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Discount Brokerage Weekly Round Up – Sept. 21/2012

Published September 21, 2012
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Discount Brokerage Weekly roundup: The big news this week in the world of Canadian online discount brokerages was the release of the 2012 JD Power & Associates Canadian Discount Brokerage Investor Satisfaction Survey results.  With Disnat coming out on top, followed by BMO Investorline and National Bank Direct Brokerage, the survey showed that while Canadian […]

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3 lessons on investing Gangnam Style

Published September 20, 2012
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Spending as much time on the internet as we do here, we couldn’t help but come across the biggest craze to hit the internet since that cute Charlie Bit Me video.  If the suspense is killing you, we’re talking about none other than the video for Gangnam Style (OGS).  In a matter of just over […]

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Canadian Discount Brokerage Investor Satisfaction Results – 2012

Published September 20, 2012
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JD Power and Associates have just released the results of the 2012 survey of Investor Satisfaction℠ with Canadian discount brokerages. Between June and July of 2012, 2900 Canadian retail investors were surveyed about their level of satisfaction with their discount brokerages. Data was obtained for 12 Canadian discount brokerages, although results for Credential Direct were […]

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Brokerages Gone Social

Published September 17, 2012
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Even though discount brokerages haven’t traditionally portrayed the most “fun and friendly” image, more and more of them are starting to become visible on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. While you (hopefully) won’t find those embarrassing pictures of a drunken night gone wild or an angry rant about a horrible boss, plugging […]

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Learning to Trade On Your Own – Discount Brokerage Educational Resources

Published September 10, 2012
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Learning Objective – Discount Brokerage Education Resources: To understand the different educational resources currently being offered by Canadian discount brokerages Introduction Increasingly, Canadian discount brokerages have begun to recognize that retail investors require tools and resources in order to support them in managing their own trading activities.  Fortunately for retail investors, the quality and diversity […]

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Event Review – Margin and Short Selling by TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage

Published September 10, 2012
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This past August we attended several investor education events put on by TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage.  These events were aimed at educating retail investors on the concepts, practices and strategies that will better prepare them when trading. The most recent session we attended was about margin and short selling. The session covered a number of […]

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Questrade mobile trading app officially released

Published August 24, 2012
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Earlier this week, Questrade officially launched their IQ Mobile for Android and iPhone and with that they join the rank of other discount brokerages who’ve created mobile-friendly sites or smartphone apps for trading (to see who else offers mobile trading apps check out our review here). Questrade’s mobile trading app will help investors and traders […]

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Event Review – Making Decisions Using Technical Analysis Seminar by TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage

Published August 23, 2012
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Making Decisions Using Technical Analysis This lunchtime session was held in the downtown Vancouver TD Waterhouse Investor Centre, and was part of a series of educational seminars for retail investors offered by TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage.  The focus of this seminar was on technical analysis and covered what technical analysis is, types of trends, support […]

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Event Review – Active Trading Strategies Seminar – TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage

Published August 22, 2012
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The Active Trading Strategies sessions that I attended took place at lunchtime in the downtown Vancouver investor center. The centre itself is a space for retail investors to directly contact TD Waterhouse representatives as well as catch up on what’s going on in the financial markets via the BNN broadcast or with newspapers provided. Also […]

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IP-uh-Oh: Investor Lessons from Facebook Going Public – part 3

Published August 1, 2012
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Learning Objectives – Facebook IPO: Stock prices reflect expectations about the future What a company says they’re going to do or not do can impact what people expect Quarterly earnings reports allow a company to disclose its activities and its financial situation Introduction This past month, Facebook released their first ever earnings report as a […]

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IP-uh-Oh: Investor Lessons from Facebook Going Public – part 2

Published July 4, 2012
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Facebook Going Public – Learning Objective: To learn what an IPO is and why a company goes ‘public’ There seemed a time in the business news not too long ago where all you would hear about was the debut of Facebook in the stock market.  Now that Facebook has officially started trading and media outlets […]

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Trading Adventures: Breaking Up Is Hard

Published June 12, 2012
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My first full time job, a Marketing Assistant at an HR firm, came right after university and with it came the realization that not only would I have to pay income taxes but also that some of what little I earned had to be saved. After all I’d heard the story of the ant and […]

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IP-uh-Oh: Investor Lessons from Facebook Going Public

Published June 1, 2012
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Learning Objective: To understand that investments are driven by beliefs. Introduction Over the past month, one of the most dominating news stories in financial markets has been the debut of Facebook as a publicly traded stock.  There are so many great investor lessons about the world of investing and finance that this historic event can […]

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Update on Questrade Pricing Change

Published May 17, 2012
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Questrade Pricing Change: Here’s one for the “you don’t see this from a financial institution every day”.  We reported a recent announcement from Questrade in which they stated that they would be implementing a minimum activity threshold of one trade a month starting in July 2012 for those account holders with less than $5000 in […]

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Questrade to charge minimum activity fee starting July 10

Published May 10, 2012
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Questrade just made the following announcement via email: Inactivity fee As of July 10th, 2012, an inactivity fee of $9.95 per month is charged to clients with under $5,000 in combined equity for any month in which the client does not complete one commissionable trade. Clients are exempt from this fee if the account is […]

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Event Review – Small-Cap Conference Vancouver 2012

Published May 5, 2012
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SparxTrading.com attended the Small-Cap Conference Series held in Vancouver on April 10th. We went for a status update on the small-cap (short for small market capitalization – check out Investopedia’s definition here) companies but what we got was so much more. Guest speakers Ryan Irvine of KeyStone Financial Publishing Corp., Theodor Tonca of Vancouver Value […]

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