Market Update: Breakaway Gap In The Major Indices
The past couple of trading sessions saw significant breakouts in the major indices, hinting at a potential bullish trend that could mark the start of a Santa rally. In this market update, we’ll explore the breakaway gaps in the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average & Nasdaq 100. While this breakout offers a glimmer of […]
Choosing The Best Decision Support System For Your Investing
If you don’t have a Decision Support System (DSS) to guide your investing actions, you’re flying blind. And making impulsive on-the-fly decisions based on noise and other random, completely unstructured “variables.” Doing this will get you or, more precisely, your profits killed in the long run. Eventually, and probably sooner rather later, the market will […]
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 […]
Why The Right Trading Mindset Is Crucial For Long-Term Success
Many new traders tend to overlook the importance of having the right trading mindset when it comes to achieving long-term success. They often get caught up in the pursuit of quick profits, only to realize after years of inconsistent results and missed opportunities that a reliable and tested system is crucial for sustainable success in […]
You Shouldn’t Invest A Cent Without A Verified Statistical Edge…
In last week’s article, I explained why timing the market is a strategy that, if set up and executed correctly, has the greatest potential to get you long-term market-beating returns. And when I talked about the must-have elements for creating such a strategy, I mentioned the “Statistical Edge.” In fact, I said that without a […]
The Ongoing Market Trend Most Investors Overlook… At The Peril Of Their Compound Returns
With the recent run on banks, it seems analysts and commenters are in a race to prophesize the biggest market crash we’ve ever seen. But if you put aside the noise, is the situation really that gloomy? Are we on a one way track to disaster? Well, nothing is certain in the stock market. But […]
S&P500 reaches another all-time high
With plenty of ‘guessing’ happening amongst the financial world’s commentariats on where the US equities markets may be headed, we will join the banter with a yet another view. I use the word ‘guessing’ to laager those that predict market directions. As such I preface this article by stating that the analysis below is not […]
How far can the Dow Jones go? Part 2
Following on from my previous blog, in the discussion with my fellow golfing member I told him that the great majority of investors in Australia are NOT active in the share market at the moment. Retail investor activity in the stock market is at multi-decade lows and retail investor sentiment towards shares is at the […]
“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 […]
The history making event happened! Now what?
In February this year, I wrote one of my most well-read and distributed blogs entitled “History Making Event on the Horizon”. Feel free to read it again right now. The event discussed was the potential breakout by the S&P500 of a 13+ year range to a new all-time high thus potentially signalling: the end of […]