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…
The Importance of Portfolio Diversity
What is Portfolio Diversity? Portfolio diversity is a risk management strategy where investors spread their investments across different asset classes, industries, and geographic regions so the risk of a downturn in one investment can be offset by better performance in another asset class or geographic region. Investing history has seen repeated collapses in notable industries…
Want Growth and Value Shares? – Try the GARP Investing Strategy
Combining Strategies with Growth at a Reasonable Price (GARP) Investing Newcomers to share market investing quickly learn there are two major categories of stocks around which they can build their trading strategy – Value stocks and Growth stocks. Investing in either category requires an assessment of the fundamentals of the company’s business. This fundamental analysis…
How to Use the Simple Moving Average (SMA) to Trade Australian Stocks
Trading with the Simple Moving Average (SMA) Moving averages are technical analysis indicators designed to smooth out price movements by determining an average price over a period of time. There are two major types of moving averages in use – the simple moving average (SMA) and the exponential moving average (EMA). The EMA is considered…
A Trader’s Daily Routine
A Regimen for a Daily Trader To a large extent, a trader’s daily routine is determined by the kind of trader he or she is. Some market experts claim there are eight different types of stock market traders, differentiated by the time frame of their trades. Timing is common to all traders and investors as…
