Hap­py Mon­day, Light Brigade! And a big wel­come to all of our new mem­bers. Mar­ket This Week (All Ordi­nar­ies) The All Ordi­nar­ies rose approx­i­mate­ly 2.9% for the week to close around 9,445, its high­est lev­el on record.  Oil prices eased on reports Iran and Oman agreed to…

Hap­py Mon­day, Light Brigade! And a big wel­come to all of our new mem­bers. As we are now in “Report­ing Sea­son”, I’m not going to be buy­ing any­thing until their reports come out. This is a prac­tice we start­ed in the last cou­ple of years as it became appar­ent that many…

Hap­py Mon­day, Light Brigade! And a big wel­come to all of our new mem­bers. Let me talk about some­thing — “lumpi­ness”. Yes, our returns are “lumpy”. That’s how sys­temic invest­ing works, folks. Some­one emailed me over the week­end say­ing they weren’t com­fort­able with the…