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…
You can track Director buying and selling every day on the Market Index website – CLICK HERE – this gives you a daily list of directors transactions although you can click through on each code to see the history of directors transactions in any stock, or you can simply search a particular stock code at…
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…
‘Tis the Season to be Careful Once again August is upon us, a time that the industry either dreads or loves. So many company results that it is hard to keep up. Analysts burn the midnight oil and investors tremble on their pronouncements. This year is set to be a one-off (hopefully). We have seen…
One member invested in technology stocks makes the point that most big technology stocks (Amazon) lost money for years and on that basis the stocks we consider to be in a bubble at the moment, which are losing money (APT, XRO), might not be a sell. My response is that you may be right but you are…
