The Investment Plan: Your Guide To Stock Market Success
The market is a volatile & tricky environment in which to operate. There’s no two ways about it. So, if you don’t have an Investment Plan that’s ready for EVERY possible scenario the market may bring, chances are you’re going to end up losing a lot of money. Now, you can’t just wing it with […]
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 […]
How far can the Dow Jones go?
Recently I was asked by a fellow member at my golf club what the next 10 years might hold in store for an investor with a 10-year investing horizon. While the round of golf progressed we discussed this big-picture question and his quizzing helped me express a view that I probably wouldn’t have come up […]
Commodities, BHP & RIO – where to?
When conducting analysis to determine where resource stocks may be heading in the near to intermediate future, one of the main charts, amongst others, that I consult is the Continuous Commodity Index ($CCI). The CCI is a benchmark of performance for commodities prices. It is an equally weighted index using 17 commodity futures prices. Each […]
“Easy way to ride a hot market”
This week’s blog is a commentary on a recent AFR WEEKEND article that appeared under the Smart Money section entitled “Easy way to ride a hot market”. This same article can be read online under the title “How to make the most of the market’s upswing? . It is one of the better newspaper articles […]
Reading Tea Leaves – Follow up on those 2 charts
A month ago I looked at the hard right-hand edge of two charts in which a symmetrical triangle had occurred following a SPA3 entry signal, viz. INPH and ARWR. These are examples of real money trades that I entered in our publicly traded real money SPA3 NASDAQ Portfolio. The entries were triggered by SPA3 entry […]
Directional Trading
Once in a while I select a comment from the blog that I think all bloggers will gain benefit from. This week I have chosen a comment left by Don. Last time I looked SPA3 didn’t make any investments in falling markets thereby missing out on profit opportunity. Response to comment by Don: Let’s firstly […]