by strudy1
Today is D-Day. After six months of preparation I’m finally ready to officially launch Australia’s most exciting investment advisory service.
This afternoon you’ll receive a personal invite to join a technological revolution.
And I don’t say that lightly. You’ll find out about the simple invention that could overthrow China as the cheap manufacturer of the world…how TVs, smart phones and laptops will become so powerful and so flexible, you’ll be able to roll them up and store them in your wallet…and also how energy – rather than getting more expensive – will actually become cheaper, cleaner and more abundant than ever.
I’m certain what you read will impress you.
Until then, on with today’s Money Morning…
When does a bull market not feel like a bull market? [Read more →]
by strudy1
Dear member,
US Treasury yields are rising quickly. This could be an early sign the Federal Reserve is beginning to lose control of the most manipulated market in modern history – the US bond market.
In 2011 McKinsey & Co released data on the size of the stock and bond markets titled, Mapping Global Capital Markets 2011.
McKinsey & Co revealed that the global bond market is worth about $157 trillion while global stocks were valued at $54 trillion. Stocks are no doubt worth more than $54 trillion now, with the S&P 500 up more than 30% since the 2011 report, but so is the global bond market, which has been growing rapidly as debt has expanded on the back of record low interest rates.
We all know that the Fed sets interest rates in America (which influences the entire world), but to ensure Treasury yields stay low, Bernanke and crew are active in the open market, purchasing more than 80% of all issued Treasury debt. The Fed does this to facilitate the US Treasury and US government, which need low interest rates to service trillion dollar deficits. [Read more →]
by strudy1
Well we are back on board again. I only took a week and a half off. But the break did me good plus the Stockmarket did not even miss me. Funny that, it never does notice what you are doing at any given time.
Analysts are always trying to predict when the market will go up or down, due to various circumstances or the different flavours of the Month which are prevalent at the time.
Traders tend to see the worst case scenario whenever the market goes downwards or upwards as the case may be.
But remember irregardless of which way the market is heading there has to be a buyer for every seller, and a seller for every buyer.Otherwise nothing happens. No trade is made.
The only difference is that one trader thinks the market is going downwards while the other thinks the opposite.
Myself, I have one rule that I stick to like glue. :- I buy in gloom and sell in boom and when it comes to profit I am never greedy. I aim for around 10% to 20% profit depending on the volatility of the particular stock that I am currently in.
Yes, I do have a medium to long term portfolio which I top up when share prices are lower, like now. But my bread and butter comes from the shorter term stocks.
In the meantime remember always take time to educate yourself and learn by the mistakes that you make.
I wish you profitable trading. 
by strudy1
Asxnewbie will be unattended for the next two weeks. I have decided to have two weeks off now, rather than later in readiness for the Stock Market changes that are coming very soon.
So Now is The Time to Educate Yourself by availing yourself of the various great educational articles which are available here in our extensive Education section.
Whatever your passion, either Forex or Shares we cover them all. So enjoy and learn for FREE.
It wont go to waste as the future Stock Market arena is going to be very interesting and very profitable. I personally have been building up my current stocks at the lower prices currently available. You can go to ” My Portfolio” to see what I have currently have in the Energy and Gold sectors.
I am also looking at extending into other areas as well, but more on that later.
In the meantime,” Buy in Gloom and Sell in Boom”.
Enjoy profitable trading.
by strudy1
Did the recent stock price action surprise us?
No. Just the opposite in fact.
The recent stock price action confirms what we’ve said in recent weeks.
While the mainstream press and many analysts banged on about the search for yield driving stock prices, we said investors didn’t really want yield at all.
Or not just yield anyway. They wanted more than that. It just goes to show, you need to pay more attention to what investors do rather than what they say…
The recent fall is exactly why we suggested you should tread with caution before buying income stocks at the high.
It was good to be cautious. The Australian market has slumped 400 points in two weeks. That means we’re in ‘correction’ territory now.
So, what was it about the market action that stumped so many in the mainstream? [Read more →]
by strudy1
Today’s Money Weekend will talk about the most important industry of the next decade: technology. Some of the changes are shaping up to be like King Kong let loose in the city: highly disruptive. And that’s putting it mildly.
The first thing to do is to make sure you’re not in the path of the beast and in the companies getting knocked down. The second is to consider the businesses that stand to benefit after he’s crashed through. Technological change will rebuild economies and industries just as it destroys them.
Technology Trends You Can’t Afford to MissYou might know already that
Money Morning editor Kris Sayce is about to launch his new service,
Revolutionary Tech Investor. He and
technology analyst Sam Volkering will hunt all over the world to find the best companies who can make a motza from tech development. It’s an exciting project.
Take the latest report from the McKinsey Global Institute for example. It’s called ‘Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy.’
They argue that we’re on the verge of some massive changes over the next decade or more in 12 key sectors. These will impact how we live and work, not to mention reshaping whole industries and economies. The evolutionary rule will stand supreme: adapt or die. [Read more →]
by strudy1
How many times do you come up with an idea and think to yourself, ‘Wow, I should really do that.’
People in general have the capacity to come up with great ideas. We are all inherently creative to some extent. But there are a few key factors that separate great ideas from great technologies and from great businesses.
In this current global economic environment, a lot of businesses are struggling. There’s a lot of doom and gloom about. Yet it seems every other day there’s a story about successful technology companies making billions of dollars.
Recently the ‘Billion dollar Buy-out’ is the catch phrase running around tech hubs like Silicon Valley. But what takes a company from being worth nothing with a great technology to, to a billion dollar business?
Before we look at the answer first I should point out that, like with the English language there’s an exception to every rule. There are some companies that just have technology so good it sells itself. [Read more →]
by strudy1
An edited extract from a presentation by Phil Anderson
[Below is a response to a question on how he interpreted recent building activity and technology]
I saw that they’re starting to build the southern hemisphere’s tallest residential tower. What it tells me is this: it tells me the strength of the commodity sector, in a bizarre sort of way.
Every single cycle I’ve seen, certainly in America and around the world and in Australia, the tall buildings get built, they open up in recession and generally it takes 6–7 years to actually recover before we start thinking about building another tall building.
This is a little different. It’s been the first time I can remember where tall buildings are getting put on the drawing board so quickly after the downturn that we’ve had.
Now they’re even thinking in Dubai of building something, I think it’s even bigger than a mile high and both the Chinese and the Americans are working quite feverishly to develop new lift technology that will allow those buildings to get built…so you can get up and down the buildings very fast. [Read more →]
by strudy1
Technology: Powering the Body Starts With The MindWe’ve been talking about revolutions over the last few weeks. And there’s no doubt one of the most amazing developments over the next few years will be utilising the power of the mind.
Mind control is one aspect of this. Using the power of your mind to manipulate, enhance and control your environment is life changing.
An example of mind control research and development is happening right now. A group of Europeanuniversities and companies have developed an exoskeleton for people with paralysis.
This is certainly not the first exoskeleton developed for people with paralysis. Other examples include the Ekso which is one of the finest pieces of tech to arrive in years. [Read more →]
by strudy1
Just when you think central bankers are as clueless as our Treasurer, they go and surprise you. The release of minutes from the latest US Federal Reserve Advisory Panel meeting was a bit of a revelation.
The Federal Reserve’s ‘mad scientists’ appear to realize they have created a financial monster. Call it Bernankenstein’s Monster if you like. Take this extract (bold emphasis is mine):
‘There is also concern about the possibility of a breakout of inflation, although current inflation risk is not considered unmanageable, and of an unsustainable bubble in equity and fixed-income markets given current prices.’
Concern about an ‘unsustainable bubble‘? Given the Federal Reserve’s previous track record of creating bubbles (housing rings a bell), all they can muster is ‘concern’. What about fear and alarm?
Here’s another bit of genius from the minutes: [Read more →]
