Investing and Gambling – Please don’t be Mis-Informed

Before I begin, as you are reading this week’s article, I would like you to keep these two definitions at the back of your head Gambling: Making risky decisions in the hopes of achieving a desired result. Investing: Utilize money or financial instruments to generate a profit by putting them into stocks, bonds and other…

Investing Mistakes that Haunt all Rookie Investors

Investing is not trigonometry. There are no hard equations or formulas but our human side makes us vulnerable. Like anything we start that’s new we always look for quick results and if we don’t get them we get de-motivated and make poor decisions. Specifically, in investing, we chase high returns (and quickly), great dividends and…

Market Lessons they don’t Teach in Business School

  A few years ago, I began my journey as an investor. I transferred over some of my savings over to Questrade; an online broker to start investing in the stock market. Lesson # 1: Beating the S&P 500 is a long term game The goal of investing is simple – you want to beat…