the periodic boom-bust cycle instead of price target.

Hence, the formula to speculative trading is about extending profits while minimizing your risk outlay. The fastest way to control your risk in stock trading is to place a stop-loss at no more than 10 percent adversity in your selected counter. Regardless whether your trading strategy is laid on a plan of intraday exit or even up to 3 weeks, the real-ity of devaluation in 10 percent of the share value has proven your in-correct view no matter what could


be the real reasons. Thus, it would be logical to cut it immediately lest the loss deepens. It would be un-wise to lose more than 10 percent if you are not always winning at more than 10 percent profits!

Everyone agrees that cutting loss is painful. I am no exceptional case. But I always believe that cutting at 10 percent loss (or lesser) will be far better off than keeping it in “cold storage” and being an eye-sore whenever you look at your monthly statement. Of course, you may not want to look at the account papers anymore but that is only if you vow to terminate all trading activities for the rest of your life.

Most stubborn traders do not choose to believe the rapid decline in market prices despite the reality being shown right on the screen. Before they can be convinced to make an exit, they will ask around and search everywhere on the internet portals to find out the cause of the price slump. Do not make this mistake because it might cause you the mother-of-all-losses in your entire trading career!

In our strategy of trading for not

Below are the websites for percentage allocation of component stocks in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong:Singapore: http://www.sgx.com > Market Information > Indices

> STI ConstituentsMalaysia: http://www.bursamalaysia.com > Products & Services

> Overview > Index ConstituentsThailand: http://www.set.or.th > (English) > Products/Services

> SET Index Series (left-side) > List of Stocks in SET50 Index/SET100 Index (right-side)

Hong Kong: http://www.hkex.com.hk (Alternative search http://www.wikipedia.org)

more than 8 days, the rapid slump within such a short period is a sign of hidden danger or perhaps, some unknown news that have triggered a sell-off before it is made known to the public market. Hence, bite your teeth and cut loss first before you go on to search for the truth!

In many cases, the above will always turn the trader into “value-investor” and make them keep the counters in “cold storage” for years. Unfortunately, they have not done enough homework to differentiate if such a counter is a good com-pany of at least “dividend stock” status or just a penny stock with underperforming business.

Hence, it is very important to do some self-evaluation before you decide to take part in this market trading game. Your status of being a speculative trader or value-inves-tor must be firmly determined and not be swayed by market senti-ments or misled by your own ego. Preserving your capital should be the first priority in market trading.

In my past conversations with retail investors, I realized their ignorance in understanding the list of constituent stocks. In every

stock (equity) index of a country, the composite benchmark always comprises a list of blue-chips that make up the single index reading from day to day. If you are a player in the constituent stocks, it is vital to interpret the composite stock index and get a monthly update on the percentage allocation to each and every constituent stock in it. It is highly likely that a potential rise in the chart pattern of a composite stock index will show the higher staked companies in percentage allocation rising even faster in the intraday activities, or vice versa.

Another experience to share with you is the movement of funds in the market on an intraday basis. Usually, the bullish sentiment in composite stocks on a particular day with uptrend seen in the stock index benchmark may not neces-sarily lift the penny stocks as well into the northern direction. On the other hand, red negatives in the composite stocks on a falling market day may chill the spines of blue-chip traders but a few couple of good penny stocks may be head-ing up for a profitable run!

The discovery of stock gainers on intraday basis can be easily searched through the TOP 20 Vol-ume and TOP 20 Gainers in most brokers’ platforms or data suppli-ers. The DZH NextVIEW Advisor Pro system exhibits the TOP 40 Volume and TOP 40 Gainers on real-time basis on each market day to aid market traders make their selec-tions in trade entry.

Many people think that stock mar-kets are meant for rich people. Basically, they do not understand the difference between specula-tion and investment. Ignorant folks would lose their hard-earned mon-


ies to the market through random trading or invest in some estranged structured instruments promoted by the financial institutions. Actu-ally, they could study and select good ETF (Exchange Traded Fund), equities and blue chips, and put a small portion of their monthly sala-ries into these long-term portfolios.

In my opinion, even speculation should start with a small capital. Do not believe in others telling you that big capital will make you big money. This is a fallacy be-cause all trading and investments should work on the foundation of using small capital to reap high profit over time. Using big capital to work for big return on 1:1 ratio will expose you to unnecessary risk over time and eventually land you in “hot soup”!

Ultimately, it is the trading method-

ology that is important to help you survive in the market. That is why Imentioned earlier on essential risk management. Starting small is a good trading plan. You will not feel hurt if you have prepared to lose it. You may always come back later, after doing self-adjustment, with fresh capital.

Another good reason is the expo-nential growth using small capital. You could be making 10 times or more in accumulated profits over several months to years if you start small. Nevertheless, you may not necessarily make 10 times the ini-tial profits if you begin with super big capital due to limited growth ratio, psychology barrier and fear of losses! Thus, aptitude plays an important part in your trading performance and not on the capital you are sitting on.

If you fully understand and agree with the points brought out in this first chapter, you would have also agreed that stock markets are meant for everyone, including you and me. In most countries, citizens above 18 years old are eligible to open a stock trading account with a licensed broker to participate in stock trading. In my opinion, you must be psychologically prepared to be involved and continually be-lieve that you could succeed in this “money game” before going further into this book.

Always remember that this is the world of real money. Winners will be awarded with cash while los-ers pay the price of ignorance or being stubborn. Therefore, the orthodox education in this field will lead you to a further milestone instead of treating it like a gamble. Unfortunately, gamblers are never

Figure 1.2 Snapshot of TOP 40 Gainers in Malaysia stock markets (Bursa Malaysia)Source: DZH NextVIEW 2014 (Sep)

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successful in trading stock or any financial markets because depend-ence on your luck will never work a lifetime!

Someone ever told me this state-ment: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

The Common Fallacies in Stock Trading are summarized as be-low:• DO NOT trade on hearsays.• Always know what you are

trading or investing.• Measure Risk: Reward ratio.

• Prepare a 10 percent cut-loss range (or lesser) in case of price adversity.

• DO NOT hesitate to cut loss if the 10 percent range is trig-gered even if you are unaware of what happens in the market.

• Self-evaluate to be a trader or an investor and adhere to the discipline at all times.

• Know the constituent stocks in a composite index and cor-related movement with penny stocks.

• Start with small capital.• DO NOT be a gambler!

Figure 1.2 Snapshot of TOP 40 Gainers in Malaysia stock markets (Bursa Malaysia)Source: DZH NextVIEW 2014 (Sep)

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EPILOGUE

This book may not have covered all the details on stock trading but I am sure it has given you a new perspective to look at

the market differently. As a successful trader, it is important to predict the next market pattern and take a calculated risk to tackle it. Likewise, a successful investor will predict what the biggest trend will be in 5 years to a decade’s time, hence plan-ning an early entry versus calculated risk.

Nowadays, if you look at all the developed Stock Exchanges, you would find the various listed companies categorized into market sectors based on the industries that they are in for easy projection of the industrial trends. Broadly speaking, they are usually separated into Banking & Financials, Consumer Services, Materials & Constructions, Mining and Plantations, Real Estates & Development, Pharmaceu-ticals and Medicals, Shipping and Mari-time, Telecommunications, Logistics, etc.

However, different Exchanges have their own compilation of various sectors under different group names. One of the easiest ways to begin your trading activity is to first identity your favorite sector groups. Go to each and every one of these sectors and start searching for their constituent stocks. Among all the stocks listed in a sec-tor, search again for the higher weighted ones in term of percentage.

When you have the above information, it would be good to monitor the whole sector market chart. When a market sector moves up, chances are the higher weighted stocks will lead the bullish trend. In other words, it would be higher winning probability if you notice a sector

market chart rises together with a few of the highest weighted stock as well. Then again, this could be more valid if you look into the Day-chart of these single stocks and see the volume surges with the EMA 4 and EMA20 cross-up (or EMA4 crosses above EMA200).

Repeat this study on the popular sector. You will eventually find a few good stocks that might become your favorites due to their consistent participation from the public investors. On the other hand, it will be tough to make winnings if you bet on a stock with small weighted percentage in that sector.

Play around with this methodology. It will elevate your chances of making profits!

A few other tools that may increase your profitability are the switching of momen-tum and time-scale in order to fine-tune the timing to enter the market for an almost instant surge on T-day. Perhaps, I could show you how to do it if I hold such a training seminar one day. Before that, you had better grossed some monies from the market into your pockets first.

Frankly, trading is about development of philosophy and comprehension of market characteristics. Your strategy may not work all the time until you are able to adjust the parameters consistently according to the changes in market sea-sons. If you have digested the technique of using EMA crossing in this book, try it in other instruments like FX, Spot Gold, Crude and Equity Indexes. You may find it useful and profitable once you are able to identify the busiest timing throughout the daily market hours of each instrument.


If you are new to a market, start small, i.e. inject small capital fund and trade small volume first. Verify if your own trading meth-odology could work by applying to 10 trades initially. Measure your potential of Risk: Re-ward ratio versus the Loss: Profit outcome. Gradually expand your trading activity and increase your profitability through this pro-cedural journey. I can guarantee you that at the end of the dark tunnel, there will always be a bright sunny day!

Do not believe in what you have learnt from this book until you have tested it to be posi-tive. Give yourself 3 months to place trials on at least 10 stocks to see if my methodology works for you. You may also simulate some paper trades by just following the real mar-ket price movements. However, do not let yourself be carried away by greed!

~ A profitable trader is one who always strives to improve oneself by exploring more depths into the markets.~ A cautious trader is one who reads the market news every day before he enters the market to avoid unnecessary mistakes.~ A disciplined trader is one who always plans his cut-loss level right from the mo-ment he makes a new tradeentry.~ A successful trader is one who has great attitude to un-learn and re-learn in times of adversity.~ A legendary trader is one who profits consistently from the market and inspires others to do the same.

When you acquire all the above virtues, you will naturally become a seasoned market-master.

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Introduction of the Author and Co-Authors


Introduction of the Author and Co-Authors

Fiona Tam holds an honors degree in Chemical Engineering from University ofMalaysia, Pahang. After graduation, she worked as a project engineer for 1 yearbefore joining an investment bank in 2012. From reading many books and articles, Fiona developed great interest in Equity and Derivatives market, which led her into the industry as a trainee dealer. Being a late starter in this second career, she had to start on equal footing with the other fresh graduates and work doubly hard to excel.

After 1 year in the profession, Fiona was promoted to Senior Executive and became a dual-licensed dealer representative in mid 2013. In that year, the Headquarter of the investment bank that she worked in, awarded her with “Best Rookie of the Year” in Selangor state. In a separate event, she was selected as one of the top 50 performers nationwide who qualified for the Investment Bank’s Dealer Convention 2014 in Bali.

In August 2014, Fiona converted to be a dual-licensed Remisier and Derivatives Broker and went independent setting up her own business. She believes that the skills in her trading analysis, clientele services and market identification would be her strength to become a successful entrepreneur.

About James Leong

• Fellow Chartered Accountant• CEO, Visions.One Consulting Pte Ltd• Adjunct Associate Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS)• Executive Committee Member, Securities Investors Association of

Singapore (SIAS)• Judge, Singapore Corporate Awards 2014, Best Annual Report category• Gold Medalist Public Speaking (London Academy of Music and Dramatic

Art)• Toastmasters International Pan Southeast Asia Humourous Speech

Contest Champion

James Leong is a strategic learning partner to Singapore’s top financial insti-tutions, leading blue chip public listed companies and has trained with many institutions of higher education, such as Singapore Management University, Singapore Institute of Management, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Victoria University of Technology and Duke Corporate Education. He

About Fiona Tam


regularly presents at professional forums, continuing professional education training and appears on radio and investor education webcasts. The Singapore Business Review has also featured him as one of the ten influential professional speakers in Singapore. James is well known for his dynamic presentation and ability to simplify complicated concepts in a simple, easy and fun way for his audience to understand and apply to achieve impactful results. In recognition of his contribution to the community, James received the long service award from the Minister, Prime Minister Office and is currently a member of the North West Community Development Council’s Community Philanthropy Club (Club 100 @ North West).

About Benny Lee

Benny Lee holds a BA (Hons) in Business Management, UK. He is a popular market commentator in Malaysia, who always speaks on national TV and radio for his opinion in Palm Oil trends. Benny loves to share and impart his knowledge to the traders-wannabe and he regularly partners Jonathan Quek in educating the young tertiary generation.

Today, Benny is a private trader, trainer and highly sought-after speaker in the equities and commodities markets with vast experiences of more than 15 years. He has conducted numerous trading and technical analysis workshops, seminars and coaching for private and institutional investors. Apart from speaking in local and international conferences, Benny is also a CPE (Continu-ous Professional Education) trainer for the Securities Commission of Malaysia and IBBM in Malaysia.

Backed by popular demand, Benny is a columnist for The Edge Business Daily, Borneo Post, and Palm Oil Fortune (MPOC publication). He regularly speaks on BFM89.9 business radio and also appears on other media, like Bloomberg, Business Times and Bernama.

Benny operates his own education and training business to cater for the mass retail market. He is the Managing Director for i2Matrix Sdn Bhd, an investment education provider and market strategist for a Malaysia stock broker.


Jonathan Quek holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from CoventryUniversity (2nd Upper Honors). After graduation, he worked in Singapore for 4years with HSBC Insurance and IPP Financial Advisers that exposed him to the far horizon of financial investments. During the financial crisis in 2008, he went into intense research on the vulnerability of the global financial system and discovered the true intrinsic values of precious metals amid the economic bust-cycle.

In 2010, Jonathan left the Singapore industry and headed back to Malaysia to start the journey of his entrepreneurship. S ince then, the inception of the online portal SilverMalaysia.com has served the objective of helping ordinary investors to fight against hyperinflation and to survive in an economic crisis. Apart from being an investment trainer, Jonathan is a C ertified Master NLP Practitioner and also a member of the Malaysia Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).

Today, Jonathan has authored a few books that have been rated as best sellers in Malaysia. The first masterpiece was written in 2011 with title “ Why Gold? Why Silver? Why Now?” and translated into 3 languages. Subsequently, he wrote “Keep Investment Simple & Stupid” Series and co-authored with Benny Lee with the title “How to Invest like an Idiot & Trade like a Pro” in 2014 and “5 Elements of Successful Investors” in 2014.

As a young and successful investment trainer, Jonathan is a hard-to-come-by talent in Malaysia and has been invited to speak at financial institutions, corporate organizations and educational institutions in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia and South Korea. To date, he has made appearances in Bank Negara & AKPK’s “POWER!” Program, CPA Australia, CIMA, University Malaya, Taylors’ University, iCapital.biz Berhad Open Day 2011, Wealth Sum-mit, InvestFair Malaysia, Wealth Expo, etc.

Being a highly successful individual, Jonathan has been featured and inter-viewed in numerous media, including The Star Newspaper, New Straits Times, TV1, TV2, TV3, BFM89.9, The Edge, Smart Investor, Personal Money, Focus Malaysia and TalkVietnam.

About Jonathan Quek


About DAR Wong

International speaker with 25 years of trading experience in the global financial markets; and Author of the book “Living Daylight in Stock Market: Monetizing Your Profits in 8 Days”.

DAR Wong is an active market trader, a registered fund manager, an educator and an author. He began his career in 1989 as an institutional Futures trader with Bank of America. DAR Wong specializes in trading global derivatives and financial markets.

He has 25 years of experience, accumulated through his tenure with Bankers Trust, Barclays Bank, Citigroup (Smith Barney Shearson Inc) and as an inde-pendent trader.

DAR is the author of “8 Ways to Invest in China’s Emerging Market” and con-tributes to regional financial newspapers and magazines for active traders and investors.1

He is a popular and sought after international speaker, who has presented to financial professionals and investors throughout the region, including Singa-pore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Laos, Vietnam, United Kingdom and Middle East (UAE).2

DAR is registered with NASD (now known as FINRA) series 3 and 5 as approved by National Futures Association (NFA) of USA. Currently, he holds a portfolio as Fund Strategist and Advisor with Dektos Investment, registered with Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

DAR is “one of the most successful traders – market masters” as profiled in Brent Penfold’s bestselling book “The Universal Principles of Successful Trading “.

Year2003 - Set up ASPRI to provide hedging advisory for corporate clients and

training for financial professionals.

2009 - Released his first book “8 Ways to Invest in China’s Emerging Market”.

2010 - Profiled as “one of the most successful traders – market masters” in Brent Penfold’s bestselling book “The Universal Principles of Success-ful Trading” along with Larry Williams, Andrea Unger, Michael Cook, Daryl Guppy, etc.


2011 - Received “Spirit of Enterprise” in Singapore, awarded by Singapore Management University (SMU).

2012 - Honored with Individual Diamond Career in Bangkok (Thailand), awarded by Royal Privy Council of Kingdom of Thailand.

2013 - Appointed Vice Chairman of ASEAN-China Commerce Association and led a delegation to the annual China-Asean Expo at Guangxi Province.

2014 - Fund Manager cum Director in Dektos Investment Corporation, reg-istered with Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

2014 - Selected to the Ambassador of GEW (Global Entrepreneurship Week) in Singapore.

2014 - Released his new book “Living Daylight in Stock Market: Monetizing Your Profits in 8 Days”.

References1 T V programs on Channel NewsAsia (Singapore); Radio on 95.8 Capital (Sin-

gapore); Newspapers, such as The Borneo Post (Malaysia), 资汇报 (Malaysia); Regional financial magazines, such as The Analyst (India), 东盟商界 (China, ASEAN), 资本杂志 (Hong Kong).

2 Spoke at events for CME Group, Euronext LIFFE, Singapore Exchange, Korea Exchange, Bursa Malaysia, Thailand Futures Exchange, Jakarta Futures Ex-change, Indonesia Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Interactive Brokers, Xinhu Futures, Hangzhou Money Fair, China (Shenzhen) International Finance Expo, China (Guangzhou) International Finance Expo, Euromoney, CIMB, MayBank, RHB, UOB Bank, Asia Trader & Investor Convention, Global Rubber Conference, International Rubber Conference, Malaysia Rubber Board, International Rubber Research and Development Board, Malaysia Ministry of Agriculture, Rubber Industry Small-holders Development Authority, Vietnam Rubber Association, Cambodian Rubber Association, Bureau of Agriculture Research Philippines, Myanmar Rubber Planters & Producers Association, etc.


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