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Podcast: Short squeezes (long ones too)

Simon Brown 14 November 2019JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares SAA retrenchments, a test for the bigger Eskom process? Telkom (JSE code; TKG) to buy CellC? R1 would seem a fair price and would benefit both Blue Label (JSE code: BLU) and Telkom. Rumours that MTN (JSE code: MTN) is also in the running to buy CellC, but I can't see the competition ...

Podcast: Goals, processes and habits

Simon Brown 7 November 2019JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares October was a decent month for the Top40, adding almost 3% and now 9.5% year-to-date excluding dividends. Moody's makes us negative but not junk and the ZAR soars. Finance minister, Tito Mboweni, says government 'not considering' the idea of prescribed assets. https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2019-11-05-treasury-not-considering-prescribed-assets-mboweni-says/ The Shoprite* (JSE code: SHP) update what was way more interesting ...

IG CFD Conversations: What is a CFD?

Kristia van Heerden 1 October 2018IG CFD, Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

Contracts for difference (CFDs) are trading instruments that allow you to trade the share price instead of a share. In this video, Simon Brown explains what CFDs are and how you can use them.

Video: Practical trading setups and rules

Simon Brown 31 August 2018Improve Trading, Power Hour, Webinar and Video

Petri Redelinghuys from Herenya Capital Advisors is a day trader as well as a CFD and ALSI futures trader and presents this JSE Power Hour. Petri goes going back to basics in this presentation focusing on practical trading. He will show us how to find trading setups and how to put together a set of …

Podcast: Stale bulls

Simon Brown 7 June 2018JSE Direct, Latest

Download the audio file here Subscriber to our feed here Sign up for email alerts as a new show goes live Subscribe or review us in iTunes. Simon Shares Wildest story of the year. Imbalie (JSE code: ILE) is ditching beauty to become a miner via a reverse listing! Local GDP for Q1 2018 was a shocker at -2.2%. ...

Losses can exceed deposits

Petri Redelinghuys 12 December 2017Latest, TraderPetri

So last week was the wild west. If you survived it, well done! Other people didn’t. And I mean that. There are some horror stories out there about traders who blew up in Steinhoff and EOH. Traders who have been trading for a long time and now owe their brokers more money than they have ...

Managing your trading profits

Petri Redelinghuys 14 November 2017Latest, TraderPetri

So, there is something that I am struggling to reconcile in my own head. On one side, you need to continually push yourself to be and do better… on the other side you also need to know when you have done well and reward yourself. But how do you know when to do what? A ...

Trading: focus required

Petri Redelinghuys 19 September 2017Improve Trading, TraderPetri

Some time ago I started one of these blogs with a battle scene between a warrior and a dragon. Not only do I think that I should get back to that kind of creative writing, because hey… it’s fun, but I also want to rehash the point that I made. In the midst of battle ...

Emotional decision making

Petri Redelinghuys 5 September 2017Improve Trading, Learn Trading, TraderPetri

I have recently started working with a peak performance coach - a trading psychologist if you will - to improve my trading performance. It’s all a little experimental and scary, and to be honest, very uncomfortable at times. The premise from which we are working is that trading is at its core, just continuous decision ...

Many light houses beaming lights at night

Loss aversion

Petri Redelinghuys 11 July 2017Latest, TraderPetri

When I started writing this blog for Just One Lap, I made a promise to myself and the readers to always be honest about the things that I write about. Keeping true to that promise, and probably more importantly - being honest with myself - I need to acknowledge that I find myself falling into ...