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发表于 23-6-2006 16:18:00|来自:新加坡
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">HAD TO SKIP MEALS </span></font></b><p></p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'I remember there was one day when I was walking past this hawker centre at lunch time and all I could afford was a whiff of the roast duck hanging on a seller's hook,' he recalled.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">His family had to skip meals too.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">His mother, Mrs Florence Han, 50, said she would often go without food, not just because she had no money, but because she had no appetite.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'Our problems were on my mind,' she said. 'It was so bad I couldn't even afford to give my two other children their pocket money.'<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">At that time, Mr Han's two sisters were, at 18 and 14, still in school.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'During their holidays, they would try to do part-time jobs to get some pocket money,' Mrs Han recalled.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">Mr Han would be in camp for his national service during the day, work as a waiter in the evening and, sometimes, as a security guard at night.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">By early 2004 he had managed to pay off the loans.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">It is a period he does not want to live through again, but that was when he developed his current method of investing by speaking to other traders.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'I wanted to know what people did wrongly. I must've spoken to more than 100 traders,' he said.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">At 25, with no money to his name, he started his company, Zone Financial, with a $15,000 loan from his parents.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">For Mrs Han, it wasn't easy to trust her son with money again.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'I was very worried and had my doubts initially.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'But I can see his passion for what he's doing and what happened before wasn't entirely his fault. It was a good lesson learnt,' she said.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">This time, Mr Han also wants to share his passion with others. So his company runs courses.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'I wanted to share with others what I've learnt,' he said.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">He claimed he has coached close to 500 students since September 2004.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">Mr Han declined to discuss the methods he teaches in the course.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">He charges $2,688 for one course and $4,688 for a more advanced one, and knows there are plenty of skeptics.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'People have said I'm naive... a young punk,' he said.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">But Mr Han, who has an engineering diploma from Nanyang Poly, is confident of his methods.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">He said: 'At the end of the day, if you don't trust me, I can't force you to.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'I don't make fanciful claims. I always show people my recent trading records, and they can see for themselves that yes, I do make some losses.'<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">But, he claimed: 'But at the end of each month, I make a net gain.'<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">Said one of his ex-students, Mr Jenson Teo, 38, who has been trading full-time for over a year: 'I went for the course in November and started using Kelvin's strategies in January.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">'My profits doubled and now I take home over $10,000 a month on average.'<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">That's after taking out losses.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">Mr Han's company has expanded, with one branch in <city wst="on">Jakarta</city>, <country-region wst="on">Indonesia</country-region>, and another in <place wst="on"><city wst="on">Guangzhou</city>, <country-region wst="on">China</country-region></place>.<p></p></span></font></p> |
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