Stay calm and carry on For the last two months I’ve watched my three Portfolios fall up to 30%, with some stocks falling more than 75% (looking at you Shopify) . A fall of 30% is mentally painful and not for the faint of heart. Having gone through this with the dot com bubble at […]
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The week ending February 25, 2022
Certainly uncertain I had planned on opening this week’s post on the market’s ongoing slide and its impact on the three Portfolios but an event on the other side of the world gave the global markets a scare. That event was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let’s look at how the uncertainty and then certainty […]
2020 & 2021 In Review
Indexes While most of the world had a tough year, it was quite a good year for each of the major North American markets. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) had its best year since 2009, gaining 22%. Helping fuel the rise of Canada’s leading stock exchange were government programs to keep the economy going, covid-19 […]
The week ending February 18, 2022
When I got back into investing in 2018, I thought I would never buy shares of an oil come as the green revolution was underway and I’m very optimistic about renewable energy and electric vehicles. All I knew about oil companies was the price of oil had fallen from over USD$ 100 a barrel in […]
The week ending February 11, 2022
It was an interesting week to see how global actions impact the stock market. After an initial dip, the stock market headed upward with Energy and Technology stocks leading the way. At the end of the week technology stocks had retreated, and energy stocks, after a mid week lull, headed up at the end of […]
The week ending February 4, 2022
As the saying goes, fool me once…. Is the rise of the market this week a genuine rise or a bear market rally (a brief rise in stock prices when the overall market has been falling)? I find myself feeling like Charlie Brown trying to decide if Lucy will pull the ball away at the […]