Articles for: XEJ

Where to from here will be on the minds of investors globally.

As we turned the corner into the new financial year its seems the market is performing a U turn when compared the first 6 months of 2009.

In the last edition of the Trading Tutors Newsletter I wrote an article about picking strong or weak sectors and choosing long or short trading opportunities within those sectors.

One way that major financial institutions go about their stock selection is to employ a process known as top down analysis.

Top Down Analysis involves determining which stocks have the particular combination of factors – technical, fundamental, economic or political – that constitute a profitable trading opportunity.

There has been a lot of talk in recent times about whether the current Australian market rally will continue or if the brakes will come on.

The last two weeks have been interesting in our local markets to say the least. Since the August 2007 lows around 60% of our ASX Sectors have managed to recover to a reasonable level.

Over the past month there have been many great shorting opportunities for students that follow the Safety in the Market trading system.