Book review: Trend Following by Michael Covel

Web Admin 21 November 2014Reviews

Trend Following by Michael Covel Trend Following by Michael Covel Michael has a great podcast that you can find here; and while it is a must listen, his book is way more important in my mind. First published in 2004, it solidified my trading style for me (which ultimately become my Lazy Trading System and ...

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Review charting software: Amibroker

Web Admin 7 November 2014Reviews

If you are trading you need charting software, as trading is all about price and nothing to do with fundamentals. Most online brokers offer free online charting software that is actually very good. My advice is to use this free package until you really start finding its limitations; and frankly there is only really one ...

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Podcast review – Freakonomics

Web Admin 31 October 2014Reviews

I am a huge fan of podcasts* – I download them directly onto my mobile phone and listen as I travel around. The key attraction is that I get to listen to what I want when I want, and there is an almost unlimited number of podcasts to satisfy pretty much every interest. That said, ...

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Review: One up on Wall Street

Web Admin 26 September 2014Reviews

One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch Subtitled “How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market”, this book was originally published in 1989 and is one of my favourite books of all time about investing. Peter Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund ...

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Website review: 22Seven

Web Admin 14 September 2014Reviews

Started by Christo Davel, 22Seven is a personal financial management tool that launched in 2012. It grabs all your banking details from your various bank accounts and aggregates them into a single, easy to use online system – enabling you to see where you spend you money in one glance. At the beginning of 2013 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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