Some like to play with fire. For those folks, there’s always day trading, or buying into a momentum play. There’s also investing in themes. Back in the late 1990’s the big investment theme was “dot com fever”. In the early 2000’s there was a real estate bubble along with “peak oil theory”. Just a couple Read More
How to lose your money as quickly as possible
As some of you may know, I’m kind of an old dog in this industry. Despite my “young” 56 years of age (ha!) – I started as an Investment Advisor at 28 years of age – in 1990. It’s now been 28 years of industry experience – exactly half of my life! Prior to that, Read More
Bitcoin is more than a “Bit” overbought
Bitcoin may indeed be the next currency. It may replace all forms of money or credit that we are familiar with. That aside, things can often get a wee “bit” (get it? Ok, its weak) overdone in any security that has caught the markets’ attention. Gold, oil, tech stocks, mining, condo development, tulips. These have Read More
Exciting news!
Somebody asked me for my opinion on bitcoin recently. I’ll cover this new-world currency briefly below. Before getting to that, I thought you would like to hear some exciting news: ValueTrend wins Canadian Business Excellence Award Excellence Canada and PwC Canada are pleased to present the recipients of the 2017 Canadian Business Excellence Award for Read More