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The trick is the same price at different times can mean different things. The important thing is the concept of position. Consider a share at it all time low. Everyone is holding at a loss, that's their position. Now how many people really take stop losses? The answer is very few and within all...

Mark Here is a problem for you. You say "NEVER ride the losers". Now if a loser is something that goes down in price after you have bought it, you would have to buy at the precise bottom or on the way up. Otherwise you have bought on the way down and it would be a loser that you would sell...

Mark I think Jim Puvlava is very right. The US market is still 40% overvalued. Have you seen what happens to insurers when equity markets tank? Look at AMP. So the US insurers are next? The chart of the DJIA suggests to me its being bought by someone desperate to hold it up. This is just...

To Steve I dont have the figures for property, just a vague memory of when average yields were much higher. Im a property novice but have decided to do some learning now. Im sure it will come in handy. This is another pointer to anticipate currency devaluation. When a return of zero on...

>my only real point was that shares can fall to zero... residential property cannot. It can because it has. At the bottom of the great depression property became a liability because of property taxes. People couldnt give some of it away. Lucky for property investors, we dont have a gold...

The lesson I have learnt is that there is more than one approach. And each approach works best at different times. Then is deep-value investing, growth investing, momentum investing, day-trading and whatever else works at the time. Here is the approach extreme value investors use. This works...

> when is the time to buy? I know this question is to Bruce but I have the answer. There are different times to buy. The bottom is when nobody is left asking if its the bottom. And nobody cares. Mr Turkey

There is gold, the opposite of the rest of the sharemarket. And selling short. Can I just point out that some listed property trusts have just entered downtrends. This signals the end of the bull market for that sector. Mr Turkey

Shares are my main source of income. In calendar 2002 I made 45% and I had the house bet on it. I don't watch the news, read the fin review or share mags. So much in the media is specifically put there to deceive its too difficult to filter it out. I use general economic conditions, fundamentals...

I think the biggest and most important cycle in the share market is pictured in the gold/dow ratio. Financial assets versus hard assets like gold, oil and commodities. Fiat currency versus gold. Credit expansion versus contraction. http://www.sharelynx.net/Charts/dowgold1900.gif The two...