My Program of Speaking Engagements

From experience gained over 45 years investing in the stock market, Colin has learned how to take full advantage of bull markets while moving out of harm's way when bear markets inevitably follow. He has developed a three-factor analysis method based on the teachings of the great market timers. Colin will show how anyone can learn to recognise the signs and he will outline his strategies that have led to consistently strong returns. Along the way he will explain the large patterns that explain what has been happening in the stock market after the 2007-2009 bear market plunge. After this session you should never again be caught in a bear market.

Colin has been investing safely in the stock market for 45 years. In that time, he has achieved consistent returns by investing in investment grade stocks and staying away from the stocks that are pure speculations and cause significant losses in the hands of inexperienced investors. Colin has developed seven key things that he looks for in a stock before buying it that give a margin of safety and the opportunity to produce significant dividend yield and capital gain.

For most people, selecting stocks seems like a lottery. On all sides, experts give often contradictory advice. Moreover, most inexperienced investors find analysing the accounts of a company to be intimidating, confusing and almost like a mystic art. Colin has been selecting stocks for 45 years and has developed a method that is simple to understand and requires only basic accounting concepts. He will show you how you can find and assess stocks that provide a margin of safety, while having the potential to outperform the market by providing a growing stream of dividends and growth in capital. He will explain the key principles of diversification and risk management.

There are hundreds of investment grade stocks listed on the ASX that we could consider investing in. Finding the best candidates can be a daunting task for investors. Colin will demonstrate his methods using a combination of disciplines: fundamental analysis for relative value and technical analysis for timing. This will not be a simply theoretical talk. Colin will explain his methods and then do a live demonstration of the way he finds and assess a stock chosen at the time and assessed by the audience under his guidance from a market scan run at the meeting as at the previous night’s close on the ASX.

The best investors succeed because they seem to think counter-intuitively. They make better decisions by avoiding the common cognitive biases that are natural to us all, but which hold us back in our investing. Colin will discuss some of the ways we can make better investing decisions from his new book Think Like the Great Investors, which is due to be published mid-2013.

Chart patterns are where charting began. Colin will suggest that they are often identified carelessly. He will propose a more disciplined approach to pattern identification that combines rigorous definition supported by an understanding of the behavioural explanation of how they are formed. After this talk you may never see chart patterns the same way again.