How To Invest When Rates Hit Rock Bottom
One of the best investment books I’ve read this year, The Australian Guide to Fixed Income, by Fiig Securities, briefly outlines a few key strategies for when the economy and official cash rate reach the low point in the cycle – a topic that will becoming increasingly timely over the next 18 months. How to…
Professional Trader: Never Lose Sleep On A Trading Loss Again
By Dr Alexander Elder, SpikeTrade.com Most traders focus only on winning, on making the big trade. It is much safer to think first about losing and how to manage and control losses. When you learn to ski, one of the first things your instructor will teach you is how to fall safely. Not knowing how…
Using Divergence To Detect Bottoms and Tops
By Vito Henjoto, Technical Analyst, GFT Divergence is a fantastic tool to use if you can spot it – but for some people, they miss out and just can’t see the wood for the trees. Considering that the trading world is mostly sentiment driven, price itself does not filter out emotions, sentiments and bias of…
The Case of Indicator Overload – How Many Are Too Many?
By Expert Panel | By Vito Henjoto, Technical Analyst, GFT When it comes to technical analysis, the range of indicators available means there’s bound to be one to suit every trader. While this is true, most traders unfortunately take this to mean that more is better, which is not often the case. Technical traders are generally divided into two…
Explainer: what is short selling?
By Carole Comerton-Forde, Australian National University Short sellers are often portrayed by the media to be the villains of the financial markets. They are usually presented as evil traders that drive down the prices of good companies. However, the academic research on short selling typically provides evidence more consistent with them being heroes. They identify…
Creating a trading plan
Bradley W. Gareiss, Technical Analyst, GFT A trading plan is a must. I would be will to bet that virtually all successful traders have one. However, most new traders have no plan. In fact, I bet most new traders barely even have actual reasons for entering a trade. Imagine that you are planning to loan…
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…
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…
Lessons from the Gurus – Peter Lynch
Of all the great investors throughout history, some feel Peter Lynch offered more simple and practical advice than any other guru. He started out as an ordinary mutual fund manager for Fidelity Investments, managing their Magellan fund. He started in 1977 and by the time he left the fund in 1990, he had achieved average…
Lessons from the Gurus – Sir John Templeton
If you search the Internet for history’s greatest investors, Sir John Templeton will surely be on the list. An American by birth, later in life he emigrated to the Bahamas and became a British citizen. In his early years he worked for a Wall Street investment firm but in 1937 he and a few colleagues…
