The Worry Free Investing Challenge is underway. Come on Canada. Let's win this thing! It seems VectorVest has already received several entries that beat the benchmark 6.74 Portfolio Score. Is one of them yours? I would love it if a member of our VectorVest Canada community can capture one of the three grand prize awards: 1st Place [...]
What a start 2016! Global markets tumbled as China halted trading twice and tried to jumpstart their faltering economy. Bloomberg analysts said stocks closed out the week with the worst start to the year ever. Commodity based markets like Canada really felt the pain. Our TSX Composite fell more than 4%, adding to the 11.7% [...]
Are you kidding me? A 53% average annual gain over the last three years? I think most of us would be thrilled with half that return, especially considering this year's 10% decline in the TSX. And yes, all but three of these long-term winners, two banks and a railroad, have posted a positive return so far in 2015. Royal Bank is the [...]
Whatever your investment style and goals, there was something of value for you in Saturday's Canada Online Forum. Click here for the RECORDING. A full room and great synergy from the opening bell right through to the end. Want to know what's causing energy prices to fall? What's the outlook for energy prices going forward? Whether you're [...]
If you haven't already registered for tomorrow's Canada Online Forum, stop what you're doing and click on the link below. You just don't want to miss this event. That's tomorrow, Saturday, December 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST until 12:30 EST. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Here are the Top 5 reasons you don't want to miss out on tomorrow's [...]
VectorVest has given us a few new Candlestick searches to strengthen our Candlestick Arsenal. Senior Instructor Jerry D'Ambrosio explained the latest additions in both our Canada and U.S. databases in two Strategy of the week (SOTW) Special Presentations: 1. Friday, July 24 - Strengthening your Candlestick Arsenal. The new searches explained were: Bearish - Dark Cloud [...]
Tech stocks, led by NFLX, GOOG and EBAY, and the banks delivered solid earnings last week lifting the US markets to a good week overall. AAPL is expected to report Tuesday after the bell. Other notable US earnings reports expected next week include: Haliburton, Yahoo, Microsoft, Illumina, Abbott Labs, Coca-Cola, General Motors, McDonalds, Starbucks, Amazon, Alaska [...]
Early news reports indicate that Greece has voted convincingly to reject austerity measures. Already the 'fear mongering' headlines are starting to appear. 'Chaos' is the word of the day. No one knows for sure how the markets will react, but taking cautionary steps is never a bad thing. (Remind me to give you a little quiz [...]
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Friday’s Special Presentation video was all about using our UniSearch tool to filter through thousands of stocks to find the right stocks that suit your investment style and temperament. For example, if you’re a conservative investor, it might not be wise to invest in stocks that have more aggressive profile and history. We’ll cover this [...]