Columns
Darryl Morley is a well known and respected newspaper columnist and professional trader, who is a former stockbroker. He has been writing his avidly followed Day Trader column on trading and technical analysis for the Melbourne Herald Sun and the Hobart Mercury for over 11 years.
Darryl is likely unique, in that he actually writes about his own trades, his reasoning for selecting or rejecting certain stocks, how he sets his targets, his stops, his exit strategies. He’s also not shy about staying out of the market if the signals are not right and explaining why. This is very different from most talking heads, who are not dealing with their own money.
New columns are updated to this site every week.
These columns are written and published as a chronicle of Darryl’s trading. Any information provided is of an educational nature only. Please note that we are NOT a stock tipping service, either through the newspaper column nor through the workshops. Our hope is that by watching and learning from Darryl’s trading technique, you can start to learn to take control of your own finances, which we believe is especially relevant in today’s turbulent market.
Day Trader column for March 15 - 2016
It looks like our market is going to break the downtrend and if the move continues 5,400 is the next resistance. A break above that will see the trend strengthen and the 2015 high of close to 6,000 on the All Ords will be the level where we see if the market is really going to take off.
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Day Trader column for March 8 - 2016
Last week was certainly a more positive week than we have seen for some time. The three market indices all formed weekly pivot points to the upside, and so too have all four banks now formed weekly pivot points to the upside.
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Day Trader column for March 1 - 2016
Of the stocks I mentioned last week which had formed weekly pivot points to the upside, only one Wesfarmers (WES) formed a weekly pivot point to the downside last week. All the others mentioned actually made higher highs for the week on Monday, then reversed the move up and had significant moves down for the rest of the week.
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Day Trader column for February 16 - 2016
As I explained last week I thought the market looked set for a further fall and that got under way last Tuesday. Don’t blame me I am just the messenger. The indices all fell below their recent support levels. The S&P/ASX 200 and the SPI contract both fell and closed below 4,800 and the All Ords closed below 4,900, so it looks like the 4,600 support level mentioned on several occasions over the past month or so will be tested in the near future.
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Day Trader column for February 23 - 2016
Last week may well have been the reversal from the move down which may well mean the previous week’s move down was a false break of the trend line discussed last week. If this is the case, we may be seeing a reversal to the upside but the top end of town will now need to reverse. Last week saw a few stocks, like AMP, Lend Lease (LLC) and RIO form weekly pivot points to the upside.
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Day Trader column for February 9 - 2016
The moves down which were indicated by the divergences I spoke about last week came to pass last week. The indices hung in on Monday, but fell sharply on Tuesday and Wednesday. The fall was arrested on Thursday but the hesitation in the market on Friday will likely lead to further falls. If the market continues to fall the next support as previously stated is around 4,600.
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Day Trader column for February 2 - 2016
In last week’s column I commented that the three market indices (All Ords, ASX/S&P 200 and the SPI contract) had all formed reversals to the upside on the weekly chart. Those reversals followed through last week and they all formed weekly pivot points to the upside. A weekly pivot point being a close for the week above the high of the week which formed the lowest low of the move down.
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Day Trader column for January 19 - 2016
It looks as though the optimism I was seeing three weeks ago when the All Ords closed above the downtrend which had been in place for the past twelve months was misplaced. I said at the time I would want to see a retest of the downtrend line on the daily chart to confirm the break. However, the daily just whistled on down and found no support at the line.
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Day Trader column for January 12 - 2016
Despite the fact last week saw our market have its biggest one week fall in several years, the value of our modest portfolio actually moved up by a couple of hundred dollars for the week. Only two stocks had small losses for the week. More on that in a moment.
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