What is your analysis paradigm?
Here is a question for you. What is your analysis paradigm? Do you conduct analysis to try to: • eliminate moves in your favour that turned into loss trades? • eliminate trades that immediately moved in the wrong direction? • ensure that you don’t get out of a trade too early? • ensure that you […]
Market status update
We’ve seen an important technical pattern emerge within the past two weeks that could mean the start of something positive for traders and investors. To provide you with further insight, since the 15th October 2009 to the 13th September 2010, the ASX All Ords has moved in two sideways patterns. The first was in a […]
Losing Streaks and optimism
Losing streaks and flat periods are a reality of trading. Just as sports teams have losing streaks, so do traders. A trader may take many trades and face loss after loss before scoring a win. Trading requires persistence in the face of seemingly constant setbacks. It takes a rare person to be able to pick […]
A Pep Talk we all need now and then
Trading can be a very lonely game. As self investors we tend to internalise our feelings and emotions without sitting back and assessing where, we’re really at. Recently I was fortunate to be interviewed on JSE Direct – a South African radio program hosted by well respected South African media analyst Simon Brown. Simon’s interview […]
A hung parliament
For the first (oops, second) time in our history, we have a hung parliament. Under a parliamentary system of government, a hung parliament occurs when no political party has an absolute majority of seats. Resolving a hung parliament will usually result in a minority government forming a coalition, with independents or other smaller parties to […]
Who’s to blame? – Part 2
Carrying on from last week’s journal post “Who’s to blame?”, I will now discuss shifting our thought process to make change. To improve your responses you can do one of two things: Change your perception of the outcome to see it as positive or at least as not causing pain. Change the process to make […]
Who’s to blame?
As human’s we’ve been programmed by society to not accept the following situations on an event by event basis: • being proven wrong or not being right, • losing, • not belonging or missing out. This starts at a very early age as our subconscious is bombarded by experiences and words all indicating that these […]
Find the right trading environment for you – Part 2
Having discussed the need to ensure your cash is secure, and that you are satisfied with the way your cash is held by your stock broker, this week I will take a look at how your shares are ‘held’ by your broker. I will also briefly cover what happens in the CFD and FX markets. […]
Find the right trading environment for you
The recent collapse of brokerage firm Sonray Capital Markets raises a number of issues and questions that are important to all investors – not only those trading Australian shares and CFDs, but traders in all markets and all instruments. Reports from the appointed administrators suggest that SONRAY has lost around $46 million of client’s funds […]
When things go against you – part 3
A better way to think about bear markets The beauty of long bear and sideways market periods is that they are almost always followed by long rising market periods. The majority of the time, the longer and stronger the bear market, the longer and stronger the bull market that follows. This is how consistently successful […]