When Trump won the US presidency I expected the markets to take a beating. It did not. If he were to implement some of the ideas he talked about during his campaign it will hurt the American dollar, but there is also a very strong argument that the US economy will be in a strong state due to the proposed 15% corporate tax rate. Gold is something you invest to guard against inflation, and at times of uncertainty. So let’s…
Last Monday (Oct 31, 2016) I sold my Enbrdige shares and took profit. When you hold stocks it is important to take profits periodically. I have owned Enbrdige since February of this year ( 2016) . You can find the original article I wrote about Enbridge here . I also reported on progress on how this share was doing in June. You can find that here . There were a few reasons for taking profit (selling): I was targeting a return of…
Some time ago, I went on a trip to California. I went to San Fransico and the surrounding area , I also drove down Highway 1 through Big Sur to LA. One of my main reasons to go to California was to experience the highway 1 drive. I have wrote some other postings about California, but was saving the best posting for last! Also the experience was so incredible I didn’t know how to capture it in words! You can…
I was interested in finding stocks trading on a Canadian exchange that is trading under $5. I used BNN.ca to identify some stocks that were currently trending on BNN.ca, that was under $5. Below are my thoughts on such stocks: FTG-T – Circuit boards for airplanes. Small company, small volume. Has a one year target of $3.38 and the current price is $3.08. That will give me a 9% return which is decent but I am going to keep on…
BAM is another stock that I had short listed as part of my initial screen for Fall of 2016. Let’s take a look at it some more. This stock is currently trading at its 52 week high. That may not be a bad thing, but I always hesitate to trade stocks that are trading near 52 week highs. It has a Yahoo one year target estimate of $43 dollars. This target may not be realized but it is a good…
Air Lease (AL) was a stock I had highlighted as one that I wanted to look into further. It was part of my initial list of stocks for analyses for 2016 Fall. Currently it has a price target of $73 USD dollars and it is currently trading at around $29.74 dollars. That is a very attractive gain forecast – It will provide a return of 145%. The target price is obtained from subscribed research reports. Yahoo has a target price…
I was contemplating buying this stock since it was on my initial list of stocks. However I came across this technical indicator analysis article on yahoo . “Brookdale senior living breached its 50 day moving average in a bearish manner” This made me hesitate. However on the same page this stock is highlighted as a undervalued possible momentum play. In my view undervalued is always good and any stock for which you can use momentum in your favor is a…
If I had $100 000 I would currently research the stocks below and make picks from this list. I started by reading multiple research papers to identify some potential stocks that I may invest in as part of my portfolio. Quick Notes: Air Lease Corporation ( NYSE:AL) – I don’t normally like to invest in the airline industry, however Air Lease is more of a financing company, and I expect air travel demand to continue to increase given the demographic…
One lovely Thursday, I decided to treat one of my co-worker to some spicy lunch. We work fairly close to Salad King (Thai restaurant) and walked over there for lunch. They had these contest ballots at our table. I never pass up filling out a contest entry! So I filled mine out without any sort of expectation. I never win anything, but you know can’t give up hope. Went on to have a lovely lunch. The next day – I…
We reached Santorini from Athens by a Ryanair flight. Please see the following link if you need details on how to get to Santorini from Athens or more details on Athens itself: Athens Tips We had arranged a minivan to pick us up through our hotel by email ahead of time. When we arrived at the airport (Santorini airport is really small) – there was our van driver waiting for us with a sign with our names. He was very…