Trading Section

SUMMARY No change to SFR. Up 0.8% on Friday but missed out on the big gains seen by 29M. Increasing stop loss from 3xATR to 2xATR. Glad we got out of SNAS. Maybe time for LNAS once Amazon results out of the way. Oil up a touch of the weekend. No change to BPT. Will…

Pre-Market Report

Wall St had a strong session on Friday night, all three major indices closed higher on solid results from Microsoft (+1.8%) and Alphabet (+10%). The Dow Jones rose 154 points (0.4%), the S&P 500 was up 1.02% and the NASDAQ led by Microsoft and Alphabet was predictably up 2.03%. Other tech stocks such as Amazon…

Advice From Other Marcus Today Members

In 2022 we surveyed you all and asked "What Smart Financial Advice do you have for other Marcus Today Members learned from experience". Here are your replies. Not sure all of them are good advice but you might get some value out of it. Selling APT at $12 in 2020 was too early… ? 80%…

Marcus Weekend

Good Morning everyone. Please click on the Members Survey if you get a couple of minutes (there's another link at the end). Your opportunity to send the newsletter in the right direction. Thanks for your time. Henry is reporting in from the Perth Members meeting at the Lucky Shag pub last night. 50 Members –…

Resmed Results Wake Investors Up

Resmed (RMD) results – Is trading up 11% afterhours in the US and up 6.7% on the ASX as results beat consensus expectations by 9%. Brokers said at the start of the week that focus for the results will be on sales growth, margins and commentary on the impact weight loss drugs have been having…

Trading Section

SUMMARY Mixed bag for results season so far. Sold SNAS on Wednesday for a 5% profit. Looking for the next round of Ideas but not going to stick our necks out ahead of inflation numbers tonight. Oil, gold, bond yields up. All bearish signs so staying in cash in the MQG One Stock Portfolio. No…

End of Day Report

The ASX200 has finished the week down 107 points (-1.4%) to 7576. Rate sensitive Real Estate and Industrials were the worst performers ahead of the US PCE inflation data tonight and talk in the newswires of three rate rises now in Australia before the year is out. TCL was hit 3.6%, GMG down 1.8% and…

Trading Tutorial

For the benefit of new members this is a repost of recent trading tutorials. Offering an explanation of the terms and phrases used in the trading section. This section will be posted under "education" and updated with new insights over time. The two primary indicators used in our trading section are relative strength index (RSI) and moving averages (MA). The RSI is…