Money Morning Archive September 2010

Too much of anything becomes toxic

Government stimulus, also called Quantitative Easing - a process of lowering interest rates, providing credit and buying bonds- was used in 2008 to stop financial Armageddon; now government’s  want to create a boom with more of the same stimulus

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Why bankruptcy was invented...

Investors around the globe are clearly nervous as gold heads off to the $1,300 mark.

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Is it time to go “short”?

With all the volatility currently in the market you have to wonder if your normal “buy-and-hold” strategy really is the best way to make money in this climate.

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Make money as this golden balloon expands

There’s a reason ordinary investors fear market “bubbles”… They simply get their timing wrong!

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Are we only good sports when we win?

Imagine as an investor, you have 2 options. Option 1 is to walk away with a sure gain of R500. Option 2 would give you a 50% chance to gain R1000 and a 50% chance to gain nothing.

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Where is the Gold price going?

The safe haven asset is back in the spotlight along with it a plethora of smiley gold ETF salesmen peddling their paper wares.

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Do you know when to buy and sell your shares? This indicator will tell you...

I read my emails with fascination last week as a few South African Investor “Pillar One” Advisers, namely Alexander Green and Marc Lichtenfeld, debated about the importance of tuning out the media “noise” and the constant flow of bad news and how best to go about it.

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South Africa is to the world what Portsmouth is to the Premier League

I’ve got good news and bad. The bad is news is South Africa Inc has continued its slide down the world competitiveness rankings…

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Lesson #1: Avoid being crushed by a stampeding herd…

Every day the JSE sneaks higher as savvy investors look on in disbelief.

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3 Simple ways to predict which way a currency will move next

One of the biggest challenges any trader faces is figuring out which direction the markets are heading.

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