Recent content by curiost

I've been following this thread with much interest, but I have a (possibly silly) question. How are the setups entered? At some predefined amount above the price on the day of high volume? What is the advantage of this if there is an uptrend, over just buying on the day of high volume? On the...

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere online. Say if someone were to become a licensed stock broker just for personal interest - would buy and selling stocks be effectively free because you wouldn't be paying for brokerage because you ARE the broker? Has...

Quick newbie question - what's the minimum amount of captial is needed for a noob to give stocks a go? I'm going to paper trade for a while and then dip my toe in tentatively with real cash. I have a feeling say a weekly trading system would have a relatively high capital entry threshold. Any...

I'd be doing it with Commsec. I guess for a trending up stock it would be better to wait until the end of the day to put in an order?

Quick question for anyone out there willing to help: when you place a buy order on a stock through an online broker, where does the "market price" sit in terms of the stock's high and low of the day? Is it the price at the time you place the order? If you don't put market price on your order...

Thanks - I was able to work out the price filter before, it's pretty self explanatory. The price filter only looks at the price change between two fixed points in time, what I'm really after is a continual upwards direction movement/trend. I just can't figure out the settings :S In the ADX...

I've tried for 2 days to get a filter working and it should be so simple but I can't figure it out. I'm trying to get an upward trend over a period of 12 months. So far I have a 12 month ADX > 25 (to indicate a trend), but I can't figure out how to only isolate the upward ones. I've been...

I've done a LOT of reading about growth v income shares and it seems to me that as a 25 year old I should be aiming for growth shares. My question is #1 - if income shares are reinvested through a DRP and the shares are held for say about 10-15 years then they *should* also become growth shares...

It's in the back of the book, about 10 tables each representing a year. It says it is unaudited but the results seem to be pretty good. It goes from investing $100,000 in 2001 to having $453,000 in 2011

Ok great thanks for that :) I'll give incredible charts a go.

I'm happy to pay for something as long as its not too exxy (~$100-200) but free software is also an option if it does the same stuff as the paid ones. Seeing as I'm starting out I only need EOD data, (intra-day is too hard core whilst maintainig a full time job)

I apologise if this has been covered before, but I quick browse though the tread titles and I couldn't find anything similar. I've read through the software options, many common ones seem to by IncredibleCharts, AmiBroker, Protrader but what would be the best to get started? I'm looking at...

I've just read his book "Invest My Way". I'm a TOTAL newbie when it comes to stocks but his methods for growth shares made a lot of sense to me (the ones that the Blue Chip report recommends). It is simple to produce yourself, but that would mean charting the ASX 200 on a weekly basis which I...

Thanks for the welcome, I'm going to buy a book this arvo so get myself started. Just which one to choose will be the toughie :)

Hi there, I'm a total noob when it comes to investing on my own. My parents set me up with shares when I was born, which are now worth ~$20K and I reinvest the dividends but that's my out-of-bounds money until I'm older and wiser to do something sensible with it (I'm 25). I have just over $40K...