Once each month I participate in a segment on SKY business where I am asked to find and comment on 3 stocks that are a fitting buy, hold or sell. The segment is shown 2 -3 minute segment to shown the following day around midday on Chanel 602 on Foxtel. I use technical analysis tools…
TRADER’S STORY Get to know your fellow traders. YTE speaks to trader Neville Harris How and when did you first become interested in the markets? I first became interested in the markets in the early 1960’s. A fellow student at the time owned shares in Mt Isa Mines which was going through intense industrial disputation.…
I refer to the article below that appeared in the print and online editions of the Australian Financial Review on Thursday 20th November 2014. http://www.afr.com/p/markets/the_dangers_of_trying_to_time_the_PUTjG4owyXs0i7lLsAB5hM Philip wrote this article in response to a journal that I posted on Wednesday 12th November 2014 in the Gary Stone Journal: http://blog.sharewealthsystems.com/?p=3185 With respect, Philip Baker totally missed my…
Finding and focusing on stocks that are out-performing the general market can be considered one of the keys for achieving consistent returns in the stock market. Investing and trading this way is based on the concept of Relative Strength Comparison (RSC) and the theory that stocks that are currently outperforming the overall market will generally…
Every investor that has money in managed funds or has thought of investing money with managed funds needs to read this. Take look at this schematic published by the largest fund manager in the world, Fidelity. The whole flyer can be found here: https://www.fidelity.com.hk/static/pdf/investor/en/volatile-market/time_in_the_market.pdf Note that it also had the backing of MorningStar and MSCI,…
Here at Share Wealth Systems we take great pride in the development and implementation of robust mechanical trading and investing strategies. I am continually asked about the development and design of these strategies, and I have written many posts and articles about the topic and done many presentations to audiences, 3rd party associations and organisations. This…
Advances in technology have opened up a huge range of overseas markets to traders and investors the world over. Once the domain of those with either the technological know-how to do it themselves, a large capital base to pay the exorbitant brokerage rates or those with a true passion to trade offshore markets, the ability…
Following from the first 6 focus areas for growth that I listed down last week, this week I want to continue by giving you the last 5 of my focus areas. You cannot worry about or be scared of the outcome “Opportunities are clearer to me now that I am not scared of the outcome.”…
In my younger days, after majoring in computer science and mathematics at a university in South Africa, I found myself, after a brief career on the technical side in mainframe computing, working as a sales rep for a large multi-national computer company selling mainframe computer solutions to corporate clients. I was earning a huge income…
Following on from last week’s topic of the fallacy of gold being a great inflationary hedge, this week I would like to take a look at the price of gold compared to the price of stocks. As we discussed last week, there are many in the investing community who believe that an investment in gold…