Buy low, sell high: The SuperCoach Investor’s guide to Round 3 trades

In the most pivotal week of the SuperCoach calendar, which trade strategy will result in the most points on field and cash for future success? Investment and SuperCoach expert Dan Begala tells us who to sell and who to buy.

Isaac Heeney of the Sydney Swans.

This is the most pivotal week of the SuperCoach calendar, so strap yourselves in and put your faith in that trusty trade button.

It’s market mover week and your final opportunity to tinker, refine and, if required, restructure your side as we progress towards head-to-head league matches.

You’ve got two trades. Two opportunities. Two chances.

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Don’t know where to use them? The SuperCoach Investor is here to share his tried-and-tested strategies for navigating market mover week.

PRIORITY #1: THE ROOKIES

They’re the most important assets in your portfolio.

We call them the penny stocks, but they’re the lifeblood of your side.

These rookies will serve as the much-needed capital injection required to transition your humble starting squad to a premium-filled scoring machine.

They’ll create fond memories. They’ll generate cash. They’ll be culled.

Rinse and repeat. That’s my motto.

The first priority – for any serious investor – is to acquire the standout rookies that you overlooked as part of your initial squad.

There shouldn’t be any we’ve missed, right? Wrong.

It’s time to bite the bullet and facilitate a trade (even going sideways — swapping a non-playing rookie for a better player at the same price — if required) to ensure you have the right recipe of rookies for cash generation and scoring potential.

It’s not sexy. It’s not exciting. But it’s essential to the long-term viability of your portfolio.

There’s Willem Drew. There’s Charlie Constable. There’s Matthew Parker. And there’s plenty more.

Get them in!

With player prices about to change, we need to play the SuperCoach stock market.

PRIORITY #2: THE DISAPPOINTMENTS

They’re our top-shelf stocks, the blue chippers. Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google … the big dogs.

The players who promised big returns all pre-season, but, to date, have delivered underwhelming dividends to their early adopters and investors.

They’re the big guns, but now they’re in the gun.

It may sound like the spine of the All-Australian squad, but Dustin Martin, Elliot Yeo, Buddy Franklin and Isaac Heeney are now in the crosshair of frustrated investors.

They want answers. But this time it’s not about their franking credits.

It would take a bold coach, but an ambitious and innovative coach, to part ways with a blue chip star on the back of a poor fortnight of football.

There’s no time for blind faith, however, and 30 trades have historically been superfluous to The SuperCoach Investor’s needs.

I will be pulling the trigger this week – via a “long-short” strategy – that will most likely see me bid au revoir to Dustin Martin for a highly speculative stock.

A private equity-type number. High risk. High reward.

He’s done it before, he’ll do it again and it’s little Tommy Rockliff.

Isaac Heeney is battling an ankle problem.

As a rule, you should only consider trading your blue chip stars in instances that (A) inject immediate liquidity (points) to your side; (B) create enhanced valuations of your stock portfolio through price appreciation (cash); and (C) delivers a bona fide star (top 8-10 in their position) to your side.

Rocky – in my mind – ticks all of those boxes.

He is a must-have, but most importantly, reflects the most elusive phenomenon in the SuperCoach market place: “ARBITRAGE”.

PRIORITY #3: THE MADMEN

Recruiting mid-priced players in SuperCoach is fraught with danger and inevitably ends in tears.

These are the underpriced players – the “burn men” – who have lit up the first fortnight of football and exceeded all market expectations.

They’ve made the stock pickers, including yours truly, stop and take note.

Returning stars like Brodie Smith, Zac Williams and Tom Liberatore have rebuked the notion of “mid-priced madness” with solid opening performances.

They’re all the rage.

Then there’s the start-up, James Worpel, who looks on the verge of a second-year breakout as the general of the Hawks’ midfield.

If you are chasing rankings and consistent dividends on the field, it would be remiss not to consider the services of any of these stocks if they were omitted from your starting squad.

They’ll serve as the perfect downgrade in coming weeks for an underwhelming premium – such as Dusty – but also loom as an attractive upgrade candidate for a misfiring (or absent) rookie such as Michael Gibbons or Marty Hore.

Consider them, but trade with caution and consult your investment committee first.