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November 25, 2010
Online Trading_______________Of Note:Most brokerages consider 20 trades a month as being active.______________________________________________________________________________________________From rookie to ruler in four yearsThursday, November 25, 2010Questrade's trading chief thrives on the intensity of swiftly moving markets. 'There is no room for mistakes in my job'MARLENE HABIBSpecial to The...
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November 24, 2010
Active investing________________Of Note:Gone are the days when day traders – outfitted in boxers and a T-shirt sitting at their kitchen table with nothing more than a browser and a lot of java – effortlessly raked in the cash.______________________________________________________________________________________________Day trading takes ‘rithm TRACY TJADENFrom Thursday's Globe and MailPublished...
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November 19, 2010
Equities_______The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada issued a plan Thursday to create single-stock automatic circuit breakers “to address rapid, significant and unexplained price movement … that calls into question whether there is a fair and orderly market for that security.”______________________________________________________________________________________________Single...
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November 13, 2010
Toronto investor relations firm hammered for phoney Web postings By David Baines, Vancouver Sun November 13, 2010In April, the Ontario Securities Commission levelled allegations of serious misconduct against Toronto -based A-goracom Investor Relations Corp. and its two founders, George Tsiolis and Apostolis Kondakos.The commission accused the pair of directing their employees to pose...
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November 10, 2010
Retail Day Trading NotesFor those who are wondering if anyone is completing regular daily trades on the TSX Venture Exchange, I hope my "Why I Trade Penny Stocks" posts shed some light on some of the workings of trading from your RSP and TFSA accounts.______________________Its become very apparent that even though RBC Direct Investing has a "hyperactive trader status" level, they have...
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November 8, 2010
Site has been "out of sorts" since the beginning of the trading day.Took 20 minutes to speak to someone only to be told they are experiencing technical problems.Some stocks have passed my sell/buy price but nothing shows up on the activity page.Have my orders gone through? They cant even confirm this during our conversation. Retail traders are at such a disadvantage. You can bet that...
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November 7, 2010
Investing_________Of Note:But the initial panic and horror has subsided since the value of a leading group of businesses organized as income trusts or limited partnerships plummeted by $35.6 billion.Even now, a few weeks before the Jan. 1 implementations of the much-resented tax changes announced by Flaherty, the value of those investments is holding up, and in some cases rising.Whatever the...
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November 7, 2010
For those who are wondering if anyone is completing regular daily trades on the TSX Venture Exchange, I hope my "Why I Trade Penny Stocks" posts shed some light on some of the workings of trading from your RSP and TFSA accounts.October 2010 ResultsExperienced a strong number of trades for the month of October (but 9 less than September.)Most of my stocks are under 10 cents but are creeping up...