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Video: Psychology of trading (10/12)

Simon Brown 20 April 2016Boot Camp, Improve Trading, Webinar and Video

In our 10th, IG Boot Camp Simon Brown, founder of Just One Lap, tackles the issue of psychology of trading, by far the most important part of trading. Trading includes; charts, setups, risk management, entries and exits. While this all happens the real issue is our head and where we’re at. Losing or making money does ...

Podcast: Realistic expectations and success

Simon Brown 14 April 2016JSE Direct, Latest

Realistic expectations and success Realistic expectations and success Simon Shares The rand is back where it was when then Finance Minster Nene was fired. So everybody who was lamenting that they missed their chance to get money offshore into USD, here's your second chance. The NewFunds ILBI (JSE code: NFILBI) is our focus ETF this ...

Visiting Wall Street

Petri Redelinghuys 29 March 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Wow… where do I start? New York is an amazing place. It has an energy that is impossible to explain. It is vast. It is unlike anything I had ever imagined. Let’s face it though, I am no tour guide and this blog is not about weird people on the subway brushing their hair in ...

Video: FX and index trading (9/12)

Simon Brown 16 March 2016Boot Camp, Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

In this session of the IG Boot Camp, Just One Lap founder Simon Brown looks at index and FX trading. Things start to get real for traders as he explains how index and FX trading works as well as presenting two trading systems; the Lazy Trading System and another for trading news flow. For many ...

Wrestling a bear market and visiting Wall Street

Petri Redelinghuys 15 March 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Trader Petri is off on an adventure this week, but the market waits for no man! In this slightly longer double whammy post, Petri cautions against revenge trading in a very volatile market, and talks about his upcoming Wall Street adventure. Wrestling a bear market I guess by now you’ve deducted that I am bearish, ...

Should we be trading the news?

Simon Brown 1 March 2016Latest, TraderPetri

The market is driven by traders and investors making decisions based on their unique interpretation of information. Information is the life blood of the market and is delivered in a variety of ways, most notably, the news. News can be anything from company earnings reports to a backwater website in Nigeria reporting that MTN has ...

Podcast: Trader or investor?

Simon Brown 18 February 2016JSE Direct, Latest

Trader or Investor? Simon Shares Minister Gordhan delivers his budget speech next Wednesday, what can we expect in terms of new or higher taxes? STT, DWT and CGT? Remember, remember. The end of February is end of the tax year and you have until then to fill in your R30k limit for TFSA. If you ...

Video: Managing and trading the news (8/12)

Simon Brown 17 February 2016Boot Camp, Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

We get bombarded with literally millions of data points every day. Hundreds of hours of TV and radio and thousands of words written, all of it 'news'. Does it help or hinder the trader? The truth is that with so much news it all becomes noise as the trader tries to work it out and ...

Adapting to volatility

Petri Redelinghuys 16 February 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Trading this market is like what I imagine living in the Wild West was like all those years ago. It swings violently and without warning, and any hesitation or mistake can get you seriously hurt. Keeping a flexible mind set to switch between bullish and bearish is a vital ingredient to successful trading. However, adapting ...

Podcast: Where to park cash

Simon Brown 11 February 2016JSE Direct, Latest

JSE Direct 201: Where to park cash? Simon Shares Grindrod (JSE code: GND) just hit multi-year lows trading just above 900c with a net asset value (NAV) of over 2200c. Don't fight the trend, especially on cyclical stocks. RBA (JSE code: RBA) went bust on Tuesday. Of the three; RBA, Seakay and Calgro M3 (JSE ...