Building the perpetual motion machine

I had coffee with one of my good friends last week and one of the things we like to talk about is how we can work together more. Like any good business meeting, instead of talking about the products we could build, we first looked at the market itself. Business lesson #1 Find a growing […]

How to: Buy Stocks the easy way

In my first post, I made an assumption that people already had some sort of 401K/RRSP or TFSA/Roth IRA and were actively making trades. After speaking with some of my peers, it became evident that most did not, and the most common reasons for this were I do not have money to invest, or I […]

Just do it now

This is going to be a fairly short post. Quick sell all your stocks. The Dow dropped 666 points and the world is ending. Obviously, I am kidding. Well not about the Dow dropping but about selling your stocks. I’m not in tune enough with all the economics of the world to understand exactly why […]

How to get people to do what you want and make the world a better place in the process

Everyone knows the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (Matthew 7:12) I can’t remember where I heard the following but I feel it is actually a better version of the golden rule. Do unto others how they would want to be done unto. Did you notice the subtle […]

Getting your Friends to pick your Stocks

I know I said you shouldn’t pick your own stocks but if you don’t listen to my advise or if you want to do this because you enjoy the thril of it, I wanted to share different techniques I’ve used over the years to build my portfolio. I tend to put some money away in […]