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Gary’s Comments All equity indices in the Overseas Market table below are in short term up trends except for the Shanghai All Share Index. The short term up trend will remain in tact until new 7 day lows occur. However, most of the indices have completed a lower high which is fine provided they are followed up […]
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Gary’s Comments The world is once again abound with negative economic news in both the USA and in Europe. These factors are obviously weighing heavily on equity markets which have seen falls around the world from 6% to 14% since early to mid April. Equity indices around the world are stretched on the downside in […]
Gary on SKY News YMYC – 31st May 2011
Earlier last week Gary joined Julia Lee from Bell Direct on Sky Business Channel’s ‘Your Money Your Call’. Julia and Gary opened the show by analyzing the Australian market’s direction following the recent 7.7% decline, which has occurred over the last seven weeks, and the 78.6% retracement of the gains since the last high on […]
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Gary’s Comments Plenty of red in the international equities indices but lots of green in the commodities table over the last week. All major equities indices around the world are in short term downtrends. The S&P500 and DJI indices are holding their major support levels of 1320 and 12400, respectively, but only just. I know that […]
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Gary’s Comments World equity markets hang in the balance following their respective bounces after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Short term trends in the tables below are all mostly down. It is important to note that equity indices had run strongly up until the middle of February and were due for a breather – either […]
Lessons from a Market wizard – Part 2
Following on from last weeks blog post, I have continued to dissect the statements made by Mr Kerr Nelson in the Australian Financial review article, “Wizards of the game”. I hope you enjoy my commentary. “Loss aversion is an irrational approach sadly evident in the stockmarket. Many investors keep hanging on to losing stocks in […]
Lessons from a Market wizard
For those that know me, you know that I am an avid reader of market related books and newspaper articles. Last week I came across an article in the Australian Financial Review called “Wizards of the Game”. The Financial Review interviewed some of Australia’s most respected and high profile fund managers and their individual approach […]
Some thoughts to kick off 2011
2011 is underway and 2010 is behind us! What’s in store for investors over the next 12 months? Well, I can’t tell you where the index will be on 31 December 2011 and I can’t tell you what trends and cycles will occur between now and then but I can tell you that there will […]
Market Status update
For those who regularly follow my weekly Gary Stone Journal posts, you would be aware that 4 weeks ago I pointed to two important technical points on the All Ords index which, if broken, would indicate a high probability that the All Ords had finally broken out of a range bound sideways moving market. The […]
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 […]