Investment Tips Anyone?

[aixopen]

for the New Year

the tips I can offer is the mining,/mineral companys are going to be the next hot stock picks for 2006 example gold, copper, zinc ect..

Gold will go alot higher in 2006, we probable would see it hit 600 to 650
thats my perdiction for gold.

Happy New Year 2006

 

[voyager9]

$$$$$$$

Wow, this is a thread going nowhere fast...I guess Merbites aren't investors.

Anyway, on Dec. 22 I made two suggestions, CLL.TO which was then selling for 3.93 and PDP.TO which was selling for 7.90. Well, today CLL closed at 5.88 (a 50% gain) and PDP closed at 12.50 (a 58% gain), pretty amazing returns for a little over ONE month.

The good thing is that if you belive oil prices will remain high (as I do), then there is still a lot of upside in these stocks, especially CLL (IMHO).

Good luck to us all.

 

[picasso]

Wow, this is a thread going nowhere fast...I guess Merbites aren't investors.

I wouldn't draw such an inference. Maybe some of us would rather check out Mtl sps after a long day of tracking stocks !

 

[FlyBob]

What are the advantages of stockhouse compared to etrade.ca and other similars? I am interested in investing in gold or oil in 2006.

Cheers!

 

[PHNINE]

I usually put my tip in first. If it is nice while I in there I proceed with the whole investment. If you know what I mean...LOL

 

[endless]

gold and oil

hey guys just keep on buying oil and metals on the tsx,it's a sure profit.i have some atd.sv.b,nt,rve,pjc.sv.a.i'm going to buy some ezm,pbg,mr.thanks

 

[jimmy]

Mutual Funds

Anyone here investing in mutual funds? I've put aside some money in RRSP for the last couple of years with the bank. I realized that my return is not that great. On average, around 5%-6% a year. I'am interested to transfer my money elsewhere. Either another bank or investment company with a greater return. I'am looking for a return of 8% or more a year.
Anyone have a profolio example they would like to share. Which fund and which company. Thanks in advance.
Also, anyone heard anything about Investors Group. Are they any good?

Jimmy

 

[endless]

etf,iunits

jimmy if you want something like funds but a higher return try iunits.visit iunits.com.if you have any questions pm me.

 

[endless]

pbg oil sands

guys you have to take a look at this stock it's going to hit $30 by may.they have an oil sand project ready to go in alberta with 1,3 billion barrels!look it up on tsx.com.i should have read this thread earlier because now i want to buy EZM but now it's at 1.60.what do you guys think.later

 

[FlyBob]

thanks for the tip endless...I added it to my virtual portfolio.

Cheers!

 

[poonyman]

Anyone here investing in mutual funds? I've put aside some money in RRSP for the last couple of years with the bank. I realized that my return is not that great. On average, around 5%-6% a year. I'am interested to transfer my money elsewhere. Either another bank or investment company with a greater return. I'am looking for a return of 8% or more a year.
Anyone have a profolio example they would like to share. Which fund and which company. Thanks in advance.
Also, anyone heard anything about Investors Group. Are they any good?

Jimmy

Jimmy,

Have a look at: http://www.moneysense.ca/investing/stocks_markets/index.jsp

Just follow the couch potatoe investor tips and you will not go wrong. Also you will avaoid mutual fund fees which can be betweem 1.5% - 4%.

Hope this helps

 

[Just-ass-weet]

Goodness gracious... this is too serious a subject!

Are you all A-Type personalities or what? lol!

Here is my tip

Invest in one of Celines lovely ladies, the de-stress returns are quite favorable at all times of the year.

xoxox
Anik

 

[denis blassie]

Bombardier???

you investors might want to take a look at quebecs own BOMBARDIER!!! they have been getting quite a few rail car and locomotive contracts,and the business jet market is booming...it certainly is cheap enough...BBD.SV.B

 

[FlyBob]

Are you all A-Type personalities or what? lol!
Here is my tip
Invest in one of Celines lovely ladies, the de-stress returns are quite favorable at all times of the year.

I want to invest so I can call SP's to relieve my stress

Cheers!

 

[General Gonad]

When it comes to investing, logic appears to give way to lust

When it comes to investing, logic appears to give way to lust, according to a study by a Stanford University professor, Bloomberg News reports. The professor, Brian Knutson – who may be at the forefront of the field of neurofinance – discovered that the same neural network located in the brain's frontal cortex that control the pleasure centers at play during sexual activity, stimulation from drugs, is also at work when making investment decisions. Knutson suggests that investing, like sex, can cloud one's reasoning, which is why some people are winners and some losers in the market.

"The brain's scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world," Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner in economics and a pioneer in behavioral finance, told Bloomberg News. "You'd better pay very serious attention to them."

 

[picasso]

Duh!

Knutson suggests that investing, like sex, can cloud one's reasoning, which is why some people are winners and some losers in the market.

For a professor at Stanford, that has to be one of the most stupid comments I've ever heard. Stop and think about it... Unless there is a perpetual machine printing out wads of cash nonstop, of course there have to be winners and losers in the market. For those winners on stock market bets where do you think the money comes from?

 

[General Gonad]

Picasso,

Of course there are winners and losers in the stock market but it is not a zero sum game like the futures markets. From 1982 to 2000, there were a lot more winners than losers. In the next twenty years, the opposite might be true. As for the "brain scientists", I think some of the best research in finance over the last decade has come from behavioral finance schools of thought that try to marry psychology and investing. If you are interested, google "introduction to behavioral finance."

GG

 

[picasso]

GG,

Market psychology has been around for a long, long time in the vocabulary of professional and amateur investors alike. So there is really nothing novel or breakthrough when you try to "marry psychology and investing" like you said. Now, building econometric models that integrate attitudinal research is the latest trend and that's the kind of stuff that has won Economics Nobel for academic economists. Don't confuse the two, will ya !

 

[General Gonad]

GG,

Market psychology has been around for a long, long time in the vocabulary of professional and amateur investors alike. So there is really nothing novel or breakthrough when you try to "marry psychology and investing" like you said. Now, building econometric models that integrate attitudinal research is the latest trend and that's the kind of stuff that has won Economics Nobel for academic economists. Don't confuse the two, will ya !

Yes, you are right, market psychology has been around for years but not behavioral finance. As far as e- "CON"-ometrics, I think Keynes, who is arguably the greatest economist that ever lived, was right to be skeptical on what he then perceived as a pseudo science. Interestingly, he never received a Nobel prize, which was never meant to be given to economists in the first place. As far as I am concerned, econometrics has done little to advance empirical economics. The majority of the stuff published in reputable academic journals is utter nonsense!

GG

 

[General Gonad]

Analysts: Gold rally not a bubble...

From Reuters.com: Gold's 37 percent rise in six months to 25-year highs, far from a price-bubble ready to pop, will continue upwards on renewed fund enthusiasm, analysts said. The bull market may attract even more new money in the coming years, with potential for bigger price spikes, they said. "Like a gorilla with a gun, gold can go anywhere it wants," said Peter Hillyard, head of metals sales, ANZ Investment Bank.

"With the quest for yield, the need for portfolio diversification and the huge appetite funds have for risk, all commodities are certain to rock for a lot longer. It's not a bubble about to burst." Gold prices peaked at $573.30 a troy ounce on Thursday, gaining 11 percent this year on top of an 18 percent rise in 2005. The metal has more than doubled in five years. But analysts say gold has room to go much higher. It is still well off January 1980's all-time high of $850, a level which would now stand at $2,100 after adjusting for inflation….Full article: Source

My thoughts: A little gold is alright in your portfolio but it is very volatile so be cautious!!! You can make a strong case for commodities based on demand from India and China but they can also swing wildly as well.

GG