July Posting

Unique Stock Exchange Trading Ideas.Well it has been an interesting month with the American market hesitating and not quite taking off,but it would seem they and Europe are in the recovery mode. Visit page 1  ADVANCED Stock and Share Trading Ideas to get every other blog that we run,
http://sashares2010.blogspot.com/


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June Posting.

The Rand trades in a range between R7.20 to about just over eight  Rand to the American Dollar.At the moment its strengthening,which now causes the resource shares to fall in price, which might be a good opportunity to buy as the price of commodities especially platinum and goldare going up.  Do go to http://www.barryvision.webs.com/ to see all my blogspots on the home page as well as page one.

May

The market now seems very skittish  as we these days follow the American market to a large degree,but in fact the DOW has only fallen back about 6% from its highs last week.It might fall another 4%.Every time the market climbs the commentators  mention the recovery in America and every time it falls they mention Greece.Quite laughable really ,NO MARKET GOES UP IN A STRAIGHT LINE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRADE DERIVITIVES but to get a good idea of how our market works do read Naomi's latest Derivitive trader. Go to    http://www.2010plusstocktrends.blogspot.com/ 
makes good reading.

Sell off or Sell out?

Just one of the worst sell-off days in most Stock Markets worldwide.We will never get our problems right whilst politicians have not the will to tackle the problems and resort to all tipes of gimmicks to promote their own agendas to get themselves re-elected.Australia is a good exmple at the moment ,where the labour government has proposed a 40% surcharge on miners  profits.,right before the election .It is not likely to pass through the upper house of parlement,but has done irrepalible harm as now investors are been chased away.Supposedly the prime minister has suddenly discovered the minerals belong to the "people". How ever what he does not tell his electorate is how their government will probably fritter away any money so raised.America ,Europe ,South Africa are all fed the great democracy story.Now don't get me wrong ,I fought long and hard for democracy myself. Perhaps we should start to fight for Democracy with Responsibility instead,in future. IMPORTANT;
SEE MY BLOG  ON THE WORLD TUBULENCE ON THE 27 APRIL 2010 go to http://www.sashares2010.blogspot.com

24 April 2010

Gold is here to stay and with HARMONY  mining in Papua New Guinea where the costs of mining gold are around $350 per ounce,this one new mine to watch out for.
Platinim is also on the march  as the world starts to recover .Read the full reports in early may on http://www.sashares2010.blogspot.com/
The next great chase is on
There is a word wide scramble to find LITHIUM,used in electric cars,computers etc.Over a hundred companies are taking part.Lithium is found in clays and brine.

The COAL price  has almost reached $100 per tonne FOB at Richards coal terminal.This is the first time for about a year that it has gone to this price.India and China is now taking 50% of our export coal.Europe is becoming worried about the future as they might NOT be able to get enough supplies in three months time to build up stocks for their next winter.

April update

 Both Mick Davis of Xstrata and Cynthia Carrol of Anglo have now issued statements that there can be no further expansuion of mining in South Africa unless the authorities take action to increase te supply of electricty.
Anglo has taken the additional steps of looking into the possibility of setting up their own power station to add at least another 30 % to the amount of electricty they already  have at their disposal.
Go also to the sashares2010 blogspot for the latest news
Today 9/4/2010 Escom got its 4 billion loan from the world bank to build its coal electricty generating powerstation.There were many reservations but as its going to be a cleaner burning power station along the lines of those at presently being erected in America,those opposing on those grounds really have not got a case.

March

  China has not the same out look as the rest of the world,when it  comes to its mineral resources.
  Although its the largest producer of gold at the moment,it really cares little about  its production,but jealously guards its base and industrial minerals.Any western mineral miner can get a permit to mine gold there and has some freedom as to where it decides to sell its production,but when it comes to the base metal category itis almost impossible to get a permit.The Chinese believe that that asset is best left in the ground.That is why they are now expandng outwards world wide and buying up all  those mineral assets as then they will have their own in reserve. 
Another fallacy is that they need our know how to succeed at mining.This is simply not so,as they have been mining for two thousand years and when they need to know exactly how to mine.
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