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What the JSE’s Two-Tier Reform means for small caps
In September 2024, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority approved a two-tier reform – the JSE’s split of its Main Board into two segments – Prime and General – with simplified Listings Requirements taking full effect in early 2026.
Why liquidity is the hidden tax on every small cap return…
Every investor knows what brokerage costs. It’s on the contract note, in rand and cents, impossible to miss. What almost no retail investor calculates, and what can dwarf that brokerage fee many times over, is liquidity cost. The price you actually pay to get into a small cap, and the price you actually receive to get out of one, when very few shares change hands on any given day.
What Dividends Really Tell You
Last week, we looked at why companies list on the stock market and how investors can share in their growth. But what happens after a business becomes profitable? Does it keep investing every cent back into the business, or does it start rewarding shareholders? The answer often comes down to dividends.
The other commodity casualty of the Middle East crisis
When missiles fly in the Middle East, most people think about oil. But there’s another commodity getting caught in the crossfire… One that quietly underpins modern civilisation, and which just had one of its biggest price weeks in years.
The Iran war’s market shock: Four portfolio moves investors should make now
The shift from a “shadow war” to open conflict in early March 2026 has quickly altered the global economic outlook for the year.
What began on February 28 with targeted U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian security and nuclear infrastructure has escalated into a broader regional confrontation. For investors, the geopolitical risk premium has moved from an abstract concept to a key driver of market performance.
A Tiny JSE Company… and a Lawsuit That Could Change Everything
Most companies listed on the JSE are worth something because of what they earn, what they own, or how fast they’re growing.
But one JSE small cap trading at just 101c a share is worth something almost entirely different: a court case. Randgold & Exploration Company Limited (JSE: RNG) has spent years pursuing a massive legal claim against JSE heavyweight, Gold Fields (JSE: GFI). If it wins, shareholders could make a fortune.
The one AI shift investors cannot ignore in 2026
For years, Artificial Intelligence has in many ways been “the future.” Yes, we marvelled at early generative models that could write poems, create pictures and video or suggest code, but there was always a fundamental disconnect between AI and real work. AI was a destination—a tab you opened, a box you typed into, and a service that waited for you to speak first.
Why has this relatively unknown AI stock soared 1,233% in just 12 months?
For years, SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) was the brand behind your camera’s memory card. Then, suddenly, it became one of the best-performing AI stocks in the market – soaring more than 1,200% in just 12 months. What changed?
Stochastic Oscillator: Reading the Shift Before Price Breaks
Timing is everything in trading. Markets rarely reverse without warning, and they rarely accelerate without building pressure first. The Stochastic Oscillator is built to capture those short-term shifts in momentum by showing where price is closing relative to its recent range.
From 2% to 10%? How Europe’s €800 billion defence shift could reshape your portfolio
NATO spending targets have shifted from 2% of GDP to as high as 5%, with some analysts suggesting even higher allocations during the initial build-out phase. When policy moves at this scale, industries tied to that spending tend to reprice. European defence is one of them.
The AI “Scare Trade”: Why Wall Street is panicking – and why that might be the opportunity
Something unusual happened recently in the US markets. Commercial real estate stocks were slammed so hard you’d think we were back in 2008. One major brokerage name suffered one of its worst days ever – rivalling the carnage of Covid and the Global Financial Crisis. Meanwhile, trucking and logistics stocks were hit as if demand had collapsed overnight. But it didn’t.
There was no recession announcement. No credit freeze. No oil shock.
The trigger? AI
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.
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