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The Week Ahead Video – August 22-26.

Earnings are winding down, but still a few interesting stocks to watch in the week ahead. In The Week Ahead video below we look at few CA and US companies that are reporting. We’ll walk you through a trade set-up for Royal Bank (RY-Toronto) using Jamin’s Trade Analysis Calculator, and we take a look at how the markets are setting […]

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How Oversold is our Canadian Market? And How Should You Play It?

At our live workshops, we often talk about the market cycle of emotions. We use the graphic below to show the cycle. What it shows is that many investors tend to buy too near the top when markets have already been going up for a sustained period leading to excitement and overconfidence. It’s sometimes called the FOMO effect […]

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Canada Colour Guard Report May 6, 2015 – Why we might get a Confirmed Down Call Tomorrow

With the Canadian market already under pressure, Canadian investors were jittery today as the reality of an NDP majority in Alberta began to sink in across the oilpatch and Bay Street. The S&P/TSX Energy index fell 2.8%. The Mining sector was down 1.35% and Electronics fell 6.6%, led lower by Avigilon’s (AVO) 24% decline on […]

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Energy Update – Are you trying to pick the bottom?

By Michael Wuetherick, P.Eng. User Group Leader: Red Deer Alberta Jan.11, 2015 Energy Sector Update – Are you trying to pick a bottom, here are some insider tips? The price of crude oil, and the price of stocks focused on the energy sector, has continued to fall since my last Blog post on November 17th. […]

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Is it time to bottom fish with oil and gas stocks?

We had an unusual situation yesterday when the top 10 strategies in the Derby were all bullish, even as the TSX fell more than 180 points shortly after the open. The strategies were all from the BOTTOM FISHING folder in UniSearch. Which stocks do you think might qualify best for bottom fishing right now? You guessed it, the majority […]

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