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 month…
This is my last post for 2013 and I want to thank everyone that has contributed their thoughts and experiences on the Gary Stone Journal. I hope that you have enjoyed my commentary and have been able to take away some of the lessons and principles that I have come to learn over the past…
Following on from my previous blog, in the discussion with my fellow golfing member I told him that the great majority of investors in Australia are NOT active in the share market at the moment. Retail investor activity in the stock market is at multi-decade lows and retail investor sentiment towards shares is at the…
Recently I was asked by a fellow member at my golf club what the next 10 years might hold in store for an investor with a 10 year investing horizon. While the round of golf progressed we discussed this big picture question and his quizzing helped me express a view that I probably wouldn’t have…
When conducting analysis to determine where resource stocks may be heading in the near to intermediate future, one of the main charts, amongst others, that I consult is the Continuous Commodity Index ($CCI). The CCI is a benchmark of performance for commodities prices. It is an equally weighted index using 17 commodity futures prices. Each…
