If you have been following our iTrade Fantasy League on Facebook, you'll know that we have decided not to invest the full R1mil at once, but rather as and when we feel is best with the current market. (See previous posts about this here, here and...
Everybody's talking about it at the moment: Tax Free Savings Accounts, or TFSAs. Why should you be looking at this and how does it work? It is imperative that every citizen makes use of this opportunity. The savings over the long term will be substantial. If...
The top 4 shares in the Financial sector in our iTrade Fantasy League, as per your votes on Facebook, currently look like this: We have invested in Firstrand, Old Mutual and Sanlam so far, but not Discovery. Here is a quick explanation as to why. We have...
We are now invested in 14 of the Top 20 shares voted by you and fully invested in 9 of them. What prompted further investment was this graph showing the start of a recovery on both the S & P 500 Index and the JSE...
After the market declined the last three days, some of the shares are offering more value and we decided to invest a bit more of the cash. We are still investing only 50% of the cash we want to invest in every share. Thanks to your...
We have decided to take a cautionary approach to invest the R1m in the shares you chose by voting on the iTrade Fantasy League Facebook app. We invested only R250,000 yesterday in 10 of the 20 stocks making up the top 4 in each category....
We first highlighted a potential buying opportunity on Sanlam iTrade Online's Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn on 19 January 2015. Then we posted this on Facebook on 26 January when the JSE All Share Index broke out of a symmetrical triangle, alerting a buying opportunity with a 4,000...
The World Gold Council just released demand and supply statistics for 2014. There are no surprises on the supply side with total mine production up 2% to 3,114 tonnes. Total Gold supply, including recycled Gold, was flat for the year at 4,278 tonnes. On the demand...
18 Stocktips for 2015 from 6 Sanlam Masterminds Although our portfolio managers and researchers are long-term focused, we asked them which are must-have stocks for next year. As the JSE stockmarket is again correcting down, a buying opportunity may well present itself in the next week...
In September, Bradley Lund won the Wannabe iTrader competition on Sanlam iTrade Online’s LinkedIn company page. That earned him the opportunity to trade with R10,000 of our money for a month and then keep all of it, the R10,000 plus profits minus losses. We asked...