Directional Trading
Once in a while I select a comment from the blog that I think all bloggers will gain benefit from. This week I have chosen a comment left by Don. Last time I looked SPA3 didn’t make any investments in falling markets thereby missing out on profit opportunity. Response to comment by Don: Let’s firstly […]
Loss trades are a Guarantee
One of the realities of trading and investing in the share market is that we WILL suffer losses. Not every trade we place will make a profit, and many will actually be losers. It is this fact that we have to come to grips with and be able to fully acknowledge and understand to be […]
Reading tea leaves
In 1990, when I first got bitten by ‘the market bug’ and started spending hours and hours stooped over price charts and listed company financial statements, using technical analysis and charting was often likened to reading tea leaves or using voodoo to make decisions in the financial markets. This was the opinion of the great […]
Ingredients that make up an investment strategy
This week I’ll try to take a different tack on trying to explain the workings of a successful investment strategy, that of making a cake. Look at the list of ingredients that are used to make most types of cakes and typically most of the individual ingredients that are used in just about every cake […]
Why is it so? Principles about investing that I have discovered.
Continuing from last week’s blog I have spent much of my time over the last 23 years seeking principles that exist in the market that are consistent with my investing beliefs (see last week). These are some of the market principles that I have discovered on my investing journey: Price trends exist in the market. […]
Why is it so? What I believe about investing.
In my posting last week I made this statement: “I have a predetermined set of simple actions that I will execute without any reservation, hesitation, fear, uncertainty, or doubt. These simple actions are documented in the Trading Plan that guides my investing actions, habits, processes, routines, attitude and culture.” How does one reach the point […]
The choices to achieve success
Having made the initial choice to begin investing money in the share market, traders and investors are then faced with a huge number of choices as to how they will engage the markets and begin their investing and trading journey. Many of these are choices on a range of issues that they have not even […]
Analysts Analyse……
In response to Julia’s comment on last week’s Journal posting I thought that I’d clear up what we do and explain that, whilst important, “stock analysis”, as Julia calls it, can be a very small part of being successful in the market. Julia asked: “Whatever happened to your stock analysis business? Have you retired? Firstly, […]
Sell in May and Go Away…….. or ………Buy in May and Make Hay?
My attention was drawn to an article in The Age (also published in other Fairfax newspapers) on 23 April, entitled “Time to let go: selling in May could be a winning strategy” written by ATAA member Alan Clement. The “Sell in May and Go Away” subject comes up around this time of every year with […]
Improving the worst case portfolio scenario
This blog continues on from last week where I posed the question: “How can I, in advance, eliminate the fairly good chance of selecting a poorly performing long term portfolio, even if I re-invest dividends?” There are two approaches of ensuring that one does NOT experience portfolio performance similar to the poorly performing 10-stock portfolio […]