Having a few decisions such as index insurance puts and precious metals go positive, when everything else is going negative, helps reduce the panic emotion.
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Navigating investments amid current market volatility
Investing for Fun and Profit: The main thing during these volatile periods is to avoid panic
The economic trouble with Canada
Investing for Fun and Profit: It’s unwise to strictly shop Canadian, when shopping for stocks
It’s important to understand the Canadian market is largely financials, energy and mining, with a smattering of smaller tech companies and industrials. It’s impossible to build a diversified portfolio exclusively on Canadian stocks.
Let’s revisit the basics of investing in stocks
Investing for Fun and Profit: Three ways to invest, three culprits for poor performance — and three antidotes
This week we’re looking at the advantages and disadvantages of the three main ways to invest in stocks, as a path to achieve higher returns compared to cash, GICs or bonds. As investment vehicles go, pension funds are out of control of their individual investors, so let’s quickly move the discussion to areas where we have control.
The ‘Rule of 72’: Why don’t they teach this in school?
Investing for Fun & Profit: A couple of important but simple math exercises for those new to investing
Invited by a former ag retailer and farmer to conduct an investing workshop, I was once again surprised by how few had heard of the “Rule of 72.” While working through this simple formula someone asked, “Why don’t they teach this in school?”
Remember risks as well as rewards in new equipment
Investing in a new model means you’re among the first to discover its hiccups
Bringing new equipment onto a farm can be an exciting and productive change to the way the farm operates. Having the latest in horsepower, capacity and technology can make the farm more efficient and easier to run. If one has the luxury to pay for it, it can be an obvious choice to order the […] Read more
A spectacular 2024 defied predictions, again
Investing for Fun and Profit: Also, my amateur investor market outlook for 2025
The stock market was a happy place in 2024, with the U.S. S&P 500 delivering a 25 per cent total return, including dividends. Even the laggardly Canadian TSX joined the party with a total return of 21.6 per cent. How did my 2024 predictions turn out compared to the pros, and what do I see […] Read more
A brief history of market dominance
Investing for Fun and Profit: Is the publicly traded past a guide for the future?
The largest 10 U.S. companies by market capitalization (number of shares, multiplied by price per share) currently represent about 30 per cent of the value of the entire U.S. publicly traded universe, and the U.S represents about 60 of the world market cap. Therefore these 10 companies represent about 18 per cent of the entire […] Read more
‘Everybody’ is usually wrong — and why it must be so
Overwhelming strength of sentiment, when few buyers or sellers remain, can bend a trend
Everybody is familiar with the colloquial term “Everybody is doing X.” By “X” we don’t mean “formerly Twitter” — everybody has been writing “X (formerly Twitter)” so I thought I would do the opposite. In this case you’re welcome to fill in whatever you wish for X. Salespeople often use the phrase to help sell […] Read more
A quantum-sensing startup gets Deere backing
John Deere's Startup Collaborator program helps new companies develop, explore innovative tech
Glacier FarmMedia — A Canadian firm that uses quantum sensing to improve navigation for autonomous vehicles is among six start-up companies from around the world that will be collaborating with John Deere. “This is a perfect opportunity to find a technology that’s really interesting that may have a large application to solving customer problems that […] Read more
Alberta investment firm acquires Australian cattle portfolio
This is AIMCo's second agricultural acquisition 'down under' in the last two years
The portfolio consists of Yougawalla Pastoral Co and Argyle Cattle Co. It's a large-scale cattle breeding business spanning nearly 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) or largely leased land in the Kimberly region of Western Australia, AIMCo said in the news release.
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