Don Vialoux’s Top Picks: May 8, 2017 – Don Vialoux is a Technical and Seasonal trader that trades based on patterns. Fascinating to listen to him. Take away – When VIX spikes you don’t want to be in the market. Look at the moving average of the major stock indexes – if it is above its 50 day moving average stay in the market and if it goes below, be careful. Also check out his website – www.timingthemarket.ca ….
As an investor I am familiar with VIX. It stand for Volatility Index – and is a measure of the amount of volatility in the market and investor’s sentiment – sometimes it is also referred to as a fear index. More about it here . If you don’t like to read there is a good video explaining what it is. Good resource for further education – from the originators of VIX. I looked at the various option prices of the…
I have recently taken some profits and did some short term plays – trades I held for under two weeks. Some updates below. I sold my position in Air Lease Corporation – This was one of my top recommendations. It was a good recommendation. I made 22% on this stock over a 7 month holding period. I bought SNAP and LAC.TO two weeks ago. They are both stocks I recommended against investing in for long term. You can read the…
I recently stayed in Montreal for five days and had the chance to eat at some amazing restaurants ! The prices ranged from $5 per meal to $130 per meal! Hear are my favorite places to eat in order of favoritism : 1 .Joe Beef The food at this place was amazing ! This restaurants is #3 on the top 100 restaurants in Canada for 2017. The spot is well deserved !! I had the trout, foie gras , mashed…
This article on How To Build The Ultimate Stock Screener resonated with me. One of the tips on this article was to build a professional news routine. I do this informally , but after reading this article I thought I would put it in writing. My news routine On a Daily Basis: www.bnn.ca www.bloomberg.com yahoo.finance I set up news alerts and closing day price alerts for stocks that I own. These are my primary sources for finance news. I also…
Lululemon dropped 23% today based on their earnings and coming year forecast. I love their pants/tops etc ! I am a believer in investing what you know! I shelled out an outrageous amount of money for leggings and workout tops and I normally wouldn’t! It wasn’t even on sale! And currently I don’t even work out that often – so a brand that made me shell out cash is definitely worth looking into. The quality of the tights and top…
Summary : Go shopping at Macys in Chicago , go to the Art Institute of Chicago and skip the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium unless you have a very keen interest in such attractions ! Shopping Macys On a Saturday morning we went to Macys for shopping. They had a special Saturday sale going on that day ! We found some great deals on shoes, gloves, and scarfs ! I am from Toronto, Canada – compared to Toronto for similar…
Someone told me today to buy Lithium Americas Corp – LACDF. So this is what I did. For Canadian Investors this company is also traded on the TSX LAC.TO . If you decide to trade it you can avoid the exchange costs by trading the CAD ticker. Check out what the company does: Yahoo has a profile section. You can search buy ticker symbol on yahoo and go to the profile section to understand what the company is about and…
A few months ago I started looking at Delphix for using it for data masking between our production and Development/QA environments. The more I learned about Delphix, the more I realized the kind of impact it can have for Development/QA in addition to data masking. These are some of the common tasks we do in Development/QA that I felt Delphix might be able to help with: Faster Data Refreshes – Maintain versioned compressed copies of prod database that can be refreshed…
It is anticipated that the US feds will be raising the Fed Interest rate at the end of their meeting this coming Wednesday. This would be a good time to learn a bit more about interest rates. I use Khan Academy Youtube videos to brush up on basic Finance Concepts. What Are Interest Rates ? Great explanation here . This has an introduction to simple interest and compound interest rates. Some examples to solidify simple and compound interest rates. The…