Strategies

I believe a major issue with VanEck's Junior Gold Miner ETF (GDXJ) will create an opportunity to buy some of the world’s most valuable junior gold companies for pennies on the dollar all thanks to a coming tsunami of selling that has nothing to do with the companies themselves. Frankly, I expect the opportunity around the corner will be so big that I’m getting millions of dollars of my own money ready to deploy

The basic principle behind dividend paying stocks is that they pay YOU to own THEM but do they outperform non-dividend paying stocks over time and what should you consider when buying a dividend stock? Words: 514

I’ve achieved a 15% compound annual return in my personal stock investing portfolio over my 12-year investment career and here are 10 of the rules I followed to make it all possible.

It’s been 12 years (2005 – 2017) and I’m still actively picking stocks with a 15% compound annual return. Hopefully I can keep it up because, at 15% compound annual returns, I can double my money about every 5 years, without taking on too much risk.

I’ve achieved a 15% compound annual return in my personal stock investing portfolio over my 12-year investment career. Here's my investment thought process as to how I invest in stocks, my thoughts on the market, which types of stocks I pick, and why.

The “sell in May and go away”, which] implies that the market's performance is far worse in the six summer months than in the six winter months is the case with respect to US stock markets but what is the status in other countries? I have examined the patterns in the eleven most important stock markets in the world and found that it does, indeed, make sense to "sell in May and go away" in 9 of the 11 countries. In which two countries has it not been the case - at least until now? Read on for the answers.

There is a high probability that investors will see a bear market during a commander in chief’s time in office - since World War II, there have been 15 bear markets in the S&P 500...[so] we should prepare for a downturn before it occurs, not after it’s already underway.

The goal of The Dividend Manager website is to provide investors with the ideas and facts they need to make informed decisions. With that being said, there are plenty of other fantastic blogs out there that deserve a look. Here are 5.

There are plenty of really useful free websites out there that have historical market data, back-testing tools, risk statistics and scenario analysis capabilities. Here are a number of them that I have found helpful over the years:

The "dogs of the Dow" as applied to Canada's TSX 60 would, on an annualized basis, return of 19.88% before dividends, on a 252-day trading year.