Podcast Archive

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A record high for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ on some promising vaccine developments and the suggestion that the markets are underestimating the speed of the economic recovery. We've had a good GDP number today and predictably supportive commentary from Philip Lowe as he delivers his...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Our market recovering the 83 point end of month fall yesterday as the Dow Futures rally 300 points off their low this morning and as the end of month "window dressing" reverses. Today we look at a lot of short term sell signals after a tremendous November rally. We look also discuss...

The ASX 200 is looking to close out its best month since 1988 as November comes to an end. This week we have an RBA meeting and the third-quarter GDP number which is expected to show the sharpest rise in economic activity since 1997, while AGM season is also winding down with just a handful of virtual presentations scheduled. A change to the portfolio after a bad weekend for one of our holdings. P...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Bit of a ho-hum day with Wall St closed overnight and not much else going on. Today we note the profit taking in some recovery sectors yesterday after a great rally and wonder whether it is time to take some profits ourselves. We sold RMD and ASX yesterday and have done some numbers on the Tr...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We have sold a couple of stocks in the growth portfolio today - find out which ones in the strategy section today. There is growing doubt about how long this rally can continue, but all good for now. A few sell signals in one particular sector today and we highlight three unpopular sectors th...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The recovery rally is in full swing on the back of a series of positive headlines that we list in the strategy section today. If you want to know the stocks with the most recovery potential we have covered that today by re-publishing the tables we used in the initial bounce in March showing n...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The vaccine news is good, the recovery themes still dominate, the only problem is "Price". Today we list the overbought stocks (50 in the ASX 300) and answer the question "When do I sell". Long term Members will already know the answer.  We also look at the concept of &quo...

We are down to just 104 active cases in Australia. Victoria has just the one active case and Victorians can now take their masks off outdoors on either side of the Vic/NSW border as Dan Andrews relaxes restrictions and the border opens up. Things aren't looking so good across the globe, but astonishingly European countries are now looking to ease restrictions leading into the Christmas period...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Tom has called my hopes that the stock market becomes enjoyable again the "Quiet Bull Market Theory" - lets hope he's right and we have a decade of low stress profitability ahead (some chance!) - in the absence of any strategy setting changes today we look at two hated sectors...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we talk about getting comfortable with the market after four years of constant anxiety.  In two weeks the investor's world has become a much more predictable place. At this point we do not have an overvalued equity market (maybe the US has but not us), we are on a trajectory back t...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST ASX 200 up 14 yesterday, up another 39 today. With the adults back in control of the White House and with vaccine optimism seeping into some of the recovery sectors I envisage a much quieter “Tweetless” life as an investor, steady, predictable, boring. Is it too much to ask for a steady if pl...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Moderna's vaccine news builds on Pfizer's vaccine news to create an all time high in the Dow Jones and the S&P 500. The headlines don't get much better for our portfolios - we are fully invested with the rotation continuing from momentum and growth to recovery stocks, cycli...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We were up 79 points until the plug was kicked out of the ASX servers and the entire market was paused at 10:24 this morning. We don’t have an answer to what has gone wrong just yet, but keep an eye on our website for the latest when it comes through. A few quick updates in the STRATEGY secti...

As the vaccine rally loses momentum we discuss today what the next few months could look like even if there is a vaccine. It is clearly not going to be a clean economic recovery and I anticipate a daily debate on the trajectory of the recovery as we once again hang on every economic signpost to find out if it is going to to clean, fast, slow or messy. Messy looking likely. We have assumed the best...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A bit of a pause in the recovery trade this morning as travel, banks and energy stop to think about it and technology and specialty retail regain some poise. Virus concerned creeping in in the short term - Italy hits 1m cases. Net result the market is pretty much unchanged. Today we make a ch...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST We made a lot of changes to the Portfolios yesterday as we restructured for a post-pandemic world. You can see the changes in the Strategy piece today. Today we dissect the anatomy of the market rotation that is going on. Very happy to see the vaccine news continuing to drive the same themes...

In today's podcast Marcus tells us what to do about this vaccine news. Which stocks to buy and which stocks to sell. CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST What a week - Trump gone, the adults back in charge of the US and, as if that wasn't enough, now we (appear to) get a vaccine that solves Biden's and the World&a...

Our market is flying along this morning as it looks as though Joe Biden has won the race for President. We have a list of what to expect from the election outcome (assuming the transition to power is ultimately smooth (ish) and the Republicans hold the Senate). Meanwhile, the virus continues to spiral out of control as the global case count passes 50m, but Victoria records it's tenth straight...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Waiting for Godot (the election result). Some of the Bookies have closed the books and paid out on Biden. Trump making fraudulent accusations in a press conference dented the market a touch this morning. Recovered. FAANGS now up 10.1% since last Friday. FOMC routine. Lots of stock stuff helpi...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Never a dull moment - find out today how the election (lack of) result plays out for the markets and which sectors are seeing the benefit or otherwise. It seems the lack of Senate control by either party is what the markets like the most, no Antitrust legislation that targets Big Tech is like...

A big night in the US. The markets are watching Florida, they count quickly and a Biden win there may set the scene for a Biden win overall. The market is anticipating (hoping) for a clear Senate majority and a swift and large $5 trillion stimulus bill. After the RBA meeting yesterday rates could be on hold for three years - good for estate agents. Today we look at a number of stock ideas and the...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Melbourne Cup Day (holiday in Victoria), US Election Day, RBA Meeting Day and we have the FOMC this week, US Jobs numbers, the US results season and our own bank sector results season - a busy week. Our market up over 70 today on the 84% chance of a rate cut factored into the futures market w...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Market up 2 points or 0.4% early - nowhere near the 52 point rise that SPI futures were suggesting but we are really just treading water today with election week upon us and all eyes firmly on the US count that kicks off on Wednesday morning. Keeping us busy in the meantime is the Melbourne C...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST The World didn't end overnight after all. Dow Futures down 200 this morning and Apple and Amazon results appear to have disappointed after hours. A Smorgasbord of items in the podcast today, from the US election in 5 days, to the RBA Meeting next week, the Afterpay research after the sal...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Collins Class Rule anyone - Find out today what we are doing about a 3-4% falls in the US and European markets overnight. We look at why the markets are worried, whether it matters, and what you should be doing about it. We also include what we are doing in our portfolios and it might surpris...