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Review book: Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Web Admin 22 August 2014Reviews

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings By Philip Fisher Warren Buffett is generally considered to be a value investor in the mould of Benjamin Graham, and certainly he started out that way, but these days he’s no longer a true value investor and is much more in the vain of Philip Fisher. A ...

Video: MACD trading techniques

Web Admin 20 August 2014Improve Trading, Webinar and Video

The MACD (Moving Average, Convergence Divergence) indicator is one of the most popular indicators for traders and is a trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of prices. There are a number of different ways one can use it for trading and in this video Warren Peacock will show us four ...

Website review: Finding company data

Web Admin 15 August 2014Reviews

Access to listed company data is easy to come by but equally hard to access. I know, that’s contradictory, so let me explain and illustrate two top free online services. If you have an online brokerage account with one of the large brokers you get most company data included with access to your account (which ...

Book Review: Porter’s five forces

Web Admin 8 August 2014Reviews

Porter’s Five Forces by Michael E Porter This is not an investment book at its core; it’s actually a management strategy that comes from a book published in the 1980s by Michael E Porter titled Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. It was never intended for investors, but the insights it gives on ...

Infographic: Billiton vs. Anglo American

Web Admin 6 August 2014Infographic

Anglo American used to be the largest stock on the JSE (check out our graphic here on the ten largest stocks) but these days BHP Billiton is almost twice the size. How do they stack up? Click on the image for full size. Data as at 5th August 2014. The anatomy of a financial crisis, ...

Broker Review: EasyEquities

Web Admin 1 August 2014Reviews

The Purple Group, who operates Global Trader (GT247), has launched EasyEquities – an innovative way to trade JSE listed shares. The main selling point is fractional shares, so if you can’t afford a full Sasol share for around R600 you can buy a fraction of a Sasol share, starting at R1 per fraction. While the ...

The biggest JSE shares

Web Admin 30 July 2014Infographic

The ten biggest JSE listed shares by market cap. Back in the day it was all about AGL and gold miners. Now no gold miners and AGL is #7 on the list while MTN didn’t exist 20 years ago and NPN was a boring newspaper company! The anatomy of a financial crisis, 1987 to date | ...

Book review: Trading in the Zone

Web Admin 25 July 2014Reviews

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas (buy here) This was the book that finally got me on the right footing as a trader. It was published in 2000 and I have read it every year since then, and every year I still manage to learn something. Up ...

Infographic: Risk and reward

Web Admin 23 July 2014Infographic

You can’t get reward without risk. This infographic is about the inseparable interplay of risk and reward. You can’t get one without the other, so don’t only focus on reward. Recognise the real risk as well. The anatomy of a financial crisis, 1987 to date | What happened, what changed and what we learntThe anatomy of ...

Book Review: The Great Crash 1929

Web Admin 18 July 2014Reviews

The Great Crash 1929 by J.K. Galbraith Published by Penguin Books Published in 1954. Prof. Galbraith’s assessment of the disastrous collapse of the US stock markets is an engrossing read for a number of reasons. Firstly because of the momentous impact on the world economy, which took decades to recover; secondly because of the insights ...