This Site provides intelligent Canadian and U.S. stock investing advice with a truly outstanding track record. 

The following graph, shows (as of December 31, 2011) the performance of our Stock Picks and of my own portfolio,  and of the S&P 500 and the Toronto Stock Index since the end of 1999 when I started this Web Site. The Blue line is the average of our Buy or higher rated stocks, the pink line is the performance of my own portfolio, the black line is the Toronto stock index and the red line is the S&P 500. 

In choosing Investment Advice to read or follow you should look for the following three things:

1. Trustworthiness - If you don't trust a Site it is clearly of no value to you. Browse this Site for a few moments and the integrity and truthfulness should be obvious to you.

2. Performance - Advice that you trust but which has not performed is of no use.

3. A rational approach which suits your temperament. Does our approach of value and fundamentals-based investing seem rational to you and does it match your temperament?  Like Warren Buffett, we make no use whatsoever of charts and "technical analysis". That is, we analyze companies and not charts. Chart investors implicitly are trying to follow the smart money. We are not trying to follow the smart money. With all due respect we think we are among the smart money investors.

If you are a day trader, you will have little use for our work. We have been quite successful at getting rich over the past ten years by investing in the stocks of mostly long-established profitable (and usually dividend-paying) companies and we hope to continue. If you are looking to get rich immediately by somehow making a short-term 1000% return on a stock, that is not what we are trying to do and this Site will not fit your needs. 

Thank You for visiting our Web Site. Be sure to see our free articles on the current valuation of the stock market  - the links are just below. We can help you grow rich through intelligent investing. We have helped many hundreds of investors grow richer over the past 12 years.

We Pick Canadian and American Stocks based on fundamental analysis (in the best traditions of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham) and we have an exceptionally good track record.  We have beaten the market index 10 out of our 12 years of existence. (We trailed by 8% in 2007 and by a hair in 2010) On average we have beaten the market index by 10% per year. Could your money use a friend like this site?

Despite two market crashes since the start of the 2000's our Strong Buys have more than quintupled since the end of 1999, our Buys-or-higher-rated stocks and the Editor's personal portfolio have both more than quadrupled in that period. Meanwhile the Canadian TSX index rose just 42% in the twelve years of the 2000's and the S&P 500 index has declined by 18% Since the start of the year 2000.

Feature Articles: 

Global Exchanged Traded Funds (Symbols and P/E Ratios) updated October 9, 2011 

Canadian Exchange Traded Funds (Symbols and P/E ratios) (updated Jan 7, 2012)

Asset Class Performance of Stocks, versus Bonds, Cash and Gold in the long Term  (updated February 9, 2011)

Is the S&P 500 Index now Under-Valued? (updated August 25, 2011)

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14 Reasons to join:

1. Performance - The Stock picks on this Site have consistently out-performed the market. We have beaten the market index 9 out of our 11 years of existence. On average we have beaten the market index by 10% per year.
    
2. Small Following - Due to a lack of advertising and hype we have only a relatively small group of followers. When we put a buy rating on a Stock, we will not be moving the market. (And we certainly would not want to) 
    
3. Comprehensive and yet concise stock pick reports in a very  easy to understand format. See example reports
    
4. Appreciative Testimonials from the users of this Site. 
    
5. Independence - The Editor receives no fees from the companies covered and avoids any personal relationships (other than owning shares) or conflicts of interests with them.
    
6. Lower Risk - The advice and Stock Picks are based on investment math, common sense and fundamental analysis - not on betting on extremely speculative stocks.
    
7. Free - most of the content here is free.
    
8. Credibility - Our chief Editor has an astounding amount of relevant education. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional accountant, has an MBA and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Simply put, the Editor understands how to interpret financial results at a deep level that many other analysts do not begin to approach.
    
9. Original - All of the articles on this Site are completely original and thought provoking as well as interesting and most important - valuable. They demonstrate the Editor's deep understanding of finance and of business in general.
    
10. Honesty - This Site prides itself in having the absolute highest ethical standards. The chief Editor's personal investment results are revealed, almost no other investment Sites reveal that key data. The Editor "eats his own cooking" and has found it to be financially fattening!
     
11. No pressure to (ever) subscribe to the (paid) stock picks. We would be gratified simply by your interest in receiving the free newsletter and reading the free content on this Site.
     
12. Methodology - In four words, "We do the math", we speak from analysis and business common sense not from mere conjecture or totally unsubstantiated opinion.
13. No Outside Content Allowed - We write all of own articles and do all our our own analysis. We accept absolutely no outside content. We refuse all offers to pay us to link to other sites. We do not even accept reciprocal links, as we don't want to link you to any content that we don't trust. (We do allow a very small amount of advertising on a few of our pages but only from very trusted outfits)
     
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