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Update: BPI Trade is back online Monday afternoon. BPI Trade , the online stock trading service of BPI Capital notified their clients Sunday night that they will still be offline until Monday, May 19, 2014. This will be the second trading day that the service will be unavailable. During the weekend, the website is accessible but the stock positions as well as other information are not available. To at least minimise the inconvenience, BPI Trade offers alternative ways to post orders. 1. Call them through these numbers:  816-9189, 816-9192  and  845-5617  (Manila) 2. For those who can't call, you can also post orders via email,  bpitrade@bpi.com.ph BPI Trade says that they will take manual orders as early as 7:30 AM tomorrow.

Last year, I attended a free stock investing seminar. This is part of the Philippine Stock Exchange's ( PSE ) campaign to promote stock investing in the country. One of the many things that I learned (and I think one of the best among them) is all about the basic rule of investment. It was illustrated in a diagram called the Investment Triangle . The triangle's three vertex (corners) are labeled with investment characteristics: Liquidity - the ease of converting your investment to cash Safety - low risk; or the chance of losing money/value is low Returns - the profit that results from the increase of value of the investment The Investment Triangle goes like this (see picture below). The opposite of vertex means the opposite of the characteristic. For example, the opposite of Safety is Risky. The investment triangle goes to show the following rules. 1. There's no such thing as a perfect investment. Investment is all about trade-offs of the three characte...

What are mutual funds? Simply put it as a collection of money from different individuals and institutions managed by a group fund managers. They invest the money in stocks, bonds, fixed return securities and other investments. Some of the popular Mutual Fund companies in the Philippines are the following: - Philequity Management Inc - First Metro Asset Management Inc. - Philam Asset Management Inc - Sun Life Financials Philippines - A LFM (Affiliated with Ayala BPI) - ATR Kim Eng Asset Management The complete list as well as performances of mutual funds in the Philippines are shown at the official website of the Philippine Investment Funds Association (PIFA) . How much is the return? The quick answer depends on many factors. It is not fixed nor guaranteed. The following are some of the major factors affecting mutual fund performances. Type of Fund There are basically three types of mutual funds in the country: Stock Funds, Bond/Money Market Funds, and Balan...

After more than a month of beta test drive, BPI Trade , the online brokerage of BPI Securities now rolls out to all users the new trading platform. The new BPI Trade features a redesigned interface, improved research including technical and fundamental reports, charting capabilities (for technical analysts), ability to see who made bids in a particular stock, portfolio information including profit/loss summary and many more. BPI Trade new face [Read: BPI Trade Launches Beta Test For Upcoming Upgrade] At Par With Other Online Brokers With this new trading platform, BPI Trade is now at par with other online brokers. The features and capabilities of the new BPI Trade closely resembles that of the First Metro Sec. That is expected though since both are powered by Technistock platform. Stock Trading in the Philippines The Philippine Stock market is on the bull run since last year. PSE Composite Index (PSEi)  has breached several major le...

Are you an online stock trader? Investing in the Philippine Stock Exchange through online brokerage has been one of the most convenient way of buying and selling stocks. You can do it at home or at work as long as you are connected to the internet. Among the famous online brokers in the country are First Metro Securities of Metro Bank, Citisec Online and BPI Trade of BPI. And you may have known that among the three brokerages, BPI Trade is somewhat lacking in capabilities. First Metro Securities has been improving their service through the years providing interactive chats for "technical" traders. Recently they even launched a mobile app to serve their customers well. Citisec Online on the other hand boosts their customers satisfaction by providing useful research and recommendations. BPI Trade is not excelling even in just one of those. Even their interface looks boring. Now, BPI Trade seems to have awaken and took necessary steps t...