Marcus Today

Your Essential Guide to Financial Planning

We reflect on the ASX sector and stock returns of the last 12 months and consider some possible scenarios for the new financial year.

Why bother investing in Australia at all?

A bit of education

Here are your Predictions for 2023 - collected from Livewire and Marcus Today Members.

It’s all so short-term when you write daily. I sometimes go back to newsletters from a year or more ago and, with the knowledge of hindsight, read in minute detail the...

Ithaca is the island in Greece that Odysseus had so much trouble returning to in Homer’s Odyssey.On his way he survives run ins with the Cicones, Polyphemus...

This is a Heat Map of the All Ordinaries index showing the performance every month since 1982 (over 40 years). You can see that the average Australian market...

“I have reigned for 50 years in victory and in peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and...

We are set up for the top of the commodity price cycle. As you know we have enjoyed a fabulous run in the resources sector on the back of rising commodity prices...

Stop losses automatically close your trade at a predetermined price, thus limiting your loss and providing certainty. In this wire, Marcus Today's Marcus Padley...

Stock price charts can tell us a lot, but they can just as easily mislead. Marcus Padley from Marcus Today does a deep dive on five travel stocks whose share prices...

Marcus Today recently launched something he calls the FUFU Portfolio, which complements the ETF or “Really Boring Portfolio” (RBP), writes Marcus Padley. The FUFU...

Signs of the top are things that, (only) in hindsight, will make it obvious that the market was coming up to a top. Things that in the cold light of a correction will...

And the Bull Market is back on. After the wobble on Monday the Dow Jones has jumped over 1000 points in three days. Why did we ever question it? Maybe because the S&P...

In a previous Livewire video wire we introduced the idea of a "one stock portfolio". This story is about a Marcus Today member who took it literally and turned...

Outperforming a rising market is no mean feat. It has no costs, reinvests all dividends the moment they’re paid, and is 100% invested at all times. According to Marcus...

Anyone who's been around markets for a while will have heard the adage that "it's not timing the market, but time in the market, implying that market timing is...

PE ratios, return on equity, net debt-to-equity. All these ratios and metrics are popular among investors, many have a favourite. But how much use are they really? Not...

The big drop in our market on Wednesday (19/5/2021), down -1.9% taking the ASX 200 below 7000 again, is being blamed on “inflation” yet again, in which case there is...