G’day Traders, Yesterday was surprising. Firstly, for the positive news and secondly, for the lack of reaction. This just shows you what the markets can be like in Summer. I posted some interesting articles on Twitter last night. A little bit of light reading, but as you may see at the Summit being able to [...]

G’day Traders, What a nice morning it is on the Gold Coast. I have had a great weekend with my brother’s family, including an 8 month old, staying with us. He has been very entertaining without keeping us up at night – amazing! This week is important for the markets. There is plenty of economic [...]

G’day Traders, One reason I reduce my trading over a period such as this is because, for me, movement in the US stock market follows no reason (or the most likely reason). Fundamental economic data (including housing stats) was terrible. To me this is more critical than earnings, because earnings is looking back. But the [...]

G’day Traders, I had a really great day working on my new book and spending time with my wife’s family. It is sunny here, but I hear it is the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. I also got to watch the soccer and although the competition has been terrible at least [...]

G’day traders, Today I got stuck into some work, but that’s fine because tomorrow I am heading to Croatia for a couple of days with some friends. I am looking forward to that and hopefully there is some sun. Some good manufacturing figures were offset by some bad housing data over night. I think manufacturing [...]