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 “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.

The practice of short selling - or betting against a specific stock or security - has all kinds of intrinsic risks and costs that need to be understood before it should be used as a tactic. Not grasping these risks can lead to all kinds of horror stories. Today’s infographic addresses the question of whether the risk of short selling is worth the potential payoff.

Like casino gamblers, most small resource stock buyers motivated by one or two wins continue to play the game until the ‘House’ has their money. Here’s a few common mistakes retail investors make speculating in junior resource stocks.

Most investors do not have sufficient exposure to equities outside the United States in their portfolios (a phenomenon known as home country bias), even though investing internationally is another way of introducing diversification in a portfolio. Investors interested in looking abroad may wish to look to the Far East – specifically, Japan.

Is there such a thing as a truly "safe" investment? The short answer is that no investment is 100% safe, but there are certainly some investments that are better than others at protecting your hard-earned savings. Let's examine some of the most common "safe" investments and learn how good they actually are at shielding you from financial losses.