On June 19, 2018, the Canadian Senate passed a bill to legalize recreational use of marijuana and the effective legalization date was announced by the Prime Minister as October 17, 2018.

Canada became the second country after Uruguay to legalize the drug.

From that date, under the Cannabis Act, persons of age 18 or older are allowed to possess up to 30 g of dried cannabis in public. Adults may also make cannabis-infused food and drinks so long as organic solvents are not used to create concentrated products. Individual Canadian provinces are able to set their own procedures for retail sales, and there is considerable variation from province to province.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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! 

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.

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. 

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.