Is it safe to re-enter the markets?
With the markets dripping red over the last month, it’s prudent to ask whether this is the start of a major bear trend or its final exhaustion.
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The dangers of over-analysing the market
It can lead to analysis paralysis, indecision and losses.
Van Pletsen Hardus Van Pletsen Financial Services Conduct Financial Services Conduct Authority Licensed
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The four fatal errors that will wipe out your trading account
QuickTrade did an analysis of its traders, and losing traders had these errors in common.
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The psychology of a successful trader
Some traders take losses personally, and begin to doubt their own strategies. Successful traders do the opposite.
Van Pletsen Hardus Van Pletsen Jesse Livermore Corporate Finance Institute Irresistible Pull Irrational Behaviour
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The coming shake-up in the online broking market
Some online brokers offering contracts for difference (CFDs) without the requisite licences may have to stop trading – or join a licensed online broker.
Van Pletsen Hardus Van Pletsen Bridget King Financial Sector Conduct Authority Intermediary Services Fais Piper Advisory Services
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FSCA issues licences as part of move to clean up online trading
QuickTrade, Khwezi Trade and IG Markets SA among those now licensed.
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Lessons from successful traders
Those who succeed at trading do not get emotionally invested in the markets. Learn from those who succeed, not from those who don’t.
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The stats are in: educated traders beat casual punters by a mile
By not over-trading, taking losses when a trade goes wrong, and banking profits on a consistent basis.
Sophia Coetzee Van Pletsen Hardus Van Pletsen Africa Sanjay Chiboo Humphrey Borkum Financial Sector Conduct Authority
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A combination of micro-renewables and gas may hold key to Africa's energy crisis
Experts say utilities should focus on providing energy to industrial users and leave many consumers to self-supply with solar power
Source: upstreamonline.com
A combination of small-scale renewables and gas may hold key to Africa's energy crisis
6 April 2021 13:45 GMT Updated 6 April 2021 14:14 GMT in London The days of vertically integrated utilities such as South Africa’s Eskom are numbered and — particularly in a post-pandemic world — such companies will be unable to effectively tackle the challenge of providing Africas people access to electricity and clean fuel. “We need to attack it in a different way,” said Louis van Pletsen, founder of energy investment company InAfrica Holdings, on last month’s Afri...
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