Light Trades 2025-09-05
Here’s what we’re trading today.
Here’s what we’re trading today.
In this episode, Cameron and Tony dive into what’s being called the most volatile reporting season on record. They explore outsized market reactions, continuous disclosure failures, and whether sell triggers should be handled differently during earnings season. The duo compare the strong performance of their Australian and US dummy portfolios, both up around 12% in 30 days—far ahead of their respective indexes. They also weigh in on Trump’s tariffs being struck down in US courts, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, and whether America is sliding towards authoritarianism. On the investing front, they cover results for Qantas and Motorcycle Holdings, Tony does a pulled pork on Tyro Payments as a surprising new fintech on the buy list, and answer listener questions about strange trading behaviour, class action lawsuits, and the risks of gold miners in West Africa.
Here’s what we’re trading today.
Portfolio updates, buy list, and last week’s episode notes.
In this week’s episode of **QAV Australia (Ep. 834)**, Tony is back from his week off on the Murray, and he and Cameron dive into a wide-ranging discussion of reporting season results, portfolio performance, and lessons from both winners and losers on the ASX. They cover everything from Super Retail Group’s recent surge to the ongoing woes of Ingham’s, and ask whether CSL is still the “great Aussie stock” it’s made out to be. Cameron revisits the so-called “Pulled Pork curse,” revealing the true track record of Tony’s stock deep-dives. They also debate whether new metrics like gross profitability or company buybacks should be added to the QAV checklist, and troubleshoot the dreaded Excel “out of resources” error. Finally, Tony presents a Pulled Pork on MA Financial (MAF), a fast-growing diversified financial group, before the conversation drifts into music legends, AI research, and whether Keith Moon was the most entertaining drummer of all time.