Working with recommendations: Afterpay Touch Group Afterpay isn’t a stock for the faint hearted but it’s great as a case study to illustrate how Pythagoras buy recommendations work. Each buy recommendation comes with an upper price limit which we measure against at the end of the day, using the close price. Where the close price…
Afterpay is a volatile stock which can be profitably traded using maths – with Pythagoras Investing. The maths overcomes behavioural biases and uses price cycles and volatility to profit.
Pythagoras Investing is a subscription recommendation service in the business of predicting share price behaviour using maths. It is a new way of investing in shares for investors of all experience levels. To assist people to understand how it works we run a paper “portfolio” of 5 stocks using our recommendations. The stocks are Orica,…
The US backtracked from the recent Trump “tariff tweets” due to be implemented on September 1. Essentially, Trump admitted that U.S. consumers were bearing the brunt of the impact and decided to delay tariffs, recognizing the negative impact further tariffs would have on the U.S. economy. He has lacked the understanding of the effect of…
Trade Wars: Who is the real superpower. Understanding the trade war. The reasons for the trade war between China and the USA. War is war – even if a shot isn’t fired. Alliances – where should Australia consider. Who will be the winner.
What they do? Star Entertainment Group has just downgraded earnings – this blog will explain more about the downgrade and its effect rather than the reasons behind it. The Star Entertainment Group operates The Star in Sydney, The Star Gold Coast and Treasury Casino & Hotel in Brisbane. The Company also manages the Gold Coast…
The RBA rate cut occurred due to economic weakness – rising unemployment, significant underemployment, lack of wages growth and a lack of consumer spending. Hey, this economy isn’t growing. Stimulation is required or we could be considering the R word before long with the main risk being the international trade disputes between the China and…
In the past we see rate cut cycles being positive for stock markets as they signal an impending positive. But there are a few reasons to be watching carefully right now. Rates are so low at 1.25% – there isn’t a lot of room to move if we get into real trouble. We are now…
Trade wars. Rare earths. Lynas and recommendations from Pythagoras Investing showing how complex markets can be simplified by using mathematics.
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The next up cycle in the stock market … beginning now In our last blog dated 21 November 2018 we wrote about the use of stock market cycles (both long and short) to generate returns. We know that being successful in a volatile market requires awareness of the start and end points of these cycles.…
The next up cycle in the stock market Everyone knows that the stock market works in cycles, both short and long, with the short cycles forming a part of the long cycles. A long cycle is generally regarded as over the course of a year. The 2018 calendar year cycle is a case in point.…
Published in LinkedIn 9/11/2018. In the coming weeks we are expecting a return to higher volatility for the market yet again. In the near term, immediately following further rises, we anticipate another slight drop. For our clients this slight drop will offer some fairly straightforward buying opportunities to accumulate cheap stock before the return to…
Coming out the other side : Pythagoras ramps up buying. Worst over now. On October 11 we warned that we expected this stock market correction to be more elongated but similar to February 2018. Last week we published a blog about the similarities of the February 2018 pullback and our success in investing into tough…
Markets work in cycles and we believe this market correction is no different from previous cycles. Specifically it is quite similar to February 2018 but we believe a little more elongated and deeper (as we wrote about Thursday October 11). The drop in the market in February began in the US market and spread around…