Canada’s main stock index seesawed today in extremely choppy trading. Weakness in utilities and commodities capped gains in other sectors. Gains in Valeant Pharmaceuticals and financials helped outweighed losses in energy stocks. CLICK HERE to watch the complete CA Colour Guard Market Video. In the video we look at a few top performing searches and [...]
Canada’s TSX rose today for the 6th straight day, holding on to a slim 11 point gain at the close after soaring out to a 128 point gain in the first hour of trading. Investors seem to be moving back into non-commodity dividend payers including banks and consumer names while pulling back from resource companies. U.S. [...]
Canada's Primary Wave is Up for a second day. Have you got your shopping list ready? If not, join me tomorrow, Monday, August 3 at 12:30 ET for our regular weekly SOTW Q&A presentation. We'll answer your questions about Friday's Special Presentation, Master the Viewers Tab, and we'll use the VIEWERS and graphs to find and analyze [...]
by Stan Heller, Consultant, VectorVest Canada The Energy Index rose by 1.25% today, leading the TSX higher by about 71 points. Among the top price gainers was Chinook Energy (CKE) up 13% and Macro Enterprises (MCR) up 10.88%. Financials and Materials also had a good day, both sectors up more than one-half a percent. For [...]
by Stan Heller, Consultant, VectorVest Canada VectorVest introduced a new model portfolio in the US market In Friday's Special Presentation after optimizing the Midas Touch - RAL search. Two minor tweaks to the search criteria made a significant improvement in a year-by-year comparison over a 5-year test period. Just look below at the equity curve [...]
REMINDER: Our regular weekly SOTW Q&A webinar is tomorrow, Tuesday, May 26 at 12:30 ET due to today's US Memorial Day Holiday. You can still register at http://news.vectorvest.com/CA_SOTW_QA_052615_registration.html In addition to answering your questions about Friday's Special Presentation about, How To Stress Test Your Trading Plan, we'll use tomorrow's presentation as our weekly CA Colour Guard [...]
Canada's main stock index ended lower on Wednesday, snapping a three-day winning streak. Bank stocks and other financials led a broad retreat, offset somewhat by gains in oil and gas shares. Of the 26 stocks comprising the S&P TSX Financial Capped Index, only Fairfax Financial and Element Financial managed gains on the day. The worst [...]
In last night's Canada Colour Guard video report we discussed the possibility that VectorVest could signal a C/Dn call (confirmed down) on the Canadian market this morning if the VVC/CA (VectorVest Composite Index) opened lower. Well, the VVC/CA did open sharply lower and the market call did turn to C/Dn, as you will have noticed if you [...]
by Stan Heller, Consultant, VectorVest Canada Do you have a plan for dealing with this growingly volatile, up and down market? Let's talk about it during our Q&A webinar tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. EDT. We'll discuss the defensive options trades presented in Friday's video and study a few of your stocks using VectorVest's 4 Tips for [...]
Our Friday Special Presentation focused on three qualities to look for in retirement stocks: 1. High Relative Safety 2. High Dividend Yield, Safety and Growth, and 3, High Comfort Index. All three are terrific indicators found only in VectorVest. During our Q&A Webinar tomorrow at 12:30 pm EDT, we'll use a few searches to find [...]