Investors vs Traders
Ask the average person how to invest in the stock market and you will get one of two answers. Fundamental analysis or technical analysis.
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Tulipmania
When it comes to the stock market, there are rallies, and then there are bubbles. The most colourful of all bubbles: Tulipmania.
Education Corner – Why They Want You To Trade Forex
You've probably seen the Ad – "The average forex trader earns $100,000 to $2m a year starting with as little as $10,000 in their trading accounts". The idea that you can easily speculate in foreign exchange from the comfort of your own home and mobile phone, and make money, is ridiculous. What could you possibly…
What Is Franking?
A Marcus Today member asked about franking – we should all know the basics. You only need to learn them once.
Education Corner – The Key To Making Money In Shares
YOU MAKE THE MOST MONEY WHEN EVERYONE IS WRONG This is a really important piece of the jigsaw puzzle for you are an investor. You need to take this on board. Get through the first bit to get to the Inefficient Market Hypothesis. You may have heard of ‘EMH’, the ‘efficient market hypothesis’. Anyone who’s…
Investing by Colours, Not Numbers
If you work out your personality type, your goals become obvious and you can invest according to your archetype…
Ex-dividend Date Forecasts
Someone asked, so here it is. Using the Marcus Today DIVIDEND PREDICTOR, you can find our best guess at an ex-dividend date. But you can only look at one stock at a time. Then we have our Dividend Tables – but they only ever show dividends that have been announced. So they won't include the…
Forecast Ex-dividend Dates
Someone asked, so here it is. Using the Marcus Today DIVIDEND PREDICTOR, you can find our best guess at an ex-dividend date. But you can only look at one stock at a time. Then we have our Dividend Tables – but they only ever show dividends that have been announced. So they won't include the…
Income Investing 101
Many retirees open a bank account for dividends. Every stock they buy they do the paperwork directing the share registry to pay any dividends into that bank account. Non-retiree investors, as well as some of the wealthier retiree investors, will elect instead to have the registry use the dividend to buy more shares under the…
