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Would you like some help on how to confidently handle current volatility in the market - from a private trader with over 30 years’ experience (including 18 as a professional broker) ? 

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 In Sydney today, Jim Berg continued with the second of his three 1 day Intensive JB Workshops, our main events for this year. 

For the second week in a row, the feedback sheets showed 100% would recommend the Workshop to their associates! 

Over the day, Jim detailed all the intricacies of both his short term Trading and his longer term Investing Rules. 

In the morning, the most popular topic was ‘Fir...

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Pauline Martin-Brooks, Client Manager at JDL Strategies, Sydney wrote from her own experience of trusting Fund Managers with the shares component of her Super Fund:

 " Wow what a ...

In Melbourne today, Jim launched the first of his three 1 day Intensive JB Workshops, our main events for this year. 

" Jim and John,

 Thank you for the session in Melbourne today. As usual there was a lot of information and we got through it at some pace. …..I now get it, I need the detailed rules and a tight system. Yes Jim after all this time I finally get I need "blue bars & trailing stops...

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In our mentoring-style 'Investing and Online Trading' stock market Newsletter last week we highlighted: 

1.    To protect notional profits and capital, Jim Berg closed our Newsletter’s notional portfolio from January 2008 to June 2009 (during the GFC); again in July 2011 and the portfolio has remained ‘in cash’ throughout the subsequent falling trend in the ASX200. 

2.  &n...

It's now only 1 week before Jim Berg  launches his new 
1 day JB Intensive Workshops in Melbourne on 5 May, then Sydney on 12 May and the Gold Coast on 19th.

These 'Hands-On' Stock Trading & Investing Workshops will be Jim's main events to help traders and investors in 2012.

Jim has planned these ‘learn by doing’ Workshops to help you com...

To celebrate Jim Berg’s  re-opening of our Newsletter Portfolio, today we introduce this new Free Bonus DVD Welcome package (worth $222):

For a limited time only, become a Member of the mentoring-style ' Investing & Online Trading' stock market Newsletter and you will receive FREE copies of Jim’s:

1.   DVD:&nbs...

Last Friday, the 20th April, was a very significant day that we’ve all been waiting for. First, as background: 

In December 2007, Jim Berg warned Members of our ‘Investing & Online Trading’ mentoring style Newsletter of the potential for a Bear Market or crash and closed the Newsletter’s Portfolio 2 weeks later in January 2008, i.e. BEFORE the GFC.

Jim re-entered the market 18 mon...

A message from Jim Berg:

"For many years we have been on the search for someone who shares our mindset and values regarding customer service. I am happy to say that we have finally found the perfect partner in Julio De Laffitte, CEO & Founder of JDL Strategies.

Established for over 16 years, his motto of "one client at a time and each client for life" really resonated with us. 

Julio...

In our mentoring-style ‘Investing & Online Trading’ Newsletter, we currently include those ASX shares and USA stocks which have recently given ‘JB Alert Signals’, according to Jim Berg’s documented and tested Trading Rules.  

In addition, in this week's Edition 349, we have also introduced 2 new sections to show Jim’s analysis of:

1....

 Today's Weekly Wrap features our responses to a series of FAQs received recently from Members on:

The trading strategies covered in our resources at this website and at Jim’s 1 Day JB Volatility Workshops are educational. There are hundreds of different ways to successfully trade the markets. Jim believes every trader/investor who follows his methods has changed the system to suit their own time frame, personality and trading philosophy.  

To complete the education we deliver in our mentoring-style &lsqu...

 In our mentoring-style 'Investing & Online Trading' Newsletter, Jim provides a tutorial each week for you to complete, with the results of his own analysis the following week.  

 In ‘Step 1: How to filter watch lists’ - we show how to determine which shares - as recommended by ‘experts’ - pass Jim’s rules.

The beginning of each calendar year brings...

In Part 1 last week, we showed that the place to invest in 2011 was not for dividends in the big four banks.
{If you missed Part 1, you can download it from our Blog. }

Discussing other options with dividend and long-term investors is often difficult as they usually have been doing it for a long time and it is challenging for them to change. 

We hope this article will help beginners see the value of considering other app...

 Several brokers have commented recently on some great dividend paying companies. One stated that the banks were such great companies to hold over 2011 as “where else could an investor get such a great return?” 

So let’s have a close look at the return from holding the ‘big four’ in 2011 and the ‘income’ generated. And keep in mind that many ‘expert analysts’ believe that equity investment should be focused on...

By Jim Berg and John Atkinson 

1. Baby Boomers Nervous 

Today, with recent advances in medical technology, your retirement could very well be a full one-third of your life, i.e. 30+ years. 

Until the Global Financial Crisis, many baby boomers had been planning to retire soon. They were preparing for what they had hoped would be the best time of their ...

Attention all new (and not so new) traders and investors wanting to protect their hard earned capital and profits: 

Announcing this special Offer to save 46% off RRP for this complete package:

DVD #1: 'Introduction to Trading & Investing' in the stock market

DVD #2: 'Introduction to Money & Risk Management' in the stock market

DVD #3: Jim Berg's 'How to Max...

No trader can expect all of their trades will be consistently profitable, so losses will inevitably occur at some stage. The key is to have more profits than losses and for the size of losses to be kept low, compared with the size of profitable trades. 

That’s why, before buying a stock, it is important to know where you will exit the trade if it does not perform the way you expect. 

To do this, Jim Berg places an Initial Stop to protect...

 Today we announce the launch of our 2 new DVDs: 

i)  Introduction to Trading and Investing – for all beginners wanting to get started safely and wisely in the stock or share markets of the world. 

ii) Money and Risk Management – for all beginner and experienced traders & investors who have yet to implement Money and Risk Management into their portfolios. 

These DVDs are available separa...

 Jim Berg, author of ‘Shares to Buy and When’ trades his own capital and manages his SMSF retirement account from home in Melbourne. 

Jim combines both fundamental and technical analysis; using his world famous JB Volatility Indicators and his common sense ‘Weight-of-Evidence’ approach. 

These ensure he will never take a trade without considerable evid...

Are you totally confident on how to trade and invest in the market – or maybe you could you use some help – from a trader with 30 years of experience? 

This month we announced Jim will present a one day ‘hands-on’ JB Volatility Workshop in Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast – to make it easier for traders and investors to learn all the details of his trading rules – at locations closer to home for some. 

T...

 The chart screenshots featuring Jim Berg’s JB Volatility Indicators in our weekly ‘Investing & Online Trading’ newsletter are produced using JB Premium Charts, which Jim and many other traders have used for several years.

Until now, this low cost JB Premium Charts package comprised the charting program with ASX data and ASX history. 

For those Australian traders wantin...

How often have you looked at a chart and tried to determine whether or not the market is really trending? How many times have you been fooled by your Stochastics or RSI indicators?

How many times have you sold because your oscillators were screaming overbought then watched the market dip a little and then continue higher, stopping you out for another loss? One of the most important things you are probably trying to figure out with any given market is if it is in a trend, and in whi...

 The past year has been a very difficult year for most traders - as the market spent much of the year in a sideways crabbing pattern, with short periods of increased volatility, before turning down strongly in recent months.

On Tuesday 9 August 2011, markets tumbled around the world, following a drop of about 5.6% on the DOW in its previous trading session in the USA. (refer to our coverage in Edition 317). 

In Australia that day, many shares fell substantially, t...

Now you can save on Jim Berg’s 2011 book ‘Shares to Buy & When’:

Jim is not currently planning to release a follow up for 2012. However, he says:  

“ Many of the companies in this book will probably be recommended  again by   ‘experts’ for 2012.  This book provides a valuable  reference tool from  which  it is easy to work out the yearly  return and  compare returns wh...

 Yesterday we received an email from a new visitor to our website, asking; 

“XXX  says sell - what should I do ?”

We replied that we do not offer specific, i.e. personal advice. Each individual must make his/her own Financial decisions and be responsible and accountable for such decisions, based on what they learn and thoroughly back-test and from what they may be advised by their own financial advisor, accoun...

A passion for the systematic approach to the markets and lifelong love of teaching and learning have propelled D.R. Barton, Jr. to the top of the investment and trading arena. He is a regularly featured guest on both Report on Business TV, and WTOP News Radio in Washington, D.C, and has been a guest on Bloomberg Radio.

His articles have appeared on SmartMoney.com and Financial Advisor magazine We thank D.R. Barton Jr for this article, previously sent to his readers at The Van Tharp...

Two of the biggest problems most traders and investors face is knowing WHICH stocks to buy and WHEN to buy & sell. They either: 

⇒ Buy too late - just before prices fall, or

⇒ Sell too soon – leaving substantial profits 'on the table', or

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In late December 2007 Jim Berg presented to his Newsletter Members, his analysis of exit signals prior to the bear markets and crashes over the previous 20 years .

Two weeks later, in early January 2008 Jim Berg closed his newsletter portfolio -- ahead of the Global Financial Crisis. Jim re-opened it in June 2009. Those Members who followed Jim’s lead and switched to cash saved themselves from not losing millions of dollars between them as a result.

In July ...