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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the March 2019 stock tipping competition entry thread! :)The March competition is proudly sponsored by FP Markets, an Australian owned and ASIC regulated broker with over 12 experience and 35 industry awards including Highest Overall Client Satisfaction 5...

It is very interesting to see that Chicago's lowest temperatures were in the 1980s before that the coldest temperatures were the 1870s. They listed January 30th 2019 as being -22 when it actually got down to -29 which appears to make it the coldest year on record for Chicago. There could be...

He'll be 79 in 2020.Who's gonna keep him propped up?

Announced overnight that Warren intends to make a bid.I believe that Elizabeth Warren making a bid for the US Presidency in 2020 could be very interesting politically as well as possible economic effects. A very different candidate from the recent past, right back to Kennedy IMV.

A thread about relocation for retirement, pre retirement or even working career out of Australia focussing on taxation, living cost, legal issues,tax residency

hi, im new to investing so some of my questions will sound dumbi watched this L7G0OfJUON8 and got the impression cfds are issued by brokers themselves, and brokers have software that determines if a trader is a loser or winner, and they just buy the cfds of losing traders, and follow the...

ASX delisted six Chinese companies in 2018, prompting experts to urge investor cautionA record six Chinese companies were delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) last year, with controversial health firm Traditional Therapy Clinics the latest to be removed.Figures from the ASX...

Good morning everyone and welcome to the February 2019 stock tipping competition! :)This month's competition is proudly sponsored by FP Markets.FP Markets is an Australian owned and ASIC regulated broker with over 12 experience and 35 industry awards including Highest Overall Client...

Sackler Scion’s Email Reveals Push for High-Dose OxyContin, New Lawsuit Disclosures ClaimA member of the Sackler family that owns OxyContin’s maker directed the company to put a premium on selling high dosages of its potentially addicting painkillers, according to new disclosures in a lawsuit....

Hi everyone,Time for a new investment thread!Those who followed my previous investment journey know that I always had a lean towards automated strategies. That interest eventually took me to start a new technology business, which I will now be using to invest my super portfolio.I will...

http://www.traveller.com.... 747 jumbo jet turns 50, but its future remains uncertainIn the skies above Washington state, 50 years ago, the Boeing 747 performed its first turns. The debut flight - despite a minor problem with one of the wing's flaps - was counted as a success, and the course...

I thought this story looking at the way people expose different parts of their lives in different contexts was very thoughtful. Comments?So... Outrage Is Collapsing Our Worlds The internet once made it easier to slip from one domain to another. Is there a way to preserve that vital freedom?...

Does this letter ring any bells amongst ASF posters ? Thoughts ? A letter to... my lazy wife and children You kids are out of school now: life should be sweet. It isn’tI was a teenager when I began working 42 years ago, and I’ve stuck it through tough times. You kids are out of school now:...

General wisdom is to keep a good cash buffer out of the stock market, anywhere from 3 months to a year's worth of expenses.An alternative view could be this. Keep 100% of your non bill money invested at all times. So, your normal weekly expenses are kept in cash. But money to buy your future...

Please let me know which Brokers / Platforms are recommended for trading Options / derivatives in International Stock Markets (US, Hongkong and India) from Australia?Also what are the Tax implications while trading in International Markets from Australia?

February is reporting season and there are a few companies I'd like to buy now but am reluctant to prior to results. Interested to know whether others buy pre-results???I guess if price is going up in the days prior to reporting, you could interpret that as the smart money getting in early.

I should be taking the bearish side in this one, yes? 92331 I seem to keep having a problem where the price kisses my stop loss then goes the way I foresaw previously...Current stop is around 1326. Is the resistance line expected to impact it at all?I've omitted the indicators I'm using...

Exxon Mobil - XOM - Cash Secured Puts Feb 7, 2019 Sold 1 Weekly CSP strike 71,5@0.25 . Expiry Feb 15. Weekly return 0.34%. Annual return on Investment 15.9% Strategy: Buying stock at discount price from their intrinsic value. Selling Cash Secured Put to lower my entry price. If assigned I sell...

Links to ASX Reporting Season CalendarBellpotter 9189... is our Reporting Season Calendar for February 2019, including reporting dates and recommendations and comments from our award-winning Research team.For detailed analysis on the company results released during Reporting Season February...

I've noticed that some of the shares I've owned that aren't "ORDINARY FULLY PAID", so REITs, ETFs, CDIs etc, send you their tax notifications about your ownership incredibly late. I believe I've even received some after the Oct 31 personal lodgement deadline. (CDIs are foreign shares in essence,...

You do all your research - share XYZ is the perfect share for you to buy right now! You check its liquidity, only to find it has an average buy/sell spread of 8%. OK, next!You pay the spread twice: once when buying, and again when selling. Let's assume you're holding this stock between 3...

For example, year by year returns on:ASX 300 A-REIT Index ASX300 ASX200 S&P 500I'm just doing some hypothetical scenarios on margin loans for each.

Hypocrisy - a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel - the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religionNo doubt hypocrisy is in the eye of the beholder, but there sure is a lot of it around at...

To a fundamental investor, "head and shoulders" is an anti-dandruff shampoo, and technical investors may as well be reading tea leaves.To a value investor, the fact that the share price is plummeting isn't important, because they know that the "One True Value" of the stock will win in the end....

Great find!https://www.livewi... Reporting Season Monitor: February 2019: Week 1 Rudi Filapek-Vandyck FNArena... to the FNArena Reporting Season Monitor for the February result season 2019. The Monitor reports ratings and consensus price target changes, along with brief summaries of the...

Hi All,It appears many of us have been stung by IB's migration from IB US LLC to IB Australia and the associated loss of margin trading for non wholesale investors.As a key part of my strategy is to trade on margin, e.g. 1 : 1.6 leverage, I was curious to see which brokers offer the most...

Hey guys,I'm really struggling with the IB UI/Workstation and its charting software especially the lack of candle size/TF options i.e. no 6, 8, 12 or 16 hr candles!?Does anyone know if there is an option to add additional time frames I've searched high and low and can't find anything...

SR GROUP EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Compensation for Victims of Financial Misconduct and Dishonest BehaviourI am interested to hear from anyone who has used SR and if they would recommend them please?

Hi guys,Lately I have been doing some calcs in terms of risk minimising a long position on potential breakouts. I know how to set my loss % value fairly easily and that makes sense. The part I don't quite get yet is where to set my projected price if it goes up. Undoubtedly there is a whole...