Tag: Investing

Invest Now When The Odds Are In Your Favor

| December 4, 2008 | 5 Comments

As an investor, you come up with an overall approach to meet your objectives and then bring in the stocks, bond, real estate etc. to your portfolio to execute the plan. Of course you expect that there will be frustrations along the way – just like we can’t control the weather, we can’t control the [...]

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Don’t Let Emotions Get In The Way of Money!

| November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

The markets took another beating yesterday with the S&P/TSX plunging 756 points to fall below the 8,000 mark for the first time since 2003, closing at 7,735 and the DJIA fell 360 points to close at 7,637. The events of this week are sure to keep investors questioning their actions or inactions with respect to [...]

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Is Opportunity Knocking For Investors?

| November 10, 2008 | 10 Comments

Buy Low Sell High If you have heard it once, you have heard it one thousand times. This age-old advice is the epitome of the saying “it’s easier said than done”. In recent months, my favorite sector, the financial sector has taken a beating. Many of my favorite stocks are now boasting dividends in the [...]

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October’s Panic Selling May Cost Investors Dearly

| November 5, 2008 | 6 Comments

A few weeks ago I wrote an article titled Panic or Profit and many folks thought I was just spouting theory.  While that may be, the recent evidence of my “theory” has been proven at least half true thus far. According to the Globe and Mail, panic sticken investors in Canada pulled a record $8.45-billion from the [...]

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