Buy & Hold vs Timing – James’s Story with Whitehaven Coal

Today I’m going to share a quick story about an investor named James, who we spoke with a little while back. It is a bit of a long one, so if you’d prefer to watch the video, you can do so here: James previously worked for a company called Whitehaven Coal, that you might have […]

Having an exit strategy

Whilst the vast majority of share investors, educators, analysts and commentators concentrate on entry signals – when to buy stocks – almost to the point of obsession, fewer still are prepared to discuss appropriate exit strategies. Exit strategies are vitally important to acheive success as an active share market investor. Without an appropriate strategy to […]

Financial Stop Losses – Part 3

In this, my final posting on this topic, I respond to Victor’s comment posted in response to my 28 May Blog. At first glance this blog may appear complex but the area of risk management and money management is an extremely important area of active investing so persevere to understand it well. Hopefully Blog readers […]

Financial Stop Losses – Part 2

Response to Comment by Thomas Rac: “as you are using a technical exit signal only to exit a stock what is your interpretation of that valid signal? bear in mind that any particular stock might go temporary for a breather even 10 or more percent but you still would not know the outcome and sustained […]

Financial Stop Losses

As traders and DIY investors we are tasked with skilling ourselves in an environment that is full of known and un-known variables. To help prevent the unknown variables from continuing to take capital from our portfolios, it is necessary to implement a strategy that exits trades based on either a technical exit signal or a […]

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