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…
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…
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…
The concept for this article has been unashamedly stolen from Warren Buffet although it has been given an an Australian flavour. He expounded the US version in a speech in 1984 commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the book Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the bible of value investing. He called his speech…
In a new series of podcasts Marcus introduces Peter Harold, a long time friend and the CEO of Poseidon Nickel to talk about the nickel price, gold, resources, abalone, WA and the prospects for this exciting nickel explorer. Enjoy! Elon Musk asking for more nickel… “Nickel consumption in EV battery materials is expected to soar…
One of our members retired at 50 to become a full-time trader, hoping that he could shrug off the rat race and the typical work sleep work life. Fifteen years later he is still 'retired' and still trading full-time. After 15 years of investing, he calls it what it turned out to be, trading not…
International investors are thought to hold anywhere between 35% and 45% of the Australian market and the money is ‘mobile’, in other words it is held in the hands of fund managers, like Fidelity, whose offices are in New York, or London, and their benchmarks are global stock-market indices (mostly MSCI indices). Australia has been…
