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QAV S04E27 — The Mystery of The Reducing Scores
This week we discuss our EOFY result (48%); decide to sell VUK again; MYR and Solly Lew; SOTW is GRR; the Sell price for BCN; contrarian investor Michael O’Higgins’s ‘Dogs of the Dow’ strategy; Duncan and The Mystery of The Reducing Scores; the Copper and Coal commodity prices; the chart for SUL; how to understand IMA’s market depth report; Magellan’s intention to transition its High Conviction Trust listed investment company into an active exchange-traded fund; would apply 3PTL to a chart given the effect of a consolidation like for COG; and the sell lines for banks.
TK Journal 2021-07-08
As you’ll hear in today’s episode, Tony decided yesterday that we should sell VUK from the QAV portfolio and replace it with MIL. VUK has dropped below its sell line again. He’ll also sell it from his portfolio tomorrow, once the episode is out.
TK Journal 2021-07-01
I’m calling time on Boom Logistics (BOL) and removing it from the scorecard. PGL is added to the Top Scorer’s List with a score of 0.16
QAV Portfolio EOFY Report 2021
Our FY21 portfolio report.
QAV S04E26 — The Naked Auditor
A massive two hour episode (for club members) this week! We talk about Gary’s Strawman results, a final portfolio update for the FY, Tony’s SOTW (BCN), Dylan the Intern’s latest modelling on flatlines, the chart for MIL, why we sold ATL, lots of questions about using Simple Moving Averages, thoughts on DSK, why Buffett still owns Coke, and then we finish with an interview with club member James Oliver who is an auditor with a major accounting firm, and talks us through what we should be watching for when it comes to qualified audits.
TK Journal 2021-06-29
We’re replacing ATL with MML in the QAV Portfolio. This isn’t financial advice. Please make your own decisions. The reason for selling ATL was that we discovered they changed their auditor between the last two financial reports. It had a qualified audit which…
TK Journal 2021-06-25
Image Resources (IMA) has crossed its Sell line and is removed from the Top Scorer’s list.
TK Journal 2021-06-24
Tony has just advised me to buy VUK back for the Dummy Portfolio. Also: BTW, in his last download he added Tower Insurance (TWR) to the Top Scorer’s list with a QAV score of 0.15. And he is selling his own holding of ANZ and replace it with West African Resources…
QAV S04E25 — The Big Mac Line
With the ASX in free fall, we talked about ATL’s sell line, selling VUK, some new stocks to hit my scorecard, including CLX, NGE, VTG and SHJ, Tony’s SOTW (KSC), comparing using MACD as a charting tool to the 3PTL, more thinking about how to use the new flatline rule, how to use indicators to pick a conservative stop loss, routines for maintaining a portfolio, and the Woolworths demerger.

