I’m sitting here really early this morning. The sky outside is a blazing brilliant blue, like the colour you’d find in a kid’s Derwent coloured pencil collection. The morning sun is ricocheting off the pool creating a rainbow of gorgeous moving water reflections on my office walls. I starting to get a bit nostalgic and…
When I first walked out of my last actual job in the mid-90s, I have to tell you I was more than a bit scared. After I shook off the shackles, I realised that there would be no more nice fat deposits into my bank account from my employer. It gave me a jittery, butterflies…
Typically when a trader or property investor enters the market for the first time they start thinking about how much money they will make. The reality is that a new trader may never make any money because reward is a phantom that may never exist. The only constant in markets is risk. Despite the current…
Much of the day in the life of an investor is spent managing information. In trading, there is no shortage of information. It is possible to track the opening and closing of all major world markets courtesy of cable television. The internet has brought the dealing desk into the home with vast information resources available via…
I see many investors marching to a steady drumbeat of burnout. There’s something about the A-Type personality that piles activity on activity as if the various aspects of their lives were like pasta sheets in a lasagne. So many of us aren’t taking time to stop, look, listen and live. I don’t have a problem with the…
Many years ago, I remember getting to the cash register with a trolley load of shopping. I handed over my debit card, and the machine rejected my card. Oh far out – there wasn’t enough money in the account! I thought there was more. I had lost track of my income and expenses, and I…
This is something most traders discuss, but so few property investors discuss. It’s a topic so essential to trading effectively, that 99% of the successful traders I train in my Mentor Program implement… yet, less than 5% of property investors utilise. Yet – the property investors who do use this method are among the richest…
Are you ready to pounce now the market is providing you with some signals? Or, are you quietly freaking out? Over the years that I’ve been trading, I’ve learned quite a few things about how successful traders and property investors operate. Here are three facts that are at the front of every happy, well-adjusted and…
I received an email last week that kind of shook me. Here’s what it said: “Louise, I’m a fan, but I have a piece of advice for you that I do hope you’ll follow. You’re telling people too much. As an example, I know that you openly tell people how it took you 3 years…
How are you likely to react if you suddenly made a huge windfall profit? Or, (perish the thought), a larger than expected loss? From a neurological perspective, we have some neurons in our brain called Mirror Neurons. When we look at a sport or listen to someone else’s experiences, these nifty little neurons fire off…