Best Canadian Stocks to Consider in an Upcoming Recession
A study by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) said this was Canada's second brush with near-recession conditions after 2015. But ominously, the bank warns that a third instance of a recession risk looms in 2020 when the US could witness a slowdown after exuberant growth and jobs conditions in this year. The Canadian and US economies are pretty much joined at the hip and if the US slows down, Canada could also feel the pain.
According to Deloitte, Canada's economy stalled in Q4 but did not derail. They think the Canadian economy will likely grow a tepid 1.3% this year and a marginally better 1.5% in 2020.
But when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. And that brings us to the recessionary implications for Canada from the US-China trade showdown.
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How to Create a Canadian All Weather Portfolio Fund
If you don’t already know what an all weather portfolio fund is I highly recommend looking at the resources linked in this article to learn more about them. In a nutshell, it is a way to craft a portfolio that stays consistent over a long period time and will have a high likelihood having good returns through any economic cycle, including different types of recessions. My first exposure to all weather funds came from reading more about Ray Dalio’s hedge fund strategies.
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Introducing Hashtag Investing 3.0: A Premium Social Platform for Stock Market Investors
Hashtag Investing is simply a community network of stock investors looking to learn, share, and discuss stocks, stock markets, equities, and other investments online in real-time. When we first started out we started building this community using Slack. Slack is a business communication tool that allows companies to chat and discuss internally. In a sense, it is meant to replace email where it can handle hundreds and even thousands of users in a group chat-like setting. Slack has been a key system for us in growing and starting out and there will be some members that will stick within that platform naturally.
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Q&A Interview with Rob Koyfman, Founder/CEO of Koyfin
Today’s online space is loaded with thousands of tools for investors to better view, understand, learn, share, and trade in the stock market. There are naturally many services that don’t offer any value at all, but then there are some that rapidly grow into household tools that every investor is talking about, and this is exactly the type that Koyfin falls under. As a website that strives for genuine recommendations and knowledge sharing I was compelled to bring this interview with the Founder and CEO of Koyfin for you to understand exactly why you should be using this tool! Here’s Rob!
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Best 10 Stocks to Invest in if the Economy Enters a Recession
In January this year, a Bloomberg survey found that analysts saw a median 25 percent chance of a slump in the next 12 months, up from 20 percent in the December survey, and at a six-year high.
The January survey was conducted within a scenario of an ongoing trade war with China, the government shutdown, and rising volatility in the financial markets.
That survey came upon the heels of a December 2018 survey of US CFOs by Duke University that showed 82% expected a recession to begin by the end of 2020.
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Understand your Risk Set Point and Make Better Decisions
I was watching the movie Free Solo the other day, and it got me thinking about trading. The movie, which recently won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, follows the mountain-climber Alex Honnold as he attempts the first free solo ascent of Yosemite's El Capitan 3000 ft rock face. Free solo means, rather unbelievably, climbing alone without the aid of ropes, fixed gear, or any other protective equipment. One slip, one wrong move and you inevitably fall to a grisly death on the valley floor. A death which has claimed many of Alex's friends over the years.
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Hashtag Investing Culture and Member Principles
Recently, Hashtag Investing re-launched a entirely new community platform for stock investors. One of our biggest focuses is ensuring that the community grows properly and has the right culture that allows investors to freely share valuable content from diverse perspectives Below is our first draft of our internal community culture and member principles.
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Trading System and APIs: Everything You Need to Know
Not too long ago, a majority of financial trading took place over the phone. Back then, if you wanted to buy or sell a stock, you had to call your broker and have them make the transaction for you. However, this process is no longer necessary thanks to the development of trading systems through the use of APIs. In this article, I will be discussing everything you need to know about trading systems and the APIs that help build them.
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3 Of Our Favorite Dividend Aristocrats Today
Investors looking for high-quality dividend growth stocks should consider the Dividend Aristocrats, a group of 57 stocks in the S&P 500 Index that have increased their dividends for at least 25 years. The Dividend Aristocrats make for great long-term stock investments.
In order to become a Dividend Aristocrat, a company must have several desirable qualities. Dividend Aristocrats widely have strong brands, leadership positions in their industries, and durable competitive advantages that provide for long-term growth.
The following 3 Dividend Aristocrats could produce excellent returns for dividend growth investors.
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Profitable Blockchain Disruptions in The Near Future
The technological hype of the internet century is moving away to a new age - the blockchain age. Soon, we will not be able to single out any business that won’t be using this new technology at least to some extent.
More so, there are plenty of investment opportunities for those looking to profit from this new technological advancement.
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Benefits of Stock Trading Software Tools for Stock Market Investing
Stock market trading has come a long way from its initial beginning in 1817. Before computers, stock exchanges were held at physical exchange locations. Traders gathered at pits to buy and sell securities through open outcry. Throughout the day, traders would mark in their notebooks the trades they accepted and then settle their books with the transaction counterpart. This system stayed pretty much the same until the NYSE in 1971, the world's first electronic stock market.
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Press Release: ShareAlpha and ValueWalk Partner to Provide Proprietary Stock Discovery Tool to ValueWalk Premium Members
ShareAlpha, a new up and coming proprietary stock discovery engine is now partnering with a popular and established value investing news medium, ValueWalk, in order to provide premium members access to their exclusive discovery tools. This partnership was in facilitated by and in conjunction with Hashtag Investing.
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5 Year Performance of Canadian Quant Based Strategies Monthly Re-balancing with 10 Stocks
With the launch of our new stock discovery tool powered by ShareAlpha, we wanted to share the 5 year performance of all strategies our users can deploy. These are based on Canadian stocks. We will update this monthly as new data is inputted. See below for this months returns!
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Introduction: Hashtag Investing Stock Discovery Tool Powered by ShareAlpha
In the last few weeks we at Hashtag Investing partnered with ShareAlpha to bring our members a powerful new stock discovery tool. You can read our press release as well as an incredibly insightful Q&A with co-founder Patrick Kuczynski to learn more about this tool and partnership.
In this post we wanted to provide a high-level introduction to the tool in terms of what it does, why you should do it, and how to operate the tool. This will be the first of a series of post that goes through each feature, functionality, and benefits they have!
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Press Release: Hashtag Investing Partnering with ValueWalk to Provide Chat Access To ValueWalk Premium Members
NEW YORK, September 28th, 2018 - Hashtag Investing, a quickly growing online platform for DIY stock investors is now partnering with a popular and established value investing news medium, ValueWalk, in order to provide premium members access to their exclusive chat community.
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Press Release: Hashtag Investing Partnering with Share Alpha to Provide Stock Traders a Powerful Stock Discovery Tool
TORONTO, August 20th, 2018 - Hashtag Investing, a quickly growing online platform for DIY stock investors is growing their toolkit to further provide value to self-managing stock traders with a new partnership with Share Alpha.
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Q/A Interview with Patrick Kuczynski, CFA, Co-Founder of ShareAlpha.
I sat down with Patrcick Kuczynski to discuss his newest project, ShareAlpha, which will shortly be a partnered tool for stock and strategy discovery on Hashtag Investing. ShareAlpha will allow members to discover new stocks and strategies through a proprietary quantitative analysis system. You'll be able to select inputs like factors, legendary investors like Warren Buffett, and other trading strategies to discover new winning stocks and portfolio's.
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Dollar Tree Inc Stock Analysis
Stocks are difficult to predict. However, isn’t what make them interesting to analyze? Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR) which was formerly known as Only $1 offers its customers items for $1 or less. This is a discount variety store where one can find various items of daily use and a lot more. It operates across entire America and Canada with a nationwide logistic network to back its operation.
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