4 Gut Busting Lessons I’ve Learnt From my 20+ Years in the Markets (Part 2)
This is my last post for 2013 and I want to thank everyone that has contributed their thoughts and experiences on the Gary Stone Journal. I hope that you have enjoyed my commentary and have been able to take away some of the lessons and principles that I have come to learn over the past […]
4 Gut Busting Lessons I’ve Learnt From my 20+ Years in the Markets (Part 1)
Over the next two weeks I’m going to pass on some of the tougher lessons that I‘ve learnt over the past 20 years. I’m talking about the kind of lessons that cause all the grief, frustration and disappointment. These very mistakes may even be killing your chances of getting ahead and achieving what you want. […]
How far can the Dow Jones go? Part 2
Following on from my previous blog, in the discussion with my fellow golfing member I told him that the great majority of investors in Australia are NOT active in the share market at the moment. Retail investor activity in the stock market is at multi-decade lows and retail investor sentiment towards shares is at the […]
How far can the Dow Jones go?
Recently I was asked by a fellow member at my golf club what the next 10 years might hold in store for an investor with a 10-year investing horizon. While the round of golf progressed we discussed this big-picture question and his quizzing helped me express a view that I probably wouldn’t have come up […]
Commodities, BHP & RIO – where to?
When conducting analysis to determine where resource stocks may be heading in the near to intermediate future, one of the main charts, amongst others, that I consult is the Continuous Commodity Index ($CCI). The CCI is a benchmark of performance for commodities prices. It is an equally weighted index using 17 commodity futures prices. Each […]
“Easy way to ride a hot market”
This week’s blog is a commentary on a recent AFR WEEKEND article that appeared under the Smart Money section entitled “Easy way to ride a hot market”. This same article can be read online under the title “How to make the most of the market’s upswing? . It is one of the better newspaper articles […]
And they’re racing…
It is Spring Carnival time in Melbourne and the horses have come to town. It’s a great time of year where the Champagne flows and much fun is had. The fashion, beauty and food industries look forward to a well deserved boost but the big winners from Spring Carnival are the bookies. While punters hit […]
The history making event happened! Now what?
In February this year, I wrote one of my most well-read and distributed blogs entitled “History Making Event on the Horizon”. Feel free to read it again right now. The event discussed was the potential breakout by the S&P500 of a 13+ year range to a new all-time high thus potentially signalling: the end of […]
USA Debt Ceiling
Unless you are living under a rock you would be aware of this event. The media has megaphoned it to all the corners of the globe and in the process magnified it above all other news. As the saying goes: “Bad news sells!” Or rather in this case, the potential of bad news. Is it […]
Reading Tea Leaves – Follow up on those 2 charts
A month ago I looked at the hard right-hand edge of two charts in which a symmetrical triangle had occurred following a SPA3 entry signal, viz. INPH and ARWR. These are examples of real money trades that I entered in our publicly traded real money SPA3 NASDAQ Portfolio. The entries were triggered by SPA3 entry […]