It is very often the case that creative decisions and ideas tend to arise when our brains are left alone to quietly digest information by applying subconscious thought to a problem at hand. It is very difficult to think creative thoughts when our brains are being deluged with a never ending stream of data and…
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Gary Stone on Switzer TV – 19th September 2011
On Monday 19th of September 2011, Peter Switzer from Switzer TV quizzed Gary Stone on a small but very select group of stocks. These stocks included: Ausdrill, Boart Longyear, Monadelphous Group, Bradken, UGL, Fortesuce, Bluescope, Oceanagold, Oz Minerals, Incitec Pivot, Mirabela Nickel, Myer and Fleetwood Corp. Gary provided his technical insight as well as a…
Gary on SKY News YMYC – 15th September 2011
Together with co-guest Jeremy Hook from TMS Capital, Gary discussed the recent turmoil and volatility in world financial markets, the buying zone for the ASX and All Ords as well as the recent bounce off support levels for our local markets. The panel also discussed the importance of portfolio weighting, diversification, and caution in the…
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Gary’s Comments Equity markets have experienced some very volatile price action in the last month or so. To put it into perspective, equity indices on the US markets have reached similar volatility levels in August / September 2011 to those experienced on only a few preceding occasions: in March 2009, July 2002, October 1974, June 1970,…
I can’t think – Part 5 – Recency bias
One of the failings of the human brain is its inability to ‘weight’ the information it receives. All the information the brain receives is given the same level of importance and it is only through time and subconscious processing that we are then able to filter the information and provide weight to what is important…
I can’t think – Part 4 – Decision making remorse
Even if we do manage to make a decision despite being inundated with information research has found that the more information we use to make these decisions the more we then tend to regret the decision we have made, fearing that we may have forgone too many other options! In another study in 2006 Iyengar…
I can’t think – Part 3 – Total Overwhelm
One of the major issues emerging from the never ending flow of information with which we are being constantly bombarded is the complete breakdown in our ability to make decisions and to choose a course of action. Every bit of information we receive presents us with a choice – do we need to pay attention…
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Gary’s Comments The table below shows a totally green “% Change” column and totally red “Intelledgence Risk Status” (Intelledgence takes a long term view using price action and momentum of price action), “Short Term Trend” and “Long Term Trend” (uses Intelledgence) columns. What does that tell us about the current state of affairs in equity markets? Well, I am a…
What just happened? And what are you doing about it?
Global stock markets have experienced extreme levels of volatility over this past week, not seen since the events leading up to and contributing to the GFC in 2007 and 2008 – the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) doubled in just 3 trading sessions! This was followed on Tuesday of this week by the greatest one day…
I can’t think – Part 2
In times past, decisions were based, more often than not, on much less information than we now use to arrive at our decisions. This is, of course, due to the huge amount of information that is now available to us electronically via the Internet and other electronic communication media including mobile phones and the various…
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