Dear iTrader, During this week while working on the Leaderboard for the #iTradeR1m challenge, we became aware that there is something wrong with the matching of the virtual trades. Buy and sell transactions were matched at prices that never traded in the real JSE. We discovered,...
Eish, what a month and bit we had. After making an all-time record high on 24 April when the All Share Index closed above 55,000 points for the first and only time so far, we have been on a slippery slope. The JSE corrected more...
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 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...
Here's his account of his past week trading the JSE with our R10,000.00 The JSE all share and top 40 indexes are continuing their upward trend. It has been quite a nice week for many because of this. The market is hopefully on the way back...
After a spectacular run on the JSE since February this year, the market has turned very jittery. The 5% correction has turned into a 10% correction in weeks and it is impossible to know where the fall will stop. The decline is not driven by...
This last week has been quite interesting! The market is a fickle beast, trying to coax it into playing nice is quite a mission. The Top40 index has fallen around 3000 points in the last three weeks, not cool! I was standing on short shares in...