As summer ends, we move into more autumnal conditions in the markets. Things remain relatively stead but we can expect a pick up in the weather ahead as corporate reports and macro factors start to set the course to year end.

As summer ends, we move into more autumnal conditions in the markets. Things remain relatively stead but we can expect a pick up in the weather ahead as corporate reports and macro factors start to set the course to year end.
Beyond the weather report, the other essential maritime document is the Nautical Almanac. In many ways, a form of Market Almanac could be a useful addition to the information system for investors and the following document is a version of it, based upon the Apollo view of the markets.
According to Edwin Starr, absolutely nothing, but shareholders of BAE Systems and other European defence stocks might beg to differ as the chart below shows.
There should be a better conversation about how to manage both risk and reward in equity markets.
In the world of data – quality is everything. We have now made Apollo data even more accessible and user friendly as the whole database can now be delivered seamlessly to your workflows via Snowflake – a data warehouse built for the cloud.
Everything we do at Libra is from ‘the bottom up.’ The sector and market signals are an aggregation from the signal stock level. Investors can start at the market level and cascade from sectors to stocks to see the best opportunities.
In the same way that many investment advisors failed to sell certain stocks when the time arose (see previous posts) they may not have the skillset or process that allows them gauge when to buy. In markets such as this, an answer is to be found in Benjamin Graham’s Margin of safety. The principle of […]
Knowing when to buy a stock is one thing but understanding the risk of loss is another skill altogether.
In May 2007 the sector traded at €200. During the GFC (Great Financial Crisis) the sector hit a low of €24 in March 2009 and from that moment until September 2023, the sector was an investor’s graveyard. In October 2022 Apollo deep value signals appeared equivalent to the GFC and Covid period. A Need to […]
As someone who has been around long enough to be following Tesco’s stock market journey since the late 1980’s I found myself bemused by the share price reaction to the news that Asda was on the verge of announcing a price war. Over the years we have got used to price wars, particularly the threat […]