As part of our #TradeMyWay campaign, we have asked users to send in some of their own personal trading stories. Thank you to Mark Anthony Schwartz for sharing his story with us below. I started working in the investment field in May 2010 at a company in...
As part of our #TradeMyWay campaign, we have asked users to send in some of their own personal trading stories. Thank you to Peter Imrie for sharing his story with us below. It was the late 90’s, I was about 19 years old and working at...
As part of our #TradeMyWay campaign, we have asked users to send in some of their own personal trading stories. Thank you to Tim O'Hagan for sharing his story with us below. Three and a half thousand Naspers share options were my reward for being appointed...
During my three years working for a stockbroking firm I learnt the difference between being an investor and being a speculator. Responsible for setting up the retail trading desk I saw firsthand the mistakes many private clients made when it came to trading. Keep in...
Global equity markets in 1996 were in a very bullish mood and that included the JSE. It was in the time leading up to the Dot.com bubble at the end of that decade. I was trading big time in JSE ALSI Futures for my personal...
We are entering 2018 on a very positive note on world markets. Tax cuts in the US will most probably fuel equity markets higher. However the years ending with an 8 did not augur well for markets in the last few decades. The number 8 has...
Like MACD, discussed in the previous Blog in the series on Technical Analysis, Stochastics is a frequently used oscillator. The formula looks complicated, but using it to trade is far simpler. For the serious technical analyst: The Stochastic Oscillator compares where a security’s price closed relative to...
Ending off our Men's Month series this November, is our very own Head of Sanlam iTrade, Gerhard Lampen. Gerhard is a well-known and respected member of the Sanlam community who created, designed and currently manages Sanlam Private Wealth's online share trading business, Sanlam iTrade. What most...
This week's Men's Month post looks at Daniel Lossy, founder and creator of International Markets Trading Institute With a BCom Honours from the University of Cape Town, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice from UCT-GSB a Master of Science in Financial Services from University...
Although the MACD is a more complex mathematical indicator, its application is relatively simple. For the serious technical analyst: The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator is calculated by subtracting the value of a 26 period exponential moving average from the 12 period exponential moving average. The 12 and...
