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The week ending August 12, 2022
Spare change…. After falling 20% from its April highs to its June lows, thanks to a July rally, the Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index (TSX), is now up 10% from it June lows. Before getting too excited, the TSX is still down almost 6% in 2022. The good news continues in the US where the […]
The week ending June 3, 2022
Last week, I started discussing my process for identifying companies I would like to own, albeit a very, very, small piece of the company. I created a 4-stage process to eliminate companies from consideration relatively quickly while going through the process. These stages of the process are: Stage 1 – Radar Check Stage 2 – […]
The week ending May 27, 2022
“Sell in May and go away,” refers to the tendency of stocks to perform worse in May through October than during the rest of the year. I hope that is not the case this year given the decline in the stock markets. The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average are both in market […]
The week ending May 20, 2022
Investing v Gambling Just when I thought the markets may have bottomed, they prove I have no idea what is going to happen day to day. 😊 Recently I was asked what the difference between investing and gambling is. As an investor, this intuitively seemed obvious but as I thought about it, I realized to […]
The week ending May 13, 2022
If the markets were Clubber Lang, their prediction for 2022 would have been “Pain!”. And so far, pain it has been with the S&P 500 off to its worst start to a year since 1939. Over $10 trillion has been erased from American stocks alone. The Nasdaq Composite Index alone is down 25% in 2022 […]