Author Archives: Clement Chow

About Clement Chow

Clement is a retail investor on the XNYS and XNAS, focusing on the industrial, consumer discretionary, consumer staple, and communication service sectors. He also writes a blog to inspire young people towards investing.

Societal Impacts of Stock Investing

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Upon the mention of stock investing, one might imagine a person working in front of 4-6 monitors, reading many articles, and clicking buy and sell multiple times a day. This is only 1 aspect of the limitless world of the field of stocks.

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Travel Light

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With countries gradually opening up their borders, it’s time to start thinking again about international travel. While most people travel with a checked luggage, a carry-on suitcase, and a personal item, this might be a bit too much. Do we really need 3 bags for a 2 week vacation? Do we really need to rush to the hotel first to free us from our burden? The answer is no, if you’re willing to consider traveling light with only a personal item measuring 16 x 10 x 6 inches. Below is only an example.

The 17 items above fit comfortably within the bag, with room for extra shirts if desired. A water bottle may be avoided when drinking 2 cups of water each during the morning, lunch, dinner, and evening.

Not only do you speed up airport check-in, security, and fly-by the baggage carousel, traveling light gives you a sense of freedom and the ability to focus 100% on the travel experience.

Why Hold Stocks During a Recession?

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You may have noticed that the U.S. stock market hasn’t performed well for the past 10 months since Omicron came out. In fact, we have officially entered into bear territory, when the stock indices dropped more than 20% from the highest point. Despite all the doom and gloom you’ve heard on the news or from other investors, I’m here to tell you to sit back, relax, see how low the rabbit hole goes, and hold on to your good companies. That honestly is the best thing you can do for your financial future. I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but that is because our minds like to play tricks with us.

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The Long-Awaited Sequel

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36 years after the original Top Gun, Tom Cruise does it again, delivering a heart-pumping sequel to the big screen. As independent as always, the Captain of the Navy was removed from a Mach 10 test flight, but sent back to the Top Gun flight school to train the best pilots to bomb a heavily-guarded nuclear facility.

Without spoiling the movie content too much, it’s safe to say my favorite scene was after the passing of Maverick’s friend Admiral and his subsequent removal from the Navy, Jennifer Connelly motivated him to do what he needed to do to eradicate the nuclear facility and safely bring the Top Gun pilots home.

And he did just that. He hijacked a 5th generation fighter jet and illegally flew to the mock training course while the pilots were being lectured by the conservative Vice Admiral. With only 2 minutes and 15 seconds, he maneuvered through a winding river, flew up the first set of steep hills, bombed the nuclear facility in the valley, and traveled in Mach 9+ up the second set of steeper hills. With a successful precedent being set, the Vice Admiral saw the potential of both exterminating the nuclear facility -and- bringing the pilots home safe, and finally placed his faith upon the newly promoted Rear Admiral (lower half).

Throughout life, there are times when you’ve been told that what you’re doing is impossible. It takes grit to push back these negative comments. Sure, there are times when you second-guess yourself, whether it’s better to take a less riskier path to achieve one-third of your intended success. But the way I see it, given 2 paths of probable failure, why not take the one with a small chance of victory? The movie talked about the need to pull off 2 miracles in order to achieve mission success. I too have recently performed the 1st of 2 miracles. The 2nd miracle does not depend on me, something that I may talk about someday when the time is right. So I really liked this movie, it’s like a second chance on life. And sometimes the sequel truly does surpass the original, as in Top Gun: Maverick’s case.