Market Performance
This goes some way to explaining why my domestic equities portfolio has been a little lacklustre. Could be worse I could be investing in UK stocks.
Are We There Yet?
Whilst travelling during the week I was asked by someone what is the single most practical thing a trader can do to give themselves an edge. The question has an easy answer – trade in the direction of the prevailing trend. As easy as it is most people ignore it completely and all fund managers…
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Blue Chip Portfolio
There has been a bit of chatter on the Mentor forum about the philosophy of buying blue chip portfolios so I thought I would generate a simple table of the maximum drawdown experienced by each of the ASX 20 since 2000. As you can see the drawdowns are for the most part horrendous with…
DetailsChoice Of Market Matters
I was having breakfast with Scott L out systems tester extraordinaire the other day. Our chice of venue for such outings is a cafe in Brighton. Not because it is half way between our two abodes but rather that it boast a boat ramp. And as everyone knows a boat ramp is the best free…
DetailsThe Death Of Value Investing
I got bounced this for comment and my immediate thought was why if value investing is doing so well why is one of the rotating images in the the page header what looks to be a shitty little Toyota 86. But that’s just me being bitchy… a more reasoned response follows. Value investing will never…
DetailsBuilding A Beginner Portfolio
Neatly encapsulated in this video are all the things NOT to do. Top of the list should be DONT LISTEN TO ANYTHING YOU SEE ON TV
Introduction To Backtesting Metrics Part 2
Kora Reddy of asxiq is back as a guest contributer with part two of his introduction to backtesting metrics. It follows on from Part One which can be found here. Payoff ratio (Ratio avg win/avg loss): Payoff ratio is the system’s average profit in Dollar terms per winning trade, divided by the average loss in Dollar…
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This Friday we have Kora Reddy of asxiq dropping by as a guest contributer, who for the next three weeks will be going through some of the intricacies of back testing. Why Backtest a strategy? Quick answers to the question: to determine whether a theory or hypothetical construct is valid in historical testing to summarize…
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