Anyone can make money on the stock exchange by trading online, but it is a never-ending learning curve and investors should be prepared to make mistakes – many of them. This is according to a 70-year-old client of online trading platform Sanlam iTrade, who has in the short space of two years seen a relatively small
In what was probably a world first, Sanlam iTrade asked Facebook fans to choose 20 shares and manage the portfolio for nine months. We invested R1m in the shares chosen and the portfolio outperformed the JSE All Share Index! The JSE Index increased by 13% from March to November and the iTrade Fantasy League portfolio
The Rand Rand-hedge shares are shares that will generally benefit from a weakening in the Rand exchange rate, mostly the R/$. We saw the Rand continuing to weaken this year. Looking at a three year chart the Rand strengthened against the Dollar to R6.60 by mid 2011. After a sharp weakening to R8.25 in the
Many followers have asked us how they start on the road to become investors themselves. I will try to give some guidelines in this post. It is important to note that the JSE is not a casino and investing or even trading is not supposed to be gambling, that is looking for trouble. To be
So, we all heard about shares and stockmarkets and The JSE and Bulls and Bears, but what do they all mean. Here we will give a briefly explain what they are. What is the JSE? The Johannesburg Stock Exchange, now called the JSE Securities Exchange was founded in 1887 and is the largest in Africa.
Minor trend change indicators are very useful indicators of short-term changes in the price trends of securities and are mainly used by day traders and short-term speculators. There are four of these indicators namely: Key Reversal Day, Inside Range Day, Outside Range Day and Mid-range Close. It is important to first determine the direction of
“Two tops that approximately the same price level” is only half the explanation. Prices must decline below and close below the low point established between the two tops (the middle reversal point) before a double top has been activated. In a double bottom, prices must close above thehigh pointin between the two bottoms to establish
Technical analysis patterns can be deivided into two types, reversal and continuation patterns. Reversal patterns indicate that the primary trend is likely to change direction, from an up trend to a down trend or vice versa. Continuation patterns indicate a trend is likely to continue, but the pattern gives valuable measuring objective. Head & Shoulders
Technical analysis is basically the study of prices to make better investments, with charts being the primary tool. (Technical Analysis from A to Z – Steven B Achelis). The roots stem from the Dow Theory developed by Charles Dow in the early 1900s. Technical analysis is the process of analysing a share’s historical prices to
P/E ratios are used extensively as a quick evaluation tool. It is probably the most used tool to value shares or markets as cheap or expensive. When analysts refer to a R100 share as cheaper that a R10 share on TV, what they mean is that the P/E ratio is lower, not the price of
