What is the difference between American and European style warrants?
When we talk about the “style” of a warrant we are referring to when the warrant can be exercised. Equity Warrants are very similar to equity options. Much like equity options, warrants can be either call warrants or put warrants. A call warrant gives the holder the right to buy the underlying security at some…
Important facts to get right when choosing a stock
A little logic goes a long way in successful stock picking. It’s easy to get caught up in indicators and share prices and to overlook the most important facts to get right when buying any company. Purchasing a share involves taking part-ownership in a business. Think of it like buying a stake in the local…
Strategies that can turn sharemarket losses into gains
Strategy, firm decision-making and flexibility can help investors reverse unrealised losses in their share portfolios, according to finance experts that TheBull spoke to. The first step is to examine your share portfolio and separate the gains from the losses. So if you are currently nursing losses on a stock that you believe has strong fundamentals…
Overseas shares not so taxing
It’s all very well to talk about buying overseas shares, but what about the tax issues? As one of our readers pointed out, two issues that may impact negatively on Australians investing in foreign shares are our dividend imputation system, and the foreign with-holding taxes on dividends and capital gains. Let’s deal with the second…
Trading CFDs full-time
Full-time traders used to be slick young traders on too much coffee who traded big sums for the big banks. Today, full-time traders come from all walks of life such as Newcastle-based mother of two, Justine Pollard, who trades Contracts for Difference (CFDs) from home. CFDs are criticised by many commentators as being too risky…
Check out the investment portfolios of the nation’s heavyweight finance experts
Are stocks going cheap? And what about the property market – should we be selling out before it’s too late, or buying on the dip? Everyone has an opinion on current market conditions, making it difficult to discern what’s fact and what’s fiction. So let’s get to the heart of the matter: where are Australia’s…
Stockmarket courses can be pricey, but do they offer the secret to investing success?
How do you become a great trader or investor? Must you shell out thousands on a course, or can you learn the art by going it alone? Talk to anyone in the investing world, and they’ll surely give you a different answer. While some investors praise the merits of attending a structured course, others recommend…
Top places to invest $500, $1000, $3000 and $5000
It’s not a bad time for novice investors to risk their arm in the sharemarket. For relatively small amounts, they can buy good Australian companies at possibly bargain-basement prices, courtesy of the credit crunch. The sharemarket may not have bottomed, but, unless you fluke it, it’s almost impossible to pick the peaks and troughs of…
Where the wealthy stash their cash
Think mega wealthy, seriously cashed up, an embarrassment of riches and the elite and exclusive world of private banking, add to that investment strategies for tens, hundreds, thousands of millions of dollars. Are you visualising brilliantly conceived systems of complex, sophisticated asset allocation schemes? From the outside looking in there is a distinct notion of…
Two market crashes later – Robert Kreft, a story of a full-time trader
It took the loss of a massive $300,000 during the bear market of 2001 to cause Robert Kreft to come to his senses. Declaring that from experience he has learned that human nature will usually overlook the risks in favour of the rewards, he confesses that greed drove his second foray into trading in 1999….
