This is a Heat Map of the All Ordinaries index showing the performance every month since 1982 (over 40 years). Source: Refinitiv Interested in Marcus Today? Marcus Today contains stock market education and ideas every day. Sign up for a no-obligation 14-day free trial. You can see that the average Australian market performance…
I once went out with the richest man in England. Not in the biblical sense of course, and after a few bottles of something expensive he expounded his somewhat brutal assessment of life and business. I took notes. Here is the potted version. Do not try this at home. Interested in Marcus Today? Marcus…
As we grow older we tend to look back at the ‘Good Times’ no doubt with an element of rose tinted spectacles. Times when life was easier and we could rely on people and organisations not trying to deceive us. I’ve tried to make sure my rose- tinted specs are well and truly locked away…
Warren Buffett once said “The first rule of an investment is don’t lose [money]. And the second rule of an investment is don’t forget the first rule. And that’s all the rules there are”. So for your investing pleasure, here are ten top tips for not losing your money. 40 years of experience in here.…
It is with great pleasure I announce that technical trader and educator Stuart McPhee has joined the Marcus Today Team. Stuart will be writing a Technical Trading section starting Monday September 12th. Some of you would be aware of Stuart already, his reputation as a technical trader, analyst and consultant precedes him. In his former…
We held an education day the other day and one thing became clear. A lot of self-directed investors have become trapped by habit. Sometimes you just need to stop and ask. “Am I doing the right thing?”. This article is for you. There are a few ways to manage your own investments depending on how…
The most likely thing to shock any shareholder and share price is company results. Results present a bi-annual moment of heightened risk for all stocks that report. We are coming up the Australian results season in August. Thanks to continuous disclosure requirements (meaning companies ‘dump’ information at results) and high-frequency trading (some of which now…
Am I just part of the older generation and getting out of touch or is the world becoming a crazy place? Everything is so complicated now. We seem to have lost the ability to find simple solutions. Our current power problems illustrate the issue very well. Only 30 years ago there was State Electricity Authority…
It was wonderful to read about Paul McCartney’s performance at the iconic Glastonbury Festival. The first Glastonbury festival since Covid needed some big names, but who would have expected to see Paul McCartney who turned 80 just before the festival began as a headline performance? As the write up from none other than the ‘The…
