Let’s look at a timeless strategy to bulk up profits. Deciding how many shares to buy is, for some traders, a figure randomly plucked out of the air. Which is odd. You see, the number of shares you buy is directly related to your risk. If you don’t risk much, you won’t make much. If […]
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How to deal with takeovers….. One of my slogans is, “If you trade long enough, at some stage you’ll get a slap across the face“. In other words you’ll be riding a nice trend higher, then out of a blue something happens and a large gap down wipes out gains and puts you into a […]
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In this article I’ll describe a simple monthly trading system for ASX investors. Monthly meaning it trades just once a month. Monthly strategies are great for anyone who is time poor, has trouble accessing the internet to place trades or who works away. Let’s face it; we all aspire to have the track record of […]
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Losers make the best winners – something new parents should teach their children instead of giving everyone a prize just for showing up. It’s no different in the stock market. Learn to lose, or more importantly, how to manage losses and you will be the winner. Stock Trading Stock trading is a game of mathematics. […]
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I like to show people how to trade profitably. Many years ago I travelled around Australia running a seminar showing people how to manage their risk appropriately. The videos for this seminar are titled The Profitable Trader and are available here. In the seminar I suggest that the 2% rule is not appropriate for everybody. […]
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Want to learn how to trade the stock market? If we use an analogy; teaching my daughter how to drive. I had hair before I started teaching her to drive. Now I have none. When you teach a teenager how to drive, the quantitative rules are pretty straight forward. Put your foot on the accelerator […]
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Trends can’t not exist. The economy is always shifting back or forth, and human sentiment which is ultimately the driver of the market, is always shifting backwards and forwards –and therefore trends will always occur. I had a run in with a very major Australian educator whom in 2009 came out and basically said in […]
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Do you have a retirement fund? For our retirement Trish and I have used a trend following strategy called the Growth Portfolio since 2006 and we trade it within our SMSF (Self Managed Super Fund). The Growth Portfolio accounts for about 85% of the value of our retirement account and we have accumulated a retirement […]
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Is your Trading Strategy Working? Let’s say you’ve got a long only trend following system. A long only trend following system is not going to do particularly well in a sideways market or a downwards market. That’s a fact of life. It is designed specifically to profit extensively when the market is trending up. Again, […]
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Q. When you go live with a system, how long do you actually expect it to last for and continue to give you a trading edge. Do you anticipate that it may only be good for a certain amount of time, whether that’s a couple years? Or, if it’s truly robust, should it continue to […]
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