Dangers of being seduced by ‘market noise’
In these days of the 24-hour news cycle, and the ease of access to a huge and varied array of news, data sources, opinions and instant updates, how do investors deal with the continuous bombardment of ‘market noise’ when arriving at their investing decisions? Over supply of information A constant stream of news, views and […]
Get to the point
A couple of weeks ago one of this Journal’s readers, Ray, provided this comment in response to the blog on mastering a skill. “Gary. You take too long to get to the point. You are boring me and I don’t have the time to listen to all that hype in return for a snippet of […]
The biggest problem with Newsletters (part 2)
This week I will relate a real life story from a subscriber to an Australian newsletter. This story highlights what is probably the biggest problem with newsletter story writers. This problem was identified in one of the comments, by Ralph, to last week’s blog. In David Letterman style, to a drum roll, the NUMBER ONE […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]