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Proposed changes to laws could make people criminals if they pay more than $10,000 in cash for goods or services.It's obviously designed to crack down on the black economy but it also intrudes on our rights to pay for what we buy in the way we choose.Is it good or bad legislation ?...

Say I invest in an ETF or something similar and all goes well and I get an 8% return, so on 50 grand, that like 4 grand a year. Sounds pretty good ?But with housing, if I get a 4% return, but I borrowed 95% of the price even if the return was just 4%, that is an 80% return on my investment PER...

With the recent, sharp drop in the share market, I thought it would be a good time to revisit risk management. Specifically, I'm looking from a medium time horizon: holding stocks for a few months.Break-even StopsTraders have the concept of break-even stops. They're designed to make you...

I'm increasingly aware of the need to consider portfolio heat when you hold stocks. So let me set the scene, and then I'll pose some questions to you.What is Portfolio Heat? If you hold 10 shares, each with stop-losses and the most you'll lose is 1% per share, then if the market nosedives you...

It's often said that it's "time in the market", not "timing the market" that leads to share market success. Putting aside whether you believe in market timing or not, I see there are two ways of looking at this:Time in the market could mean: 1) Buy and hold stocks long term (years) or buy an...

What do you guys look for when you buy a stock, and when do you decide to pull the trigger?My preferred method of investing is "bottom feeding" - I love stocks that have been wrongly sold off by the market, but are solid businesses with solid underlying fundamentals. In this video, I cover...

Good morning everyone and welcome to the September 2019 stock tipping competition entry thread! :)The September 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...

Looking forward, I need to have a better understanding of what people like in terms of website/forum design and functionality and what they don't.So, with that in mind I have the following questions:1. What elements of the current website/forum design do you like and want to see retained in...

In the last year, if you simply invested in gold stocks, your return would have been 63.9%.96629On the other hand, if you chose the nice, safe energy sector, you would have lost a whopping %15.96630Clearly there's a massive advantage in choosing the right market sectors, and nothing but...

Trade Plan: Goal - to be consistently profitable trader (and to survive). Entry/setups - Simple EMA Cross. Only stocks that trade between $0.20 and $3.00 are included in scan. To buy on open on Monday. Scans- Using AB to scan market EOW. Money management / Risk management - Starting capital is...

Check out the volume that bucketed into this thing during Feb when the stock market reversed it's December 2018 20% smack down that was triggered by the September 2018 interest rates rise of 25 basis points. The Fed said that it would keep its target range for its benchmark interest rate at...

Hello all, This is probably an obvious question, but I can't find how to set the font and font size etc in afl....so that the exploration font is controlled from the code...is this possible? Is there a page on this somewhere...I can't find it. TIA...

10 years ago $800 pa, this year $1700.In a rural but not in a flood prone, fire prone or high crime area, this increase seems exhorbitant.How are others faring ?

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Hi all, In the below I am trying to get "up" or "dn" ...see the column has dn, but I can't get the up to work...any ideas? Up = above 1 and down = below one in the column to the left of the missing up signals. TIA. Filter = 1; // all barsx = ROC (C, 30); y...

Hello All,Here is my code....if you run an exploration in Amibroker you will see four columns. The last colum is supposed to be the difference between the second and third....but no! It seems my remap is affecting the result, but I dont know how or why...if the remap lines are commented out,...

Hello all, I hope I have posted this in the right place....Ref(sp500,-1)-... < 10;The above line of code in Amibroker is supposed to evaluate the close of the S&P500 yesterday against today and see if it is less than 10 points. My question is: how does the code know to use the close price?...

Hello all, See my Text Selector statement below. Does Amibroker support using more than one array in text selector? See I have used MET and today1 arrays...getting odd results...should I be able to do this or is there another way? Note the values for MET and today1 overlap in the array...

:eek:"The surprise outcome in Argentina’s primary vote roiled the nation’s financial markets, sending the S&P Merval Index plunging 48% in dollar terms.That marked the second-biggest one-day rout on any of the 94 stock exchanges tracked by Bloomberg going back to 1950. Sri Lanka’s bourse...

Investors flee to the safety of sovereign debt and gold

I get asked a lot on what are the best books to read for investing. And like most people, I used to recommend classics like The Intelligent Investor or One Up on Wall Street. This is a no-brainer, right? Why read something else when you can read the best? At hindsight, those were poor advice....

https://www.usnews.com/ne... Contradicts Trump: China Hasn't Manipulated Its Currency The International Monetary Fund sees little evidence that China's central bank has deliberately reduced the value of the nation's currency. By Associated Press, Wire Service Content Aug. 9, 2019, at 5:43 p.m....

Imricor is a U.S.-based medical device company, focused on designing, manufacturing and selling MRI-compatible products for cardiac catheter ablation procedures to treat arrhythmias.Imricor has obtained CE mark approval to place one of its key products, the Advantage-MR EP Recorder/Stimulator...

A Thread where all ASF contributors can post finance, economics and stock related videos. I watch a few every week and figured it would be a good idea to have a thread where we could collect the best of them, build a resource.I'll kick this of with a great video by Ray Dalio of Bridgewater...

I thought I might share some useful (MT4) indicators I have used (gathered) over the years, post them through from time to time. The theory behind these indicators can be used in general, in any trading format, these just happen to be coded in MQL4. I have since switched to CTrader which...

FINEOS is a leading vendor of core software to the life, accident & health (LA&H) insurance industry.FINEOS operates within the core systems market of the LA&H insurance industry, providing critical core software used in the administration of insurance businesses, including systems for claims...

Hi AllI have a curious question about tracking real time market dataIs there a way to track all the public companies in the exchanges ( more then half a million )?To elaborate as to why (if you can track a huge quantity of market data like this) you would ideally be able to jump into...

Network Effect is one of the seven moats of quality companies.Platforms—Fac... Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Tencent, Meituan-Dianping, etc—have come to dominate the economy and the stock market over the past decade. Most of these platforms garner a rich market valuation because they possess a moat...

The Partners Group Global Income Fund is a newly constituted managed investment scheme, which has been registered with ASIC. Following completion of the Offer, it is proposed that the Trust will be listed on the ASX under the ASX Code PGG as an investment entity.The Trust will invest in global...

Hello all,I am aware of how to save a layout, but that only seems to relate to charts. If I have an analysis window open along with some charts, is there a way to save the "workspace" so that next time it is opened the analysis window is opened with the afl loaded?TIA...PS I went to the...

Vedanta (VEDL:NYSE) entered my screener the other day, after making fresh 52-week lows. It's a play on: zinc, lead, silver, power, iron ore, steel, copper, aluminium and India. I've added it to the watch-list, as I thought the risk/reward isn't quite asymmetrical yet - perhaps we might end up...