The Best ASX Financial and Banking Stocks to Buy
The ASX financial sector has much to offer investors of all backgrounds. Risk adverse investors with long term horizons have only to look at Australia’s globally renowned “Big Four” banks, along with a smattering of smaller regional banks and an internationally acclaimed investment bank. The Big Four are considered the best in the world based…
The Best ASX Tech Stocks to Buy
For decades, investors worldwide have had a love affair with technology stocks. In the US, the acronym FAANG stocks gained popularity to encapsulate some of that country’s most successful technology companies – Facebook (now Meta), Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (now alphabet). Not to be outdone, the Australian investing community put out its own acronym…
The Best ASX Energy Stocks to Buy
Energy has many definitions, but for investors looking for some of the best energy stocks on the ASX, they need only pay attention to one: Energy is the power needed to provide light, heat, and to work machines. ASX energy stocks are producers of that power. Investors in the mid-1900’s had three energy-producing sources to…
Futures – A Beginner’s Guide
A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Futures Contracts Futures contracts are derivative financial instruments whose value is derived from an underlying asset. The history of futures contracts can trace their origins back to ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Agriculture is a notoriously volatile business, subject to severe and unpredictable weather conditions that dramatically impact the price of…
The Best ASX Blue Chip and Large Cap Stocks to Buy
Blue Chip stocks are not just for risk averse investors, although most market commentators cite “safety” as one of the principal attractions of Blue Chips. The safety comes from the rock solid financial stability of most blue chip stocks, along with decades long track records of solid performance. Dividend payments are another major reason for…
Options – A Beginners Guide
A Blueprint for Options Trading for Market Newcomers Uncertainty has long plagued both product producers and the end-users of those products. Going back thousands of years, early players developed a system of contractual arrangements to promote certainty in product pricing. These early contracts were “derivatives,” meaning the value of the contract depended on or was…
Warrants – A Beginner’s Guide
The Basics of Warrants The history of derivative investments goes back thousands of years when financial contracts whose value relied on, or “derived from” an underlying asset came into being. In the early days, the underlying assets were most often agricultural commodities with a contract setting a future time and price for purchase. In today’s…
How to Set Up a Watch List
Newcomers to share market investing quickly learn the need for a plan to guide investing decisions. The critical question facing investors is how to make an investment decision. How does one determine which stocks, or bonds, or commodities to buy? In today’s market environment, many younger investors rely on social media investing groups for ideas…
The Best ASX Mining Stocks to Buy
Australia is known the world over as a premier mining country. ASX mining stocks are in the top tier of the world’s producers of lithium, nickel, copper, gold, silver, and other metals and minerals. The world runs on hard commodities that come from the earth. Australian investors are blessed with a wealth of stellar miners…
The Best ASX Dividend Stocks to Buy
At the close of the first quarter of 2024, an article appeared here on thebull.com.au highlighting five of the best dividend stocks on the ASX at that time. At year’s end, their fortunes have changed, but the mechanics of qualifying a stock as a best in breed dividend stock. Here are the mechanics, unchanged. An…
