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The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) for over a year now have been placing recordings of their lunch time sessions held in Sydney on their website.
These sessions are for everyday investors out there wanting to be updated with fundamental issues related to share market investing.
Every few weeks a different speaker does a presentation on varying topics about Australian businesses and the Share Market. I only found these MP3 files a few weeks ago and I’m now up to date. They are all very informative and give you many different points of view. You also get to hear the public ask questions at the end of most of the presentations.

You can download the MP3 files directly off of the ASX site here, or you can subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes here.

Fat Prophets are giving away reports again. This time they are trying to entice you into purchasing their Mining and Resources stock picking service for $695 a year.  I actually know a guy who gets all of Fat Prophets reports and he loves them!  Swears by them!

Some key points of the report are:

• Continued Strong Demand for Uranium
• Supply Problems
• The Kazakhstan Factor
• Uranium Prices headed for $100US

Check out the article, it’s a good read, and if you think the Fat Prophet guys are worth it, subscribe to thier service, I know at least one person who didn’t regret it!

Check out the article here. 

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

Fat Prophets have emailed me their latest free report which is report number 317.

This report includes buy recomendations on:

• Woodside Petroleum (WPL)
• Oceana Gold (OGD)

There are also Hold stories on:

• Fosters Group (FGL)
• Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
• IWL (IWL)

Check out the free report here.

This month CMC and Safety in the Market are offering a a full one day course in cities across the country.  This time the deal isn’t just for new people who sign up to CMC with a new CFD account, it’s also for recent joiners of the last 6 months or so.

So if you’ve just joined up with CMC to start trading or you are thinking of it, or if you just want to open an account, get some free training and then close your account, then this is your opportunity.

You can find the details here.

Occasionally days like what we just had with big falls on markets around the world will happen. In times like these it is important to not get emotional and stick to your trading plan and your trading rules. If your rules are broken or a stop loss is triggered, you must do as you always do and exit your position, but only if this happens. One day falls are often increased by smaller players panicking and the setting off of multiple automatic stop losses.

Remember, trends are not set by daily movements of the markets, they are set over weeks and months. One large move down might be nothing… or it might be the start of a major correction. Only time will tell. It will take many moves down over time to mean something and to change the trend in the markets.

Remember stick to your plan!

Alan Hull’s site is one that I just happened to stumble over.

Basically he charges you a small monthly fee of around $35 for either his trading report or his investing report. He provides a sample report of each on his site and also some course notes which I found to be very handy.

If you go into his article section you need to supply him with your email address, but once inside he gives away  several great articles on:

• Fibonacci
• Money Histogram
• Profit taking
• The MACD Indicator
• Probability
• Tools of the Trade

 Check this site out, theres some good stuff 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.

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

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• Stocks
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• 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!