Having spent sixteen years in the UK and four years in Australia sitting on the institutional desks of some major brokers, particularly in the UK, one thing becomes apparent, that share prices don’t go up and down because of the fundamental reasons that commentators and the media obsess over in hindsight, they go up and…
“DAD, WHAT IS THE BEST INVESTMENT IN THE WHOLE WORLD?” I have four kids. Three of them are now driving, which means that in the last five years we have gone from a ratio of two taxi drivers being taken for granted by four passengers to five taxi drivers and one passenger. While that has…
I have four kids. Three of them are now driving, which means that in the last five years we have gone from a ratio of two taxi drivers being taken for granted by four passengers to five taxi drivers and one passenger. While that has been a huge burden off our taxi driving duties, it…
Each week ASIC publishes a list of stocks that have been “Sold short”. In basic terms it means stocks that have been sold by people who don’t own them. It is not that easy to genuinely short a stock. You can do something similar through CFD accounts which are simply a bet on a price…
When a market goes up, almost every investment approach will work, and people like me can safely sell almost any old theory on how to make money in the stock market without being wrong. When the market goes up, there is room for all, for both value investors to set and forget and technical traders…
Stock Discussion Group – Join Now! Having had something like four hundred people come through our education classes, one thing is clear, Marcus Today Members, investors, when they actually come face to face, love a chat. Watching you come alive in person has made it an obvious progression of the newsletter to connect you as…
There was a MACD sell signal on the ASX 200 this morning. We have discussed cashing up a bit in the portfolios this morning but decided that this is hardly a Collins Class moment (when Wall Street falls 3% in a night), it is simply a regular short-term loss of the recent very strong upside…
After I first wrote this article in 2009 and published it in The Age on Saturday, the stockbroker I worked for at the time insisted that I include a disclaimer at the bottom of all my articles from then on saying “The opinions in this article are those of Marcus Padley and do not represent…
YOU MAKE THE MOST MONEY IN 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…
Looking out of our hotel room window in a small town in Portugal I noticed an oversized parking meter with a car connected by cable. It wasn’t a parking meter it was an electric car recharging point. It made me reflect on the number of electric cars we see in Europe and on the dominance…
