A man named Pierre Lassonde was the founder of one of the first gold royalty companies, Franco Nevada.
30 years ago, he created a theoretical ‘curve’ to outline the life cycle of a junior mining company.
The idea is that you want to position in these stocks at a certain time for the best chance of a fast up move…
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Editor Callum Newman provides detailed research and analysis on some of the smallest and brightest listed companies on the ASX.
Each month, Callum recommends one of Australia’s rising star stocks — detailing exactly what makes it a buy recommendation and how it could deliver dramatic returns.
If you’re bored of blue chips, not fazed by a volatile market and looking for a little more excitement and risk in your portfolio, look no further.
Australian Small-Cap Investigator focuses on companies whose shares trade for cents on the dollar — and are often shunned or ignored by those in mainstream funds and brokerages. It has a simple mission: To make you big money from small stocks.

There are more than 2,300 listed securities in Australia. Data reveals that several of these go up every day, no matter what the index does. Which ones? Callum Newman uses artificial intelligence (AI) to find out.
The AI is deployed into the ASX to look for securities with less than a $2 billion market cap. It identifies the stocks within this group that are showing positive momentum. And then it determines which are likely to keep moving up.
The AI then delivers a shortlist of stocks to Callum, who uses his vast market knowledge and experience to zero in on the best company from the shortlist to trade and its optimal entry point. He then monitors the position while open, providing further instruction and final sell alert.