Help me to Retire

Someone / some entity has recently bet a large amount of money that global markets will fall between 30% and 50% before the 21st of September 2007.

Do these people know something we don’t know, or are they just covering their tails with the recent market volatility.

Have a read of the full article here.

Don’t get too caught up with the American fear tactics. Markets go up and down and over the long term always recover.

Happy Investing.

Paul Nojin from invest4profit.com.au is giving a way one of his current recommendations. Equinox Minerals (ASX ticker symbol:EQN) is a copper and uranium play that Paul thinks is quite underrated and has a lot of potential.

EQN is developing the Lumwana deposit in Zambia which is Africa’s largest known copper deposit. Production doesn’t start until mid 2008 but once it gets going it will ramp up fast. The Lumwana mine also has a lot of Uranium in it. Of course companies like this are also often take over targets.

Check out the full report here, and as always make your own investing decisions.

Good luck.

A friend just  found this article and sent it through to me.  It’s titled :

Stop Picking Stocks — Immediately! Why the world’s greatest stock picker stopped picking stocks, and why you should, too.

It is an interesting read and talks about how Benjamin Graham (known as one of the worlds greatest stock pickers) in the end believed that is was just too hard and not worth it. In his early days of the 1930’s and 40’s the stock market was a lot less sophisticated than it is now making inside and special information uncoverable if you searched hard enough. But these days insider trading is illegal and all information about all trading companies is released to everyone at the same time.

Anyway have a read of the full article for a different point of view and ask yourself how are you going picking stocks? Is it worth your time? Is it worth the money?

Hopefully you’ve all read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad. If not head on over to your favourite online book store and get it right now! This was the book that got myself and a lot of other people into financial education and investing. I just wish I read it about 5 years earlier.

The author Robert Kiyosaki is a great teacher of how the the financial world works. He is always alerting you to what the rich do and what the poor do to help you change your financial habits. His main emphasis is on becoming an investor and or business owner and not being an employee or self employed. That is what the rich do, and that is what he encourages and teaches you to do.

The Rich Dad website has a heap of audio and video podcasts available for download. In these podcasts Robert and friends go through a range of different information to help you on your way to financial freedom. Its all good information that’s well worth the download.

There’s nothing like getting free advice so head on over to the Rich Dad site and get yours now.

Robert, his wife and other associates have also written many other books that are well worth while.

I’ve previously alerted you to the free yahoo group ASX data that is delivered daily to your mail box.

Today I have another place to tell you about.

Float.com.au is a bit of a strange one actually. It has been around for years, but the site has remained unfinished for all this time. But, it is updated every single trading day at 5pm (EST) with free end of day data for the ASX in either text, csv or zip format. You can also pick what type of data you need for your individual charting program.

There is also an area where you can download previous months / years of data back until January 1997. Not bad at all for free. A lot of data places charge quite a bit for this information.

The only other page on the Float site that seems to be of any use (or finished) is the Glossary page under the help section. It explains a whole heap of different market terms.

So if your in need of a great free data service for the Australian Stock Exchange, look no further than here.

The E-Minis Market has only been around for about 8 years, but in that time has seen huge growth.
Basically with the e-minis you trade the stock index futures of the S&P 500, DOW and NASDAQ. E-minis Global have an education program that you can go through and learn to day trade this market. All of the learning happens online. The best part of the training I think is the live trading room you get to log into and watch their trader mark signals on live charts and tell you when to enter and exit.
Another advantage of just trading indexes is that you don’t have to worry yourself about company profits and reports. Those things can play havoc with company stocks. Also trading futures gives you some great leverage power!

Anyway E-minis Global offer a free DVD to explain all of the above and much much more to you. Head on over there now to grab yours (free postage to Australian and New Zealanders).  If you like what you see in the DVD, they offer a one day course to take you further (currently free, usually $495).

Check it out

Do you have a spare $100,000 lying around the place that you don’t know what to do with? I thought you might ;), so I have just the thing for you.

It’s the Market Informer MDA trading accounts.

Market Informer MDA holders receive:

• Automatic trading of Market Informer newsletter recommendations
• Specific entry criteria (based around the daily close)
• Profit targets
• Long and short recommendations
• Trading based upon a guaranteed 45 issues per year, minimum 180 recommendations p.a.
• Specific stop loss area and risk management
• Trade management and stop losses are updated daily.

So what is the Market Informers past performance I hear you ask……. Check it out for yourself here. 138% since July 1 2004. Not too bad… if they can repeat that.
Personally, I’m quite familiar with the Market Informer and David Vassallo. I have done their trading course and have received their newsletter and they offer an excellent reliable service. I just wish that the entry amount wasn’t quite so high. Shame.

If you would like more information or account documents express posted to you please email haley@marketinformer.com.au with “MDA documents” in the subject line Or Call 1800 850 385.

And as a special offer if you get in before the 1st of May 2007 you get the reduced management fee of 1% instead of 2%.

This week Fat Prophets brings us two reports.

The first is a report on Gold. This report gives a run down gold and some ASX listed gold companies and names a couple of stocks that Fat Prophets memebers have been reaping benefits from.

Check out the Gold report. 

The second report is a run down on the current state of the Aussie markets and world affairs. It then teases us with 3 reccomendations that memebers recently recieved. But you will have to sign up to the Fat Prophets report to get the stock codes.

Check out this report here. 

Fat Prophets also have some upcoming seminars May. Check out this link to see if your city is included.

Fat Prophets latest free report is on the Japanese Property market and how you can profit from it.

Property markets in Japan have been deflating since their peak in 1990. Favorable conditions have once again come to the Japanese property markets and things are finally turning around.

To read a whole lot more on this subject check out the Fat Prophets Report and also take a good look at BJT (Babcock and Brown Japan Property Trust) listed on the ASX.

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.