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December 8, 2010
I am a retail trader and all of my trades involve TSX Venture Exchange companies. My "Why I Trade Penny Stocks" posts are meant to shed light on some of the workings of trading from your RSP and TFSA accounts._______________________________This chart is taken from my RBC Direct Investing Account. It tracks the progression of both my RSP and TFSA trading accounts.It only goes back as far as Jan...
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December 7, 2010
Qtrade takes top spot again in Globe's annual surveyNovember 2010For the fifth straight year, Vancouver-based online broker deemed to offer the best all-around packageROB CARRICKrcarrick@globeandmail.comClear winners are emerging in the online brokerage price war.Investors, for one. They've been paying less to buy stocks and bonds since commissions began to decline this fall.Some online...
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December 4, 2010
Regulation____________Of Note:The Globe and Mail that indicates a pattern of suspicious trading on Canadian markets, despite the efforts of regulators.The striking trading pattern suggests either that some players possess inside information about imminent deals, and are making illegal profits at the expense of others, or that there are savvy investors unusually prescient in figuring out just...
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December 1, 2010
Outlook_________Of Note:The frenetic pace of merger activity in the mining sector is expected to continue into next year as companies with stockpiles of cash compete for shrinking resources.Nearly three-quarters of Canadian mining executives say they will likely pursue deals in 2011...More than half of the world's merger and acquisition deals happen in Canada, which is home to a third of the...
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November 30, 2010
Precious Metals_________________Of Note:Eric Sprott is more bearish now than he was a decade ago...“You've had the housing crisis, the lending mania and now you have a sovereign [debt] crisis ...It is “entirely possible” for markets to fall back to the lows of March, 2009...I think the gold-to-silver ratio is going to go back to 16 to 1 given the passage of time, say three to five years.And I...
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November 29, 2010
Regulator____________Of Note:While acquisition targets typically surge on the day that news of a deal comes out, in Chariot’s case, most of the juicy gains happened before the announcement. The shares rose 28 per cent in the week before the deal became public, but only 5 per cent in the session after executives formally revealed they’d reached a deal.Suspicious trading in Chariot in advance of...
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November 28, 2010
Securities Law________________Of Note:The Vancouver-based mining company has been the focus of a political uproar amid questions about unusually heavy trading in its shares on Oct. 14 — about 2 1/2 weeks before the federal government blocked construction of its main mining project on environmental grounds.__________________________________________________________________________________________...
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November 26, 2010
Tips for Traders ______________-___Rule #13Do more of that which is working and do less of that which is not._________________________________________________________________________________________________11/22/2010 11:27:00 AM13 Rules for Making Good Trading DecisionsThe following is a portion of Dennis Gartman’s famous list of trading rules.Rule #1Never, ever, under any circumstance, should...