R.B.Brain - Consulting |
Colonial Pioneer Publishing |
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(ABN: 52 791 744 975)
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About
Robert Brain
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Colonial Pioneer Publishing and R.B.Brain - Consulting are the two business names that I use for my publishing activity, and my consulting work, respectively. I have been dabbling with these enterprises in my spare time over many years (since the mid 1980s), until my mid-life crisis in early 2008. I turned my spare time leisure activities (share market and technical analysis) into my full-time activities. Since then, they have been dominating my activities, based at my home-office in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
In 2008
I started
providing support, assistance and tuition to share
market investors and traders. And I now manage Brainy's
Share Market Toolbox web site - an arsenal of
weapons to help you tackle the share market. The Toolbox includes free
stuff, plus a Members only area, and a Premium section.I have also needed to distinguish my own products and services from those of others in my field, so I am using the old High School nickname "Brainy".
I now run this web-based business providing ongoing support and tuition to share market investors and traders, and specialising in supporting BullCharts software users. My first share market seminars - Share Market Boot Camp and Technical Analysis Introduction ran for the first time in 2008, and now run every couple of months..
With the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2010 I started putting together a slightly different perspective of the share market, to try to help long-term investors come to grips with both their recent losses, and also how to manage these bear market situations going forward. This material is summarised on this web page:... www.sensibleinvesting.com.au. And this has been supplemented by the notion of Funda-Technical Analysis.
Recent key high-profile activities have included presenting to a number of small and large audiences, and contributing to a series of articles published in The Melbourne Age newspaper (in the business pages each Tuesday).
Background
I have a tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering, and 30+ years experience in various industries using specialist skills and knowledge in the ICT field - Information and Communications Technology. This includes: automotive design and manufacture (GMH), cigarette manufacture (Philip Morris), food manufacture (Plumrose, Edgell, Simplot), retail (Coles Myer), consulting (WorldGroup Consulting), and at Heidelberg Graphic Equipment. When it comes to computers I have an inherent ability to understand the software and how to use it very quickly - so I amwhat we call a "computer power user". Hence, I am very proficient in a variety of desktop software products (including BullCharts charting software).
My first share market investment was in the 1980s when I didn't know much about what I was doing. Like many people, I learnt a lot very quickly.
In 1987 I learnt not to trust all financial advisors. I took advice from one in early 1987 who recommended that I divide up my small pot of limited wealth and invest in a handful of managed trusts (including a Swiss Trust, and a couple of country-specific funds). He did not recommend a Japan fund, but I chose to invest in one anyway. Then the crash of 1987 happened, and all my investments fell - except for my own Japan fund investment. My conclusion was that with my own research I might be able to manage my own funds.
I then became very seriously interested in the stock market at about the time of the tech crash (2000-2001), and started using the Australian BullCharts software for Technical Analysis and share price charting. I helped to set up the Melbourne BullCharts User Group in 2006, and I have been the Group's convenor since its inception. The group is now known as the Australian BullCharts User Group. I also joined the ATAA (Australian Technical Analysts Association), and now hold both a Councillor position on the Victorian Council, and a volunteer Director position on the national board.
With the computer background, I am very knowledgeable in both the BullCharts software and Technical Analysis. Today I am an active trader in both shares and CFDs.
My core business activities include:
I also have access to a network of people who are specialists in their own right. If there is something that I cannot handle, then I refer one of my colleagues.
- Share market analyst and share trader, including CFDs, both intra-day (day trading) and inter-day. My aim is to maximise profits and minimise losses by selling losing stocks as soon as it is appropriate, and to let profits run.
- Accumulating a collection of presentations that I can deliver to various audiences. This have been prepared for the various training courses and seminars that I have run, as well as for specific-purpose presentations to groups such as the ATAA.
- Writing a Weekly Analysis and Update on the Aussie market, for my Toolbox subscribers.
- Preparing a Weekly Watch List of the stocks that are on my own watch list. I am happy to share this for education purposes with my subscriber base.
- Writing a series of monthly eBook (PDF) Articles on share market, technical analysis and BullCharts software topics for my Toolbox subscribers.
- Writing a series of FREE BullCharts Tip Sheets to help BullCharts software users.
- Preparing and running various training sessions, workshops and seminars to do with the share market, Technical Analysis and BullCharts software.
- Director (board member) of the Australian Technical Analysts Association, and State Councillor helping to manage the Melbourne (Victorian) chapter of the ATAA.
- Director (and chairman) of the community not-for-profit Rimstone Cooperative Limited.
- Assisting people with the use of technology, in particular contemporary PCs and PC software. This includes: installation and setup of software, on-site training in particular software packages, help with using Microsoft Windows and various Windows software, and general PC trouble-shooting. And more recently working with supporting non-Microsoft (Open Source) software.
- Advising and assisting with Internet setup, access and use, including: modems, ISPs, and searching the Internet. Also advising on network installations, including LAN and WAN systems and helping with their installation and support.
- Advising business on the safe and proper use of technology including: proper computer backups, proper power supply filtering and UPS equipment, and contingency planning (in case of disaster).
- Helping businesses to future-proof their investment in technology.
The qualifications that have prepared me for this work are a tertiary qualification (in engineering), and more than three decades of experience working professionally in the I.T. industry, including various management roles. Over time many of us slowly change our key interests. Armed with all the above knowledge and experience, I am now also looking for additional roles as a company director, having joined the Australian Institute of Company Directors in early 2009. This would add to my current voluntary roles as a director of both the Australian Technical Analysts Association, and the Rimstone Cooperative Limited (a community not-for-profit cooperative).
My contact details are included here.
Should you contact me, I will endeavour to respond as quickly as I reasonably can.
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B. Brain B.Eng (Mech), MAICD, AIMM Share market analyst and trader, Consultant, Company Director Author, Publisher, Educator and WebMaster. |
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