Help with Share Trading

**daveob** · 11-Mar-10, 06:54 AM

If you're looking at passive ( vs active ) investing where you going to put it in and sit back and forget about it for a while, I would suggest you look into the SAITRIX 40 ETF. It consists of portions of the top 40 companies on the JSE.

If you want to go the active investor route, look for some technical analysis (charting) software that you can track in a daily basis. An added benefit would be a 'scan' facility that allows you to set criteria and look through the market for matching companies.

I do have such software available ( www.market-web.co.za ). As a TFSA member, you'll welcome to the software free ( install file download about 70 Mb ), but it does have a 159pm subscription for the daily updates ( we have to pay the JSE license fees and royalties per end user ).

pm me if you interested.

**eitai2001** · 11-Mar-10, 07:06 AM

Originally posted by daveob

If you're looking at passive ( vs active ) investing where you going to put it in and sit back and forget about it for a while, I would suggest you look into the SAITRIX 40 ETF. It consists of portions of the top 40 companies on the JSE.

If you want to go the active investor route, look for some technical analysis (charting) software that you can track in a daily basis. An added benefit would be a 'scan' facility that allows you to set criteria and look through the market for matching companies.

I do have such software available ( www.market-web.co.za ). As a TFSA member, you'll welcome to the software free ( install file download about 70 Mb ), but it does have a 159pm subscription for the daily updates ( we have to pay the JSE license fees and royalties per end user ).

pm me if you interested.

Thats cool, thanks.

I'm looking at monitoring the shares every couple of days / weeks ... so I'm not buying into it for daily speculation.

Is now a good time to buy in, because looking at historic data, I see the all share and top 40 are roughly back where they were 2 - 3 years ago, where last year this time was a brilliant time to buy.

Do you think we will have another slope again that will take us back to a position similar to march 09, perhaps due to the upcoming eskom tariff's, and probably increased inflation?

I was thinking about purchasing shares in 3 or 4 bluechip or fairly stable shares and creating that as my portfolio instead of going directly into the Top 40. The other thing is I want to invest in co's paying a 2 - 4% DY, whereas I don't think you get Dividends by buying into SAITRIX Top 40 right?

Will take a look at your software a little later ... how does it work exactly, is it like charts and stuff?

Regards

Itai

**Faan** · 15-Mar-10, 02:32 PM

I have just had a discussion this morning with someone representing or offering Mobi Trade and Share Tracking.

For a fee these people offer you the facility of software and support to train you to trade on the JSE. They provide a full package of recommendations on when to buy and when to sell and in the process getting some 80% return on your investment. For a small monthly fee you would get all of this, but you have to buy into the system and they say that this amount is guaranteed that if you are not be satisfied with their system after a year they will refund you on condition that you have followed their guidelines.

You may start trading as soon as you want but they provide you with a simulation package for training purposes.

They advertise heavily in the quarterly booklet of the JSE.

Perhaps someone has already used the package and give us more insight into what they do.