… and financing needs, during the early decades of the Canadian stock markets, directly related to exploiting natural resources. Many of the best investment opportunities still do.
Today, stocks of companies related to natural resource discovery, development or service remain a very large proportion of the listings on both the TSX and TSX Venture Exchanges.
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… billions in real deals
Now let’s talk about the very real billions in the Canadian stock market! There are many excellent opportunities for investors in Canadian stocks.
There is an easy way to understand the real Canadian market and stocks. With a wee dollop of history and a smidgen of geology we can make …
One City National Market
The Canadian market offers some excellent investment opportunities. Oh Canada one trading place, refers to the reality, one city, Toronto, runs, covers and controls the entire Canadian marketplace for stocks! Prior to the digital age the Canadian cities, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver all had stock exchanges. Progress in communication …
… are several times the number of listings on other American stock markets. This lesson covers the American OTC market.
The American OTC Stock Markets
Investors can buy stocks in about 10,000 mostly small companies or startup ventures from broker-dealers in the OTC Markets Group. So named as the Over The Counter market. Headquartered …
Sorting Stock Markets
Sort through the stock markets of USA and Canada looks at the stock markets novice investors need to know about in America and Canada. At first look, finding and picking investments from among the thousands of stocks, can seem daunting. The challenge becomes manageable by first learning which markets to consider. As …
… daily, or at times monthly, rebalancing or adjustment.
Rebalancing is typical among levered funds. Levered funds are funds with daily price movements 2, 3 or even 4 times the underlying market, stocks or commodity that they track. That produces greatly magnified price and volatility movement.
Wild price changes happen when using these products! Rebalancing …
… choose from investments of every imaginable size and focus. Hence, mutual funds grew to become the most universal financial security ever created.
Funds can hold investment in stocks, bonds or a mix of both called combination or balanced funds. As a result of offering such broad products, marketers have a field day!
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… the investing world. What began as an investing ripple grew into a colossal tidal wave. Exchange Traded Funds emerged and listed on exchanges or trading just like stocks. That makes them distinctly different and more accessible than mutual funds. ETFs are essentially mutual funds created for the digital age.
Perhaps even more importantly, ETFs dramatically …
Making Investment Choices
This post on investment choices opens a continuing White Top View Series, Investment Choice. The series provides a basic survey of many choices for investors. The series begins with discussion of the most popular investment choices, mutual funds, ETFs and equities or stocks. The posts that follow that first group discuss less …