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As a trader, your mindset is essential to your success. Last week, we talked about how traders have to be highly disciplined. But it’s also essential to understand how probabilities work, and how your mindset can set you up for success in the long run.

Many of us start trading options or stocks because we want to break free from the rules of life and the traditional norms that everyone else has to deal with. We want to do what we want, when we want to, but in trading, the very rules and boundaries we hope to one day escape are actually the most essential to long term success.

We are often asked about why Insync don’t invest in BMW and have a negative view on the automotive sector. Surely the trend towards autonomous cars is going to be a boon for the industry.

Agriculture has long been ingrained within Australia’s export history but changes within the industry have seen shifts away from sheep meat, despite rising demand which saw a new Australian price record for lamb last month, when a mob of 85 lambs achieved $345 per head in Southern NSW.

The May edition of The Monitor runs through seven events indicating an increasingly fragile market.

At the end of last year, RBA Governor Philip Lowe, deemed cash and card transactions as a “niche payment” highlighting that they are becoming less prominent in our day to day activities.

Being on the right side of disruption is going to be a key driver of generating future investment performance. Many consumer staple companies that have been at the core of quality portfolios are now being disrupted and beer clearly falls into the same category.

Meat & Livestock Australia, in collaboration with the not-for-profit advisory company Agri Benchmark, released an article in January of this year providing a thorough analysis on the ebbs and flows of the sheepmeat market over the most recent decade in particular, as well as providing a prediction for the industry’s trajectory going into the next decade. 

The recent Liberal win at the Federal election has unleashed a quarry of concern from the nation, with climate change being a major topic.

The health and wellness industry is estimated to be in excess of 4 trillion dollar industry that will continue to drive the global economy for the next 30 years or more. Wellness has become mainstream and it is greatly influencing consumers buying and decision-making process.

Traders like to use price action to predict what may happen in the short term. With hundreds of different indicators to choose from, and many different approaches to trading, how do you get an edge?

At the inaugural Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019 in Washington DC, US Senator Lisa Murkowski reiterated what the entire world is slowly but surely catching wind on; the unprecedented expansion of the mineral resource trade.