QAV Blog
Investing insights, podcast episodes, and market analysis.
Tony’s First Year
In this video, Tony talks about his first year as an investor 25 years ago, the mistakes he made — and how much he lost. He decided he had to come up with a scientific investing system based on real experience.
The Rightmost Peak
I got stuck again trying to draw the right three-point trend line to determine the buy signal for MTO today and TK gave me some new wording that provided more clarity. He said: “draw a buy line from the highest point to the rightmost peak”. I was previously drawing…
Importing Stock Doctor into our Investing Analysis Checklist
When you’re a value investor trying to invest in shares during times of great upheaval (like, say, a pandemic), you’ll want to be able to review lots of shares quickly for value and quality metrics. So I’ve been working on a new version of our QAV investing analysis…
QAV S03E09 — Chris Tate
Chris Tate from Talking Trading and The Trading Game joins us today to talk about his approach to investing, futures trading and turtle trading. Then we answer some listener questions about whether or not the market has priced in the coming economic carnage.
Getting Started Guide Now Available
This week I published the first draft of our new QAV Getting Started Guide. It’s 26 pages long and breaks down the checklist step-by-step. It contains a lot of the basic thinking behind Tony’s value investing system. You can find it on our Club Member Resources page.…
QAV S03E08 — The Family Jewels
How are Australia’s two million small businesses coping with the lockdown? Is the government stimulus helping? What will happen to them on the other side of the crisis? To help us get our heads around these questions, we’re joined today by Kane Kelfkens, owner of The Family Jewels, a jewellery business with several outlets in Sydney.
Then we answer some of your investing questions, about dollar cost averaging, the possibility of a US currency devaluation, the best sources to find stocks, and whether or not Tony sells his entire holding or just a part of it when it breaches the downwards three-point trend line.
Notes from Australian Foundation Investments
Tony says: I attended a Skype conference call put on by my broker today with the Management team from Australian Foundation Investments (AFI), a large Listed Investment Company. Here are my notes: — They are big holders in the banks and think that dividends will be…
QAV S03E07 — Beliefonomics
Mark Jones is an old friend of Cameron’s, CEO of Sydney PR and marketing firm Filtered Media, and author of the new book about corporate storytelling, “Beliefonomics”. Tony and Cameron caught up with him in Sydney recently for a chat.
Using A Three-Point Trend Line
You don’t have to be a dummy to be confused about using the three-point trend line. After a year of listening to Tony talk about it, I still have trouble articulating it clearly.



