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I can buy my own shares! Yes, but can you count on making 20% returns?

Posted by Hayden Kerr on Jul 2nd, 2010

When starting out with share trading, it is advisable to be cautious in the beginning, and educate yourself as much as practically possible before taking the plunge. A full service broker can assist with this process.
“Count on” is the giveaway in this article’s title. You may make 20% in a given year. You may [...]

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How To Buy And Invest In Physical Gold and Silver

Posted by cij on Nov 30th, 2009

Are you prepared for the coming hyperinflation?

The United States, with ‘helicopter’ Ben Bernanke at the helm of the Federal Reserve, is committed to money printing to solve America’s economic woes. To the extent that the US dollar is the world reserve currency, it will affect the rest of the world.
As Marc Faber, editor [...]

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Momentum Trading Can Earn You Good Profits.

Posted by strudy on Jun 4th, 2009

Momentum can make a stock move extremely rapidly in a very short space of time and this can create an outstanding lucrative profit opportunity for you.
You can over time learn to recognize some of the typical chart patterns that stocks can form, when they are behaving with a lot of volatility. Sometimes these stocks will [...]

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5 Steps to Profitable Investing in the Stockmarket.

Posted by strudy on May 22nd, 2009

Here is a simple 5 Step process to help get you started out on the right track..
1. Finding a stock.
This is the most obvious and most difficult step in stock trading. With well over 10,000 stocks to trade in a good guideline is to consider first in which sector you wish to trade in first.
Of [...]

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Effective yields from shares looks compelling compared to cash

Posted by Scott Keefer on Feb 17th, 2009

Last week’s interest rate cute by the Reserve Bank of Australia has made investment choices that little bit more difficult for investors who are predominantly invested in cash. The yield from Australian shares going forward is looking pretty attractive.

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Stock Market Volatility - Now is NOT the Time to Sell

Posted by andyfvp on Nov 21st, 2008

Today’s bad economic news coupled with investor fear over the fate of Citibank (see why I think this bank may collapse) and other financial stocks, sent the stock market spiralling to a 5 year low. A sense of panic and fear seems to have entered the hearts of many investors, including myself, and the urge [...]

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Don’t Be Fooled, It’s Still Looking Bearish

Posted by Debbie on Nov 18th, 2008

Macquarie Group Limited (ASX: MQG), which is comprised of the Banking Group and Non-Banking Group, has closed at $20.6 yesterday. Since last December and the high price posted at $82.6, the stock has lost 75% of its value.
After a one-week rebound occurred in late October and early November when it jumped from $27 to $35 [...]

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Australia’s Most Expensive Funds Management Business

Posted by Debbie on Nov 18th, 2008

This morning we have a quick quiz for you. Don’t worry, answers are provided below.
Question 1. What do you get when you own shares in BHP Billiton?
Question 2. What do you get when you own shares in Woolworths?
Question 3. What do you get when you own shares in Qantas?
Answers, in order are - a [...]

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Short Seller Taken to Court

Posted by Debbie on Nov 9th, 2008

We have no idea who Giovanni Spagnolo is. We don’t know whether he is a professional trader, a small investor, a fund manager or anything else.
But what we do know is the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has taken him to court for short selling. To be more precise, for naked short selling. You [...]

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Money Tip without the Boring Stuff

Posted by Ask_Josie on Nov 2nd, 2008

It is a tough world out there.   How do you find a financial planner that you can trust?   First and foremost, we are not demigods (although I think I have met some that believe they are half human, half God).
It is not the first time you have heard me say that finance professionals cannot predict the future (obviously).   It worries [...]

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