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Did you know that Canadian stock markets tend to rally over the American Thanksgiving? Since the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges shut down, but the TSX and venture markets remain open north of the border, lower volume levels mean it’s easier to produce a rally on Toronto markets.
Seasonal traders like Brooke Thackray and Don Vialoux tend [...]
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What’s “the January Effect”? It’s a simple seasonal investing rule that goes something like this: “as goes January, so goes the rest of the year.”
Seasonal investing is not quite an investment style, but more like a strategy, for making trades that correspond to cyclical market trends around the year. Certain events, and thus market movements, [...]
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It’s the end of November and another month has passed us by. The seasonal correction in the stock markets never really happened this year, along with other traditional seasonal trends that failed to confirm. Then again, this past year has been one of the more unusual for markets since the Great Depression. For example, the [...]
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Ever wondered what a hedge fund really does, or how it works? Think you should teach yourself some hedging strategies for your own portfolio? It’s time to take a look at Hedgeable.com, “the world’s first “hedge fund for the common man.” Hedgeable is a small start-up attempting to radically shake up the trillion dollar investment [...]
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Yesterday, U.S. GDP numbers came in better than expected at 3.5% – causing analysts to “unofficially officially” call the end of the U.S. recession (Canada, Australia and a few other countries had already come out of the recession). The National Bureau of Economic Research is expected to date the end of the recession to a [...]
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Historically, September is the worst overall month for stock market returns. And since 2009 has already seen a great stock market rally, some analysts think we’re due for the obligatory pullback and consolidation next month. So if you’re looking to do any purchasing, you might want to keep a close eye on the markets and [...]
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