Correction to my 1st sentence.

Maybe I would use it to buy capland or NOL. Buy 1 lot when correction (condn: Williams 7-day at low, MA closing up or your comfortable method). The rest put in safehaven (can be cash or comfortdelgro or smrt etc)

Hi, there is no minimum to start investing. Opportunities can abound anywhere. The important thing is to know what to invest your money into. If you are a first-timer to investments, I suggest you find out more information about the various investment tools (e.g. fixed deposit, money market funds, unit trusts, insurance endowment plans, stocks, bonds, exchange-traded funds and forex) before investing your money. $10k may not be a large sum of money, but if you can find a suitable investment tool that you are comfortable with its risk-reward ratio, you can put your money into good use and make it work harder for you.

I like investing in stocks because it can offer low risk and high returns if one is a knowledgeable, patient and disciplined investor. Make sure you understand fully where you are going to put your money into. Don't just listen only to people (e.g. financial advisers, investment bankers, analysts) talk about the merits of an investment tool. There is no such thing as a guaranteed success (getting confirmed good returns without possibility of capital loss) in a particular investment tool which many such people tend to exagerate. Do your own reading also. If one is not willing to put in the effort to find out more about investments, then it maybe better to leave the money in the bank. Afterall, it is the safest (but it does not help your savings to grow and fight inflation which erodes away the value of your money with time) compared to the many other types of investment tools around.

If you are planning to enter the stocks market, do lots of reading on it. Find out more about technical analysis, fundamental analysis, portfolio theory, how to build up a portfolio of stocks, bear market psychology, bull market psychology, psychology of how traders trade, Singapore stocks markets and foreign stocks markets (e.g. US, HK, Taiwan, China, KL). To be successful in investments, knowledge, patience and discipline is very important. One must absolutely understand where one is investing his hard-earned money into so as to sleep soundly at night and not worry about negative surprises along the way.

On a parting note, investments is not a way to make big money. It is only a way of putting one's money to better use (instead of leaving in the bank or stashing it under the pillow) to grow it's worth so as to help one meet his financial goal sometime down the road. So often, we heard of investors who are impatient and lose big money through investing in stocks. Stocks market is not a lottery machine where small bets can win big money.

Are you the thread starter ??  Ain't playing stock already ?? SinoTF ?? 28% Yield....so good

Stocks - Blue Chip is the way to play, but 10K buy 1 lot of DBS, NOL would be good, but you miss the boat. Sold mine @139, 29cts profit.  Again.....maybe tomorrow 160....

Forget about the penny stocks, simply too risk. Bought Unifood for free, so it is either more profit or less profit only.

Some even say it may be the start of a bull run....+20% from low.....but the situation still very bad leh....Or simply....stock now is just so cheap.....

Gold - 880 today is simply horrific for me, When I got married my Platium ring is only 500/oz  something like that......very very cheap then.  Some even claim 2K/oz next year !!! sure or not ??.

BTW, how much do you value 10K ?  Are a risk taker ? 

Put in bank (Saving account.....not some juicy Golden Swan Nest Fund) is probably best but you may slammed me for that.  

OK.....the real thing....my sis recently took 10K to play forex.....I told her you probably will lose 20K......she slammed me also.   But as of now, still making a few hundred bucks....now and then using some computer software....WOW. ...I don't play forex 10K can play meh ??

USD should have collapsed....and to everyone surprise, it grow stronger against other currency.....Theory say US notes is still the WORLD SAFEST investment because USA has NEVER miss a interest payment for the last 200 years !!! WOW WOW.....

So ....think about it.....10K is still good money....YOUR money......YOUR call.......