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Growth Stocks

Soaring Share Price Makes Dollarama Stock an Expensive Buy

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

What are American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)? For one thing, they’re a good way to buy foreign stocks and cut your risk

What are American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)? They are a great way for investors to buy overseas stocks—but on a U.S. stock exchange

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Scott Clayton

Spinoffs

Here’s how to find spinoffs to buy to accelerate your portfolio gains

Learn how to find spinoffs so you can successfully buy what we think are the closest investments in the market to a “sure thing”

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Scott Clayton

Wealth Management

What are commodity stocks and which ones are best for your portfolio? Here’s what we think.

What are commodity stocks? We aim to answer not just that question, but also which ones are best for a well-balanced portfolio.

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

The best Canadian growth stocks are great additions to a successful portfolio. Here’s why.

To find the best Canadian growth stocks look for factors such as a strong hold on markets, low debt, and hidden assets

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Learn what to know when investing in stocks for better portfolio returns

Discover what to know when investing in stocks—for example, a history of dividend payments from well-established businesses is a great starting point

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Scott Clayton

Penny Stocks

Here’s how to spot the best AI companies to invest in for maximum gains

The best AI companies to invest in are those successfully merging big computing with big data in practical and profitable ways

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Discover how to find the best dividend shares—plus how to fit them into a well-balanced portfolio

Knowing the qualities of the best dividend shares, like an established history of paying dividends, will help you make the best picks for your portfolio

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Scott Clayton

Blue Chip Stocks

Learn what to look for when buying stock market investments to build a successful and profitable portfolio

Know what to look for when buying stock and you will make better buys. This includes top-quality dividend-paying and blue chip shares

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Scott Clayton

Penny Stocks

Gold stocks have a place in many investment portfolios—but buying gold penny stocks is a very risky way to do it

If you’re looking at buying gold penny stocks then you need to know the risks—and these tips on spotting the best of them

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Learning how to buy stocks online can be helpful—but also unexpectedly risky

Learning how to buy stocks online can be a useful exercise for some beginning investors. But it can lead to you to big losses instead of profits

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Finding the right dividend growth stocks can supercharge your returns

Dividend growth stocks are great additions to the portfolios of both new and experienced investors.

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Here’s why we think you should use the bottom-up investment approach for better investing results

Use the bottom-up investment approach to pick the best stocks for your portfolio and maximize your wealth-building over time

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

Here’s why you’re very likely to lose money using option and future trading strategies to invest

Using option and future trading strategies can turn a modest stake into a fortune. In practice, most of these speculators wind up losing money.

4 min read

Scott Clayton

Blue Chip Stocks

Here’s how to find the best blue chip dividend stocks to buy now for maximum portfolio returns

The best blue chip dividend stocks to buy now will be key additions to your successful investor portfolio

4 min read

Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Using a bottom-up investment approach will make you more money over time than top down

We think investors using a bottom-up investment approach will realize higher long-term portfolio returns. Here’s why.

4 min read

Scott Clayton

How To Invest

What is short selling stock? Highly speculative, and something to avoid.

The answer to the question “what is short selling stock” is that profitable short selling requires superhuman timing—and the inevitable mistakes can be super expensive for investors.

3 min read

Scott Clayton

Wealth Management

Top retirement advisor tips to get the most from your savings

Best retirement advisor tips for maximizing your savings, including the use of an RRSP

4 min read

Pat McKeough

ETFs

Should you use a robo-advisory in your ETF investing?

A robo-advisory may be better than a bad broker, but there are still downfalls

3 min read

Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

The investing value of blue chip stocks and insider buying and selling

Insider buying can be a sign of investing value, but a lack of insider integrity can be a sign to sell as soon as possible

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Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

How blue chip dividends can give you higher portfolio returns

Blue chip dividends are a key part of successful investing

3 min read

Scott Clayton

How To Invest

How to profitably pick stocks from TSX listings

Our investing recommendations are the same for TSX listings as they are on other stock exchanges—here’s how to choose wisely

To succeed as an investor, you need to be able to “cut through the noise”. That is, you need to sort through the news to find what’s worth your attention, and disregard the rest....

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Pat McKeough