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This reporting season has seen some spectacular losses and the outlook for many companies is far from exciting. But on balance Australian companies actually shaped up better than you might think, and certainly much better than their overseas counterparts.

I occasionally scan the Dow Jones – which of course is not a big job as there are only 30 stocks but as I scanned today it crossed my mind that it could be a much faster task in a while because what I saw was not pretty and there could be fewer to scan in the coming months.

You may remember back in December we looked at a Calendar trade on Woolworths (WOW) based on our outlook from Kevin Rudd’s bonus payment.

The importance of Trading Psychology is becoming more and more pertinent these days as bad news shows up all around us.

At a recent presentation at the ASX I was demonstrating the attractiveness of income investing in the share market. In attempting to justify my arguments I made use of a number of historical price charts that spanned a period of up to 20 years.