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...
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...
“Two tops or two bottoms at 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...
The iManaged General Equity Portfolio returned 16% for the 12 months to March 2017, more than double the 3% return on the JSE All Share Index. The portfolio’s return over 5 years is an impressive 17% per year compared to the Alsi’s 12%. With 17%...
Sanlam iTrade Online offers Technical Analysis ideas from award winning Trading Central to our clients at no extra cost. (To see how to use the program, click on the “Exclusive Seminar” image for a video tutorial, once logged in.) This week we look at a sell...
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but there's loads for free with iTradeGlobal, our global trading platform. On top of a great trading platform where you can trade or invest on 20 global markets in more than 11,000 shares there are so much that...
Sanlam iTrade Online provides a wealth of information and data on every listed JSE share. Every week we will highlight another section of the Share Data pages. After logging in on www.SanlamiTrade.co.za click on Markets/Data/Research in the top menu. Then click on Share Data. The Markets...
On 8 July this year I wrote a blog called “Trying to make sense of this market routing”. The JSE just experienced a big fall and everybody was worried. I explained that if you see different scenarios developing in the equity market and Bond market,...
A structured product is a pre-packaged investment product based on an underlying instrument like a single share or a basket of shares. In many cases the product will provide a capital guarantee if it is held to maturity plus enhanced gearing in the upward performance...
The Sanlam Private Wealth Morning Digest is filled with data, information and commentaries, available every day from Sanlam iTrade Online. You can have the Morning Digest emailed to you every morning. Just register as a trading client or an iView client and select the option...