Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble!

If there is one market phenomenon that investors fear most, it’s a stock market bubble, because when it bursts, stock prices can crash, and investors in those stocks can lose a lot of money.

Bubbles typically develop when stock prices rise rapidly, growing beyond their intrinsic value – the true value of a company based on fundamentals like earnings, assets, and future cash flows.

Understanding inverse head and shoulders chart patterns

Within this toolset, a technical analysis is a valuable way to assess stocks to inform investment decisions and trading positions because it provides insights into market trends, price patterns, and potential future price movements based on historical or real-time data.

Common trading mistakes

More retail investors are taking a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to stock and currency trading to get their share of local and global markets through online trading platforms like Clarity, by Investec. There is no universal risk-reward ratio that applies to all trades in isolation, and the approach applies to trades executed with or without margin.

Market Movements – 14 June 2024

Don’t miss the July bull run According to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s trading desk, a flood of cash from passive equity allocations will pour into the stock market in early July, setting up a continuing rally through the early summer. Since 1928, the first 15 days of July have been the best two-week trading period […]