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- Upcoming presentations
- Strategy for the current market
- The All Ordinaries Accumulation index
- Making sense of the reporting season by Michael Kemp
- Upcoming presentations
- How fully invested are you now?
- The PE multiple by Michael Kemp
- My comments on the PE multiple
- Understanding the game
- Which PE ratio to use?
- Base stops on lows or closing prices?
- The annual report – Its Evolution, Interpretation and Purpose by Michael Kemp
- Michael Kemp's articles
- Ideas from John Sevior
- Special offer for free newsletter subscribers
- Know yourself
- Dividend imputation by Michael Kemp
- No dumb questions
- Hear me speak in Melbourne in September
- Addition of substantial funds to our portfolio
- Adding my RSS feed to Internet Explorer 9
- It may be better to be second
- Being right
- Hear me speak in August
- Signs of trouble
- e.book review: Additive Manufacturing, 3-D Printing and the Next Stock Market Boom
- My contribution to the e.book on Additive Manufacturing
- Accumulation index data on the internet
- My investment results for 2011-12
- What was so special about Steve Jobs?
- Hear me speak in July
- Never accept information blindly
- Keep up with changes to the website
- Are you missing out on newsletters?
- Understanding a company's capital structure
- Stages in learning to be a good investor
- Hear me speak in June and July
- Book value per share
- Finally, A book about the New High - New Low Indicator
- Is it representative?
- The Australian stock market
- Does intelligence matter in investing?
- Are you an instinctive investor?
- Director dealings
- It's time to throw out the anchor
- A wonderful opportunity
- Opportunity to hear me speak in Auckland
- What is a stop?
- e-book review: Two Roads Diverged: Trading Divergences by Dr Alexander Elder
- A little knowledge can be dangerous
- Opportunity to hear me speak in Brisbane
- E-book review: To Trade or Not to Trade by Dr Alexander Elder
- Sharpen our investment decisions
- Reporting and dividend dates
- A view of the Australian stock market
- Keeping up with additions to the website
- What's New
- The importance of dividend policy in the investment process (Michael Kemp)
- Book Review: The Luck Factor by Max Gunther
- Adobe Reader needs updating
- Hear me speak in Melbourne
- What's New
- Multi-tasking
- Intrinsic Vaue (Michael Kemp)
- Hear me speak in Sydney
- Thoughts about investing on margin
- Forecasting competition - final quarter
- My investment returns
- A common misunderstanding about pyramiding
- Food for thought
- Blind faith
- Modifications to my investment plan
- Problem with accessing menus
- A sincere thank you
- Dividend reinvestment plans
- Rights issues and share purchase plans
- Another source for free charts on the internet
- The New Sell & Sell Short - one-minute videos of Dr Elder
- The role of market index analysis
- New automated payment system
- Special offer for non-members
- Forecasting competition - third round winners
- Thoughts arising from Warren Buffett’s 2010 letter
- Algorithmic versus High Frequency Trading
- Hot Stocks books
- AIA conference: An opportunity for investors
- Book Review The New Sell & Sell Short - How to take profits, cut losses, and benefit from price declines
- Shares, bonds or cash?
- Did the dividend cause the breakout?
- What's new on the website
- Have we done enough?
- AIA Conference - An opportunity for investors
- Change to online order form
- New: Paid Members Section
- How crazy is a no-stock portfolio?
- Comparative recovery in the US and Australia
- Contracts for difference (CFDs)
- Update Adobe Reader
- Book review - The Checklist Manifesto
- Dealing with losses
- Forecasting competition - second round winners
- Price returns Vs income returns
- Investor education opportunity
- Import a table from a web page into Excel
- Indicator of the US economy
- Do you live in or near Mosman in Sydney?
- I knew that
- Recent additions to the website
- Volatility and risk are synonymous
- Australia tops them all
- Recent additions to the website
- Place a link in a spreadsheet
- Online broker survey
- Compounding
- ETFs may not be what they seem
- Recent additions to the website
- S&P/ASX 200 VIX index
- Forecasting competition - first stage winners
- Seeing is believing
- Do investors profit from takeovers?
- More on High Frequency Trading
- Recent Additions to the website
- Mining scams and more
- Exchange for Physicals (EFPs)
- Commodities website
- Asset allocation - are we investing or speculating?
- ATAA conference brochure
- Investing versus trading
- Pacific Traders Camp in Macau
- Dow phase analysis indication
- Recent additions to the website
- Forecasting and prediction
- Drop-down menu problem solved
- Changes coming in our market
- Forgotten your password?
- My portfolio
- Pacific Traders' Camp in Macau
- Hear Colin speak at AIA Conference
- My investment returns
- Recent additions to the website
- Forecasting competition entries
- Forgotten your password?
- I can't sell the stock for less than I paid!
- My portfolio
- Stop Press - Macau camp
- Hear Colin Speak - AIA Conference
- Recent additions to the website
- Forecasting competition - reminder to enter
- Book review - Creating Real Wealth
- Passive Investing - Dead or Alive?
- Forgotten your password?
- My portfolio
- Twelve important lessons
- Another source of Economist articles and more
- More on how Asia is different
- Some interesting quotations
- Recent additions to the website
- Forecasting competition
- Managing a portfolio while travelling
- Book review The Big Short
- Book review Union Atlantic
- How Asia is different - a view of the future
- Some interesting quotations
- Win one of three books
- Cairns support group
- Out of sight, out of mind
- The amount risked is the same on every investment
- Usernames and passwords
- Need a debit card for your SMSF or company?
- Predicting the Market
- Choosing Software
- The Vexed Question of Stops
- The Thinking Process is Far More Important than the Answer
- Book Review: The Ascent of Money
- Case Study Example: Western Australian Newspapers Holdings
- Book Review: The Panic of 1907
- My Investment Track Record
- Book Review: The Snowball by Alice Schroeder Part 1
- Book Review: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T Harv Eker
- Book Review: A Gift to My Children by Jim Rogers
- Book Review: The 12 Investment Myths by Jack J Calhoun JR
- Improve your decision-making skills
- Questions on The Aggressive Investor
- Debt-to-equity ratio
- Investing for your children
- Are you too old for active investing?
- Insolvency statistics
- The Coppock Indicator
- Book Review Sell & Sell Short by Dr Alexander Elder
- The Real Game - Dow Theory Phase Analysis
- A Very Common Question
- Stock Market Investment Strategy for the Year Ahead (major article)
- New Highs and New Lows
- Where to Find the Coppock Indicator
- How to Make Better Investing Decisions (major article)
- Coppock Indicator
- My Portfolio Disclosure
- New Method of Delivering the Newsletter
- Alpha Versus Index
- Preparing for the Next Bull Market (major article)
- Bear Market Indicator
- There is more than one way to invest
- Why not do it yourself?
- What starting point?
- Broking Failures
- On Learning to be a Good Investor
- Bear Market Phases and Crystal Balls
- Peaks and Troughs
- Coppock Above Zero
- No Big Stocks?
- Closing Price versus Intraday Low to Trigger Sell Stops?
- Valuing Resources Companies
- Peaks and Troughs Again
- What to do about a Capital Return
- Taking Profits
- Pyramiding Raises its Head Again
- Using my Money Management Rules Redux
- Understanding RSI
- Videotapes and DVDs
- Using my Money Management Rules
- Using Fundamental and Technical Analysis
- What to do with Cash Holdings
- Understanding the Nature of Investing
- Questions about my Methods
- Charting the Coppock Indicator
- A Common Mistake
- Recent Discussion with a Reader
- Interesting Questions
- Advice about a Trading Method
- Which Software to Buy
- Education Rather than Advice
- What to do Now?
- Learning and Testing
- Ticklish Question
- Results Calculation
- Money Management
- Winit Auto Run of Chart Arrangement
- Questions on Hot Stocks 2008
- My Investment Record
- Discussion of Aspects of the Art of Investing
- A Thought for Beginners
- Knowing the Right Time
- A Thought for all Investors
- Be Prepared
- How do you get Out?
- Looking Back is Vital
- New Series of Articles
- Overseas Markets - More
- Dealing with a Market Downturn
- Issue of New shares
- Stops in a General Downturn
- Dividends and Buy-backs
- When are you Speaking?
- My Results
- Mining Stocks
- Overseas Markets
- Stop Loss Levels in a Strong Move
- Short Selling
- Stops and the Percentage Risked
- Where to Place a Stop Loss
- Many Roads Lead to Rome
- Discussion of Breakouts and Stops
- Reliability of Chart Patterns and More
- Data Source for Market Screens
- Hot Stocks Update
- Handling Increased Risk
- Here We Go Again
- Price Earnings Ratio
- Sector Ratios
- What Does Defensive Mean?
- Be Wary of High Debt Levels
- I Can't Always Follow You
- Where should My Stops Be?
- Where the Money Is
- Another Scam
- Starting Out
- When Can I Hear You Speak?
- Decisions, Decisions
- To Hedge or Not to Hedge
- A Clarification
- Accumulation Index
- Data Files Change
- Interesting Times in the Markets
- Inconvenient Truth
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- Timeliness of PE Ratios
- Entries & Exits Winners
- The Market's Money
- Arbitrary Stops
- Takeover Tactics
- Pulling the Trigger
- Tightening Up Stops
- More on Administration of Shareholdings
- Investing with Borrowed Money
- Overseas Market Data
- Charting Software for the Apple Mac
- A Thought for the Times
- What is an Equity Curve?
- Who is More Accurate?
- Charting on the Apple Mac
- Tricks of the Trade
- Size Does Matter
- Determining Opening Prices on the ASX
- Calculating Position Size
- Create My Chart Arrangement
- My Fundamental Analysis Filter
- Chasing Prices and Greater Fools
- Managing the Bust
- PE Ratios and All That
- Price to Book Ratio
- Breadth Data and daily Routine
- Stop Losses and Dividends
- More on a Similar Issue
- Discussion with a Reader
- Differing Views
- The Art of Trading
- My Investment Results
- Capital Gains Tax Dilemma
- Sector Rotation
- Relative Strength Chart Arrangement
- I Cannot Give Investment Advice
- My Investment Results
- Starting Out on the Journey
- Finding the Right Path
- When Do You Sell
- When to Buy Software?
- Dow's Theory Part 2
- Evaluating a Stock Price
- What Chart Pattern is That?
- Peaks and Sell-Stops
- Thoughts on CFDs
- Will We Ever Learn?
- Market Correction Tactics
- Is Volume Important?
- Daily or Weekly?
- Learning the Trade
- MetaStock Formulas
- Dow's Theory (Part 1)
- Two Typical Journeys
- What to Sell?
- Where is Taxation?
- Fundamental Filters
- The KISS of Death
- Conversation with a Reader
- Searching for Stocks
- Against the Trend
- Why the Market Fell
- Forecasts and Crystal Balls
- Testing your Method
- List of Dividends
- Taking Profits
- Patterns
- Accumulation and Distribution
- Watch List on the Web Site
- Change of Plans
- Help Wanted - Commodity Prices
- Time Frame Revisited
- Taking Profits
- Learning Fundamental Analysis
- ASX 200 Earnings Chart
- How I Find Good Shares
- Who Can You Trust With Breadth Data?
- Time Frame Conundrum
- Comparison to the Accumulation Index
- Do You Use Candlesticks?
- Identifying Troughs
- Upcoming Dividends
- Coppock Indicator
- Tough Week in the Market
- What Happened to the Advance-Decline Line?
- Where to Place Stops?
- Some Thoughts of Chairman Buffett
- Open Interest and OBV
- On Learning to Trade
- US Fundamental Data
- Adjusting for Dividends
- ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index
- Divergences
- Identifying a Divergence
- Pyramiding
- Breadth Data on the Internet
- US Fundamentals on the Internet
- All Ordinaries Accumulation Index
- Adjusting for Dividends
- List of Dividends
- Ten Rules for Losing
- Hope for Mac Users
- Trading Plan
- Don't Ignore it this Time
- Create my Chart Arrangement
- When to Start Investing
- Outperforming the Market
- Complexity and Prediction
- Discovering the Internet
- Quicker and Easier
- Questions from a Struggling Beginner
- More on Downward Spikes
- Lessons from a Winner
- Returns and Franking Credits
- Technical Analysis and Commodities
- Point and Figure RIP
- Out of Date
- Getting Back Into The Market
- The Wrong Question
- Dubious Proposition
- Large and Small
- Information About an ABN
- Business Plans
- Renting Shares - More
- Ninemsn Moved
- Starting Out
- Advance-Decline Line Data
- Finding Coppock
- More on Stop Losses
- Even More on Stop Losses
- Learning New Software
- Advance-Decline Line
- My Results - An Update
- Search Insight Trader Manual
- Renting Shares
- Insider Trading Suspicions
- Correction: Money Flow Index
- Latest Credit Card Scam
- No Simple Answer
- Trading and Investing using Intuition
- Tight Registers
- Trading Penny Dreadfulls
- Correction to MXG Instructions
- Importance of Dividend Yield
- Pre-Opening Price on the ASX
- 50% Rule and Divergences
- Darvas the Dancer Again
- Volume Indicators
- Point and Figure Charting
- How to Use a Chart
- A Timely Warning
- Payout Ratio
- Starting with Borrowed Money
- Did You Do It?
- CFDs - Did You Know?
- Questions on my Book
- Shares Magazine Predictions
- Which Indicators?
- Books and Articles on Indicators
- Why Trending Stocks are Missed
- Briefings to Analysts
- Patience
- Trend Lines
- Equity Curve
- Gaps and stop-losses
- Which Moving Average?
- Learning to be a Trader
- My Market View
- Correction: Volume-Weighted Average Price
- Questions on my DVD Seminar (DVDs now sold out)
- Decisions, Decisions
- Identifying MACD Lines
- Ratios for Resources Stocks
- Trading through Internet Cafes
- Too Simplistic?
- You Must do it Yourself
- A Recent Exchange
- Volume Weighted Average Price
- Why Split?
- What Volume?
- What Equity?
- My Book
- Which is Beta?
- Arms Index
- More on TWAC and Returns
- My Returns Revised Again
- Investing versus Trading
- Playing Away
- Placements
- News Corp Data
- Entry Tactics
- An Investing Journey
- Unbalanced portfolio
- Selling by Management
- An Old Refrain
- Managing Stress and Balancing Life
- Fundamentals and Technicals
- Don't Unsubscribe
- Are We There Yet?
- Rate of Return
- Ex Dividend Movement and Stops
- More Grief on Sectors
- Three Question
- Black and White Viewpoints
- Correction (TWAC)
- Trading Conundrums
- Stock Selection
- When do you Buy?
- Dividends and Prices
- Stop-Loss and Beta
- Fundamental Ratios - Shares Vs AFR
- Time Weighted Average Capital
- AAV Revisited
- OOOPS My Figures Were Wrong
- Understand What You Buy
- More on Money Management
- Share Buy-Backs
- Lessons Learned
- Why do you Buy and Sell?
- Year End Indications
- Fundamental Questions
- Bringing Theory to Life
- Recent Market Conditions
- Arms Index (Set up in Insight Trader)
- Beating the Gun (1)
- Insight Trader Filter Rules
- Money Management
- Beating the Gun (2)
- Sector Strength
- Growth Stocks
- Staying the Course
- Split Personality
- Fundamental Question
- Coppock Indicator
- Returns and Full-Time Trading
- What did I do Wong?
- Coppock Indicator
- Trend Trading
- Discussion on Market Indices
- Discussion about Research and Analysis
- Why Haven't You Sold?
- Fleetwood Revisited
- Advance-Decline Data on the Web
- Exponential Moving Average Envelopes
- Force Index and Elder Ray
- My Journey
- At Odds with Dr Elder?
- My Investment Plan in Action
- What I write About
- Charting Managed Funds Data
- US Price Earnings Ratio
- Advance-Decline Line
- Absolute Share Price
- Profits and Stops
- Market Depth
- Getting in Early
- How to Cut Debt and Save
- Market Confidence
- Non-Performing Investments
- Equis Gets it Wrong
- Equity
- Why no Blue Chips?
- Why Didn't You Sell?
- Importing ASCII files to Excel - Update
- Reporting Dates
- No Magic Formula
- Total Risk
- New High-New Low and Advance-Decline
- Alinta - A Complex Situation
- Stop-Losses
- Bollinger Bands
- Free Company Finacials
- Plotting Data Files in Winit
- Look before you Leap
- Sell, or Hold?
- Invest and Trade?
- It all Depends on your Plan
- PE Ratio Scans
- My Industry Experience
- My Portfolio Disclosure
- Investing Small Capital
- Good and Bad Days
- Track Record Needed
- Muddled Thinking
- Importing ASCII Files to Excel
- Historical Financials
- Scanning Website
- PE Ratios
- Downloading Procedure
- Charts Sources
- Bollinger Bands and Insight Trader
- Fear and Trading
- Nice Problem
- Dividend Entitlement
- Shares Charting Guide No 1
- Trading in the Zone
- Fundamental Analysis
- Low Price Earnings Ratio
- My Book is Coming
- MetaStock Scans
- Short Term Trading
- Stop Losses
- Moving Averages
- Weinstein Scan and Chart
- Advance Decline Data
- Fundamental Data
- Margin of Safety Data
- Adjustments
- My Presentations
- Day Trading Books
- Fundamental Software
- Computerised Trading Systems
- Trading Plan Books
- Indicators and the Meaning of Life
- Shares Charting Guides
- When You Stuff Up - A Personal Lesson
- Reporting Seasons
- Pros Versus Amateurs
- Another Bubble?
- Building Trades
- New Trader's Tale
- More on Value Scans
- Star Trader Software
- The Property Bubble
- How Much Capital?
- Float or sink?
- Slippage and Money Management
- System Failure
- Formal or Informal?
- Dividend Dates
- Food for Thought
- Setting Stops for Position Sizing
- Developing Your Own Method
- Simple or Exponential?
- Placing Stops
- Overstretched?
- Reasonable Multiple?
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- More on the Turtles
- Market Risk Strategy Change
- Value Scan Change
- Moving Averages I Use
- Weekly Charts or Daily Charts?
- Diversification and Beating the Market
- Why Worry about Trends?
- Missing Something?
- Personality is Important
- Investing and Taxation
- Coppock Indicator
- Mentoring
- The Market Chart or the Stock Chart?
- My Portfolio
- How Many Stocks?
- Contracts for Difference
- Stocks in and Index
- Dow Theory and Transport Averages
- Adjusting Share Data Bases
- Executing Stops
- Key Filters in MetaStock Language
- Stops and Dividends
- Buffett on Expected Returns
- Which Breakouts to Buy?
- What PE Ratio is Cheap?
- Ask the Right Question
- Dealing with Fear in Trading
- How I Find Interesting Stocks
- The Singing Trader and IQQ
- Whether to Invest in Overseas Funds
- The Latest Bubble - Residential Property
- The Thought Demons of Traders
- Of Cabbages and Kings
- Wisdom from Edwin Coppock
- Does Technical Analysis Work?
- Short Selling and Small Capital
- Counter Cyclical Indications
- Hedge Funds - 'Flavour of the Month'
- Bear Market Strategy
- Questions from a Beginner
- Stop-Losses Revisited
- Are You Losing your Support and Resistance?
- The Big Time-Frame question
- Small Capital - What Should I Do?
- Is the Coppock Indicator Dead?
- Observations of the IFTA Conference
- Whither the Dow Theory?
- Growth or Value?
- A Common Problem - Position is too Small
- The Most Important Book Ever Written on Trading
- Confusion from the ASX (PE ratios series)
- Timing the market
- The Case Against Short Selling
- Advice to a Poor Student
- Price Stops and Time Stops
- Buy and Sell Signals, or Something Else? (Candlestick Reversal Patterns)
- The End of the Bear Market
- Position Size and Diversification
- My Switch to Bar Charts
- Learn from the Masters
- I Have Changed Data Vendors
- Problem Trading
- Discipline and Trading or Investing
- Feedback on the Nature of Trading
- Some Excellent Questions
- Stop Loss Orders and Commissions
- The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
- Discussion on the Nature of Trading and All That
- More on Stop-Loss Orders
- Some Discussion about Returns from Investing
- A Matter of Perspective
- Privacy Legislation
- Change to ASX Indexes
- Resource for Traders and Investors
- Some Important Issues
- What Really makes Markets Tick
- More on short selling
- A new resource for traders and investors
- Developing a trading system
- Technical analysis tutorials
- Padded Data
- At Last - real help to learn Metastock
- Difficult Times and Historical Perspective
- Markets and the Information Age
- The Futility of Forecasting
- A Puzzle About Long Versus Short Term Investing
- Unable to Pull The Trigger
- Overseas Trading in Australian Shares
- Charts on the Internet
- Save on GST - Using the Government's Rules
- Long Term Investing Philosophies
- Computerised Trading Systems
- Trading Psychology
- Adjusting Share Price Data Bases
- Technical and Fundamental Analysis
- Market Comment - Shares magazine Trend Trader Column
- Rules for placing orders on Internet
- Managed Funds Data
- Lessons From the End of the Bull Market
- Confusion of Roles
- Time Horizons
- Stop Loss Orders on Internet Brokers
- Subjectivity
- Stop Loss Orders Through Internet Brokers
- Tendency to Fall Back on Fundamentals
- Planning for Profit (By Garnett Znidaric)
- Probability Vs Certainty
- Response to Email Newsletter No 008
- Reader Comment on Loneliness and Trading
- Finding Good Fundamental Analysis on Stocks
- Disappearing Bids on SEATS
- Take Care with Volume
- Loneliness and Crowds
- What it Takes to be a Good Trader
- Reader Question
- Scams and Dubious Phone Calls
- Email from a former student on his trading experiences
- Is it Really Different This Time?
- The original material in Newsletter No 2 has been improved
- The new version included as the article titled Long, Short and Short Selling on the Articles page
- Coppock Indicator
- Coppock Spreadsheet Australia
- Coppock Spreadsheet US (DJIA)
- To download Coppock Spreadsheets go to the Data Files section of the web site