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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...

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...

The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) in their effort to increase the awareness and interest of the Filipinos in inverting in equities or stocks will hold a FREE seminar in Cebu and Davao. The seminar is entitled, “Building Wealth with Stocks: Investing Guide for Beginners” . It will be held on Monday, March 22, 1-5PM at the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug, Cebu City. The seminar will also be held on the same time slot in March 24 at Royal Mandaya Hotel in Davao City. Another seminar entitled, “Alternative Funding-Financing through the Equities Market" will be conducted by the PSE to the members of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry in March 23, 9AM-12NN in Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City. Topics to be discussed in the mentioned seminars includes the following: basics of investing, online stock trading, investing in mutual funds, and listing in the PSE.

Have you heard the latest news on Cebu Pacific? It’s not about their latest promo of cheap air fares. It was all about Cebu Pacific’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) Cebu Pacific’s IPO Cebu Pacific is planning to offer 125.25 Million stocks worth 12 Billion pesos. It means that the price per stock is around 95 pesos. Although they will be listed on the local stock market, the company targets institutional and international investors for their initial offering. The company originally planned the IPO in 2008 but postponed it due to the global economic crisis that occurred on the 4th quarter of that year. They said that the funds will be used to further their expansion in the ever growing market of air travel. The company has not yet revealed the exact date of their initial offering. Cebu Pacific has been gaining strength in the previous years, beating their rival Philippine Airlines (PAL) in the domestic market. It also trimmed the market share of shipping industries by ...

1. Definition Inflation is the rise in the prices of goods and services in a country. It is translated to the decrease in the purchasing power of a currency. For example, your 500 pesos now can only buy 80% of what it can buy last year. 2 . You actually lose money when you save with a piggy bank or under your bed sheet. (I mean long term saving here.) Having a piggy bank is what most people do to save money. But unfortunately, your money inside it will be eaten wholly by Philippine’s high inflation rate. Saving for long term in a piggy bank or under your bed sheet is simply outdated and impractical nowadays.

PSE in Makati. Image via Wikipedia Are you interested in stock trading ? Well, nowadays, more and more people are getting interested in the topic of personal finance . In the Philippines, though, many people are still uneducated in this very important topic. Probably, one of the “benefits” of the recent economic recession is the increase in awareness in how people should manage their finances. Yes, before, words such as “ stocks ”, “ mutual funds ”, and “ bonds ” are rare topics of discussion and are only mentioned by business savvy people. Now, even kids know about it and even talk about it. Among the many ways you can invest is through stock trading . In simple terms it’s like a buy-and-sell business. You buy stocks when they are at low price then sold them when it already increased in value. The hard part is: stocks are fluctuating . It changes in value from time to time and many factors are affecting it. It’s of higher risk compared to mutual funds and bonds. I will admit that ...