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This reporting season has seen most companies reveal substantial drops in earnings, but despite this we have actually seen many stocks rise after the event.

If I recall correctly from the Four Corners show on Australian ABC TV this week Gerry Harvey admitted to losing about $1.5 billion in wealth in the last year or so – but still has a cool billion left. This was a billion he never had within his sights or reckoning years ago so he is still laughing.

The MACD (moving average divergence / convergence) is a popular and often cited trading indicator.

Have you ever “fiddled” with a trade and then looked back later and wished that you hadn’t? So often we can get impatient with the market, expecting our move to happen today!

These past few weeks have been marked by a raft of capital raisings and dividend cut backs as companies struggle to lower their debt burden and shore up their balance sheets.