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Trading with the Trend – How to Spot and Ride Market Moves

Posted by | Oct 10, 2025 | , , , |

“The trend is your friend.” Every trader has heard it, but few actually use it to their advantage. Too often, short-term noise drags traders into fights against the bigger picture. The result? Missed moves and painful losses. The truth is simple: trends are the backbone of trading. Understand them and you tilt the odds in your favour. Ignore them and you’re swimming against the tide. Let’s break down long-term vs short-term trends, how to spot them, and how to use them for smarter entries.

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News Flow Trading – How to Profit

Posted by | Oct 3, 2025 | , , |

Markets run on information where a single headline can send traders rushing to their screens, spark wild swings, and move millions in minutes. For long-term investors, some news may be noise. For short-term traders, it’s fuel. Trading around news flow doesn’t mean analysing what’s happened in the past, but rather how new information influences our expectations for the future.

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Why Company Results Really Move Markets

Posted by | Sep 17, 2025 | , , |

It’s a busy time for the JSE and an exciting time for local investors. It’s earnings season. All publicly listed companies release their most recent company results and investors pay close attention during these periods. These updates are crucial to making long term decisions about their portfolios. Money is being moved, portfolios rebalanced, billions of shares are bought and sold, and prices start swinging. There are opportunities in the market every day, for both short term traders and long term investors. But digesting all the information is overwhelming, and frankly – it’s easy to get lost in the numbers. Luckily, knowing what to look out for, and what it means can help you position yourself just a bit better.

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The Key to Spotting Trading Opportunities

Posted by | Sep 15, 2025 | , , |

All traders dream of catching the next big move. The entry that feels perfectly timed, the kind of trade that plays out just the way you pictured it. But luck doesn’t get you there. A structured trading process does. Spotting opportunities isn’t about guessing which stock is going to bounce next. It’s about knowing what to look for, where to look, and how to act when the market gives you a signal.

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