The latest ASX Challenge is now open. After a very slack last six months in the way of trading, I’m excited to be back in the game.
Have yet to make a buy order; but am studying charts nightly – have to get back into the habit!
So watch this space and I’ll post updates weekly.
According to a new book called Warren Buffett Invests Like A Girl by LouAnn Lofton; perhaps they are.
Academic researchers and behavioral economists have been putting in the long hours and hard work necessary to tease out the differences between how men invest and how women invest. The studies and surveys go back years and cover nearly every aspect of investing–decision making, risk assessment, trading frequency and consistency of results, just to name a few.
Researchers have also studied the differences among professional investors, both male and female, highlighting the fact that these variations in temperament aren’t limited just to the universe of the individual investor. And some of the most interesting recent studies have just begun to uncover the role of testosterone in investing, risk taking and trading. You’re not shocked to hear it has one, are you? [Continue reading…]
Well it’s been an interesting game. Over the game period, the sharemarket fluctuated considerably due to events such as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the Aussie dollar reaching record highs, commodities falling and continuing concerns about the health of a number of developed economies. This is reflected in the following: only 20% of players finished the [...]
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Are stop losses all they’re cracked up to be? That’s got to be the $20million dollar question. I’ve been reading all about them via the Incredible Charts newsletter. Over the last three weeks, they posted 3 articles on Stop Losses – Help or Hindrance? The argument for the use of stop-loss rules seems inherently sound, [...]
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Sometimes trading can be very hard and frustrating – especially when the markets are all over the place. The Australian share market on Thursday experienced its biggest daily decline since the peak of Japan’s nuclear crisis in mid-March, as disappointing employment data exacerbated a sell-off caused by global risk aversion stemming from European sovereign debt [...]
[Continue reading…]A group of the world’s leading traders will impart their knowledge at a charity trading symposium aimed at raising relief funds for victims of the Christchurch and Japan earthquakes. The Online Trading Symposium will bring together a lineup of the world’s top trading minds to give their invaluable insights and learning’s on trading. Viewers can [...]
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