Invest My Way: The Business of Making Money on the Australian Share Market with Blue Chip Shares

Some investors want income and others seek growth. Regardless of your strategy, do you know when to own shares and when to stay in cash?

Designed for DIY investors looking for simple, low–risk strategies for managing their shares, Invest My Way is the definitive guide to buying blue chip shares on the stock market. Beginning with the basics of investing, this book includes information on managing portfolios for optimal capital growth and dividends.

Sharemarket expert Alan Hull explains the ins and outs of investing in blue chip shares in easy–to–understand and engaging language, including how to:

 Hunt down and manage growth and income shares

 Use charting and fundamental analysis to your advantage

 Manage risk like the professionals with the 2 percent risk rule

 Time the stock market to maximize your returns

Make money from blue chip shares – invest Alan Hull s way!

Acknowledgments ix

About the author xi

Preface xiii

Part I: The business of investing in blue chip shares 1

1. What is an investor? 3

2. Managing financial products 17

Part II: Managing a blue chip share growth portfolio 31

3. Introduction to growth shares 33

4. Rules for entering the market 51

5. Rules for exiting the market 67

6. Let s take a test drive (by Simon Sherwood) 81

Part III: Managing a blue chip share income portfolio 101

7. Instruction to income shares 103

8. Fundamental analysis (by Martin Roth) 115

9. Searching for income shares 131

10. Managing income shares 143

Part IV: Timing in the market 155

11. Instruction to market cycles 157

12. Financial markets as complex adaptive systems 171

13. Using the right tactics at the right time 195

14. Plan to take action 219

Appendix: Blue Chip Report 10–year simulation results 227

Recommended further reading 239

Index 241

 

Alan Hull has been investing in blue chip shares for decades and is one of Australia s most respected sharemarket experts. He has appeared on Sky Business Channel and is a popular speaker on the seminar circuit. Alan is the bestselling author of Active Investing and Trade My Way which, together with Invest my way, provide readers with a complete stock market solution.