Pairs Trading: A Guide for Australian Investors
Pairs trading involves first identifying the correlation of the price action of two stocks in similar sectors with similar business models. When the stock price of two highly correlated stocks begins to go in opposite directions, investors can take a long position on the stock dropping in price and a short position on the stock…
Buy Low, Sell High – But What is Low?
How Low is Low Enough in Buy Low/Sell High Investing? Buy Low/Sell High is one of the most cited adages in the world of share market investing. Newcomers to stock investing coming across Buy Low/Sell High learn it is a catch phrase for an investing strategy that seems obvious. When newbies actually think about using…
Trading ASX Stocks with Elliott Wave Theory
Elliot Wave Theory – Stock Market History Repeats Itself In the 1930’s a professional accountant named Ralph Nelson Elliot relied on both the psychology and sentiment of stock market investors to develop a theory of stock price movements that contradicted the prevailing opinion of the day that markets were inherently random and chaotic. Elliot believed…
How To Break Bad Trading Habits
Do Investors Really Need a Trading Plan Planning is said to be the most important of all management functions. One of many planning definitions states a plan specifies what is to be done, when is it to be done, how it is to be done, and who is going to do it. Planning is forward…
Capital Gains Tax: A Guide For Australian Traders
What To Do When the Taxman Cometh Of all the issues confronting newcomers in their search for learning the rules of the game, it is quite possible that the last one that comes to mind is taxes. After all, selling stocks usually comes much later in the investment process, especially for those investors attracted to…
Top places to invest $500, $1000, $3000 and $5000
Investing on a Nest Egg from $500 to $5,000 Dollars There is truth to the time-tested idiom that it takes money to make money, but a more relevant question for many would-be investors is how much is enough to get started? Money management experts might be likely to begin with a different question if asked…
Can I Buy Optus Shares?
What Happened to Optus Newcomers to investing in companies on the Australian Stock Exchange who might begin searching for the best of the best Australian telecommunication companies will find graphs like this one from iTWirwe, showing our top telcos by market share: Source: itwire.com Their search will grind to a halt when they look for…
Who is Bevan Slattery? Meet Australia’s Millionaire Technology Entrepreneur
Bevan Slattery – Australia’s Millionaire Tech Entrepreneur In 2016 the Australian Financial Review posted an article entitled “Meet Megaport’s Bevan Slattery, Australia’s unknown tech success story”. Today financial journalists Bevan Slattery has moved beyond “unknown,” with financial journalists calling Slattery a “serial tech entrepreneur.” His long list of involvement in breakthrough technology companies supports the…
Who is Tim Goyder? Meet Australia’s Billionaire Mining Investor
Billionaire Mining Guru Tim Goyder Reaching for the Stars Most Australian investors recognize the names Andrew Forrest and Gina Rineheart, but Tim Goyder? In November of 2021, an enthusiastic investor with forty years’ experience in the mining sector began to emerge from the shadows. His name is Tim Goyder and unlike more traditional mining magnates,…
Earning Passive Income in the Digital Age
People often look for ways to make extra money. Passive income attracts many because it means earning without the ongoing personal time involvement, or constant work. Options for this are becoming increasingly attainable now due to technology. From the more traditional means such as rental properties, or dividends, through to digital side projects, and assets,…
