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5.45am Tuesday morning, I jumped in the 4WD with my 2 sons and drove to Streaky bay in South Australia.  We made it as far as Caiguna on the Nullarbor Plain, approx 1300km down the road.  Another 1000km was left to drive the next day.  Last time I made this trek was 12 months ago and I have quite fond memories of my stock market experience at the time. It was the best dollar return I’ve had for less than 1 week trading with options.

Let me share it with you…

It was May 2006 and I was driving to SA for the first leg of the “I Fired My Boss” 2006 tour.  When leaving Bunbury, I located 4 high probability trades to place.  They where bought calls on NCM, BHP, NWS and a 4th one I cannot recall.  All trades where placed on the ASX, australian stock market and to a total value of circa $9,000.

I placed the trades, jumped in the car and proceeded to drive across one of the longest road streches in the world.  When I reached a place called Madura Pass, I called my broker (Angus Knight) and asked where the market was at.  The response was “up 100 points” or something to that effect.  At this point my interpretation of the charts, over the phone, didn’t require me to take any action. 

Action would mean:

Taking a trading profit, or..

Making a donation to the market (taking a trading loss)

Imagine the onlookers faces as my wife, Cherie and I did an Irish jig with the kids on the middle of the Nullarbor.  At this stage we had made approx $5,000 and all we had been doing was drive across our beatiful country.   Imagine the carefree attitude I had when filling the fueltank at 1.85 per litre:

Cool! Petrol is expensive.  That means my shares have gone up!

The next day we arrived at Streaky Bay. It was Friday afternoon. The market was closing in 1 hour and I hopped on a computer to check the market again.  My trades had gone up from $9000 to $24,000 in only a few days.  I applied a fast bout of Technical Analysis and determined that now was a good time to cash in some trading profits.  $15,000 profit in a handful of days: Thank you for coming!

This years cashflow trades for the trip?

Well.  Besides my longer term trades, I’m doing no options trading right now.  No renting shares. No writing puts. Last year I was chasing a dollar and cashflow. This time, I didn’t even think about placing any trades as I was pre occupied with other stuff.  However, I can tell you this much: 

As much as it was a fantastic experience and a real good story to tell, making $15,000 in less than a week, it is an even better experience not needing the money and not even caring about placing trades for a quick profit. 

For those of you that know me, you know how well my websites are going.  Even though I make more out of the stockmarket than I ever did in a JOB, the internet puts it all to shame.  It’s a great life and I’m loving every moment of it. It’s where my passion is.

Now, in the tradition of Jamie McIntyre of 21st Century Academy, I’m modelling his attitude of having one week off every 4 weeks. I started with this trip to SA.  Some time away will help me further develop my Emotional Intelligence and some wealth strategies.  Imagine how many MP3’s you can listen to in a 46 hour driving round trip of the Nullarbor Plain?

The kids didn’t have to put up with Financial Intelligence tapes.  They watched DVD’s all the way and I didn’t get one:  Are We There Yet?

Until next time, I wish you Universal Success

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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Hello Fellow Bullhunters

What I would like to give you today is a brief overview of the different types of analysis you can use to help you in selecting shares. The methods most commonly used to select shares to invest in are:

1. Fundamental Analysis is when we use the history of a company, combined with their financial status and the management of the company as a whole. Basically, what we hear on the news and read in the papers gives us this information.

2. Technical Analysis is charting the stocks and backtesting historical data to look for various patterns that the stock might be producing. By using this method, we see that history has a way of repeating itself. Especially in the blue chip stocks.

3. A combination of both.

These methods are widely used. In fact, Warren Buffet, the second richest man on the planet uses just fundamental analysis. He has been doing this for many, many years.

Personally, I like to use technical analysis. Reading charts is a simple method of learning about a stock. The more practice you do, the better you get at it.

Bullhunters, I learnt how to chart stocks by hand when I was first interested in trading the stock market. Drawing candlestick charts took plenty of discipline, but it was well worth it for me. It has given me a background in understanding charts.

The software available today makes it unnecessary to chart stocks by hand as you have it all at the click of a button now. There is a vast array of charts available to you on the internet as well. You can have a look at bigcharts.com, marketwatch.com and finance.yahoo.com.

I would like to recommend for those of you who are here to learn about trading that you start to look at some charts to get an idea of some of the trends that certain stocks have.

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I have just returned from Barbados… I enjoyed a little R & R, and got in with the locals and all that Calypso music. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any cricket in town while I was there… they certainly love their cricket… there are signs up everywhere you go about how much they love their cricket. Everybody should get there at least once… it really is a nice place to visit.

Angela Recchia
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