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What does Sulphuric acid have to do with the price of silver and the SA economy?
Sulphuric acid doesn’t generally make headlines. It doesn’t trend on social media. It’s not the kind of thing that comes up at the dinner table. But it’s critical to the modern economy: copper mining, fertiliser production, nickel extraction, oil refining, and more.
Offshore Trading: When a Strong Rand Expands Your Playing Field
A strong rand can feel like walking into your favourite shop on the exact day everything is on sale. Not forever. Not guaranteed. Just… a window where foreign assets can be “cheaper” in rand terms. With the recent strength in the rand, it makes sense to discuss the opportunities that offshore markets bring to the table.
What can we learn from FirstRand’s expensive UK lesson?
There’s a lesson that South African companies keep having to relearn the hard way: European regulators play by different rules. And they play for keeps. FirstRand – one of South Africa’s finest financial institutions, and a company that has spent years carefully building a presence in the UK consumer finance market – has just been handed a bill so large that it has decided to walk away entirely.
MACD: When Momentum Shifts Before Price Does
Trends do not reverse in silence. They weaken first. Momentum slows. Participation fades. Only then does price break. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator was built to expose those shifts. It does not predict tops or bottoms. It measures the relationship between short-term and long-term momentum so traders can see when strength is accelerating and when it is quietly rolling over.
Bollinger Bands: When Volatility Speaks, Smart Traders Listen
Markets don’t move at a constant speed. They compress, expand, stall, and then explode. Traders who focus only on direction often miss the most important ingredient of all: volatility. Bollinger Bands were created to solve this exact problem. They don’t try to predict where price is going. They reveal when conditions are changing and when opportunity is building beneath the surface.
Used properly, Bollinger Bands help traders stop chasing price and start anticipating expansion, contraction, and risk.
RSI: Seeing Momentum Before Price Reacts
Price shows movement. Momentum shows commitment. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) exists to measure that commitment by comparing how strongly price pushes higher versus how aggressively it is sold. When used properly, RSI does not replace price analysis, it sharpens it. It highlights when moves are supported by momentum and when they are running on fumes.
Buffett, Politics, and the Small Cap Opportunity…
In 1951, a young Warren Buffett asked his girlfriend’s father for permission to marry. Instead of congratulations, he got a lecture. “Warren, you’re going to fail. The Democrats are in. They’re all communists. The country’s economy will collapse.”
Imagine if Buffett had listened to that doom-and-gloom. He might never have bought his first stock. Never built Berkshire Hathaway. Never compounded wealth over seven decades. The lesson Buffett wants investors to learn: Don’t let politics run your portfolio!
Paper promises, empty vaults — and the silver trade building behind the scenes
There are few people as prone to conspiracy theories as commodity traders. Be it the idea that as much as one-third of the reported gold in vaults is just gold-plated tungsten, that most of US foreign policy is driven by oil, or that major banks hoarded aluminium to boost the price—costing consumers as much as $5 billion. But few markets attract more suspicion—or more drama—than silver.
Where smart JSE small cap hunting begins…
If you want to find a genuinely undervalued small cap, you need a solid starting point. Not hype. Not stories. Not management promises. You need a way to answer one basic question first:
The $7 Trillion flush that shook markets
One day, everything was fine. The next, silver was smashed nearly 30% in 24 hours, gold was down 10%, and roughly US$7 trillion had been wiped out of precious metals markets. The shock didn’t stop there. Share markets around the world sold off sharply, with many falling 3% to 5% in just one session. So, what happened?
Big Tech is ditching “one-size-fits-all” AI chips – who benefits?
If you only follow the headlines, you’d think the AI story begins and ends with Nvidia. And to be fair, Nvidia has earned its place. It built the picks and shovels for the first phase of the AI boom. GPUs became the default engine for training giant models, and Nvidia rode that wave brilliantly. But markets move on. And right now, something important is happening under the surface.
CES 2026: The moment AI stopped being a “screen thing” — and started going to work
For the past two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has mostly been about brute force. More data centres. More powerful chips. More electricity. Bigger budgets. That phase isn’t ending — but something important is changing.
Moving Averages: The Market’s Built-In Trend Filter
Markets are messy. Prices jump, stall, fake out, and reverse just enough to shake confidence. Moving averages exist for one reason: to cut through that noise and show you the direction that actually matters. They do not predict the future, they do not catch exact tops or bottoms, and they are not meant to. Their job is simpler and far more useful: define trend, direction, and strength so traders stop fighting price.
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