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These Two Top ETFs offer exposure to some of the best-performing blue chip stocks from around the world at a low fee.
Our 9-point stock rating system has let us pick winning stocks for decades
Saving commissions with a discount brokerage firm is a good thing, but investors should be aware of the potential pitfalls.
The best long term mutual funds hold well-diversified portfolios of high quality stocks—stocks you can hold for a long time.
Instead of selling that blue chip investment for trivial or transitory reason, focus on its long term potential.
You can’t fake a record of dividends, but a high dividend yield can be grounds for caution.
If you were about to begin your investing career, you might want to have a list of the most important things you could do to be successful. This is that list.
We have distilled many years of experience into the 10 practices that successful investors most often follow....
Successful investing in international ETFs has a lot to do with understanding the economies of the countries you invest in.
Trading on the after hours market can easily do more harm than good to your portfolio returns.
The comments on our website, TSINetwork.ca, give us a window on what our readers are thinking, and on how they interact with each other.
Recently, one reader wondered, “...what is a good entry point when purchasing a stock or an ETF? I always pay too much then the stock drops like Home Capital Group dropped from the $50 range to $30 range as soon as I bought it. Setting a limit price is difficult— does one choose a 50-day moving average, or…?”
Soon after, another reader addressed her question. He suggested that she look further into moving averages, and shared some of his views on how to profit from them.
Many investors make buy and sell decisions with the help of moving averages and other forms of technical analysis. I don’t know if this has any consistent impact on their long-term returns—for better or worse. It may be more reliable as a comfort factor than a source of improved profit.
After all, there’s a large random element in stock-price changes, especially in the short term. When you focus on timing buy and sell decisions to improve your investment results, you are trying to come up with a system that can outguess a random factor. But a random factor is something you can’t outguess.
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Recently, one reader wondered, “...what is a good entry point when purchasing a stock or an ETF? I always pay too much then the stock drops like Home Capital Group dropped from the $50 range to $30 range as soon as I bought it. Setting a limit price is difficult— does one choose a 50-day moving average, or…?”
Soon after, another reader addressed her question. He suggested that she look further into moving averages, and shared some of his views on how to profit from them.
Many investors make buy and sell decisions with the help of moving averages and other forms of technical analysis. I don’t know if this has any consistent impact on their long-term returns—for better or worse. It may be more reliable as a comfort factor than a source of improved profit.
After all, there’s a large random element in stock-price changes, especially in the short term. When you focus on timing buy and sell decisions to improve your investment results, you are trying to come up with a system that can outguess a random factor. But a random factor is something you can’t outguess.
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