I have in the recent past been tempted to write something about the fall in the price of crude oil. In part I have hesitated because to me the fall is merely a movement in price as evidenced by the chart below which I referenced in Charts of Interest. However, some of the recent commentary…
………. For five hours that day, they prospected for mink stoles and freezer units, gold watches and diamond rings. One of them, Fay Maccalupo of Buffalo, New York, dug up a toy car. When she saw the real Ford it represented, she planted her face against the hood and began to weep, repeating, “I love…
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Michael Yardney is an investment and wealth creation expert and a guest contributor for the Trading Game. Successful investors do things in a certain way that helps them become rich while others continue do things differently and in general they tend to struggle. I’ve come to the conclusion that when you do what most successful investors…
Michael Yardney is an investment and wealth creation expert and a guest contributor for the Trading Game. Investment is certainly not rocket science and while you don’t have to be a genius to succeed in property or in fact nay type of investing, it never hurts to learn from great minds when trying to achieve great…
Michael Yardney is an investment and wealth creation expert and a guest contributor for the Trading Game. Confucius say… “investor looking to create wealth from property can learn much from ancient Chinese proverbs.” Okay, so I’m not quoting Confucius verbatim, however the teachings of the ancient Chinese philosophers still ring true in today’s very different, modern…
Once a year the Australian magazine BRW publishes its list of Australia’s richest people and as you examine the list you’ll see every year the rich are getting richer. So, what can we learn from Australia’s wealthy individuals? Invest in property Property remains the single biggest source of wealth. This should come as no surprise…
One from the vault of Clarke and Dawe who remain probably the best commentators on the financial system going around.
Around this time of year there is always a bit of chatter regarding a Christmas rally, so instead of relying on myth and hyperbole as most of the financial community do I thought I would fire up excel and have a look. The table below is of the average percentage gain for each month going…
It has been awhile since I did a dodgy correlation matrix of some of our major stocks. These are price correlations only – a correlation above 51% is coded yellow, below 0 is coded grey.
The reviewer keeps comparing it to the GT3 which is a valid comparison if you are going to spend that much money. However, an afternoon in a GT3 will guarantee you a months worth of physiotherapy particularly if you hit a railway crossing at speed.
What could possibly go wrong….. When Douglas Kobak was an adviser at a large brokerage firm, he suggested his wealthiest clients buy a hedge fund promising to be “a very conservative alternative to bonds.” Then the credit crisis hit in 2008, the fund imploded and investors got 45 cents on the dollar — as long…
One of the more frustrating things about trading is that in some ways your returns are bounded by the environment within which you are investing. This is particularly true if you are dim enough to be a buy and hold investor. The underlying sentiments of markets ebbs and flows and this sentiment infects all aspects…
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself Well…How did I get here? Once In A LifeTime…
