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An investor should have at least five years of successful stock investing experience, encompassing at least one bear market.

How I doubled my money in less than four years, Part 4

Cautions around put selling and why it works

By Herman VanGenderen October 28, 2021

The previous article might have intrigued you on my put selling strategy, so I thought it important to also share cautionary guidelines. Before beginning such a strategy, an investor should have at least five years of successful stock investing experience, encompassing at least one bear market. If past success has been spotty, fixing basic stock […] Read more

First, I did not ride the coattails of hot spec stocks like Tesla or EHang. While this portfolio has companies with stronger growth profiles than the TSP, they are not speculative.... Second, as an investor rather than a trader, I did not regularly buy and sell.

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How I doubled my money in less than four years

Not quite as good as my son’s spec foray, but it was the whole portfolio — not one stock

By Herman VanGenderen June 23, 2021

How many investment avenues provide the opportunity to double your money in four years? Using the rule of 72, an 18 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) can quickly be calculated. Lots of fun, with lots of exciting twists and turns including the 2018 mini-bear market and the COVID plunge of 2020. The Titanium […] Read more

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Free money … what’s not to love?

Investing for Fun and Profit: Leading to my 2021 market predictions

By Herman VanGenderen March 17, 2021

The essence of market economies is that millions of individuals making profit-oriented decisions, for the benefit of themselves, their families and communities, will allocate resources significantly more efficiently than government bureaucrats making the same decisions on behalf of millions of individuals. One of the key reasons is everyone’s circumstances are different and can therefore make […] Read more

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Titanium-Strength Portfolio continues to live up to its name

It could also be called the do-nothing portfolio

By Herman VanGenderen February 26, 2021

It has been a little over a month since the turn of the calendar, but I am writing this the day after the Washington siege as my first column of the new year. What other zaniness might occur between day of writing and day of reading remains to be seen, but a constant has been […] Read more

It might surprise you that over the last 96 years, markets have performed better with Democrats in charge. The 24 Presidential Cycles were evenly split with 12 Republican and 12 Democratic administrations.

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The Presidential Cycle and other regularly promoted phenomena

Can they help time your investments?

By Herman VanGenderen November 5, 2020

The publication date of this article is election day in the United States. By the time you read this we may know the outcome of another bizarre election. Much will be written about how the outcome will impact our investments, yet in reality it will have surprisingly little impact, and not in any predictable way. […] Read more

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Growth stocks have outperformed value by a wide margin … but will it last?

Slow and steady wins the race

By Herman VanGenderen October 23, 2020

Market action this year has confounded and perplexed. Meaning, it has been pretty much business as usual, although with more exaggerated swings. The action should demonstrate more than ever that short-term market gyrations are completely unpredictable. Anyone who in late March publicly said the market would hit new records by summertime would have been promptly […] Read more

The investment world ebbs and flows with sentiment, something that holds very true when it comes to Canada’s oil and gas sector.

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Investing for a positive, progressing world

Herman VanGenderen wants to assure you that the sky is not falling

By Herman VanGenderen December 20, 2019

Chicken Little is a famous storybook character. He (or she) had an acorn drop on his head and concluded the sky was falling. As he rushed to tell the king, he ran through the countryside yelling “the sky is falling. The sky is falling.” Along the way he collected other like-minded fowl, all yelling, “The […] Read more

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U.S. grains: Bargain buying boosts soy futures

By GFM Network News November 20, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Tuesday, bouncing back from a sharp decline in a round of bargain buying after prices sank in the previous session to their lowest since Nov. 8, traders said. Wheat futures were mixed with short-covering boosting the most-active soft red winter wheat contracts after prices traded near […] Read more

Stock market chart on LCD screen. Selective focus.

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Is market level relevant? If you’re an investor, not a speculator, market predictions are futile

Investing for Fun and Profit with Herman VanGenderen

By Herman VanGenderen October 15, 2018

I am about to question one of the sacred beliefs of market pundits. It is my belief that market level isn’t very important to our investing success. What? Does that make sense? First, let’s look at how accurate market predictions tend to be. Reading about the topic leads me to believe the prediction success rate […] Read more

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Guarding Wealth: Buying risk, paying for liquidity

Price-earnings ratios are a useful way to analyze your investment decisions

By Andrew Allentuck August 29, 2014

What do you get when you invest in capital markets? You might say stocks or bonds, mutual funds or units in real estate investment trusts. That answer is both true and false. You do get ownership of those things, but in a more analytical sense, what you are really getting is risk — any stock […] Read more

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How I doubled my money in less than four years, Part 4

How I doubled my money in less than four years

Free money … what’s not to love?

Titanium-Strength Portfolio continues to live up to its name

The Presidential Cycle and other regularly promoted phenomena

Growth stocks have outperformed value by a wide margin … but will it last?

Investing for a positive, progressing world

U.S. grains: Bargain buying boosts soy futures

Is market level relevant? If you’re an investor, not a speculator, market predictions are futile

Guarding Wealth: Buying risk, paying for liquidity

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