END Of DAY Report

The ASX 200 rises 16 points to 7789 (0.2%) in quiet range bound trade. Solid across the board except oil and gas with WDS easing 1.6% and STO down 1.0% as oil drifts lower on diminished risks. Coal stocks better, Gold miners kicking higher, NST up 2.0% and NEM rocketing up 6.6%. GOR and GMD also…

Trading Section

SUMMARY Buy the dip prevails again. US markets bounce, SNAS to suffer. Stop loss set at 3 x ATR from recent high at $1.735. Glad we're still in oil and gold. BGL and NST performing well today. KAR lagging. No other changes to trades or One Stock Portfolios.

Pre-market Report

US markets bounced from Thursday losses after economic enthusiasm eclipsed concerns of the number of rate cuts expected this year. The Dow Jones rose 307 points (+0.80%), the S&P 500 gained 1.11% and the NASDAQ rose 1.24%. US non-farm payrolls rose by 303k jobs in March (vs 200k forecast), the biggest monthly gain in ten…

Marcus Weekend

I (almost) never want to wake up to a market that's dropped but it would have made us look clever having taken a few profits yesterday and bought a trade in SNAS. I'll just have to pretend I knew that was going to happen and that we're still right. Even though we're going to look…