The Successful Investor

I hope you are enjoying and profiting from our free TSI Network daily updates.

Our dailies aim to educate you on the best practices in investing. They cover a range of investment topics—from how to make the best value stock picks to gold investing and capital gains tax—and explain conservative investment strategies you can use to grow your wealth with less …read more »

It’s hard to believe it’s already been two years since we launched TSI Network. When we flicked the switch in the summer of 2009, after months of hard work, the web site already contained a wealth of stock market information and advice — over 2,000 individual articles, in fact.

Exciting new developments make now a great time to be a …read more »

Tonight at 6 p.m., we’ll issue 2 urgent “sell” recommendations in our Successful Investor Email/Telephone Hotlines. If you’re holding these 2 companies, we think it’s crucial that you sell them immediately to take profits—and avoid the potential for big losses—in your investment portfolio.

Read on to learn how you can be among the first to get full details on these …read more »

If you haven’t yet visited our new Facebook page — www.tsinetwork.ca/facebook — you really should. We guarantee the free, risk-cutting investing advice we post there will make you a better investor.

We hope our Facebook page will become a place where Canadian investors go to share their thoughts on a range of financial topics. If you like the information and advice …read more »

Every day from Monday to Friday, we post free investment reports on TSINetwork.ca, our company website. We also email the reports to all our paying subscribers who have given us an email address, and to anyone else who requests them.

As a subscriber to The Successful Investor, you’re in a particularly good position to profit from this free service. It’s …read more »

On Friday, January 14, The Successful Investor will unveil a stock that’s primed for explosive growth in 2011. In fact, we think this company’s prospects are so bright we’ve named it The Successful Investor’s #1 stock pick for the coming year.

More on how you can get all the details on this exciting #1 pick in a moment, but first …read more »

There are many ways to calculate the performance of a stock market newsletter. Some provide far more favourable figures than others.

That’s why, in our newsletters, we simply provide the return since our first recommendation, and leave more detailed calculations to independent sources, particularly The Hulbert Financial Digest. (We recently posted returns that were far higher than an index of …read more »

Here are four classic, profit-killing errors that all investors make from time to time. All can seriously hinder your stock market returns.

1. “Averaging down” without reconsidering whether you should have bought in the first place.

Many investors have made lots of money by “averaging in” to the stock of a well-established, well-managed company — that is, buying more as funds became …read more »

Long-time Successful Investor readers may recall that a decade or two ago, we regularly reminded them that dividends could contribute up to a third of their long-term investment returns, without even considering the tax-cutting effects of the dividend tax credit (see below).

Earlier in this decade, yields of dividend paying stocks were generally too low to provide a third of …read more »

Most of our aggressive growth stock picks (which we analyze in Stock Pickers Digest) expose you to more risk than you’ll find in the recommendations of our flagship advisory, The Successful Investor. But you can control that extra risk and expand your profit by applying the risk-cutting philosophy of The Successful Investor.

That means you should hold your aggressive growth stock …read more »