Juliaslee

Constructing a Winning Portfolio

Portfolio construction is about understanding how individual stocks behave when mixed with other stocks. It’s also about understanding your own objectives and your risk profile. So how do you go about constructing the ultimate stock portfolio that’s just... Read >

More info on Mining Valuations

From penny dreadfuls to stocks with blue sky potential, how do you evaluate miners? The biggest sector on the Australian sharemarket is made up of resources companies – in fact it represents 37% of the market. Resource stocks include material miners su... Read >

Forecasting Fear With The Aussie Fear Index

Back in June, I wrote about the effects of pricing uncertainty on shares. To recap: greater uncertainty tends to drive sharemarkets lower, since future cash flows become more unpredictable. But uncertainty also drives options higher, since volatilit... Read >

More On Moving Averages

Technical Indicators Technical analysis is based on three assumptions: A trend is more likely to continue than reverse. Information is reflected in the share price. History repeats itself. So do technical indicators work? Lo... Read >

Oil Prices Will Keep Rising - How Can You Take Advantage?

With oil prices rising above $100 US a barrel, traders and investors may want to consider the impact that the Arab revolution will have on oil supply, oil prices and indeed most economies around the globe. Rising oil prices are bad news for the ec... Read >

Charting does Work

Technical analysis — also known as charting — has been used by traders in all sorts of assets, not just in equities, for centuries. But how can you tell if technical analysis actually works for the sharemarket? Charting to track the sharemarket is s... Read >

Buy and Sell Currency Just Like Shares

Currency Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s) have hit Australia’s shores thanks to a new product by Betashares. Buying and selling these currency funds is the same as trading equities on the ASX. So why should you consider trading in currencies? Diversifica... Read >

Tapping The Mining Services Goldmine

In Australia, resources booms tend to come and go. In a recent speech, Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Ric Battellino identified five major booms over the last two hundred years — from the gold rush of the 1850s, to our current minerals and energy boom. M... Read >

Sovereign Debt Crisis: Is It Groundhog Day?

Equity markets are rising but in many ways 2011 is feeling a lot like 2009. Is there another global financial crisis heading our way? And if so, how should you respond regarding your own portfolio? The same, yet different Even though it feels a bit ... Read >

QE2 and the Tipping Point

You may have heard of Malcolm Gladwell's book from 2000 called 'The Tipping Point' where ideas, messages and behaviours spread like a virus to reach a boiling point. Right now, traders and investors are on alert for the tipping point in the sharemarket. W... Read >

Investing with the magic formula

How would you like a magic formula to beat the market? A formula that was simple, easy to use, quick to apply, and almost certain to deliver superior returns over time? That's exactly what Joel Greenblatt claims to offer in his best-seller, The Little ... Read >

Don’t Be Foiled By Aluminium

If you're interested in mining investments, consider the world's most abundant mineral – aluminium. Once considered the most precious metal more valuable than gold, aluminium is once again starting to shine. Aluminium takes up 8% of the Earth's surface, ... Read >

Exploding The Myth Of EMH

Efficient-market hypothesis There are many theories and myths about sharetrading which simply do not work in the real world. Often in the financial world, people take these theories and twist them to suit their own purpose. One of the biggest myths in ... Read >

The Art Of Overreaction

When the sharemarket fluctuates, market players scramble for information to make sense of the market over or underreaction. But did you know that investors tend to put more weight on recent news rather than looking at longer-term information? Understandi... Read >

More info on Investing for dividends

A few years ago I wrote about shopping for dividends. Let's revisit that concept in relation to today's market… Dividends provide a buffer Traditionally, high yielding shares have been buffered from a downturn in the sharemarket. This is because d... Read >