99% Peak of Coronavirus on 22 Feb 2020 (World vs SG) with SWOT Analysis as Stock Investment

Based on the latest Coronavirus data until 23 Feb 2020 (see 3 charts below), we have seen the first positive sign of 99% Peak for World vs Singapore is achieved:

World: 749 new cases of total 79400 cases = 0.9% < 1%

SG: 0 new case of total 89 cases = 0% < 1%

This implies that the first possible peak (assuming 99% of cases have occurred, <1% for daily new cases) is achieved on 22 Feb 2020 (# new daily cases was 1.2% for world, 3.4% for Singapore, before falling below 1% criteria on the next day). Interestingly, the date of 99% peak was aligned perfectly with my first video published on 11 Feb 2020 to project on estimated peak of 22 Feb 2020

The analysis was disturbed by the change in diagnosis method by China Hubei, which was further finetuned in second video, confirming by Technical Analysis on the current bearish trend for # new Coronavirus in World & Singapore, projected 99% Peak by end of Feb 2020 (25 Feb 2020 to be exact)

From statistics point of view, from 99% peak, there will be still <1% new daily case for a period of time. It may take another 1-2 months for the virus spreading to reach 100% peak (eg. 0 new daily case for at least 14 days based on incubation period). This assumes no second wave of infection (eg. workforce back to work, new major outbreaks in certain countries) which may not be true, therefore requiring further monitoring, eg. checking if # cases in World and Singapore still <1% (eg <=800 cases for World, <=1 case for Singapore) . If more than >1%, is it below the critical support (2000 cases for World, 2 cases for Singapore)? It means the 99% Peak may be subjective to unknown conditions in future but it is a positive signal to see the first 99% Peak on 22 Feb 2020.

SWOT Analysis

So, does it mean the threat of Coronavirus is confirmed over for World and Singapore? It may not be 100% as the Technical Analysis is based on past statistics over a probability (eg. 99% peak). Similar to investment, past may not be repeated exactly in future (eg. SARS cases may not be exactly the same to guide Coronavirus COVID-19 cases, past 1 month of trend in # cases may not be continued for next 1 month, etc), although the downtrend so far is consistent with projected earlier but still need to monitor for possible reversal (eg. second wave of infection in World or Singapore).

Statistical Analysis (including Technical Analysis) is quantitative but lagging based on the past, assuming certain connection between past and future.

Similar to stock investment, it is important to perform SWOT (Strength / Weakness / Opportunity / Threat) Analysis to “see” the future but in a qualitative way.

S (Strength)

Strong awareness among the countries in the world to implement various measures, eg. reducing flights, stricter local isolation, quicker diagnosis and medical help, etc. This helps to minimize spreading of Coronavirus globally and locally.

W (Weakness)

People may not follow the rule. Eg. 1 person (super spreader) in South Korea could infect about 200 others. Just 1 loophole in the system could result in collapse of entire system. Each country just needs 1 case, eg. the first case of infection in China (mess up with wild life?), the first case of infection in Singapore (tourist from Wuhan), etc.

O (Opportunity)

With higher temperature from Winter to Spring, # cases globally could reduce gradually, may end completely (100% peak) before the hot summer.

Great fear in COVID-19 may start a health revolution globally which could help to prevent other future more deadly viruses and reduce # death of current diseases (eg. seasonal flu).

T (Threat)

The World data is mainly >90% based on China cases. 1 case in Wuhan could affect entire China, Singapore and the world. Similarly, 1 case could start in any country or city which is unprepared or take it lightly. Currently, there are 3 potential “Wuhan” model in Korea Daegu, Japan (from cruise Diamond Princess) and Italy Lombardy, with exponential growth observed. If uncontrolled, these mini Wuhan could spread like wild fire, just need 1 case and ignorant mass to start the spreading.

Singapore is well recognized as Best in many areas in the world, including dealing with Coronavirus crisis. However, even if Singapore could totally stop the virus to 0 case with over 14 days, the potential threat in future is there as Singapore in an international city with so many global tourists coming to Singapore (Singapore people also likes to travel to other countries). So, the Coronavirus threat could only end in Singapore when the World has no new case, absolute 0.

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Blessing in Disguise: COVID-19 Crisis Saves Lives and Investment.

blessing in disguise investment

There are many more diseases which cause more death than COVID-19, including regular pheumonia and seasonal flu (including Type A – H1N1). However, the impact could be more on senior citizens or group with weaker immune system, therefore usually these common diseases (pneumonia or even common flu) are not viewed seriously, not just in Singapore, also in other countries. So, the fear of COVID-19 coronavirus (unknown new health enemy) could be a blessing in disguise for the world, helping to save more lives for dying in other common diseases.

Pneumonia requires 2 vaccines injections (1 each year, over 2 years), recommended for elderly people over 60 years old, risk could be minimized significantly as effect could last for life. Seasonal flu is more tricky, different each year or every 6 months, similar to change in fashion, see which is popular virus, then requiring new injection each time, therefore may not be practical for ordinary people.

COVID-19 crisis could be an opportunity to save more lives in other diseases (than potential death in COVID-19 virus) because due to great awareness among the people (eg. wearing mask or keep a distance from those who are sick, etc), may be only 1% of results is used to prevent COVID-19 but 99% of effort indirectly helps to prevent spreading of other known diseases.

Crisis is Opportunity for Stock Investment

Similarly, for stock investment, there are many “blessing in disguise”, crisis is opportunity. Eg, many strong fundamental business stocks may not be cheap (eg. Apple Inc, NYSE: AAPL) when investors are “normal”, usually need to pay for higher prices to get a share for business ownership. However, during global financial crisis, these popular stocks could give tremendous discount, eg. Apple Inc prices dropped to half (50% discount) during 2008-2009 subprime crisis.

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1) The stock must have strong business fundamental

2) The stock price falls due to fear of market, not due to business (still strong)

3) Investor needs to have independent thinking (not affected by other people opinion), knowing what to buy, when to buy/sell.

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Singapore Budget 2020 vs Coronavirus (Updated 19 Feb 2020)

Singapore Budget 2020 Coronavirus

Singapore Budget 2020 is just announced, a balanced plan with both short term (eg. fighting Coronavirus crisis) and mid/long term (eg. retraining) goals. However, money is never enough, so the incentives is just a temporary relief. A country could only get stronger with higher productivity in higher value economy sectors.

Additional financial assistance is given to 5 main sectors affected by Coronavirus, eg. tourism, airline/cruise, transportation, F&B and retail, some business may have dropped more than 50% over the past 1 month.

Fear of Coronavirus is more harmful than its real risk (# death, so far 0 in Singapore) as people start to stay more at home, the sectors above would badly affected. However, this health crisis is likely to be a short term for a few months. Even it becomes an uncontrollable disease as seasonal flu, the fatality would drop significantly based on past experience of new viruses (eg. H1N1) due to build up of immune system within human with more infection. Human could “evolve” as well together with viruses, both have to co-exist in a balanced way of living.

Singapore Coronavirus

Based on the latest daily # infected for Coronavirus, World (mainly China) is falling down below the critical 2000 “support” from Technical Analysis point of view, light at the end of tunnel to see a strong bearish signal with strong hope to reach a peak (not absolute peak but 95-99% of ultimate value) by end of Feb 2020, with conditions that data reported so is reliable and consistent without a second wave of infection (workforce back to work after lunar new year).

Singapore is still staying above the “support” of 2 daily cases, no clear signal of downtrend in # infected cases. However, the consistent downtrend in World (mainly China) cases is a strong lead to Singapore which is likely 1+ month behind China.

Even after reaching peak, Coronavirus may take a few months to end as there may be cross-infection of those waiting for recovery and long incubation period (14 days).

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Grandparents Bank Stock – HSBC (HKEX: 0005)

HSBC Bank Stock

Despite HSBC (HKEX: 0005) is not a giant bank stock, it is definitely not a junk stock. It used to be a giant stock several decades ago but declining over the last decade in both business and stock prices. So, for life-time investing strategy, it is important to review the grandparents blue chips (another example is SPH, SGX: T29), at least once a year, if business moves in wrong direction (downtrend instead of uptrend) year after year, a painful early farewell may be required, not to wait until falling in share prices over 50%, be a lifetime investor unwillingly, resulting in more capital losses through long term investing of a declining business.

HSBC is still the largest bank in Europe and Hong Kong but we may not need to buy the largest bank. Instead, we focus in most value for money giant bank stock for investing (many in Asia countries, eg Hong Kong / China, Malaysia, etc), selecting the strongest momentum bank stock for trading (probably in US).

HSBC is not a giant bank stock (big size but not strong fundamentally). Global financial crisis has not come, weaker business already catch the cold (start to layoff staff recently), not sure if could survive in the next cold winter with intense global competition.

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Technical Analysis with Level 1-4 Analysis for Coronavirus (Updated 17 Feb 2020) with Singapore Budget 2020

Coronavirus Singapore Budget 2020

Similar to Technical Analysis for stock market, we may analyze the # infected cases as share prices but looking for bearish signal, eg downtrend or breaking below a critical support, eg 2000 cases for World (mainly China Hubei) or 2 cases for Singapore.

Latest Coronavirus data (16 Feb 2020) has 3 cases of # infected in Singapore, having good chance to come to “technical support” of 2 daily cases again but need to break below this number for a few days or even 1 week to establish a consistent downtrend. It is harder to analyze Singapore cases due to limited sample size (similar to a volatile penny stock, when base is a low number, up/down would create large % changes).

So, it is relatively more stable to analyze world # infected cases (still near to support of 2000 daily new cases but not yet breaking downward) which are more stable due to large sample size (so far consistently about 1000 times of # cases in Singapore). The mega trend of world could provide some leads to direction of Singapore cases in future.

For stock analysis, this is similar to Level Analysis (LA) or LOFTP strategies, Top-down analysis from World (Level 4) to Country (Level 3) to Sector (Level 2) to Individual Stock (Level 1). For Coronavirus:
Level 4 = World # infected
Level 3 = Respective Country # infected
Level 2 = Respective City # Infected (Singapore L2 = L3 due to small country = city)
Level 1 = Cluster / Group / Company of related cases (smallest unit to track # infected cases).
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Singapore Budget 2020 to be announced on 18 Feb 2020, ideally will serve multiple objectives for 3 different time frames (similar to stock investment: short term, mid term and long term):

1) Short-term (< 3 months): Coronavirus induced financial crisis, especially selected sectors.
2) Mid-term (<1 year): Stimulate Singapore economy which has been slowing down (even before Coronavirus outbreak)
3) Long-term (5-10 years): Create new opportunity for Singapore (restructuring of economy, training / investment in emerging technologies with higher economic values, etc)

Of course, politically, this would give 4th generation leaders, a chance to take the lead, making major decisions during potential crisis time. The results in short term, mid term and long term would translate into scores for voters to consider before next General Election, within 1+ year (latest by 15 Apr 2021). Balance in consideration for short term, mid term and long term would be a test on wisdom of leaders, whether to satisfy short term crisis needs or looking for long term growth or a balanced or average approach with sharing of resources to make most people satisfied but not excited.

Crisis could be an opportunity if the crisis could be resolved eventually with right decisions most of the time. It is true for all countries leaders, especially those most affected by the current Coronavirus: China, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, etc.
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Good News and Bad News of Coronavirus vs Stock Market (Updated 16 Feb 2020)

Good and Bad News of Coronavirus

After China Hubei applied New Method of diagnosis, # cases on 12 Feb 2020 (Day 22 on chart given since monitoring from 22 Jan 2020) surged to an unbelievable number. As pointed earlier, there was no major change in actual condition, the dramatic daily difference is mainly due to one-time adjustment due to new method. However, it disturbed the earlier analysis (was downtrend nicely in # infected cases for 1 week from 15 Feb to 21 Feb 2020), therefore we need to reestablish the confidence in trend with more days of further monitoring.

Good News:

1) Based on last 3 days with New Method of diagnosis in China Hubei, the relative trend is down, implying the absolute # infected could be still a myth but more importantly the downtrend is hopeful, either using Old Method (1 week data) or New Method (3 days data).

2) In fact, the # infected cases old New Method has approached the Old Method of about 2000 daily cases, therefore it is possible to integrate both New and Old Method together but the projected peak for World (mainly for China Hubei) is extended by about 1 week from earlier 22 Feb 2020 forecast to end of Feb 2020.

China Hubei is the original source of Coronavirus started around Dec 2019, if new cases could be limited to very few (peak = 95-99% peak, may not be 0 case, there will be still a few cases each day), possible cross infection to other China cities and also to other countries will be limited. It means, each country or city, just need to focus in own measures to limit the internal spreading of Coronavirus, less worry of external import of # infected cases (eg. cruise, airline, etc).

Bad News:

1) The Good News above is based on the assumption that the reported data is true (at least within the criteria used, either Old Method or New Method) and there is no second wave of infection (eg. China Hubei may stop locked down of city when peak is reached by end of Feb, work force back to work or travel to other cities could create second surge, just need a few super spreaders to ignite the fire again).

2) There is clear divergence in growth rate between China Hubei and other cities or countries (eg. Japan, Singapore, etc). This is logical as the first case in China probably started in Dec 2019, possible to reach a peak by end of Feb 2020 (if there is no second wave) but other countries mostly have first import case from Hubei in Jan 2020 (eg. Singapore first confirmed case was 23 Jan 2020), therefore there is a time delay of about 1+ month. So, even China may have reached the peak by end of Feb 2020 (proven by slower growth rate), the high growth phase still continue in other cities and countries, therefore may take another 1+ month.

It means China is leading, both the starting, growing, slowing and ending of this Coronavirus crisis. Despite we are in Singapore or another country, monitoring of China trends would still help us to better estimate own condition.

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There is a surge in # infected cases over the past 1 week in Singapore, still under high growth rate. This is similar to Technical Analysis of stock for Coronavirus: higher high and higher low with support around 2 cases. It means Singapore has to achieve lower high and also breaking support of daily cases of 2 (eg. 0 or 1) to see the first reversal signal from higher to slower growth rate.

At the moment, Coronavirus is still a mini black swan, stock market has digested the initial fear. However, it is important to monitor the development, see if mini bear could become a big bear eventually.

Under the worst case, even Coronavirus is beyond control (eg. after either locked down of cities or countries in China or Red Dorscon Alert in Singapore with no people going for work or school for a period of time), likely will become a stronger version of H1N1 which is wide spreading yearly, living in “harmony” without great fear by human, despite it is causing tens of thousands of death yearly since 2009 outbreak (even till today under “Flu Type A”) but when people hear it is flu, fear would drop due to its low fatality of 0.05%, ignoring it is wide spreading.

Coronavirus is like a hybrid of SARS and flu: more contagious than SARS but spreading less than seasonal flu; less deadly compared to SARS but more severe than common flu around. Coronavirus would continue to evolve, when more people in the world are infected, fatality would drop due to stronger immunity developed through joint effort of human (despite vaccine may or may not be available).

In short, we need to stay calm, do the right things each day, as normal as possible, life still need to go on with viruses around.

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Dorscon Alerts with 4 Levels of Investment Opportunities

dorscon coronavirus investment

Dorscon disease outbreak alert system (4 colors: Green, Yellow, Orange, Red) was established in Singapore after SARS 2003. Some people may worry the current situation may be changed from Orange to Red Alert for Coronavirus (if so, schools have to be shutdown temporary).

There is grey area (no clear quantitative criteria) in Dorscon for 2 main criteria (# infected vs # death) to be Red Alert:

1) spread widely

– how many # infected daily is considered widely

2) Significant # death

– how to define significant?

Even for SARS in Singapore, it was later benchmark as Orange Alert, having 33 death out of 238 infected cases in Singapore. Since Dorscon absolute criteria may not be known. We may do a relative criteria based on benchmark with known case of SARS in 2003 at Orange Alert.

For Coronavirus, although actual fatality rate could be much lower than 2% (due to many cases in Hubei may not be diagnosed in earlier stage), we may assume 2% as the worst case scenario.

We could do a reversed calculation to estimate when Coronavirus may be as severe as SARS based on Dorscon criteria of Orange Alert before transition to Red Alert. There are 3 possible conditions as criteria:

1) Same # infected as SARS of 238 cases. Currently Coronavirus has 58 # infected in Singapore till 13 Feb 2020. Coronavirus is about 25% level of SARS for Singapore. Since worldwide data shows Coronavirus has more potential than SARS, then this # infected may have potential to grow in Singapore.

2) Same # death as SARS of 33 cases. Currently Coronavirus has 0 death, still a long distance before in par with SARS (which is rated as Orange alert).

3) Since # death in Singapore for Coronavirus is 0, we may also apply same # death as SARS of 33, assuming 2% fatality rate (worst case) for Coronavirus, we could derive a critical # infected = 33/0.02 = 1650 # infected in Singapore before Coronavirus is comparable with SARS. Criteria 2 and 3 are related, see whichever reached first.

Conclusions:

SARS Orange alert criteria is in fact quite high. If we use the same criteria as SARS, then Coronavirus has to have either 238 or 1650 infected cases and/or 33 death in Singapore before declaring the same level of health crisis as SARS (which is still Orange Alert). Based on 3 possible conditions, the easiest criteria (assuming either wide spreading or significant number of death, not both) to meet is probably No 1 based on same # infected of 238. For Conditions No 2 & 3, will be more difficult to achieve, if applying this criteria, likely Coronavirus would remain just Orange Alert.

Assuming SARS is the upper limit of Orange Alert, then Coronavirus currently is probably the lower limit or Orange Alert. The Red Alert has to be reserved for true health crisis, otherwise there is no proper level to reflect the right action for such emergency then.

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Dorscon standard is just a reference, main objective is to show the relative risk in health, individual could then use it to make decision on how much risk to take.

Similarly, we may apply 4-color Dorscon concept in stock investment, dividing into 4 levels of investing opportunities, each level has its own risk vs opportunity based on business fundamental vs optimism level:

4 Levels of Ein55 Investment Opportunities

1) Green

– Strong business fundamental

– Low Optimism level (<25%)

2) Yellow

– Strong business fundamental

– Moderate Optimism level (25-75%)

3) Orange

– Moderate business fundamental

– Moderate Optimism level (25-75%)

4) Red

– Moderate business fundamental

– High Optimism level (>75%)

For either long term investing or short term trading, a stock requires minimum of moderate business fundamental. Buying weak fundamental stocks with bullish price trend is speculative, more suitable for very short term trader (eg. during the Coronavirus crisis time, some weak stocks start to rise).

When Optimism level is higher (from Green to Red Opportunity), positioning style is safer from investing to trading. Current global stock market is around Red Opportunity but traders may still consider short term trading in US with high optimism. For Singapore (moderate optimism level), it will be either Yellow or Orange Opportunities, depending on type of stocks.

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Impact of Policy Change on Coronavirus Report and Financial Report

financial report policy change

Similar to new rules in financial reporting (eg. IFRS16 on operating lease starting Year 2019), it could have significant change to financial reports but it is one-time adjustment, especially in year 2019. Relative trend after the change should be comparable when an investor compares with 2019 as a new base. IFRS16 makes the analysis more complicated, eg. when Breadtalk (SGX: CTN) shows debt and cashflow are increasing, higher debt could be due to combined factors of actual debt increase and also due to operating lease (change in accounting definition)

So, assuming China government excludes those “no symptom” (despite tested positive) from # infected from Coronavirus definition, we should see a sudden dip on date of policy change, rather than seeing consistent downtrend for 1 week. Of course, if the authority is smart enough to distribute the changes over a period of time, then it is different story.

The worry is not on false downtrend (# infected for last 1 week) due to policy change (possible for 1 day drop, unlikely for entire 1 week drop). The main concern is incubation period of 14 days for those infected before lunar new year (5 millions people travel in/out Wuhan with a population of about 11 millions, Wuhan is heart of China, main junctions for travellers of 9 other China provinces – eg. high speed railways). About 1 out of 3 Wuhan people traveled before Chinese New Year, 23 Jan 2020 (when Wuhan city was locked down) + 2 weeks incubation = 6 Feb 2020 (just nice coincide with slowdown in growth rate of # infected), therefore we see significant downtrend in cases now as infection is mainly within Hubei.

For 5 Millions Wuhan people who traveled out, some have infected other cities in China and also other countries including Singapore, therefore the trends in these countries are still growing as incubation of 14 days is counted from after Chinese New Year. Singapore has banned travelers from China from 1 Feb, therefore we could foresee a downtrend near to or after 14 Feb due to end of incubation period.

However, when people to go back to work after lunar new year break, eg in China (from Feb 10) and in Singapore (from Feb 3), we worry there will be second peak. At the end, these 2 factors will be combined (higher drop due to past isolation measures vs possible increase due to workforce coming back), showing a net result, if -2+1, likely will still show a mild downtrend.

Again, we need to monitor the number of Coronavirus daily, up and down is similar to stock market prices, a combined effect of many factors, not just 1.

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