There’s a phrase often repeated in self-help circles: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” For most people, it applies to careers, relationships, or lifestyles. For traders, the phrase cuts even deeper because trading is one of the few pursuits where your profitability is constantly measurable, relentlessly comparable, and often judged by yourself more harshly than…
In this week’s Market Wrap, Chris Tate breaks down the latest movements on the ASX in the wake of the April tariff shock – and explains how these past events are still creating opportunities for traders today. What you’ll learn in this episode: Crash or Opportunity? Discover which sectors and stocks were hit hardest by…
Dr Sandra Zeeman had spent decades caring for others as a rural GP. She loved her patients – but by the end of each long day, she was drained. Retirement loomed on the horizon, yet it felt like a scary unknown rather than starting again. “Before I started trading, I couldn’t see a light at…
Every reporting season, we see the same pattern. A major company posts weaker-than-expected results, and its value plunges; the media quickly blames exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the turmoil. The argument runs that passive investing has “broken” market discovery. It sounds neat, but it oversimplifies a complex reality. Unfortunately, this is the case with this piece…
In trading, as in many high-performance fields, it’s easy to get caught up in the scoreboard. On the surface, it appears that the metrics that measure our profitability are the things we should focus exclusively on. Yet, the truth is far more subtle: focusing solely on outcomes is not just misleading—it’s dangerous. Profitability comes from…
One of the things I find most intriguing about this industry is that often a table, a chart, or a statement is offered, and it’s offered with a context or nuance, and that means there is very little understanding about what is driving what the chart or table. In this episode, I will discuss the…
Join Vicki Butler-Henderson as she gets behind the wheel of the newly updated Porsche 911 GTS, is part of the 992.2 generation and, for the first time ever, featuring Porsche’s T-Hybrid assistance system. …..looks like fun…..
If you look up small, rooted backwaters whose politicians think we are more important than we are in the dictionary, you will find Australia. If you look up a global behemoth with 4000 years of history, you will discover China. I really don’t think people, particularly right-wing politicians, understand the significance of the changes that…
For decades, the sell-side analyst was a market hero. Their notes could and did move markets, their calls were quoted in the press, and their proximity to CEOs made them seem like gatekeepers of secret knowledge. That age is over. The world has changed with AI-driven data, real-time news flow, and algorithmic markets; the analyst…
In trading, survival is rarely about predicting the market with flawless foresight. Instead, it often depends on how you frame risk, execute consistently, and allow probability to work in your favour. Two ideas that are frequently confused—but vitally important to distinguish—are precision and accuracy. They sound similar, yet for traders, they represent entirely different skills.…
Episode Description Join Louise Bedford on Talking Trading as she interviews JC – a chartered accountant who didn’t just balance books but built a 7-figure trading portfolio. After discovering the markets as a teenager, JC faced early hurdles before finding his breakthrough with the Trading Game Mentor Program. Now, he thrives in both trading and…
There are three types of investors: momentum, valuation and noise. Momentum investors care about trend, valuation investors care about fundamentals and noise investors care about a random assortment of stuff. Many of us are noise investors, even though we wont realise it. Of course, investment approaches do not all neatly fit into such discrete categories.…
Economists love to tell each other stories about perverse incentives. The “cobra effect” is a favourite. It describes an attempt by the British Raj to rid Delhi of its cobras by paying a bounty for each cobra skin, thus encouraging a thriving cobra-farming industry. The cobra story is probably an urban myth — or a…
The Holy Grail of trading—the idea that an ideal system exists which delivers consistent results without risk—is a seductive but dangerous illusion. In reality, all trading strategies involve trade-offs between risk, reward, and probability.
In trading, a prevalent cognitive bias known as the arrival fallacy often distorts motivation and impairs ability. Coined by psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar, the arrival fallacy describes the flawed assumption that achieving a specific goal—such as reaching a monetary milestone, becoming a full-time trader, or hitting a percentage return target—will deliver long-term contentment. In reality, the…
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