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CFDs are leveraged products. CFD trading may not be suitable for everyone and can result in losses that exceed your deposits, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved. CFDs are leveraged products. CFD trading may not be suitable for everyone and can result in losses that exceed your deposits, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved.

Kelvin Ong

Financial Writer

Singapore

Summary

With IG since: 2019

Trading/ investing since: 2020

Preferred trading style: Position trading, if I really have to pick one as a “value investor” (self-proclaimed)

Most memorable trade: I wouldn’t call myself a trader (more of a value investor - see above), but it was a cool experience closing my position on one particular energy stock right before its subsequent directional shift, and also as the wider market started to trend in the opposite direction.

Favourite financial book/podcast: “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham! I’m far from the first to say this, but I would recommend anyone seriously interested in investing to read this book from cover to cover at least once. It’s pure poetry!

When not covering the financial markets for IG, Kelvin enjoys reading books on value investing, and finding and studying undervalued companies.

Experience

Kelvin is a journalist for various business and finance publications. He has had the privilege of interviewing CEOs and regional heads of Fortune 500 companies in his career.

Education

BA in Communications and New Media from the National University of Singapore.

Kelvin has spent the better part of his career as a journalist at regional business titles like HRM Asia and Television Asia Plus.