NAVIGATING IN THESE SEE-SAW MARKETS. As we head into a typically seasonally strong quarter of the year, six of our seven VectorVest countries are showing signs of a potentially sustained uptrend. All six earned Confirmed Up Call market timing signals from VectorVest within the last few days. Only Canada remains in a Confirmed Down, and [...]
VectorVest’s edge is trend following. It’s a methodology our Founder and Chairman, Dr. Bart DiLiddo, and his instructors have taught for more than 25 years.
This Bull Market is now eight years and eight months old. Amazing! For sure it hasn’t always been straight up, easy money, especially in Canada, but a Bull Market it has been with an annualized Average Return Rate of greater than 14%. There was one significant ‘pullback’ in 2011 of about 20% that some would [...]
With earnings season well underway, the market trend has been rising, however, we should be aware that a pause or even a pullback would not be unusual when the MTI is at the current elevated levels in both CA and US markets. Historically we know the market is nearing a top or searching for a [...]
Canadian Lithium miners are soaring with the demand for batteries by Tesla and other makers of electrified vehicles. Primary drivers of lithium demand are expected to come from hybrid and electric cars, electrical grid storage, cell phones, computers, power tools, iPods and iPads. I have to admit, I arrived a little late to the party with Nemaska (NMX) and [...]
"This coming season is going to bring good news and bad news," wrote Dr. DiLiddo in his Views essay on Friday. He went on to say, if you've been following our weekly Earnings Updates, you already know that there's going to be more bad news than good news. From the information we receive, analysts have [...]
The consensus is in: Our Canadian market is due for a pullback. Friday's Special Video Presentation explaining five techniques for identifying market turns generated some great discussion during our regular weekly Q&A webcast yesterday (Tuesday, March 22). Note: Click here for the webinar recording and also see the attached slides below. We started the webinar with [...]
I hope you had the opportunity to view this week’s Strategy of the Week video. It was titled, 3 Steps to Retire with Peace of Mind. Brian D’Amico, our Manger of Educational Services, delivered a well thought out presentation with tips for how to get your portfolio unstuck, how to generate income from dividends and [...]
Despite the Bank of Canada holding interest rates this morning, Canada’s main stock index slumped after a strong opening to end the day down 98 points. Energy was down 2.1%, materials 1.6%, and financials 0.63%. Bombardier was a bright spot, up 22% after Reuters reported it had rejected a Chinese takeover of its rail business. [...]
Reminder: Our weekly SOTW Q&A webinar will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept 8 at 12:30 p.m. ET. We'll look at current market conditions in Realtime and answer your questions about Friday's Special Presentation which was all about, 'Trading the Trend'. Would you like to identify stocks that just became Buy rated? Or stocks whose RT just crossed [...]
