Help me to Retire

On my recent property travels around the interweb, I’ve found these handy sites.

1. http://www.hotspotting.com.au - this site allows you to purchase reports (most are $88) on hotspots, high growth areas, no go zones and more.
2. http://www.positiverealestate.com.au/ - lists properties by investment strategy. For example if you are looking for subdivisions, strata titling or positive cash flow properties you can do it all from this site. There is also a heap of other tools and information available.
3. http://www.propertyupdate.com.au/0108/seminar_download.htm - Lastly this site has available Michael Yardney’s last web cast as an MP3, 2 special reports and an ebook available for download. Check em out.

If you haven’t heard of Residex before it’s about time you did.
Residex sell reports on predicted housing capital growth by area. You can get a report on the whole state or report on a single suburb or postcode.

They have a good newsletter that is worth signing up for to with sneak peeks at reports and overall market reports.
In this weeks newsletter included was one page from their “Market as a Whole” report. It is quite an informative page and includes comments on:

• The difference between The Australian housing market and the US & UK markets
• Population growth
• Demographic Change
• Housing Affordability
• Residex’s View on the current shape of things

You can view this full page preview here.

If you want to check out Residex’s very informative site, purchase a report on a certain area or sign up to the newsletter you can do that from here.

Propertyupdate.com.au have updated their site to now include downloadable audio of teleseminars that they have conducted. This is great news for all of us who have missed out on the teleseminars for various reasons.

At the moment the only one on the site is the teleConference with Michael Yardney and Pamela Yardney
answering listeners property questions and discussing the launch of their new book - All you need to know about Buying and Selling your Home.

Check it out. You can either listen straight off of the site or download the MP3.

The guys at the Australian Stock Report are giving away a weeks free access to all of their reports. This includes people like myself who have previously had a weeks free trial which is great news.

You get access to everything including the latest:

• Daily Report
• Weekly Report
• CFD Traders Report
• All of their Archived Reports

The Australian Stock Report gives you a wide range of technical and fundamental analysis on Australian stocks, overseas equities, currencies and commodities. They provide you with entry, target and stop prices so you don’t have to worry.

This is a great offer, so head on over there now to start your free trial.

Alert Trader has this week given away one of their Mind your Markets weekly reports.
This one covers:

• The Aussie Dollar
• 30 Year T-Bonds
• SFE 3 Year Bonds
• Dow Jones
• Oil
• Gold
• A Buy Recommendation on ABC Learning Centres
• Defensive Strategies (Hedging)

So for your free copy of Alert Traders Mind your Markets report for this week click here

I’ve found these great Aussie sites all with some really good information on them and best of all most of them are updated daily

Check them out:

• Investing using Fundamentals on the Aussie StockMarket
• ASX Newbie - The Diary of An Amateur Australian Share Trader
• Australian Investing - Investing Ideas and Resources for the Australian Stockmarket
• Crazyjimsmith

I’m sure you’ll find referring to these sites regularly will help you on your way!

The Weekly Trading Tutors Newsletter has become one of my favourite Friday evening reads. As quoted from the newsletter:

“This newsletter is written on a weekly basis to help investors understand and learn the principles of market analysis for themselves. We don’t provide investment advice, but we do aim to provide a straight talking review of the market action over the previous days with a focus on how real life analysis techniques could be applied.“

This newsletter covers all the aspects and areas of trading (not all every week of course). There is a lot of chart based examples, whether it be on stocks, currency’s or futures. There is often an article on mind set that can help you take a look at how you trade.

If you head on over to the Safety in the Market website you can sign up there as a member and you get this newsletter free every week in your in box. They also have a free book offer that you can sign up for.
Safety in the market also offer 2 hour free seminars to introduce you to the methods they teach in their several day sessions. These several day sessions will cost you into the thousands of dollars. I haven’t done these courses so I can’t comment on them.

Check out the site and get your free newsletter and book here.

Interested in a free investing education?  One that you can take at your own pace? Then Morningstar’s Investing Classroom is for you.

You can choose from 172 different courses on stocks, funds, bonds, and portfolio building and monitoring.

Course Catalog:

• Stocks
• Funds
• Bonds
• Portfolio

What a great opportunity for beginners, intermediates and more advanced investors to increase their knowledge.

All you have to do is head on over to MorningStar  and sign up as a free member to keep track of your progress. You can also accumulate credits towards great free gifts their rewards catalog.

So what have you got to lose?  Head over there now!

This list has been compiled by Colin Twiggs from Incredible Charts.

They are the top ten trading books that have influenced him in his life so far. Some are serious reference books, while others are narratives recording a persons trading experiences.

Here they are:

1. Stan Weinstein: Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets
2. Mark Douglas: Trading in the Zone
3. Alexander Elder: Trading For A Living
4. Edwin Lefevre: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
5. Thomas Bulkowski: Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
6. Thomas Dorsey: Point & Figure Charting
7. Nicolas Darvas: How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
8. Jack Schwager: Schwager on Futures - Technical Analysis
9. John J Murphy: Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
10. Edwards & Magee: Technical Analysis of Stock Trends
11. Van Tharp’s Trade your Way to Financial Freedom - New version out soon!

Colin Twiggs has reviewed all these books over at The MoneyBags.com.au site, where of course you can part with your beloved money and purchase all these books on line.

So go on, get reading!

Wise Owl is yet another company that provides investment advise on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Wise Owl Provides:

• Every Sunday, you get at least two equities recommendations for the week.
• These are accompanied by a concise strategic summary.
• You also receive more detailed information such as insights into the Quantitative and Fundamental Analyses behind each recommendation.
• If you want even more, you can also access Wise Owl’s Technical Analysis information, as well as Open and Closed Portfolios which you can use as a trading tool.
• Underlying all of the above are risk management strategies to maximise your sustainable, long-term wealth creation.

Prices for a yearly subscription to Wise Owl start at $790 a year.

For Christmas if you sign up for the free 2 week trail of their equities report you are put in the draw to win a Veuve Clicquot travel pack, a Panasonic Plasma TV, or a delicious Xmas hamper. One lucky person will also win a day learning the secrets to success in the markets with Senior Analyst at wise-owl.com, Phillip Shamieh.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over and sign up for this great offer.