Contracts for Difference or CFDs are still firmly in ASIC’s sights after the recent demise of one provider. ASIC states on its FIDO website that, “you might think from the advertisements that CFDs are a mainstream financial product. Would you be surprised if FIDO told you they’re complex and very high risk?” ASIC goes on […]

Over recent decades we have become much more reliant on technology in our everyday lives. Today we can have information delivered instantly to our desktop computer or to a mobile phone. In my opinion not only does all this instant access waste a lot of time, it leads investors in the share market to become […]

We have come to the end of another financial year, one that proved to be among the toughest in decades for investors to pick the best performing stocks. Of the top 20 shares on the Australian market, sixteen returned a positive capital gain for the financial year, but only two have a positive […]

We now have a new Prime Minister, but is the change akin to shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, or is it likely to be good for Australia? I’m all for having a female in the nation’s top job, but it seems to me that politics is more about getting re-elected and making compromises […]

Over the years I have met thousands of share market traders, and the one thing that stands out is how more money can be made by trading less and over longer periods, rather than from day trading. This is why it never ceases to amaze me that when people find out I am a trader […]