Podcast Archive

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Waiting for a few issues to resolve themselves - Election, Stimulus and a Vaccine. Meanwhile we're fully invested. There are always issues to resolve themselves. Hoping the election result is a positive and some vaccine news helps this week. Meanwhile we look at the banks, their dividend...

"Back in the Band" - the market has peaked at the top of the trading range and is back in its sideways trading range. Weak indicators overnight. 27 sell signals in the ASX 200. Cases soaring in the northern hemisphere (zero in Victoria again). A week of election uncertainty, US results, Australian AGMs, a CPI number and the ANZ results. We are fully invested and staying that way although...

Zero new cases in Victoria puts Dan Andrews in the firing line as the Federal Health Minister urges the Premier to announce further reopening steps today. Virus cases in Europe and the US are still spiralling out of control, but US bond yields are on the rise as the Presidential election approaches. There's plenty happening on the corporate calendar this week with AGM season heating up locall...

It was a big weekend for Victorians with the next stage of  ‘reopening’ announced yesterday, but the heat stays on Premier Dan as a joint statement from Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg and Greg Hunt declares that each day of lockdown comes at a heavy cost to mental health and the expense of 1000 jobs.  The week ahead is all about AGM’s, production reports and a couple of speeches from RBA members....

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Bit of a routine day today - There is a quick strategy summary in the podcast today, reasons to be cheerful from the RBA, one quality sector that is looking like its bottom of the range and bouncing and the usual technical observations. We have a look at the Energy sector...a trade in waiting...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Today we publish the re-built Income Portfolio. We have effectively gone fully invested (almost) and today you can see a collection of stocks that is managed by us daily, most of which have a gross yield above 5.5% and which should provide a low volatility portfolio have beats fixed interest...

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST Good Morning everyone - An interesting day yesterday with the Banks flying on the open and cooling by the end of the day - one broker has called the bottom of the sector - find out why in the podcast today and why its not that exciting. We have sold a stock in the GROWTH portfolio and made ad...

Our market is up 7% in seven days and at a 7 month high - highest since the March low - find out why we are rallying - all sorts of reasons today. The US rally was all FAANGs last night. We talk about the rather positive reaction to the Telstra and CBA AGMs today, the stocks exposed to the tide of money flowing from big fund managers into wealth management platforms, the drop in coal and one stock...

While Trump is playing down the virus over in the US, fresh restrictions are looking likely across parts of Europe as virus case numbers continue to climb. Locally the second week of AGM season sees some big names set to update the market on their trading conditions and outlook, while Q3 US earnings season kicks off this week with a 21% average fall in numbers expected across the S&P 500. 

CLICK HERE to sign up for a free trial of the Marcus Today newsletter including our daily STRATEGY PODCAST A significant market theme is washing through the market - find out what it is and why it is significant in the Strategy section of the Marcus Today newsletter today. We also include the ETF portfolio and the Growth Portfolio in all their detail after the changes yesterday - both portfolios a...

The market is rallying as it starts to discount a 'Blue Wave' sweep of the US election. Technology, wealth management and BNPL are hot to trot once again as the market goes risk-on. We have made some changes to the portfolios today, the main driver being to make sure we are not under-invested as certainty returns. We also highlight a collection of stocks brokers think are the Budget bene...

Our Summary of the Budget is a thirty second read. We look at a few individual stocks that have come out as Budget Winners. We also look at the debate over whether the RBA are going to cut rates and laugh our 1990's heads off with good reason. There is a summary of our current STRATEGY thinking and a very interesting "Election Trade" idea that could turn some stocks from their curre...

A new addition to the growth portfolio and we have topped up on two stocks - all three are domestic recovery rather than growth plays. Trump out of hospital removes some of the uncertainty and pops the market back up. Not a significant market factor. The market is still "holding the line" at the bottom of the trading range but with COVID restrictions tightening in the Northern Hemisphere...

A strong morning as optimism takes over and reverses the damage we saw on Friday afternoon after it was announced that President Trump had contracted COVID-19. The Federal Budget and the RBA dominate a big week in the economic world, while nine new cases and zero deaths in Victoria sees Melbourne on track to continue its slow reopening. 

A quiet close to the week - we could all go to lunch early if there was a restaurant to go to :-( In the absence of an uptrend our higher cash levels remain appropriate. Lots on next week. The Budget and a possible (but unlikely) RBA rate cut. Jobs numbers in the US tonight. US results season coming up. Long weekend in NSW. Today we look at four stocks in some detail. Two of the stocks are super p...

Today we talk about the "End of Quarter" fall we saw yesterday, reversing today...all a bit of a storm in a teacup. Despite that the ASX 200 chart doesn't speak "enthusiasm" for the market and being more cashed up than usual seems appropriate. We add to a holding in both the Growth and Income portfolios today, make a comment about yesterday's US Presidential (Un-Presi...

A rough day for the market - if the fall today is an end of Quarter thing (today's fall does seem to be a bit of an aberration) it should reverse tomorrow. A number of bullet points today - oil well down, financials dragging, only gold up. Read the STRATEGY section today for some important education about the ETF market  - the message is that you don't get something for nothing but many...

Lots of interesting stuff in the STRATEGY piece today - I suggest you listen to the strategy podcast with the Marcus Today Strategy section in front of you. It'll make a lot more sense. Today we have made some changes to the MT Growth and MT Income portfolios and I include a number of other stock ideas and observations today that should interest. We also talk about Superhero, Ginsburg, Comey...

A quiet morning in the market as Victorian's begin the long road out of lockdowns. Strength in tech and travel stocks but weakness in the banks as we wait to see if Friday's move was a one-day re-rate or enough to bottom the beaten-down sector. A few little bits and pieces on the calendar this week as we come to the end of the September quarter.

Does the stock market ever make you look stupid? Well we are in good company then. Find out what made us look stupid today. We run through our major strategy talking points points from this morning's meeting. We consider banning writing about the US election. We publish both main portfolios and we give you a lesson in the difference between Daily and Weekly charts and tell you the truth about...

It was all about Bill yesterday - the Westpac economist that popped the Bond market at a most inconvenient moment taking the equity market with it. We talk STRATEGY today, why we're cashed up, happy to be, and a few stocks we're looking at at the moment. We also have the usual string of technical observations although a lot of the buy signals may just disappear today. 

A good day in the market today - we identify an interesting list of stocks that performed well in a falling market yesterday - a defensive list for the next time the market falls over. We made a lot of decisions yesterday in the wake of the "Winter Wave" revelations in Europe - the outlook for global economic growth is deteriorating without a vaccine - the announced UK measures are laugh...

We are making some significant portfolio changes today - large falls in European markets on the back of a significant second wave has dented global economic recovery hopes and we have reacted. Volatility has picked up, and the markets are in downtrend. We have cleaned out and cleaned up our portfolios and raised cash for another day. You can see the changes we have made in the Strategy section of...

A bit of a busy morning to kill any notion that we were going to have a dull week due to a lack of major corporate or economic events. Some optimism creeping in as Australia gets an economic outlook upgrade and Victoria reports its lowest new case numbers in three months.  A quiet week ahead on the corporate calendar with a couple of late reporters about as interesting as it gets, leaving the focu...

We publish the Growth Portfolio today and outline our current Strategy. We show you some charts that say sell and buy on the same stock at the same time and tell you why and what to do about it. We also give you an insight into how we scan and present charts in our software. Chris did a fabulous Webinar yesterday on Technical analysis on the ASX Top 20 - the recording is in the TRADING IDEAS secti...