Category Archives: Basic Stock Evaluation

Thanks to the Globe and Mail for their recent article about InvestinginCanada.info

I would like to thank Larry MacDonald for his recent article about http://investingincanada.info that was published in the Globe and Mail.  If you don’t know Larry, have a look at his column, “Me and My Money.”
Here is the link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/me-and-my-money/real-estate-appraiser-was-hooked-after-university-stock-market-competition/article1446725/
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For those that just want a quick peak, here is the article:
Larry MacDonald
From Saturday’s Globe and [...]

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Top 10 Questions to Ask your Investment Advisor

Some investment advisors are great and can improve your investment returns 10 fold while lowering your risk; however, the overwhelming majority are prize idiots that are no better than a used car salesman in a fancy suite.  This list of questions is meant to help you weed out the knowledgeable and skilled financial advisors from [...]

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Preferred Shares in Canada

Generally, Preferred Shares are a type of stock that regularly pays a dividend of a set amount of money out of the company’s profits. On an investment scale, you might consider preferred shares to lay in between Common Shares and Bonds. For most, preferred shares will provide a normal dividend distribution and these are normally [...]

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Google Predicts End of Recession?

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has recently been touted in the media for the company’s accuracy in displaying real time infection data for H1N1 (Swine Flu). If you go to Google Maps there is an application that tracks the number of people searching for symptoms for the illness. It’s pretty amazing that the graphical representation of this data [...]

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ETFs are Glorified Mutual Funds

Did you every here of a time when history repeated itself?
It happens all the time. Does anyone remember the many transfers of hegemonies in history? This basically means the dominant world power at a point in history and the transition periods from one dominant society to another have similar circumstances throughout time, War. Let’s make [...]

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Long Term Investor – How much of a stock should you buy?

http://canadianfinanceblog.com/2009/09/03/carnival-of-pecuniary-delights-22-ufc-edition.htm There are many different strategies that will alter the amount of a single stock that you should buy. This article will focus on the Long Term Investor and provide an example using Potash Corp./Saskatchewan Inc. (Public, TSE:POT).

The method that I am about to explain comes from Van K. Tharp’s ‘Trade Your Way To Financial [...]

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10 Steps to Insider Information

How to Find Insider Information
Have you ever wondered how to find insider trading information for a stock you are interested in buying or selling? Did you ever want to know if the CEO or Director of a company was dumping the stock or buying it up?
This information is all free to the public and [...]

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