QAV 538 — The Market Rout

Fund per­for­mance; Reserve Bank mon­ey print­ing and infla­tion; Labor and Franked Div­i­dends; Pulled Pork XTE; share mar­ket rout; port­fo­lio update; RBA burns $50bn in QE; Viva Ener­gy Buys back Coles Express sites; WHC announces $2bn buy back; Apol­lo shares jump on Jucy deal; Kudos to ABC News; Doug’s short­ing exper­i­ment update; back test­ing around observ­ing major trig­gers of a gen­er­al down­ward trend in the mar­ket; the pros and cons of ETFs; ECX con­tin­u­al­ly buy­ing back shares and Rule #1.