Australia Articles - Safety In The Market

Learning

Sinan Koray 22 May, 2009

"I am not good at maths. I just freeze in front of the computer. Numbers confuse me. Calculating when to buy when to sell is so hard, why doesn’t someone just tell me?" Does this sound familiar to you? Is someone you know in that situation? Is it you?

Five dollar and to oblivion

Tom Scollon 22 May, 2009

How can it be? I speak here of GTP. They have gone into administration in the last few days. Administration is like Chapter 11 in the USA – it is a last gasp before the final blow is dealt. It happens generally because a company has significantly more debtors than it has cash. This happens because usually its model or management or a combo of both is flawed. And for shareholders and lenders it is like throwing more good money after bad and one day comes when financiers say enough is enough.

Plan to take action

Aaron Lynch 20 May, 2009

Island reversal patters are powerful indicators in many markets. The notion that a gap in the markets price action is a guide to strength or weakness in a particular trend is well held by many technical analysts.

Need a Leg Up?

Noel Campbell 20 May, 2009

Welcome all our Safety in the Market traders to this month’s dedicated newsletter. While April proved a slightly tougher month for trading than March it still essentially provided more to the upside for the overall market.

Avoiding the Next Brisconnections

Jordan Craw 8 May, 2009

There has been quite a bit controversy in the press regarding Brisconnections in the last few months and for good reason, the situation really is astounding. What seemed like a safe, income stock to many retail investors was actually an instrument carrying huge liabilities.

What To Do When The Market Says No

Tim Walker 8 May, 2009

There is an old saying that the Stock Market spends 80% of its time working out where to go and 20% of its time getting there. The times when the market is preparing for a move are usually known as periods of 'accumulation' or 'distribution', depending on whether the coming move is to be up or down respectively. These 'beds of preparation', as they are also known, are characterised by sideways price action.

Breakthrough in oil?

Tom Scollon 8 May, 2009

I can’t consider any stock or future without first looking at a chart – so let’s get straight to it – a simple unadulterated daily line chart:

Can you pallet it?

John Jeffery 4 May, 2009

In the article entitled "Brambles - A Thorny Subject" I considered the usefulness of combining On Balance Volume and Bollinger Bands as a simple trading method.

Face to Face

Sinan Koray 24 Apr, 2009

No matter how fast we click from place to place, it will never replace face to face” - Joel Bauer. Is that how you learn best? Face to face? There are many ways you can educate yourself in trading. The first one is Home Study.

Taking Stock

Tim Walker 24 Apr, 2009

Are we in a bear market rally or a new bull market? What stock is best to invest or trade in? Is it going up or down from here? In this article we are going to have a look at the current position of Santos (STO:ASX) and how we would analyse its prospects.

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