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Shares, should you be investing now?

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making.

Allen Greenspan
Alan Greenspan

Investing is about buying and selling wisely. The challenge is to avoid arbitrary decision making, and to act consistently based on objective rational. Market Shares provides a mathematically based qualitative analysis for Markets and Companies:

  • Markets - an area where various asset classes are compared to a raft of macro economic data, these being:
    • asset classes - share markets, property, cash and paper, and
    • economic data - economic growth, interest rates, inflation and currencies
  • Companies - ASX listed companies with analysis covering Profile, Value, Risk and Momentum that includes comparisons to peer competitors.

Company by company analysis is useful to assess the advice of brokers and others. Regular investors may be better served by the ability to define and automate short listing of shares to target. Market Shares enables this by the construction of Strategies.

Market Shares provides a consistent Approach by helping you to understand the Big Picture. This is achieved by converting data to information. You are provided with strategy tools, monitoring facilities and accounts.

Share markets are affected by influences of the economy, regulators and governments. Similarly to shares, markets are subject to the extremes of fear and greed. Market Shares provides insights on economic growth, interest rates, currencies and macro pulses of the share market. These provide a backdrop to share investing.

 Objectivity

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham

Share investment decisions are prone to arbitrary thinking that can lack objective rational. Influences on decisions can vary from trade to trade causing inconsistent actions.

Market Shares publishes a structured view of ASX listed companies covering their Profile and share Value, Risk and Momentum.

This structured view helps you to make sell decisions, hold positions even when the price has declined and make that all important decision about what company's shares to consider buying.

A share strategy is a statement of your plan to distribute money between companies. Key factors are your investment goals from income to growth, risk tolerance and time horizon of short to long term. This forms your investment mandate.

Market Shares provides you with a diverse range of criteria to create strategies for your mandate. These can be back tested and refinements made. Alternatively, you may choose to Lease a Strategy.

 Focus

Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

Robert G Allen
Robert G Allen

A share focus demands more than considered share trading. It requires information on your positions, dividends and portfolio performance against benchmarks. While record keeping can be tedious, the yield is clarity of finances and a basis for tax reporting.

Market Shares contains the overhead with easy to follow inputs that are kept to a minimum. Return for effort is optimised with automatic generation of reports and feeds to your Alerts.

Market Shares is now in its third version. It originated in 2001 as a desktop application for the domain of a select few. Redevelopment now presents the publication as an Internet service.

The publication is diverse but the share market and the way individuals view investing varies. As a result, features provided will expand. Market Shares is committed to enhancements. Input is welcome and that relating to enhancements will drive priorities (Contact us).

Share investing is not just about timing trades but also time in the market. Subscribe now for your journey to focused share investing.