Iron Ore
I am lead to believe that the Australian financial media have only just noticed that iron ore has been falling for two months. Just for those in the media who need to come up to speed here is a chart.
Opportunities 3
I was playing with the top 500 local stocks by capitalisation and decided to generate the table below which looks at the year to year performance of the top 10% which I arranged into very loose bins below. As you would expect there are a small number of outliers and a cluster around the bottom…
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All Ords TR vs ASX/S&P200 TR
With nothing else to do during lockdown, I thought I would have a little fun with excel and look at two closely related indices and see if analysing their returns told me any substantive. Spoiler alert it didn’t other than there were times when the All Ords TR did better and times when the ASX/S&P/200…
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Money For Nothing
It has been a while since I updated my superannuation fees chart but was prompted yesterday by the following graphic that hit my LinkedIn feed. This was followed by the usual round of self-congratulations and back slapping as to how amazing the superannuation industry was. However, the table is lacking context in that it does…
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What Are You Being Told?
This could easily fall under the heading of opportunities but it deserves a stand alone topic. When running my scans over the past months I have noticed that there has been a degree of repetition in the sort of stocks that have been popping up. Whenever this occurs it means I am being told something…
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Opportunities
With the world supposedly going to hell in a handbasket, it is worth reminding everyone that the market doesn’t care.
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How To Get Exposure
There are many ways to get broad exposure to a market – the route most select is via an ETF that represents the local market. Generally, this is the only mechanism available to investors/traders. However, in Australia, we have a somewhat interesting condition whereby you can actually invest in the exchange. After demutualisation many years…
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Things I Hear That Make Me Go WTF?
Recently one of the members of our Mentor Program told us that they had been told that they should always sell a stock when the RSI became overbought and I thought what a stupid idea. For those not in the know, an RSI or Relative Strength Index is traditionally defined as being overbought when it…
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