G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. There are two things one can rely on in the markets – fear and greed. Ignore this and it works against you. Think of the markets in terms of it and you can benefit. When there [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. Well I just got home after a great flight back from LA – for some reason they upgraded me to business class and it was awesome. In the markets some interesting things happened overnight – not [...]

G’day Traders, I was waiting for direction, but stocks didn’t deliver. When I look at Commodities many are high and they look strong overall. This tells me stocks should be going higher so I am leaning to a fall, but have to wait on this. Treasuries are falling and that is another sign stocks should [...]

G’day Traders, While I am over here in the US I have noticed a big pick up in confidence compared to three months ago. There are more people out shopping and they seem happier. Talking to others at the conference, they have also seen this positivity in places around the US. This of course eventually [...]

G’day Traders, On Friday night we had our Christmas party and I had my annual cocktails prior – yes, my very pregnant wife was so kind to allow me to put it on. What a great way to end the year and the atmosphere was one of anticipation for next year. I am excited about [...]

G’day Traders, Wow – this is turning out to be a HUGE week already for me. Hopefully things will relax a bit before the end of the week, but there are a few really fun things I have to do over the next couple of days. I am talking to Lee about some great announcements [...]

G’day Traders, I arrived home yesterday and it’s really great to be back but, on reflection, there were a couple of things that really struck me about the US this time. Firstly, people there think they are recovering and they are really positive. A hotel bar worker said it’s getting better with more and more [...]

G’day Traders, Well I am learning some really great things over here in the US. I want my daily to be better and have more impact. One thing I have learned lately is that less is more. What my feedback tells me is that maybe I don’t need to make comments every single day. I [...]

G’day Traders, When you get a big news story like all this QE, the media takes hold of the main headlines and the markets react. No one actually listens or asks the right question – the right question would be “is it going to help”? My answer is no. You can’t do anything 50% and [...]

G’day Traders, I seem to recall that the reason the Roman Empire may have crumbled was because it made itself sick trying to have a luxury lifestyle. What I heard happened was that they put in lead piping so they could all have ‘fresh’ water. Of course there were other factors, but doesn’t it remind [...]