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Infographic: Starbucks is coming

Web Admin 22 July 2015Infographic

JSE listed Taste Holdings announced they have secured the master licence for Starbucks, the global coffee brand. This comes hot on the heels of them securing the master licence for Dominos Pizza last year. Below we have an infographic looking at Starbucks. A company like Starbucks operates on a global scale, and the numbers are ...

Podcast: CoreShares Top50 ETF

Web Admin 16 July 2015WorldWide Markets

This week's podcast is stock heavy. Just One Lap founder Simon Brown first talks to small- and midcap expert Keith McLachlan about the shares on his radar. Santova remains a firm favourite, and Keith sees value in Master Drilling, but can't seem to get excited about Rhodes Foods. In the second segment Simon talks to ...

Infographic: CoreShares Top50 weighting

Web Admin 15 July 2015Infographic

As an investor in South Africa the Top 40 has been a mainstay of our lives since forever. The First Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) to be issued was issued over the index (Satrix40 in November 2000) and we now have three other Top 40 ETFs on the index (STAN40 from Stanlib and the RMBT40 from RMB). ...

Podcast: Q&A Gary Booysen and Capitec Collapse

Web Admin 9 July 2015WorldWide Markets

Q&A with Gary Booysen RandSwiss.com In this question-and-answer podcast, Just One Lap founder Simon Brown talks to renowned trader Gary Booysen from RandSwiss.com about his trading strategy. The two discuss the best strategies, how to time an exit, how to short a stock, and a whole lot more. Download the audio file here or subscriber to our ...

Infographic: ETF performance trumps active funds

Web Admin 8 July 2015Infographic

A tweet from Deborah Fuhr when she was in Johannesburg really caught our attention. Over one year 89% of local fund managers under-performed a SP Dow Jones Index. Frankly a shocking number that gets worse with time as 93% under performing over three years and 97% over five years! It turns out ETF performance trumps ...

Podcast: Understanding Greece and trading hardware

Web Admin 2 July 2015WorldWide Markets

In this episode of JSEDirect Nedbank Capital's Mohammed Nalla helps Simon Brown make sense of the Greek crisis and Simon answers a reader question about trading hardware. Mohammed Nalla: Head of Strategic Research - Nedbank Capital To help us understand what is happening in Greece, did they default on Tuesday midnight? What’s the referendum all ...

Video: Understanding headline earnings per share (HEPS)

Web Admin 1 July 2015Learn Investing, Webinar and Video

Earnings per share (EPS) and headline earnings per share (HEPS) are the most common feature of a company's results. This short 'n sharp video will explain the difference between EPS and HEPS while also looking at diluted HEPS and the normalised and core HEPS which one is advised to ignore. View more in the learn ...

Video: Trading the price indicator divergence

Web Admin 1 July 2015Improve Trading, Webinar and Video

Trading price indicator divergence Price is the most important piece of data when trading and buy adding indicator we increase probability. In short: trading the price indicator divergence. This webcast will look at how to trade when the price and the indicator diverge. What is the market telling you and how does a trader respond? ...

Video: Trading pivot points

Web Admin 1 July 2015Improve Trading, Webinar and Video

Trading pivot points If you are not an FX trader, you might not think that you should be trading pivot points. In this video, FX trader Alwyn Burger explains how trading pivot points can be useful to all traders, regardless of what you trade or your time frame. Pivot points are widely used by traders ...

Video: Tracking performance, unitise your portfolio

Web Admin 1 July 2015Learn Investing, Webinar and Video

One of the most important parts of investing and trading is not just performance but tracking performance growth relative to your benchmark. In other words how do your returns stack up against the market overall because if you’re under performing you’re better off simple buying ETFs. But how do you track performance? The simplest way is to ...