SPACE X IPO
From Puru Saxena on X (Twitter) comes this somewhat sobering table about chasing hot IPO’s.
Investing Explained Perfectly
It makes perfect sense now…. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joe Fenti (@fentifriedchicken)
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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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If You Are Waiting To Feel Safe You May Be Waiting For Awhile
LB posted this series of challenges in the Mentor Program, and they were too insightful not to share.
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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1929 – History Always Repeats
I am currently making my way through Andrew Ross Sorkin’s excellent 1929, a day-by-day account of the events leading up to the 1929 crash. As you would expect, the book is full of big characters who are full of themselves. One aspect of human psychology has always been that bull markets convince people that they…
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What 1000 Year Old Companies Know About Resilience
These are firms that have survived recessions, world wars, colonial collapses, and technological revolutions. The oldest of them, a Japanese construction company called Kongō Gumi, was founded in the year 578 A.D. That’s not a typo. They’ve been in business for over 1,400 years. When you study these organizations, you realize that our modern definition…
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