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Trading the Dividend Seasons

It’s well known that share prices tend to move upward ahead of their respective dividend dates. Under the right circumstances this bias offers a great opportunity for earning some extra income. In this article written for The Investors Voice, Magazine ofthe Australian Investors Association, Nick Radge explains how to trade the dividend seasons. If you […]

Commission Drag; Managing Your Trading Expenses

Commission drag is often an unknown factor for new traders. However it is essential and any professional trader will be able to tell you their figure. So what is commission drag? It’s the cost of trading. Like any business you need to assess all revenue and expenses to determine if you’re on the road to […]

ASX Opening Auction

Ever wonder if a large trade will influence the ASX Opening Auction or share price? This is a common question from new members of The Chartist: Will their trades, or the trades of all Chartist members combined, influence or move the market? In his recent newsletter, Nick Radge answered this specific question from Steve […]

Find a strategy. Validate It. Do It. That’s the key!

Find a strategy. Validate it. Do it. That’s the key to trading and investing success in a nutshell. However, there are many myths that swirl across the online trading world about what works and what doesn’t so it’s very important to validate. As an example let’s look at the Bearish Outside Reversal Day (BORD) which […]

Find a strategy. Validate It. Do It. (Part 2)

Last week we looked at the BORD pattern traded on the S&P 500 ETF ($SPY). It offered an elegantly simple setup with reasonable results. As presented, this is known as a ‘single market system’ meaning it was designed and built to trade one market. However, single market systems tend to be based on random noise […]

Gold Stocks: All That Sparkles Is Gold?

It’s been a disturbing few years for hard-core Gold bugs as the precious metal declined from $1900 to a recent floor of $1200 (note this article may no longer be up to date but it still contains valuable information). It is commonly said that the market will take as much money off the majority. What […]

Trading Capital: Think Outcome Before Input

Trading capital: how much money do I need to start trading? We hear that some 95% of traders fail. Whether that’s true or not I don’t know, but it is recognised that the vast majority of new traders fail. The ‘why’ is probably for a number of reasons, including lack of strategy, lack of discipline […]

Managing Disappointment as a Share Trader

Managing disappointment as a trader, especially as a new trader, is a tough job. Disappointment manifests itself in many different ways when trading or investing. It’s one of those psychological traits that must be overcome in order to move forward to achieve our longer term goals. Generally disappointment stems from having a preconceived expectation about […]

Breaking the Beginner’s Cycle – YTE July 2014

The July/August edition of Your Trading Edge magazine includes an article by Nick Radge titled Breaking the Beginner’s Cycle. Read the full article here. Nick points out how to identify if you are stuck in the Beginner’s Cycle, some reading to help create a new mindset and a strategy to get on your way. Books […]

Keeping It Simple

For some reason, when people think of building a trading strategy they do not consider keeping it simple. I commonly see very complex trading plans and strategies. This one came across my desk recently: Share prices are predominantly above 30 week EMA A golden cross with two moving averages of different time durations; for example, […]