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Parents advised land or gold for savings, how should I balance this with modern options?
Hi everyone, I’m in my 40s and have only recently started being more intentional about handling my money. Growing up, we were always told that the safest way to keep money was through land or gold jewelry because they’re tangible, something you can see and hold. Cash or paper-based investments …
Scotia iTRADE – How to Enable DRIP?
Hi everyone, I’m with Scotia iTRADE in Canada and I’m trying to enable dividend reinvestment (DRIP) for an ETF (like SCHD). I can’t find the option anywhere in the account settings. Is it possible to enable DRIP online, or do I have to call them? If anyone has done this …
Walmart reports tommorow, here are some other companies that may be affected by that
89 public companies list Walmart as a major customer in their SEC filings. Here's a small ssnippet of who is most explosed - with deeplinks links to the actual filings. I extracted data from ~3,500 company SEC filings and found 89 public companies that explicitly name Walmart as a major …
If you invested in the s&p in year 2000, you wouldn’t seen any significant gains for over 13 years…
I was just going over the history of the s&p500. This isn’t like amazing news it’s just something I noticed. From the year 2000-2013 (more like 1997-2013) there gains from the s&p were basically nil. I’m hearing a lot about the US dollar crashing, the debt crisis, companies being WAY …
Automated Investing Wealthsimp
Hey everyone, I’m in my early 20s (Ontario), investing for a 20–30+ year horizon. This is long-term money I don’t plan on touching. I’m just downloaded Wealthsimple and am funding from my TD chequing. Accounts are non-registered for now (due to maxed elsewhere). I’m trying to be as financially efficient …
The Fearless Forecast for February 19, 2026 for DJIA
# The Fearless Forecast for February 19, 2026 for DJIA is: *(SU = Small Up; LU = Large Up; SD = Small Down; LD = Large Down)* * **Bucket:** Up Streak (<3) * **Volatility score:** ≈ 1.40 (elevated) * **Probabilities:** SU ≈ 28% LU ≈ 18% SD ≈ 32% LD …
How old are you and what is your current investment mix?
I am 38 and have been very fortunate the last few years with big bets in the market and large windfalls through my company being acquired. I have previously been invested solely in the US but am starting to think more about diversifying my money into more international, bonds, and …
Could the price of copper rise?
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of analysis on AI infrastructure portfolios and stocks, the main consensus is obviously put money into NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, etc. while I agree on a lot of those building blocks for ai like cloud, semiconductors etc, I think people are overlooking the basics, such …
Is there a way to find out the majority owners of a stock?
I keep hearing a lot of big corp stocks are owned by institutional investors like fidelity, Vanguard, BlackRock, etc. Is there a way to check this? Do I go into these investor holdings and check the amount of the stocks they own VS the floating amount in the market?
Wealth advisor having a meltdown
Hello, I went to cash out an old group RRSP that’s been accumulating for a few years, substantially underperforming the overall market. They needed my physical signature. Weird. As I was signing the forms, the wealth advisor asked me what the money is for, I simply told him the truth. …