Role Reversal One of the best things about our retirement has been the time we spent with our two granddaughters. It would have been good to spend similar time with our two grandsons but they lived in Perth so it wasn’t just a short drive up the road. It all began when the eldest granddaughter,…
An important bit of ETF education. Here is an extract from an article by James Kirby in The Australian about the risks of some exchange traded funds. The article highlights one of the major risks of ETFs: “A coalition of the world’s biggest fund managers is pressing for consumer protection reforms in the booming Exchange…
WEDNESDAY MID WEEK CATCH UP, 30th September 2020 The ASX 200 (ASX: XJO) has ended the month in uninspiring fashion as it oscillated between small gains and losses on Monday to close down 13 points. The banks slid back on some profit-taking after big moves last week on news lending restrictions would be eased. Tuesday saw a similar pattern evolve; the market closed flat after early optimism evaporated. Another quiet day of indecision… Wednesday saw the market down 64…
In this webinar, Chris will apply his 3MA trading template to the ASX Top 20 to show you just how quickly and effectively you can analyse trends. Chris will also talk to the following: Trends across multiple time frames Candlestick patterns Support/resistance and key levels Round numbers and why they matter The importance of…
I’m feeling just a little bit more optimistic for the first time in months. There may be just a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. If Victoria can get its house in order Australia might just achieve some degree of a new normality. I know we can’t expect to return to the…
We helped you through reporting season with Marcus Today Reporting Season Guide, where we called winners in AMP and JBH. Plus, a bearish outlook on NAN saving some from their recent slide. As always, it wasn’t all beer and skittles, with A2M falling sharply since reporting against our positive outlook. Take a look at how…
‘Superannuation is for the long term’. I wonder how many people react as I do to that statement. I immediately have two reactions. The first and most obvious is that at 82 with 83 approaching at an alarming rate there is no long term for me. It’s a case of living for the day, week…
One of my daughters has been looking for a casual job and one came up at PetBarn yesterday packing online boxes. Her response was “I’d better apply before JobKeeper ends and everybody else starts looking for a job”. Clever girl. Getting ahead of the curve. The same applies in the stock market. Assume everything everybody…
It’s amazing how a simple and apparently insignificant thing can have such an amazing impact on life. When Victoria declared mask wearing to be mandatory I thought that’s OK not a big issue if it helps solve the problem. I had no idea how it would change things. Ever since working briefly in Libya and…
