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Changes to this blog in 2012
Happy New Year! As school recommences for 2012, I bet many parents (me included) are relieved that the holidays are finally over and we can resume our normal lives. The start of a new year is always a good time to reflect on the previous year and to make plans for the year ahead. Hence [...]
Increasing yield through selling options
Volatility is the only thing we can be certain of today. The crazy price action in the past 3 months is enough to make any prudent investor want to stay away from the stock market. However, if we take a closer look at the market action, we can still find some safe investment strategies using [...]
Options for Stock Investors Training Pilot
We have finally completed the last of the training videos and our Options for Stock Investors training program is now ready for pilot testing. We would like to invite our blog readers who wish to learn the options strategies that we have successfully used in our SMSF to be part of our pilot testing team. [...]
Getting started with option trading
We have resumed creating “How to” training videos for our first options training program called “Options Training for the Stock Investor“. After completing your basic options education e.g. doing the online Options Course on the ASX, the first step in starting to trade options live is of course to open an account with a broker [...]
Low risk and high yield
Low risk and high yield is the elusive goal that all investors strive to achieve. The conventional wisdom is “low risk, low return” and “high risk, high return” i.e. we need to take higher risk if we want a higher return. This is so true when we look at the interest rates for bonds today. [...]
Learn, Do, Teach
We just received the FY2011 financial statements for our SMSF and once again we are very pleased with the returns from our Australian stock portfolio. For the past 3 years, we have been using options to enhance the returns on our stock portfolio using the simple strategies that we have shared on this blog such [...]
Book Review: The Big Short
Things are slowly settling down in my parent’s household and I finally have some time to catch up on my reading. I just finished the book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis which was on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list for 28 weeks last year. Michael Lewis is a [...]
Don’t forget to look at the bigger picture
With the Aussie dollar making new highs everyday, the action is definitely in the currency markets. There appears to be a global currency war as countries try to weaken their own currencies to make their exports more attractive. As currency is the current hot topic, I thought I would do an updated post on the [...]
My favourite information sources – Part 5
The Hindenburg Omen is another technical indicator that has been talked about a lot in the media recently. This indicator looks at data from the New York Stock Exchange so it may be more relevant for the US markets. More information on how this indicator is calculated can be found in Wikipedia. This indicator has [...]
My favourite information sources – Part 4
I have covered a number of my favourite sources of fundamental information in the first three posts in this series so today I would like to cover sources of “non-fundamental” information which include technical and sentiment analysis. Technical analysis involves looking at price charts, technical indicators like volume, moving averages, Fibonacci retracement levels, and Moving [...]
