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                                 On Saturday, July 28, 2018 Theme- Comprehensive Stock Trading & Investing Toolkit for Rest of 2018 Sub Topics Review of 2018H1 Market & Economic Performance:  How Fiscal Reforms and Stimulus Will Support the Market/Economy in 2018H2. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss how historically the Fiscal and Monetary policies have influenced Nigeria’s stock market, the implications for the second half and it would drive equity prices higher as recovery continues. 2018H2 Trading Checklist: How to Find Winning Stocks in Nigeria’s Volatile Equity Market After the prolonged correction, volatility is here to stay for the rest of 2018. Is it time to start worrying about losses suffered so far, a flattening yield curve or time to relax due to the outstanding earnings season? Better yet, is there a way to harness increased volatility to your adva...

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family... Kofi Annan Knowledge and action is really what differentiate you from other people. Just as food is good, energise, grow and keep the body healthy so also is knowledge for your mind. Furthermore, knowledge is what keeps our mind in good shape, it helps remove prejudice, bias and lower risk when taking decision inclusive of investment decisions which is why they always say that it is what we don't know that affects us. Similarly in stock, it is knowledge that helps you understand the current trends, models and systems that will help you get the best ROI and reduce the risk. Because things are changing fast and it is only through knowledge that you can change adapt fast. If you look indepth, some of the knowledge about the market that was valid years ago are no longer valid today which is why I get took my time to package my INVEST SUMMIT into DVD so t...

The asymmetric volatility phenomenon is the observed tendency of equity market volatility to be higher in declining markets than in rising markets. Better still, asymmetric volatility is a situation in which the volatility of a security is higher when the market index is performing poorly than when it is performing well. Asymmetric volatility is a real phenomenon where market uptrends tend to be more gradual and downtrends tend to be sharper and steeper thereby becomes a cascading declines; the daily range in prices tends to be higher during downtrends than uptrends. There has been no consensus reached on the causes of asymmetric volatility, but factors such as leverage and panic(such as the recent equities market structure by NSE or The Exchange) are often attributed to it. Investdata Academy

Nigeria's equity market started the week on a scary note on Monday with the composite All-Share index plunged from the opening of the day's trading session in continuation of last week's correction wave to record the highest loss position in the last six trading days of down market. It had a 6-wave decline, and by midday rallied off on the strength of Dangote Cement's gain to reduce losses, after touching intraday highs of 43,198.00 from lows of 42,080.55, which it rolled over, closing the day at 42,737.89. Trading for the day reflected market players’ fear and panic selling which was as a result of extended negative sentiments of corrections.   With this in mind, as we said on Friday, the psychology always changes when stocks go down. At this point many search for stories to fit the price, trying to raise up a negative scenario unfolding for the market. Having been involved in the market for more than 15 years, I have seen, within short and long term cy...

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Market Update for Week Ended February 9 and Outlook for Feb 12-16 Photo Caption: From left, Pai Gamde, Chief Human Resources Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, NSE; Asisat Oshoala, MON, African Female Footballer of the Year; Tinuade Awe, Executive Director, Regulation Division, NSE; Mojisola Adeola, Head, Council Secretariat, NSE during Closing Gong ceremony held in her honour at The Exchange on Friday, February 9, 2018. Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange moved south sharply to end last week lower, marking the second consecutive week of a down-market in 2018 after the year’s early rally that pushed many stocks to their 52-week highs. The five-day back-to-back losses were attributed to profit taking and sell-offs occasioned by panic in developed markets that were extended to other markets of the world. During the ensuing panic sell-offs, institutional and foreign investors that positioned earlier watched keenly. It i...

The nation’s equity market in the last three weeks has recorded a mixed performance after rallying for four consecutive months to a five-year high at 45,092.83 basis in January 19, 2018 due to impressive Q3 numbers released in October. The numbers were considered good enough to reverse the two previous months of pullback, helped also be the influx of positive economic data, increasing foreign inflows and supporting activities in the last quarter of 2017 all of which boosted market and economic recovery that overflowed into 2018. So strong was the positive momentum that it wiped away what has come to be known as the January effect (when the market always closed red) for the first time in 15 years. The NSE recorded all of 15% growth in January. It is therefore not unexpected, just as in any stock market of across the globe that profit taking would happen, leading naturally to panic selling that became the order of the day. This pulled down the market in the last trading week of J...

Market Update for February 8 It was yet another bearish Thursday on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange as the indicators plunged from the very beginning. First, it extended the corrective wave for the fourth consecutive days of decline, and by midday the composite index rallied to intraday highs of 43,616.14 which was the day’s resistance from its low 43,261.66 point to reflect high volatility as the ongoing shakeout or correction momentum continues to subside, indicating that reversal is imminent, despite the mixed technicals at the end of the Thursday’s trading session as revealed by the huge volume traded and declining negative market breadth. The economic recovery and transformation that had supported the inflow of funds into the economy and stock market are still intact as international investment banks continue to grow their presence in emerging markets, with Africa and Middle East remaining their focus. This is especially as bond sales, M&As and trading activit...

Chart Summit! Chart Summit!! Chart Summit!!! Investdata Consulting Ltd is organizing another workshop where experts would simplify market jargons with the aim of increasing understanding and increasing the pool of retail investors. Theme: ABC of Technical Analysis for the Novices and Advance Traders Have you traded the stock market before and failed? It is a known fact that about 90% of those who trade without knowledge and understanding of the dynamics will end up losing 90% of their capital most of the time. You don’t have to be one of them. Therefore, when you attend this Practical ABC Technical Analysis conference, you would learn how to trade such that you become one of the lucky 10%, who manage to consistently play the market profitable by themselves through our SIMPLE trading strategies and buy & sell signal setup. Consistency is the key to equity trading and investing successfully. At investdata we have been teaching investors simple and proven strategies whi...

Market Update for February 7 At the end of midweek’s trading session, Nigeria’s stock market had a volatile, but mixed session to close south in continuation of its three consecutive days of correction, a signal that reversal is imminent, after the benchmark index gapped in the upside at the early trading hours to intraday highs of 43,921.17 and lows of 43,534.71 points. The market’s mid-morning rally resulted from bargain hunters trying to take advantage of low prices to position. Price depreciation recorded by Dangote Cement and Nigerian Breweries, the NSE’s two biggest stocks by market capitalization by the afternoon session finally pushed the market downward on low volume and negative breadth. With the ongoing market shakeout gradually coming to end ahead of the earnings reporting season, investors should focus on companies with juicy profit margins and strong balance sheets that will rebound powerfully after their dislocation from this correction wave. The sell down has ...

January market Review and Outlook The 2017 bull-market on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) extended to the first month 2018, defying what had come to be known and accepted as the “January effects,” a coinage that resulted from the fact that the month had repeatedly closed in red a investors were believed to besiege the market for funds to settle pressing demands after the December spending spree. At the close of trading for the month of January 2018, the composite NSE All-Share index record a 15.95% gain, the highest over the past two decade, according to data mined by Investdata Consulting Ltd. The significant gain is attributable to the renewed local and international investor confidence in the Nigerian market, arising from the undervalued nature and the intrinsic value inherent in most stocks on the bourse. Recall that the NSE had suffered a three-year back-to-back string of losses, before the 2017 rebound, just as the economy also recovered from the 2016 recession after 2...