Articles for: Australia

Attempting to calculate the ‘fair’ or ‘intrinsic’ value of a listed company is no easy task.

I was interested in the comments made last week by a senior bureaucrat about the prospect of a second recession wave in the GFC – global finance crisis.

Today more than ever, successful traders need three kinds of relationships to prosper.

We are, all of us, traders included, a bunch of curious people. We like to know why.

The gold buffs have not had a riveting time of late – well at least compared to equities. And gold stocks have not had such a great time either.

A diversified approach is important in any investment strategy. There are varying levels of diversity from Macro to Micro levels.

I would like to continue this month with my new series on Iron Condor (IC) trading and share some of the insights I gained in trading Iron Condors on the Russell 2000 Index (RUT).

What an amazing couple of weeks. Just when it looked as if a new downtrend had become established, the market reversed direction and went on to carve out some of the most aggressive runs we’ve seen in a long time.

Discipline is the last of my series on the ‘Seven Deadly Sins of Trading’. But it is by far the most important of all.

Over the past few weeks I had the pleasure of visiting different parts of mainland China. What becomes immediately apparent to any visitor to the major population centres in the eastern provinces is the large scale industrialisation and urbanisation that is occurring.