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One thing about gold is that is it's not overly difficult as a layman to get an idea of and understand drill results in explorers or production in a miner.

Oil and gas the total opposite imo.

Agreed on drill results , how many zombie juniors are there out there living if cherry picked assays.

I think you’re always better off buying the streamers if you want exposure to gold.


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Cautious about the market in general.



I've closed my put spreads and shorts (for a loss) but haven't added anything except VGTX.

Added PDD a few days earlier and VGTX yesterday. FUTU's done well for me, too.

Also shorted USDJPY yesterday - has done well, but I've set a limit at 149 because that's where I bought FXY. If the Japanese Ministry of Finance has intervened, this is going significantly lower.

Let's see if Chinese stocks keep outperforming...

(Oliver Kell is an Investing Champion BTW - no literally, that's what he was awarded)
 

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A series of worse than expected trading updates has hobbled consumer stocks like Baby Bunting (BBN), Temple & Webster (TPW), Super Retail Group (SUL), and JB Hi-Fi (JBH).

Banks were dragged lower by a combination of Westpac's (WBC) ed-dividend (harmless) and Commbank's (CBA) disappointing Q3 update (less harmless).

Somehow, don't ask me how or why, lithium stocks continue their recent resurgence. Who would have thought it!?
 
I checked my investments the other day and RNU which was tipped in here (over a year ago?) still going pretty strong. I also have an investment in Qantm which I think I saw recommended in the AFR a few years back, which is up well over 50% since I bought in. Pleasantly surprised as the last time I checked it was actually down on my purchase price but has shot up since March.
 
Think I can kiss my $8.5K on AVZ goodbye

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Down to my last $1.5K from $40K and that’s invested in WC8
From what I've seen you just seem to mostly punt on ultra long shot micro caps. Nothing wrong putting a small % into that for some fun but as a main strategy it's always going to be very tough and tbh probably not much better than going to the tab.
 
Think I can kiss my $8.5K on AVZ goodbye

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Down to my last $1.5K from $40K and that’s invested in WC8
Have to cut losses earlier than that if you're going to punt specs exclusively imo. preserve capital as you're going to get alot wrong on the spec end which is littered with lifestyle companies with good salesmen
 

ASX to slide as Wall St sinks on rate setback

Timothy Moore, Tom Richardson

Australian shares are poised to fall sharply at the open of Friday’s session, reflecting weakness across commodities and after Wall Street’s sell-off.
ASX futures fell 83 points, or 1.06 per cent, this morning. Brent oil flirted around $US81 a barrel. Gold slid below $US2350 an ounce. Iron ore retreated below $US119 a tonne.
“Iron ore futures edged lower as traders took stock of last week’s announced support measures for the property sector [in China],” said ANZ Bank. “They are likely to remain a welcome boost to sentiment. However, their impact on demand for iron ore and steel may be lacklustre.”
All three US benchmarks closed lower as investors viewed the latest purchasing manager data as reason for Federal Reserve policymakers to hold rates higher for longer. Both the May flash manufacturing and services PMIs came in better than expected.
“US yields rose, the USD was higher and US equities fell,” National Australia Bank said. “Stronger PMI data out of the US was the proximate driver, and while those did come in much stronger than expected, the context of upside surprises in US economic data having been rare for the last month or so may have supported the size of the market reaction.”
The S&P 500 finished down 0.7 per cent; the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.4 per cent and the Dow lost 1.5 per cent.
Nvidia rose 9.3 per cent, lifting its market cap to $US2.55 trillion. Apple slid 2.1 per cent, taking its market cap to $US2.87 trillion.
US markets will be closed on Monday for Memorial Day.
 

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