Podcast Archive

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The market not really behaving but no strategy change. Still very much in uptrend. Today we publish some of your ONE STOCK PORTFOLIO picks. A lot of resources biotech and technology stocks and a lot of smaller stocks. One Member has been playing the One Stock Portfolio game for some time and...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. A bit of a glum start to the week with covid outbreaks and state lockdowns pushing the market lower despite a positive Friday night on Wall Street. Travel stocks are the worst hit and the names that rallied through the lockdowns last year are receiving boost, as the trans-Tasman travel bubbl...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Not much happening on the strategy front today so, instead we tell you the Marcus Today Team's Personal One Stock Portfolio tips and invite you to send me yours. We also look at your Post-It Notes - predictive messages you can fit on a Post-It Note that would make the next twelve months...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Powell has lowered the risk overnight yet again with comments about inflation and interest rates. Our market taking a breather after the 107 point gain yesterday. The NASDAQ hits a record high. Some iron ore upgrades. Today we talk about whether bitcoin is an investment and look at the meanin...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We are back on track this morning after the 134 point fall yesterday. Wall St's 500 point fall on Friday has been followed by a 500 point rise on Monday. It looks like that 1000 point Yo-Yo was a "Quadruple Witching" effect rather than a "Sell everything the Fed are going...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. A nasty start to the week, with our local market playing follow the leader after Wall Street tumbled Friday on the back of hawkish Fed commentary. CBA back below $100 but technology is holding up well (despite the prospect of rising rates) and forcing the conversation on a couple of popular...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The markets have survived the FOMC's "Peak Accommodation" message for the moment, but it can take some time for these things to seep into the asset allocation meetings of the world's biggest fund managers and investment banks. Its a "Pivot Point" in policy and co...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we talk about "The Ones that Got away" - I've left about $15m on the table in the last few years, stocks I should never had sold. If only I'd done nothing, instead I fiddled, too clever by half. We also look at the next Paladin. Paladin turned $10,000 into $13,500,00...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we introduce a new format - in future we are going to separate strategy and put it in a section called STRATEGY SUMMARY distinct from other content.  At the moment we are at the lowest setting for MARKET RISK and are fully invested. No reason not to be.  We will also, in response to  Me...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we introduce a new format - in future we are going to separate strategy and put it in a section called STRATEGY SUMMARY distinct from other content.  At the moment we are at the lowest setting for MARKET RISK and are fully invested. No reason not to be.  We will also, in response to  Me...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A bit eventless today ahead of the CPI number in the US tonight which could (but probably won't) set the next trend for the market. FOMC Meeting next week. RMD having a good day on positive company vibes. Today we do some basic technical analysis training and highlight some of the weakne...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The market lost 50 points this morning after the Chinese CPI number. The market on tenterhooks waiting for the US CPI number on Friday morning our time - it could top or pop us. More risk than reward.  We talk today about Winners and Losers and the similarities between Gambling and Investing....

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A great podcast today telling the story about the $12 million dollar man - one of our Members who turned $156,000 into $12,000,000 by focusing on the "One Stock Portfolio" method, and he isn't done yet. In the podcast today we talk about how he did it and what the method involv...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. Marcus is back on Livewire as they pick his brain on how to analyse stocks. A check-in on the “Extraordinary Correlations” in the market and a note on correlation vs causation – safe to say there are some interesting findings. Plus, the usual look at what is in store for us this week.

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST   The ASX 200 notched a new all-time high this morning, briefly reaching 7203.3 before giving back all of the early gains to now be down 10 points. The market is tracking along nicely despite the soft morning, and we will be looking to put some cash to work over the coming days after organica...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Not a lot going on in the market and not much to say on the Strategy front. The Victorian outbreak taking most of the headspace as Emma and I cancel our Port Douglas holiday on Monday. To keep you amused today we have distilled a list of the stocks with the most BUY recommendations from our A...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST When fishing it is always good to know the difference between a Carp and a Trout. Carp feed off the bottom, Trout eat fresh meat and there's the difference. Carp are ponderous and dirty, Trout are fast and fit.  Today we break the top ASX stocks into Carp and Trout and in so doing explai...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we talk about the Chinese attempts to get the iron ore price lower. They succeeded last night but the resources stocks are up today and it seems that even if there has been manipulation and hoarding, they are miscalculating one essential reason for the iron ore price spike - demand. We...

  CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST. A bit of a lethargic feel to the market after last week. Nothing overly concerning but it feels as though we’re running out of steam a little in the short term, and the bitcoin crash isn’t helping the risk appetite. This week we have a handful of results, including one of our MT Growth Por...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Volatility has picked up overnight (Bitcoin down 31% then up 33%) and today Technology has bounced in our market. Was that the bottom or a pick up in volatility that says "Watch out"? Hard to know. We've been watching our market sentiment indicators and they are all coming off...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Which bank is the best bank? We find out in the Strategy piece today. Its a clear win. We talk about the current sell-off - no more than a loss of momentum so far. But we've been cashing up and wondering whether to do more.  The Chinese upset BHP and RIO and the rest of the resources sec...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we look at some of the sentiment indicators that should help us spot the top of the market. We also talk about ESG, BHP, iron ore and we note that we have moved a little bit "risk off" selling some technology stocks and buying gold stocks today. We also include some brokers ch...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Tech is back in fashion (at least for a day), with the “buy the dip” mentality is outweighing the bears for the moment. An interesting sentiment survey in the MT Stock Discussion Group shows our members don't think the bottom is in just yet on one popular tech stock. Elsewhere, it's...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We've been doing a bit of selling at the "pointy" end of the market over the last couple of days and have moved to 10% cash. Most of the stocks we have sold have been in the technology space and need a bull market, upward momentum and a positive sentiment to underwrite their sh...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The market tumbles from Monday's all-time closing high - now 2% below it. What's the opposite of lighting the blue touch paper? Tech proves a defensive sector today as traditional "value" based stocks turn turtle. For a moment. Today we talk about the Budget (quickly), the...