It has been more than a year

Hello, how is everyone?

Still surviving after 2 years of the Covid-19 era?

Many good news, heard that most countries are opening up with relaxing health and control measures to allow more closer interactions between people, as well as letting more visitors in.

Well, it has been quite a stressful and mental torturing. Finally, we are seeing lights outside the tunnel!

Coming to investing, which I have not been sharing in the past more that 1 year, it has been quite a roller coaster ride for me. With numerous panic attacks due to talks of Fed's rate increasing and the War in the eastern Europe, stock prices going up and down, drastically and unpredictably. Drawing TA's trend lines in charts and plotting the next movement were hard, accuracy was disappointing.

Alternative to investing in individual stocks, there is some ETFs which can look into. Over the years, there are a few ETFs that are doing well, the general trend is up going (over a period of time), but if you want to invest in that, do prepared to hold on for more than 5 years.

One such ETF would be the SMH, that contains a basket of US-listed semi-conductors stocks, including TSMC, AMD, Intel, etc. Lately, it has dropped almost 30% from all time high! perhaps a good time buy some. 

Take a look at the chart below.  

From the past 5 years, we can see that the average annual growth rate is average 24.43%. Impressive!

Semi-conductors are being used in every where, IoT, EV cars, drones, toys, handphones, etc. It is a high growth sector, that would grow and grow. So, perhaps we could consider investing in this ETF? The idea is to keep it for 5 to 10 years. Some how it could be a good retirement investment?