After receiving RM200,000 from a property sale, I compared Webull Malaysia and Moomoo MY for a short-term US stock trade. By breaking down currency conversion spreads, commissions, and platform fees, I found Webull cheaper overall—especially with an active commission-free voucher through 2026.
Buying my first home in Malaysia was not just about the numbers. I compared the opportunity cost of renting and investing vs owning, then asked myself if the memories and lifestyle were worth it. This post shares the framework I used to decide.
Requirement for Short Term Cash Parking Every few months I would sell some stocks from my brokerage account to cover my bills and some living expenses, since these are meant to cover bills for the coming few months, it would be losing out some opportunities if they are sitting in my low interest saving account. … Read more
First Bill Under New Tariff There was some drama when TNB first introduced the new tariff. Many solar panel users, including myself, felt backstabbed by the government. However, they have since revised the tariff’s impact on NEM users. Now that my first TNB bill under the new tariff has arrived, let’s see if everything is … Read more
Why Consider Diversify Globally? The global economic power are shifting rapidly, while US has been leading for many decades, we cannot dismiss the possibilities of other countries catching up, for example China GDP growth rate has generally outpaced US for the last two decades. Plus with recent tariff wars started by the Trump administration which … Read more
New Tariff Structure from July 2025 Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) introduced a new tariff structure and claim it is more transparent and fairer to the user, there will be three components in your TNB bill. The energy charge will see a huge jump if you use above 1,500kWh on billing month, so it will either … Read more
Introduction Last weekend a friend of mine share with me that he made some “good investment” from his “advisor” recommended mutual funds, he has been buying the Public Regional Sector Fund (PRSEC) from Public Mutual every month automatically for more than 10 years, and had made a cumulative profit of 44.46% with this investment. However, … Read more
Introduction: Record High on Electrical Bill It’s getting hotter and hotter in Malaysia, the hot weather and humidity make us use air conditioner way more often, and as the consequence, our electricity bill has sky rocketed, and in last month our monthly electrical bill just hit a record high. Keep in mind our house also … Read more
Introduction Moomoo Malaysia is a recently popular stock brokerage in Malaysia, it provide an access to local stock market as well as US stock market. Personally I rarely pay attention to smaller stock brokerage platform, this is because most of the time they can never compete with larger platforms on fees, order execution quality and … Read more
Property Investment Are Rarely Profitable in Malaysia There is a stage in our life where everyone around us seems to be talking about property investment, plan to make their first property purchase, or persuading their friends to buy a property because they are a property agent. I am not sure if this is a thing … Read more