Canada's main stock index and the VectorVest Composite Index (VVC/CA) closed higher today, driven by strength in consumer staples and discretionary; metals, financial and technology sectors. Lots of major news events this week could affect CA and US markets. The Color Guard is only mildly bullish, and caution when buying stocks long is advised. OECD [...]
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 [...]
Bulletin: BitGold today announced a CAD 51.9 m acquisition of GoldMoney.com. Check the news feed in VectorVest for more details. The Financial Post reported yesterday, "Shares of BitGold are caught up in a speculative frenzy that has some onlookers recalling the heady days at the top of the tech bubble in the late 1990's." The article [...]
Using Delta To Find Top Dividend Stocks. We use the Delta operator in a VectorVest search anytime we want to see a percent change in any Value over a specific time period. In the example below run Friday, May 15, it's interesting to see which dividend paying stocks have the highest percent price gains during the [...]
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 [...]
By Stan Heller, Consultant, VectorVest Canada Friday night's Strategy of the Week (SOTW) presentation about the 6 BIG Mistakes investors make is sure to cause some self-examination by most of us. Which of the 6 was your biggest mistake? In my case, there was probably a tie between at least two of them. We can only [...]
With the New Year approaching, it's a good idea to study last year's biggest price gainers to see what signs and indicators we might have overlooked. It's a great way to improve your chances of finding next year's big winners just as they're breaking out. (Double Click on Image to enlarge). You may have your [...]
The vote is in. VectorVest investors attending our weekly SOTW Q&A Monday, December 22 gave us their top 40 Retirement Stock Picks for 2015. Included is a mix of conservative and prudent picks. Most are geared for income such as high-yielding Financial 15 Split Corp (FTN), Crescent Point Energy (CPG) and Brookfield Power (BEP.U), but others [...]
by Stan Heller, Consultant, VectorVest Canada Dec 4, 2014 There seemed to be a lot of good news for Gildan Activewear (GIL) in its quarterly earnings release this morning. However, the company missed analyst's expectations and delivered a gloomy outlook causing the stock to fall more than 13% at one point this morning. It's since [...]
