I was listening to the local radio station yesterday and during the business news section, heard about something called the Santa Claus Rally. It’s basically a term to describe a rally in the stock market during the holiday season, or more specifically the last 5 trading days of the year and the first 2 of the new year… Read More »
One myth about investing in the stock market or any other market where prices fluctuate is that it’s risky. But people who know how to value a stock understand that it doesn’t have to be risky if they buy the right stocks at the right time. Volatility and risk aren’t always correlated. Some companies with steady growth such… Read More »
It’s not everyday we see a 10% intra-day drop in Google’s stock price but that’s what happened today when they missed analysts’ expectations. To make things worse there was a small hiccup during the earnings report process when a third party company accidentally released their profits early without permission, which caused all kinds of problems (゜o゜) Some investors are… Read More »
Southwestern Resources Corp (formerly SWG on the TSX) was once a successful mining company based out of Vancouver, Canada. They were sitting on a gold mine, literally, in China. Test samples and lab reports from this mine was periodically gathered by CEO, John Paterson. John would then present the findings to the company’s board of directors and create… Read More »
A few months ago I wrote an article about how oversold stocks have become so I started a swing trade with two of my favorite companies, Suncor and Silver Wheaton. Well if you follow me on the Twitter you may have seen my tweet earlier today when I sold both my holdings and made a 34% gain. Mission… Read More »
There doesn’t seem to be anything stopping the giant Apple Inc from its ever expanding size. Each Apple share now is worth more than $650. Investors believe that Apple, as a corporation, is worth altogether over $615,000,000,000. That’s quite a lot of moola. In fact Apple recently broke the historical world record for the largest market capitalization ever,… Read More »