Wow… it has been a long month, right?   I left for my first “couple vacation” (read; without kids!) in the last ten years! We went to Hawaii to take some real time off, do all kinds of crazy things (like jumping into a waterfall and diving into a crater) and get

The market didn’t start the way we thought it would in 2014. I was in the camp of optimists believing the rally would continue with the earnings season. But there were some hiccups and the S&P 500 is down -3.56% and the S&P TSX was timidly up by 0.54%. The sad part is the h

  I truly enjoy the month of January as it is usually the time when I have extra cash to fund my retirement investment account. This year, I’m adding $5,000 to my pot. In addition to this amount, I have over $1,500 that was waiting in an US index fund that I will use to buy ne

warning; this post is quite lengthy and includes several stock charts, you may want to bookmark it if you read this on your mobile! I don’t know if you are like me, but the thing I like the most about managing my own portfolio is buying stocks. The simple fact of adding another com

Hello Dividend Investors!   I know I’ve been quite silent on my blog in December, but this is because I was working very hard behind the scenes to come up with two major announcements! For a third year in a row, I’ve produced my Best 2014 Dividend Stock Picks Book. This is a c