Living with COVID (Edt 2022)

Yeap, alot of things happened for a reason and yes, I have close kins who didn’t get COVID once but twice.

Last week was an intense week, while doing market closure and officiate my offboarding process, the kids are all falling sick with a viral influenza spreading like no one business (it wasn’t C+, it wasn’t dengue, it’s just…. no one has any idea of exactly it is). Went in and out of A&E, 24-hrs clinics and also, prior to this my partner got C+ for the 2nd time. Adding onto the fuel, I need to bring my mum along for some of her appointments -_- until I was really shagged out.

But the level of focus was only 2 things, (1) health of the kids and (2) ensure my offboarding and market closure was a smooth sailing process for everyone in the team. It wasn’t easy to deal across the globe for all these but thank god, it went on well.

I often asked myself. What exactly am I chasing for again and again in life and realized sometimes, even when opportunity comes, family stands as the key priority and I had to let go of it when I have no confidence doing the best for it. D and R always mentioned that I have this habit of overthinking too much but I guessed, if I cannot attained a certain confidence level, it’s just not fair not to give the best self to others.

For me, this is the basic expectation that I required for myself. 🙂 Yes, a slave driver on own but it works for me in terms of growth. Not right and wrong answer but only, whether it suits one or not.

This is not the first time it happened and I guessed it’s the really a test by God. Right now, I looked back, with that 3 hours of sleep each day, it’s all worthwhile and despite the kids are still sick, at least they are better now.

Honestly, right now, I just hope that we don’t need to go through another round of non, I heard it’s another variation and whatever moneypox is. *Bleh*

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Crypto Winter? What’s Web3?

Shucks, I know that feeling of a downward falls after going through that high peak and stuff. My portfolio suffered and I decide to shut off the app and come back in another 5 years. 😝

It’s obviously a coordinated move by the institutional and with all the geopolitical stuff happening, this hit was exceptionally bad. However in Crypto, the other way from down is up so give it some time, the bounce back will be real. #HODL

As I took a break from the intense rat race, I realised a few things that there’s a paradigm shift from the concept to creation and many focus too much on the hype instead of what the exact values it can bring.

I came across a few projects and while chatting over dinner with D, Martin and 2 business associates previously, we spoke about the essence of Web3. Alot of people have the misconception about it bring just a digital economy focusing on virtual currency.

I personally feel its more than that. Blockchain is a technology that highly emphasized on being a trusted and secured network. Note the difference yeah~ D’s POV is that it’s decentralized, no monopolization of regulators making it a fair and unbiased view. I think it’s very important and it’s a huge step to leap, be it from a technology perspective, a hedge fund perspective or anything else in particular. 🙂

Am looking forward to it as the new generations are a generation who are more open minded with decentralized economy as compared to other generations.

Winter or not, it’s really HODL and to phase this out with time and a wise eye.

3 Months Break

Decided to make it or break it and thus left NTUitive/ NAMIC in Apr 2021 to help to pave ways for the family business despite perhaps I know this ain’t an easy journey and at the same time, took a break to work on myself, mental health and reassessing my path forward.

And then I realised – things will never work out the way it is despite how much you have planned including your back up plans.

1 week before I left NTUitive, my crypto trading went beyond the negative for the first time as I didn’t pay attention to my stop losses plan. For short trade, it’s heart breaking but I decided to HODL. And the best, R crashed my car and I just need to bring forward to scrap it. (Edited to include that he went on well and survived the crash. Er hmm.)

1 week after I left NTUitive, the spike in the community cases and clusters made me foresee a dejavu which honestly is driving me nuts due to the incident that happened last year that left me with trust issues with relationships ever since. I told myself that I will fight and win this war but internally, it gave me insomnia and etc. Thank god for my closest kins standing by me and distracting me wherever possible.

My said concerns were formalized with the Phase 2 Heightened Alert aka semi lockdowns. I’m forever amazed with the names that the Government has come up with, the circuit breaker, etc.

Took the whole month trying to find the right business model, right fit and also, spending time with the kiddos and the trying to upskill my knowledge. Decided that I need to really focus on agile methodologies to focus on matters thus I signed up for the course – Certified Scrum Master by NTUC Learning Hub (RTP: S$214) as I have utilized my Skillsfuture credits, I’m glad that I’m still eligible to get an one-off subsidy from NTUC UTAP programme and only paid S$107 to attend this.

This decision was made when I am thinking hard to push forward with my Masters or just, going through the skillsets based programme. Went for the latter as I’m afraid that I couldn’t commit with my careers and kids and I believed that academic credentials is important but being “human” and humane definitely bring it to another level. 🙂

Took these months to catch up on things that I couldn’t afford to do when I was in a full-time job and managing kids and finally made the efforts to declutter the house.

Check out my decluttering list via https://t.me/decluttersbylynn

Went to catch up with a few friends when Government announced Phase 3 Heightened Alert where dining for 2 has been made possible. Also went for a dinner with R at newly opened Saute Sushi at Paya Lebar Square. Love their menu and the train conveyor belt that enhanced the whole dining experience. Hopefully as people are more conscious about the health and climate change, people will swing over to a healthier and vegetarian/ vegan diet. 🙂

Check out their spread and their prices are priced at an affordable pricing. 🙂 Currently, no reservations can be made and we queued for 30 mins (BFF queued for 50 mins) prior to get the seats.

Honestly, hope things get better for Singapore and looking forward to better years ahead. 🙂

During these 3 months, I learnt to be a better person and definitely shall not lower my standards from this moment on. 🙂 Empowering mind, empowering lives.

Short Trading in Crypto

Just realised that it has been some times since I updated this space of mine. Life has been great when I took a big leap of faith to leave NTU to focus on Piggyback and the businesses, at the same time, rebuilding myself as it will soon be one year since it had happened.

I’ve been trying my best to overcome all the negative emotions and putting my energies on myself, kiddos and etc. And even crypto.

Got to admit that I still suck at short trading. The moment I sold on 30 April 2021, it mooned another 20% within the next 12 hours. LOL. Hopefully my $GRT will give me that bang for my bucks in times to come.

Looking back perhaps I need to change my strategies to do short trading. E.g instead of selling what I bought, perhaps I should sell my base value worth.

E.g. I used SGD 1,500 to buy in $GRT at 1.68 thus giving me 885 $GRT and perhaps next time I should sell $1,500 worth instead of selling 885 $GRT to get like a 20% profit margins. HAHAHA.

Just wondering if this will work. And I shall do that the next round. Let me know if you would like to share your tips in short trading. 🙂

Chopstick Theory -SatoshiStreetBets

The crypto world is going cray with all the community efforts in pumping what they called, shitcoins. LOL. All thanks to the viral reddit thread by SatoshiStreetBets.

They pumped $Doge aka DogeCoin which is created based on a meme featuring a Shiba Inu?! Like what?! And it was pumped up to 900% within 24 hours. And yes, Elon Musk sent a frenzy when he puts #Bitcoin in Twitter profile. Talking about the community strengths versus the hedge fund traders. It’s definitely a stressful week for the professional traders.

I did a shift to my portfolio where I focus on Altcoins now and as I was typing this, I just liquidate $GRT that gained a 5% within 2 weeks (The shitty part, the moment I sell the coins, it got pumped another 10% more, damn). $XRP did a good game too with 20% profit for me. Not bad for a short term trade.

I’m actually quite skeptical on the way I trade. For me, I just pick 2-4 and one of it will be the main based and prayed to heavens that it’s the right choice for me. But the stress level to look see at 3-4 will drive me nuts. HAHAHA. The reddit frenzy taught me that — You can read all the whitepapers u want but trading has no logic in crypto when community traders triumphed over the technologies, just like the Chopstick Theory that my mum loves to mention when I’m younger. LOL

Trade safe, trade well. Share with me your trading style via comments.

WHAT IS CHAINLINK $LINK?

Enough of grieving and start to be on track. Recently, there is this unknown hype for CHAINLINK $LINK that moved to Rank #5 after $XRP with a market cap of $5,611,269,745 USD. This fast rising crypto is definitely a must-watch especially during this bullish market.

Many had been asking what in exactly is $LINK? Basically it’s decentralized oracle network that provides real-world data to smart contracts on the blockchain and $LINK is a payment token in which users can use to pay for the services on this network.

I guessed this would be a good project that doubled up on the security and trust level among people using blockchain and reputable companies are using it. There is a huge potential behind all these as people start to digitize workflow and payments, moving towards a cashless world.

I would personally buy a little to accumulate some boost for near future as I believed the potential would be quite similar to Etherum. Buy a little won’t harm. 🙂

Trading via Coinhako. Visit my $FOLIO page to know more.

Coinhako – My Favourite Crypto Trading Exchange Platform in Singapore.

Opinions are my own.

🙂 Just wanna share some insights.

Many had asked me to trade on all sorts of exchanges/ platforms from Binance > Coinbase > Biki and all but ever since Xfers did not continue their partnership with Coinbase. I went ahead and scouted and found a SGD pairing exchange –  Coinhako. But why Coinhako?

The answer is simple >
Easier to liquidate to/ via SGD and fuss-free to trade.

When I was with the Blockchain company, I used to trade via IDEX and I had to do coin swapping from IDEX then swap out to ETH/ BTC then from there cash out. During the process, I could have innocently spend unnecessary trading fees on gas/ admin and etc.

But on Coinhako, I would just need to Signup > Verify and Link up 2FA > Trade in SGD pairing > Cash out.

Supporting local companies is important and also the comfort trading in SGD.

Xfers supported up to S$5000 in the digital wallet (due to the Payment Services Act 2020) that you can link to Coinhako and trade. However if you are trading from Xfers wallet, the minimum spend is S$550 and transfer can be reflected within 5 minutes of a successful transfer.

Whereas if you trade from Coinhako wallet, minimum buy would be S$10 however depends on the $Crypto you are looking at. Deposits clearance is daily placed in at 10am/ 4pm respectively.

So in summary, good things about Coinhako:

1. Pairing in SGD
2. Fuss-free on the Banking & Liquidation Part (Link to SG Bank accounts/ Connect with Xfers)
3. Local Enterprise #supportlocal with at least 5 years in this business
4. Great Community via their Official Telegram Groupchat (It’s important to gain some quick insights if you don’t monitor the market and we HODL together.)
5. Daily “Clock-in” Rewards when you logged into the App and Earn Points.
6. Points can be offset for % in trading fee (normally 2-times usage of 25% off on trading fee @ 500 Coinhako Points)
7. Refer-A-Friend and Earn-As-They-Trade
8. Great UXUI – Price Charts and all.
9. Once a while, they will organize some form of gatherings. Yay to free drinks~

Since the crypto market is now facing a little dip, I would take this chance to accumulate coins before BTC halving in May 2020.

Welcome to use my referral code: WILLYNN_576906

Check out my $Crypto Portfolio via the Folio tab above. 🙂

Trade well, HODL till it moons!

Update as of 03 Jan 2021; Bitcoin hits all-time-high. LOL Anyone wants tip me, please send via the following $BTC Wallet address at the sidebar. HAHAHA.

Friday, 13th in $Crypto

Wah, all the stocks are down and including $Crypto. I miss the Ethereum bottom at SGD$135 as I had already went in the previous days on 11 and 12 Mar respectively at SGD$259 and S$272. Goodness and not sure if Friday, 13th or the speech that Trump gave shifted the market sentiment.

I just realised he will be speaking at 3pm US Time on 13 March again which is 4am SG Time on 14 March. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I just bought in LTC. Wtf.

I thought right now is a good time to earn my pocket money, not asking donations. #HODL peeps, we will get there. BTC Halving in 2 months’ time.

Indifference.

Indifference will result in being a toxic being to self and others.

I once chanced upon this video by Ellen DeGeneres where she tried to seek help after she came out on her sitcom and everyone turned against her. She didn’t have a ring up for years yet she suppressed and won at her own depression to do her own talk show.

She says something along this line; If you feel different and depressed. Don’t worry… because:

“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

And the above stuck in my head till now.

I decided to keep on trying. Suppressing my own demons within. There is nothing sort of giving up. Trying to find that winning formula through limited time and money but I know I will figure it, outgrown it and finally succeed.

The first thing on my mind is to create an ample runway for budget flow. Everyone have their own stories. Their debts, their commitments and there could be a way to figure something out.

I figure out mine through crypto investing and copy trading (forex trading). I learnt and made a lot of friends through this. And just kept on moving, to grow the pie. It’s a long tedious process but I made it happened. I had never thought I would grow from a Teletext-reader for my dad to a leisure trader/ investor myself.

No one ever thought I would one day become a Semi-SAHM and work from home and created a work-from-home empire. No one. So the key… Taking risks sometimes will lead you to surprises and perhaps, one will get to enjoy the whole process. 😉

Shall pen down more thoughts on my mumtechpreneur journey in my next post. 🙂

 

Crypto Winter, Again.

The crypto charts had been volatile over the past few days, weeks and months. Looking at the 90-days chart kind of emphasized my need and vision to be investment savvy to place the eggs into the various baskets and not just to one crypto investing.

Also, across the spectrum, I had also trade not just one but at least 2 coins to minimize the loss and importantly, ensure that I don’t get overly-heartbroken. You can check out my pots via my $FOLIO.

I believed it will take some time for it to spike back especially $Bitcoin rewards halving will happen in May 2020. It would be an exciting period for all the crypto investors.

To me, crypto investment is more of a savings plan. One must be able to overcome its psychologically and mental aspects to HODL and not liquidate at small chances unless you are talking at a small fraction of what you trade. Sometimes I do that (to finance daily needs) too but I try not to do that frequent.

It’s mentally draining and also, not wise not a long-term trader.

I set a threshold of my losses and also, a timeframe to give it to rise otherwise, I will liquidate at the next possible chance. 😉

Trading is not also a one-off thing but it on another hand, I am those who do a lot of homework to these tradings because I need to know what I’m buying and I will try to envision a long term perspective.

So if you need any second opinions, email me or telegram me for more chat ups. 🙂