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How Are Cannabis Stocks Doing? Cannabis stocks experienced a major run in the lead up to the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada in late 2018. The share prices of many marijuana stocks soared in excess of 500%. Investor optimism may have gotten ahead of itself though; the broader cannabis industry has been bearish since […]

The U.S. and Canadian economies have a long history of tracking each other. At least they did. At a time when the U.S. economy is churning out strong economic data, low unemployment, and jobs growth, the Canadian economy has been doing the opposite. While many economists do not believe Canada will enter a recession in […]

The stock markets ended 2019 on a strong note, with the S&P 500 advancing 30% for the year while the Nasdaq increased approximately 38%. With both indices trading at record levels, investors were hoping for more of the same in 2020. That is looking less likely right now. A Black Swan event, the coronavirus, has […]

They are one of the most popular investment vehicles for the majority of people…but are they really what you should be trusting to fund your retirement? We don’t think so. They keep you fully invested in the market with your money fully exposed to the risk of the market falling while providing very little in […]

Freedom. This is one of the key attractions of trading, the ability to escape the dreaded 9 to 5 routine, to work less, and to have the finances to live and do what you want. At Learn to Trade, we believe that keeping things simple is the fastest and easiest way to achieve your trading […]

When the stock market falls, it can be hard to watch the value of your investments shrink in real time, and is even worse when you feel like there isn’t anything you can do about it. But what if there was? What if you could add protection to your investments so that even if the […]

If you’ve been watching your portfolio over the last 18 – 20 months, you’ve probably noticed that for the most part, there’s been little to no gains to be had. Since the market reached a high in January of 2018, gains using the traditional approach to managing money have been hard to achieve. That’s because […]

Despite the U.S.-China trade war, the Canadian economy had been reporting decent, but not robust, economic growth. All that has changed though. For the first time in 2019, economic data is rolling in that suggests the Canadian economy is slowing down faster than what analysts forecasted. This does not bode well for the Canadian economy […]

Despite signs that the U.S. economy is slowing and concerns about a global recession, North American stocks have rallied to record levels in 2019, fuelled most recently, by stronger than expected third quarter results. But the run of record closes on the TSX, NASDAQ, NYSE, S&P 500, and Dow Jones Industrial Average recently hit a […]