DON’T LADBROKE YOUR SUPER Is anyone else sick to the back teeth of gambling adverts on television? The only good thing about Shaquille O’Neal (7'01") and Mark Wahlberg (5'8") ads is that they take airtime away from the Masked Singer ads. I cannot imagine any program that could be less interesting than the Masked Singer.…
I had to choose what University degree I wanted to do at the age of 16 and to help me decide my parents forked out a few hundred hard earned pounds on top of the school fees for some skills and personality testing which led to what I considered a blindingly obvious and therefore stupid…
There are plenty of very experienced investors who sell big income stocks just before they go ex-dividend because income stocks often peak on results ahead of the ex-dividend date. This has been especially true in classically recognised income stocks like the Banks and Telstra (when it was an income stock). They sell because experienced investors know…
I have been asked by one Member "What is Money Printing". I'm no economist, but this is my understanding – it's a complex topic and I am happy to be corrected by any budding economists as long as you can put it in language the other Members will understand. Here goes: The Fed has a…
Every results season, for the whole month of February and again in August, it is the job of broker analysts to analyse the stocks that announce results and it is purgatory. Poor brokers. Here’s why. In order to be competitive, at the very least, on the announcement of an important company result the big broker…
A week after a dismal IPO in the US, the online trading platform called Robinhood (HOOD.O listed on the NASDAQ) was deluged by retail investors on 10x the usual volume with the share price doubling. From discarded lemon one day, to Superhero stock the next. The week before it doubled HOOD.O had an underwhelming IPO…
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…
