Columnist Aaron Lynch

Many traders spend their trading day looking at charts on just one timeframe - perhaps a daily chart, or an hourly chart, or a fifteen minute or even a one minute chart. They get locked into a single viewpoint, and while they can get very familiar

In the last 3 weeks the Australian equities market has seen a relatively significant fall, with the benchmark ASX 200 index falling from highs around 4900 in mid-October to lows around 4500 this week. This was a comparable pull-back to the one in

As I write it is Thursday 29th October 2009. Anyone with a taste for history may remember that this was the date of the Wall Street Crash in 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Here we sit on the 80th anniversary of one of the defining

This has been seen by some sections of the market as the final tick in the checklist that we are ready for all the good times to return. There is an old saying that numbers are important until they are not important anymore. To the trader they may

Whether they realise it or not, all traders and investors are in fact making market forecasts every time they trade. For example, assume you buy some shares of BHP. You would have an expectation, based on anything from research, experience,