THERE ARE EIGHT INVESTOR TYPES – ONLY TWO SUCCEED It has always irked me that books with titles like “How to make a million dollars in the stock market” and “Ten things you must know about the stock market” probably sell more copies than my book. It’s my own fault, “Stock Market Secrets” by Marcus Padley…
Making a loss? Can't Sell? Read this and you will have sold before you get to the end. If you are making a loss, read this list. You will have sold before you get to the bottom. I was working for a Japanese broking house in London in 1987 when the stock market collapsed. The…
I was on the golf course one weekend with a chap called Simon who mentioned a few stocks he has held that initially did very well but he now (July 2021) held at a loss. MEZ, NWH and ORI. Simon has no post-purchase discipline/mechanism. Time for a lesson in stop losses. Investment is not about…
There is a truth in the stock market that you will not find many brokers or fund managers admitting to. It is this: Fundamental analysis only works on certain companies. Meanwhile, there is a sub-world of stocks without solid fundamentals (APT), without earnings even (APT again), that defy fundamental analysis and you all need to…
No doubt a lot of you, scarred by the GFC, or by this the 2020 pandemic-inspired drop in the market, are constantly worried about a significant market correction. It’s no fun investing in “fear” and if that’s you then let me first of all scare you, and then present an adoptable mindset that might rid…
The toughest part of analysing a company is sourcing the data. Essentially you have two options. You can painstakingly trawl through company reports and compile the numbers yourself, or you can pay a (sometimes very hefty) subscription to a company that will source and compile it for you. To make things easier for you we’ve…
You will have noticed by now there are a lot of abbreviations in the financial world. Some because the words are too long or confusing to say in full, and some because of laziness. We have done our best to produce a conclusive list of all the acronyms you might come across on the Marcus…
Why invest? “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it” – Albert Einstein. “Money makes money, and the money money makes, makes more money” – Benjamin Franklin. Why should we be investing our money? Seems a simple question that should have a simple…
CLICK HERE FOR GLOSSARY A-H I Imputation credit – Tax credits passed on to a shareholder who receives a franked dividend. Imputation credits entitle investors to a rebate for tax already paid by an Australian company Indicators – Analytical tools used by technical analysts to help them select shares. Inflation – The increase in…
