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I am pleased to announce the launch of our new web site, TSI Network (www.tsinetwork.ca). Building on our four newsletters (Canadian Wealth Advisor, Stock Pickers Digest, The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster), the site contains archives of over 2,000 articles on individual investments. I’m the host of TSI Network. Every day, Monday to Friday, I post free updates on issues that matter to you — the individual investor. Visitors may also participate in daily polls, get access to my ongoing Twitter updates, and much more. In addition, subscribers to the site get my latest report, “How to Trade Stocks and Make Good Investments in Canada” — free....
AMERICAN WOODMARK $22.58, symbol AMWD on Nasdaq, jumped almost 16% today after it reported an unexpected profit (before one-time items) in the latest quarter. American Woodmark is a major U.S. maker of cabinets for kitchens and bathrooms. It sells these under the American Woodmark, Timberlake and Shenandoah brands. In the three months ended April 30, 2009, American Woodmark lost $2.9 million, or $0.21 a share. A year earlier, it earned $36,000, or nil per share. But if you exclude one-time restructuring charges, the company would have earned $0.22 a share in the latest quarter. That’s much higher than the loss of $0.06 a share that analysts were expecting. Sales fell 1.8%, to $140.7 million from $143.3 million....
I am pleased to announce the launch of our new web site, TSI Network (www.tsinetwork.ca). Building on our four newsletters (Canadian Wealth Advisor, Stock Pickers Digest, The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster), the site will contain archives of over 2,000 articles on individual investments. I’ll be the host of TSI Network. Every day, Monday to Friday, I’ll post free updates on issues that matter to you — the individual investor. Visitors will also be able to participate in daily polls, get access to my ongoing Twitter updates, and much more. In addition, subscribers to the site will get my latest report, “How to Trade Stocks and Make Good Investments in Canada” — free....
Buying Canadian penny stocks can pay off extremely well when it succeeds. But the odds against business success are high. That’s because Canadian penny stocks are usually involved in riskier ventures, such as finding mineral deposits that can be mined at a profit, commercializing unproven technologies or launching new software. In addition, it’s much easier to launch and promote a stock than it is to start a successful business. So Canadian penny stocks attract more than their share of unscrupulous operators and stock promoters.
How to read between the lines of promotions for Canadian penny stocks
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Aggressive investing stock picks can give you bigger gains than conservative selections. But they can also give you bigger losses. Aggressive stocks are only suitable for investors who can accept substantial risk. You can be wrong on any of your stock picks, of course. But when you’re wrong on a speculative stock, losses are likely to be larger than with a well-established company. Here are three key ways to cut risk in your aggressive stock picks:
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I am pleased to announce the launch of our new web site, TSI Network (www.tsinetwork.ca). Building on our four newsletters (Canadian Wealth Advisor, Stock Pickers Digest, The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster), the site will contain archives of over 2,000 articles on individual investments. I’ll be the host of TSI Network. Every day, Monday to Friday, I’ll post free updates on issues that matter to you — the individual investor. Visitors will also be able to participate in daily polls, get access to my ongoing Twitter updates, and much more. In addition, subscribers to the site will get my latest report, “How to Trade Stocks and Make Good Investments in Canada”— free....
We continue to feel that most investors should have the bulk of their portfolios in more conservative stocks, like those recommended in The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster. However, Stock Pickers Digest is ideal for the smaller part of your portfolio that you may wish to devote to more aggressive stocks. And we do still feel that these stocks have gains ahead. More aggressive stocks, like those we recommend in Stock Pickers Digest, should make up no more than around 10% of a conservative investor’s portfolio, or up to, say, 30% for more aggressive investors. That’s because even our Picks of the Month or Best Buys from among these stocks expose you to greater risk of permanent loss. The stocks you choose from all of our recommendations depend on your personal circumstances and preferences. However, we do advise picking a selection of at least four or five from different sectors. You should also hold a mix of value and growth picks. Our Best Buys are a good place to start....
Low resource prices and tight credit have hit junior-mining stocks particularly hard. The group needs much higher commodity prices for an across-the-board rebound. These companies must also have considerably easier access to both equity and debt financing. We continue to recommend a number of high-quality juniors in Stock Pickers Digest. But, as always, we judge them using the same factors we’ve always used to find the best junior-mining stocks. These include: 1) Well-financed junior miners with no immediate need to sell shares at low prices, since this would dilute existing investors’ interests. The best junior miners have a major partner who has agreed to pay for the drilling or other exploration or development in exchange for an interest in the property....
WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE, $8.92, symbol WYN on New York, announced this week that it is adding two new hotels in China. Wyndham currently has 170 hotels in the country, all of which are run by franchisees. The 1,000-room Ramada Hotel & Suites in Hainan Province will open in December 2010. Wyndham will also open the eight-storey, 548-room Ramada Hotel in the city of Huangshan, in Anhui Province. The Yellow Mountains, a major tourist draw, are located in Anhui. Wyndham is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with 7,000 franchised hotels worldwide. It owns a number of quality brands, including Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel Inns & Suites, Hawthorn Suites, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn and AmeriHost Inn....
Many aggressive investors find stock option investing hard to resist. However, the vast majority of investors lose money with options. An option is a contract between a buyer and a seller that is based on an underlying security, usually a stock. The buyer pays the seller a fee, or premium, for certain rights to the stock. In exchange for the premium, the seller assumes certain obligations. Options trade through stock exchanges, and each options contract is for 100 shares of a particular company. So one contract quoted at $5 will cost you $500 (before commissions). Each contract has an expiration date, which gives it a limited life span (usually less than nine months). The strike price (or exercise price), is the price at which the buyer can exercise their rights under the contract. There are two types of options:...