More Tax
The very clever and detailed infographic below comes from Robin Dods via X (Twitter). It shows the nightmare scenario investors face when using a DRP over a stock portfolio.
The Budget, Tax And Trading
It is said that there are only two certainties in life – death and taxes. To this, we can add governments being total f$5ckheads. I have been trying to get my head around some of the raft of changes the government introduced in the budget. This is my best attempt to view them from a…
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Volatile Markets, Political Noise: How Smart Traders Stay in Control
What do you do when the market feels like it’s being pushed around by politics, global events, and constant breaking news? Do you react… or do you stay the course? In this episode of Talking Trading, Louise Bedford sits down with Jason McIntosh to unpack how experienced traders navigate volatile markets without being pulled off…
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CSL An Exercise In Wealth Destruction
Markets broadly operate in two dominant phases: wealth creation and wealth destruction. Too often, investors and traders fail to participate fully in the former, only to allow the latter to devastate whatever gains they may have made. Such a situation is unfolding on the ASX at present with CSL. For decades, CSL was viewed as…
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Ten Minutes With Tate Currency Hedging Is Stupid
Most investors believe currency hedging reduces risk.It sounds intelligent. It sounds prudent. It sounds like control. But in reality? Currency hedging often does the exact opposite. In this video, I break down why hedged ETFs—like the difference between IVV and IHVV— don’t reduce risk, don’t improve returns, and may actually damage long-term performance. Because what…
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Wanna A Bet
Betting on binary outcomes—such as the outcome of a drug trial—introduces a fundamentally different risk profile to most forms of trading. In conventional market environments, trades tend to fail gradually. Prices move against the position in increments, allowing the trader to respond: stops can be adjusted, positions reduced, or risk reassessed. Losses unfold over time,…
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The Natural Gas Paradox
The chart below is a year to date comparison of crude oil and natural gas. What is immediately apparent is the performance differential between the two since the start of the latest conflict in the Middle East. This is interesting because superficially, when we view commodities within a given sector, we tend to think of…
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Why Gold Isn’t Acting Like a Safe Haven
Financial markets contain certain relationships that appear sacrosanct. Traders are comforted by rules that never seem to alter, and by which they believe they could literally set their watches. One of the most persistent links is betweenmadness in the Middle East, rising oil prices, and gold prices. Historically, the pattern has been straightforward. When geopolitical…
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Indicators Dont Solve Problems
A recent video on our YouTube channel – it is an interesting question that deserves a more complete answer than you can generate in the comments section under a video. The question was as follows – Could the main source of psychological problems be a lack of technical knowledge and skills? One of the most…
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