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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!
How do you time a trade?
When trading, there are a number of ways I use to help swing the odds of winning in my favour. Today I’d like to share these tips on how to time a trade with you.
Four Investments to protect your portfolio and grow your wealth
Whenever fund managers speak about investing, you’ll invariably hear the words asset allocation, diversification and reducing volatility. These things are all investment components you should make part of your portfolio to ensure you are safe in a crisis, and raking in returns when the market booms.
FAQs: The money multiplier effect of trading CFDs explained
The big difference between buying CFDs and buying shares
Q. “I received a trade signal last week to buy Woolies… I am a new member with Global Macro Trader and wanted to know what the big difference is between buying 200 Woolies CFDs versus buying 200 Woolies shares and how does the money multiplier effect come into play?
Three things to watch out for when investing in ETFs
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are arguably the most popular investment vehicle among private investors. They give you easy and cost-effective access to various stock market indices, megatrends, bonds, property…you name it. And typically, they outperform funds managed by professionals. But as much as I advocate for investing in ETFs, you need to be aware that despite their simplicity and great performance, there are some “flaws” in ETFs that you need to know about…
Stock market delistings… What to look out for to profit!
These are all different SA companies. Yet they have one thing in common… Not only have they all delisted from the JSE over the past few years, but investors who were luckily enough to own shares in these companies made a tidy profit from their delisting. My point is, buyouts and later delistings can often provide BIG profit opportunities for savvy investors!
3 Ways to turn losing trades into a winning strategy
Strategically losing some battles to win the war is necessary. That’s why you shouldn’t fear losing trades. The hardest, but also most important lesson to learn in trading is how to minimise your losses.
When do you sell – the important part of investing that investors forget about
Investors spend hours analysing stocks before they buy. There are hundreds of strategies to follow, and many books on value, growth and income investing strategies on what to buy and when. But what investors easily forget is knowing when to sell a stock is just as important.
Two ways to separate the good dividend payers from the bad before you invest!
Dividend investing should form part of every investor’s portfolio… and even more so if you are retired. That’s because a selection of great dividend payers can end up paying you a regular income. But finding the right dividends stocks… ones that will consistently pay you year in and year out…is not so straightforward.
Some of the biggest growth shares on the JSE lie in investment holding companies
If there’s one type of company that’s cheap, and heavily discounted right now – it’s investment holdings companies. For example, Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) trades at a 23% discount to its REAL value. Then there’s Sabcap – its share price trades at a 28% discount to its REAL value. And the list goes on…
“Which technical indicators should I use?”
It’s a question we get asked a lot. And it’s no wonder, as there are more than 100 different technical indicators available to use when it comes to trading. There’s the stochastic, the MACD, Bollinger Bands, the ADX… and a whole host of others.
Know what’s happening in the markets… Why it’s happening and never miss another investing opportunity again.
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