For those who regularly follow my weekly Gary Stone Journal posts, you would be aware that 4 weeks ago I pointed to two important technical points on the All Ords index which, if broken, would indicate a high probability that the All Ords had finally broken out of a range bound sideways moving market. The…
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Investment Risk
When it comes to active investment in the stock market, the concept of Risk Management is about controlling the amount of capital that may be lost in the event that the market or a stock turns against your open positions. This week we will carry on from where we left last weekâs post on Risk…
What are Risk Management andMoney Management?
There are numerous risk and money management measures that can be adopted to protect capital but rather than focus on the varying methods of risk and money management, this post will look at âwhy you should apply risk management and money management rules to your investmentsâ. What risk is there to manage you may ask?…
What is your analysis paradigm?
Here is a question for you. What is your analysis paradigm? Do you conduct analysis to try to: ⢠eliminate moves in your favour that turned into loss trades? ⢠eliminate trades that immediately moved in the wrong direction? ⢠ensure that you donât get out of a trade too early? ⢠ensure that you…
Market status update
Weâve seen an important technical pattern emerge within the past two weeks that could mean the start of something positive for traders and investors. To provide you with further insight, since the 15th October 2009 to the 13th September 2010, the ASX All Ords has moved in two sideways patterns. The first was in a…
Losing Streaks and optimism
Losing streaks and flat periods are a reality of trading. Just as sports teams have losing streaks, so do traders. A trader may take many trades and face loss after loss before scoring a win. Trading requires persistence in the face of seemingly constant setbacks. It takes a rare person to be able to pick…
A Pep Talk we all need now and then
Trading can be a very lonely game. As self investors we tend to internalise our feelings and emotions without sitting back and assessing where, we’re really at. Recently I was fortunate to be interviewed on JSE Direct – a South African radio program hosted by well respected South African media analyst Simon Brown. Simonâs interview…
A hung parliament
For the first (oops, second) time in our history, we have a hung parliament. Under a parliamentary system of government, a hung parliament occurs when no political party has an absolute majority of seats. Resolving a hung parliament will usually result in a minority government forming a coalition, with independents or other smaller parties to…
Who’s to blame? – Part 2
Carrying on from last weekâs journal post âWhoâs to blame?â, I will now discuss shifting our thought process to make change. To improve your responses you can do one of two things: Change your perception of the outcome to see it as positive or at least as not causing pain. Change the process to make…
Who’s to blame?
As humanâs weâve been programmed by society to not accept the following situations on an event by event basis: ⢠being proven wrong or not being right, ⢠losing, ⢠not belonging or missing out. This starts at a very early age as our subconscious is bombarded by experiences and words all indicating that these…
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