Successful investors donât get there by accident. As in any endeavour in life, be it business, sport, investing or any other activity, natural âtalentâ can only get you so far. At some point it becomes necessary to commit to the task at hand and to develop and stick to a plan to achieve success. Successful…
This week I would like to take a look at the close relationship between what we can call the âhardâ commodities and the Australian share market. Hard commodities include resources like gold, silver, oil, copper, nickel, iron ore, and coal. They are generally mined or extracted, as opposed to the âsoftâ commodities which include grains,…
While my personal and company trading decisions are based 100% on the SPA3 mechanical trading strategy and its researched technical criteria, there are many other well respected forms of technical analysis that one can use to analyse trends in different time frames. I wrote this piece for Peter Switzer’s ‘Switzer Super Report’ earlier this week…
When will you be a successful investor? Will it be when you achieve a certain percentage rate of return on your investment capital over a specified period? Or maybe a certain percentage of profitable trades out of a specified sample, or will it be somedayâsomewhere off in the future, when youâll suddenly arrive and think,…
A couple of blogs ago I posted a video on Mastering the Skill of Active Investment and used a conceptual metaphor to assist in getting my points across. I had no expectations that all readers would benefit from the use of a metaphor, let alone specifically one on running, as I fully understand that achieving…
A couple of weeks ago one of this Journalâs readers, Ray, provided this comment in response to the blog on mastering a skill. âGary. You take too long to get to the point. You are boring me and I donât have the time to listen to all that hype in return for a snippet of…
In one of the portfolios that I trade, which is executed on the NASDAQ, I recently completed a trade whose price movement amazed me while I was living the trade. I’m sure that you’d be surprised to hear this from somebody that has been trading and researching the financial markets for over 20 years. Let…
We all love mastering a new skill that enriches our lives. The good news is that it doesn’t take rocket science to master a skill. Most people, however, want results quickly. They want to become the best at something fast. Well unfortunately, fast doesn’t equal mastery. You can learn the practical steps that are required…
This week I will relate a real life story from a subscriber to an Australian newsletter. This story highlights what is probably the biggest problem with newsletter story writers. This problem was identified in one of the comments, by Ralph, to last weekâs blog. In David Letterman style, to a drum roll, the NUMBER ONE…
In a recent release of a free daily newsletter that exudes emotive copywriting to sell subscriptions and that regularly has a go at the mainstream press on many fronts, it stated: âA quick stocktake of the 31 stocks we tipped in Our Investigative Story Writing Newsletter and Another of Our Riveting Story Writing Newsletters last…
