1 Chapter 3Table 3.1: Grossing‐up factors for dividends with different franking levels...

      2 Chapter 6Table 6.1: The main Australian market indicesTable 6.2: Makeup of the XTL, July 2021

      3 Chapter 9Table 9.1: Suggested combinations of time periods, time intervals, type and purp...Table 9.2: Sensitivity, smoothing and application for different moving average t...

      4 Chapter 10Table 10.1: The combination of market and share price movements on buying and se...

      5 Chapter 12Table 12.1: Compound growth at 3% and 7% paTable 12.2: Effect of the DRP on number of shares owned after 10 yearsTable 12.3: Total return on shares over the long term.Table 12.4: Returns after one year from following a buy and hold strategyTable 12.5: Returns after one year from limited losses and letting profits run....

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1: Increasing your possible reward usually means increased risk

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1: Possible price changes in one day's trading

      3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1: Brokerage is usually the only selling expense for sharesFigure 3.2: Selling shares for less than you paid for them, results in a los...Figure 3.3: The share price usually falls on the ex‐dividend dateFigure 3.4: The time delay between the ex‐dividend date and the payment date...

      4 Chapter 5Figure 5.1: Fall and rise of the All Ordinaries index in 2020

      5 Chapter 6Figure 6.1: Industry sectors divide the market according to business type

      6 Chapter 8Figure 8.1: Total revenue minus expenses equals profitFigure 8.2: Choosing a share with a higher or lower PE than the market avera...Figure 8.3: Uncertainty increases as profit forecasts get further into the f...

      7 Chapter 9Figure 9.1: An example line chartFigure 9.2: An example OHLC chartFigure 9.3: An example candle chartFigure 9.4: Different price scenarios produce different candlesFigure 9.5: Comparing relative price performance using a percent chartFigure 9.6: The three basic trends: sidetrend, uptrend and downtrendFigure 9.7: Combined trends form a longer term uptrend (dashed line)Figure 9.8: ‘Eye method’ of spotting a trendFigure 9.9: Spotting trend variations in OHLC or candle chartsFigure 9.10: Difference between short‐ and long‐term moving averages...Figure 9.11: Using a moving average to identify buy and sell regionsFigure 9.12: Using moving average crossover signals to identify buy and sell...

      8 Chapter 10Figure 10.1: Spread is the difference between the highest bid and lowest off...Figure 10.2: Sudden price drops can cause stop loss orders to be ineffectiveFigure 10.3: The market is falling but the share price is risingFigure 10.4: An example intra‐day chart

      9 Chapter 11Figure 11.1: The optimum level of trading

      10 Chapter 12Figure 12.1: The power of compound growthFigure 12.2: Growth of $10 000 investment at different rates of return....Figure 12.3: Overshoot due to momentumFigure 12.4: Apparent recovery in a downtrend before it continues

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      2  Table of Contents

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Introduction

      6  Begin Reading

      7  Go for it!

      8  Appendix: Details of my portfolio spreadsheet

      9  Index

      10  Advert Page

      11  End User License Agreement

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