About Birch Creek

About Me

After a successful career as a portfolio manager and financial planner, I've been a full-time trader for almost two years. I also am a partner in a private value investing business, Empire Investing, that concentrates on Australian listed companies as long-term investments.


Birch Creek is an anagram of my name and serves for internet anonymity (more or less).

Purpose of this Blog

The purpose of this blog is to:

• observe a short and medium term trader make his living
• examine, evaluate and track trades and opportunities
• analyze strategies and previous trading examples
• learn about technical analysis, charting and macro-market analysis
• hopefully, get excited about how a retail-level trader can compete against the institutions that move the market, and the macro factors that are out of everyone's control!

Blog Schedule

To that end, I'm going to follow this schedule when posting on Birch Creek Trading:

• End of Week Market Analysis, including an overview of the Magnificent Seven
• End of Month Trading evaluation 
• Post-trade analysis of each completed trade (usually that week)

Other Topics

Intermittently, I will post on such topics as:

• Trading System development (I have dozens of different systems I've tested and used!)
• Once or more a week analysis of the best ASX100 and/or ASX300 opportunities 
• Individual stock analysis - please send me your ideas!
• Self-Managed Super Fund trading strategies 
• Using CFD's
• A.B.C Trading (asymmetric/black swan/contrarian)
• Risk and Money Management techniques for different traders and systems
• Personal Psychology - what does it take to be a trader?
• Trading or Investing - is there a difference? What's the point? Can I do both?
• .....and lots more

I hope I can encourage and enlighten those readers who are considering or are actively trading the Australian stock market (or other markets and securities).

I welcome comments and suggestions and will endeavour to respond as quickly as possible.