Never lose money on shares – using CFDs, but how?
Question: Can investors/traders use CFDs to protect themselves from market losses on their ordinary share portfolios? And how? Thomas Roberts, Financial Writer, IG Markets Answer: This is an extremely relevant question given the current economic climate. After all the rate cuts, the Aussie Dollar depreciating in its currency pairs, the continuing Eurozone crisis and…
A Fundamental Look at Five Australian Gold Miners
Are you thinking about jumping on the gold bug bandwagon? If you are already on board, are you thinking about jumping off? As you know there are always two ways to make money with commodities – either through trading the commodity itself or through trading the companies engaged in producing the commodity. In the case…
Gold stock recovery underway
Gold stocks have recovered sharply following last month’s panic-like capitulation plunge. But this embattled sector still remains incredibly cheap relative to prevailing gold levels, which drive gold miners’ profits and hence ultimately their stock prices. While it is very challenging psychologically to buy in deeply-out-of-favor sectors, the panic-like gold-stock bargains out there today are simply…
Where in the world is all the gold?
It wasn’t long ago that global gold-mine production had fallen to alarming lows. In 2008 this bellwether supply source was on the heels of a 5-year 13% decline, offering the markets its lowest output in 12 years. And this precipitous plunge had left folks scratching their heads considering gold demand was on the rise and…
Making your fortune on penny stocks
There is a reason penny stocks are often referred to as penny dreadfuls. Yet many average retail investors simply cannot resist the delightful prospect of massive percentage gains in a matter of days, and sometimes in a matter of hours. These investors ignore the plentiful advice to avoid using anything other than excess disposable cash…
Does your CFD provider hedge with client money?
Bill Shorten, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, recently released a consultation paper seeking industry comment on client money regulation for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, including CFDs. IG Markets, Australia’s largest CFD provider according to Investment Trends, says that it fully supports this move and has been lobbying the government and ASIC for…
Indicator in the Spotlight – MACD
If you are currently trading or considering trading your own account, no matter the instrument of choice: stocks, futures or Forex, you would have heard about technical analysis and some of its well known concepts: moving averages, Elliot waves, relative strength index or moving average convergence divergence (MACD), to name a few. MACD is a…
Software review: AmiBroker
By Will Kraa Years ago some time after I first started ‘trading’ I acquired charting software and as I got used to it I got to like it more and more. There were some upgrades which introduced functions that made things easier and it seemed to me that this was just about all I would…
Best countries for junior gold explorers
Since most countries accurately report mine output, and several agencies catalog this information, we know where in the world gold is being produced. But where in the world are the juniors exploring for gold? Are they spinning their drills proportionate in geography to where the miners are operating? I hear questions like this all the…
Global trading contest starts today
The GFT trading challenge – a global trading contest for new and existing clients with a $50,000 cash first prize – starts today. And the succesful trader who scores the biggest percentage gain over the coming three months, wins. GFT says that the trading challenge aims to do two things; firstly, bring traders across the globe in…
