Every year there seems to be one or two “hot stocks” that grace the cover of investing magazines. Uranium, biotech and dot-com were buzz words that were synonymous with quick wealth and skyrocketing returns. Like any investing sector, some stocks in these areas were true winners and others were duds. One of the more recent [...]

People who are in their 50s should have a different mix of assets in their portfolio compared to investors in their 20s or 30s. This much we know. Obviously, the closer you are to retirement (and the age when you will start to draw money from your portfolio), the more conservative you would want to [...]

This blog gives us the opportunity to share investment wisdom, post comments about stocks and comment on the market in general. This post may be a little different, but I wanted to touch on how your portfolio in general is a tool that is used to help build wealth in your life. Hopefully [...]

Are you a gambler, or an investor? Or, more importantly, do you think you are a gambler or an investor? Self-perception and actual truth may be different, as we often tend to look at ourselves differently than others see us.
Let’s take an objective look at a gambler’s portfolio and an investor’s portfolio by [...]

I see so many people get upset when the market invariably drops 300 points in a single day. We live in an age where people want instant gratification—we have microwave popcorn that takes only minutes, a VCR (or Tivo) so you never have to wait for a TV show, and the internet makes information [...]

As I sit in my igloo eating my reindeer pie and watching the hockey game, I often reflect on how great it is to be Canadian. We have electricity, running water, and my town even has access to a computer, thus enabling me to write this blog post. Actually, the picture I paint is [...]

The spot price of uranium had a spectacular run over the last few years, heading from a price of around $20 per pound in 2005 to a peak of almost $140 per pound only two years later. Many uranium companies stock prices mirrored this trend, exploding up in price over the past 24 months [...]

When it comes to investing in the stock market, losing money can be an easy task.
Here are five guaranteed ways to screw up your portfolio, cause stress, and most importantly, not make any money. Avoid these and you are on your way to some quality long-term returns:
1) Continually trade [...]