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2 February 2018 Friday

Up:

Bowcalf +18.06%
Capitec +9.38%
Mas +5.33%
Hudaco +4.08%
Lewis +3.49%
EftPld +3.03%

Down:

PPC -7.62%
Northam -7.04%
Fortressb -6.19% new low @ 2135
NepiR -4.02% new low @ 12311
MrP -3.92%
Imperial -3.70%
Nuworld -3.55%
Hyprop -3.37%

Yes I can tell you why… we had a super moon (perigee), blue moon, blood moon and total lunar eclipse all in one day.  😉

Its true gcr, traders trade on market trend and psychology whereas investors invest on value.  Traders go for high risk, high reward in the shortest period of time whereas investors prefer relatively lower risk in quality stocks over a long period of time.  Both have merit and both requires research, savvy and skill imo.  That’s why I find “The Challenge” invaluable. It’s trading/investing with training-wheels-on in a safe but real-life environment where you can test your own strategies, even if it means hanging out in the same pond with others who trade and/or invest. Oh, and did I mention it is free. Market makers give you two free weeks with virtual money and then you have to go live with real money and real risk.  To split it would be a nightmare I think, investing for 3-5 yrs is medium term investing, and if you really want to trade you’ll have to bring in geared options as well, talk about horrifying nightmare. Think it’s just a question of practically to be honest and I also think it serves its original purpose, (training/learning) with other like-minded individuals, with flying colors.  But you are right, trading will always win the battle in short term money making.  Come on gcr, come over to the dark side and trade with us, even if its only here on “The Challenge”.   Never too young to learn, never too old to change. 

I think people (and by that, I mean mostly men) don’t like to lose and specially not in public.  With investing/trading you will lose somewhere, somehow.  The trick is to learn from it and keep going, who cares anyway, it’s a personal journey and nobody is right all the time. That’s way people wait to enter, they first need to see somebody else is down by twenty-something percent and then go in.  Boggles my mind.

29 January 2018 Monday

Up:

Sabvest +5.88%
South32 +4.78%
Glencore +3.42%
Exxaro +3.05%
Santam +1.90% new high @ 30315

Down:

FortressB -11.57%
Resilient -7.98%
Capitec -7.97%
PSG -7.58%
NepiR -6.25%
Discovery -5.79%
Clicks -5.27%
Sanlam -4.42%
Reinet -1.76% new low @ 25685

25 January 2017 Thursday

Up:

Kumba +7.13%
Lewis +6.50%
Barworld +5.20% new high @ 18592
Bidvest +5.05% new high @ 24253
Sasol +4.84% new high @ 46100
Vodacom +3.84%
Capitec +3.1%
Standard +3.37% new high @ 20790
JSE +2.63%
Santam +2.57%
Nedcor +2.38%
RMBH +2.33%

Down:

Kaapagri -10.94%
Montauk -3.99%

How about a calendar giving the dates for the JSE companies publishing the dividend payouts. I want to add them to my Google Calendar.

Do-able - the info is out there. 

Last day to trade, Div Pay-day, Expected results (quarterly, interim, final), Ex-div, AGM's, listings, suspensions.

You won't be able to get a database with this info I think (I'm not aware of one), but we (forum members) could add info to a calendar if somebody create/copy edible calendar which all members can access and contribute to? 


Edit:
Could also bring in economic calendar like ZAR PPI tomorrow 9:30, EUR ECB Rated Decision 12:45, EUR ECB Monetary policy statement press conference 13:30, Bank of Japan Monetary Policy meeting minutes 23:50 – if you try to trade ALSI and you’re not aware of these, you’ll burn to a crisp in no time, not even talking about divvies on ALSI, if you’re long you pay the divvie, if you’re short they pay you – to give you an idea, once I had tree contacts on Alsi open, come Friday afternoon 16:50 and I was credited with R60 000.  If I was long, I would have paid R60 000 – I’m super aware of world economic calendars and Alsi divvies now. Had reminders set up on my phone, tablet, computer – everywhere.