Dingoes Of The ASX 50
Stockmarket investors who don’t want to go to the trouble of sifting through stock tips or poring over charts for under-valued trading opportunities can always fall back on a ‘mechanical’ strategy, where the investor simply buys stocks that fit a selection criterion, or set of criteria. It could be the stocks with the lowest price/earnings…
How do I get an order filled before the open of the market ?
Question: “I was waiting to buy “SIP” on Friday morning and on opening at 11:00 it was already +38%! How do people get their orders filled before open to receive the gain? On Thursday I put an order in at 7:30am to buy “AEC” at 2.680 and when it opened I did not get my…
Does the P/E Ratio Really Tell You Which Stock To Buy?
The Price to Earnings Ratio for the vast majority of shares in which you might be considering investing is readily available, and for those you cannot find, the vaunted P/E is easy to calculate on your own. All you have to do is get your hands on a copy of the company’s latest annual report….
18 Share Tips – 20 February 2011
Mike Bigwood, Patersons Securities BUY RECOMMENDATIONS MACA Limited (MLD) – click code or chart for stock quotes Chart: Share price over the year to 20/02/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) A mining services company leveraged to mid-tier WA miners. The company listed in November 2010, and its share price surged to $2.73 on February 16. The…
How To Make Money By Thinking Big Picture
Think of top down investing as a “big picture” strategy. The big picture is the global market and all it encompasses. If you think of the global market as a forest, if it looks green and healthy, you enter the forest looking for the healthiest trees. When you find a grove of healthy trees, you…
Tools for Finding Safer Shares (Part 2) – The Quick Ratio
Something happened a short time ago – January 24th, 2011 – that shines a spotlight on the issue of finding safer shares. Australia’s giant retailer, Woolworths (WOW), lowered its guidance for the first half of 2011. Today’s earnings release cited the following conditions that led to the revised forecast: • Consumer Confidence Levels • Inflation…
Can I use a margin loan to buy just one stock?
A Margin Loan can be utilised to purchase just one stock. However, before considering in investing in just one stock, you will need to consider how much you wish to borrow. In the case of the top 20 shares listed on the ASX, brokers can lend up to 65% of the current value of these…
18 Share Tips from Australia’s leading brokers
Peter Day, Wilson HTMBUY RECOMMENDATIONSCleveland Mining (CDG) A gold explorer focusing on developing projects into mines. It’s five prospective targets are in Brazil. The projects are located besides tenements held by AngloGold Ashanti, Kinross Corporation, Yamana Gold and Vale in a well-known gold region. Its Premier Project is close to the world-class Serra Grande gold…
How to take advantage of the commodity boom
There’s little doubt that commodities – at least some of them – will continue their price boom this year, despite concerns about slowing Chinese growth and the fragile recoveries occurring in the US and Europe. But getting on board to take advantage of the trend as an ordinary investor takes some thinking through, and as…
Setting Up A Watchlist
What progress have watchlists made! From the yellow pad and end-of-day newspaper quotes to instantaneous online watchlists that transverse a multitude of search criteria: sectors, market capitalization, growth, moving averages or trading volume. All this could be at your fingertips, for free, in just few seconds. For decades, stocks have been the most popular investment…
