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Top Ten Portfolio Ends Year With A Gain Of 21.0%

December 31, 2019 Bob Weir

Our Top Ten Portfolio’s gain by the end of 2019 was just narrowly back of the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index’s 22.2% gain. Despite this relatively good performance, we intend to overhaul the Portfolio for 2020. We started with $500,000 total capital at the beginning of 2019 and we will be including last year`s total profits to begin 2020 with total capital of $605,204. [more]

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Top Ten Portfolio Keeping Pace With S&P/TSX

November 23, 2019 Bob Weir

Our Top Ten Portfolio slipped slightly over the past two weeks by 0.5% while the S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 0.6%. We are increasingly nervous about a possible near-term correction even though the market has entered its strongest seasonality period. Investors should be alert for tax-loss selling situations, where increased selling for window-dressing purposes could result in sharply lower prices for “loser” stocks. This often provides an ideal entry point for astute buyers. [more]

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Top Ten Portfolio Essentially Range-Bound For October

October 26, 2019 Bob Weir

The Portfolio is struggling to gain traction. Its current value is about where it was at the beginning of October. Only five of the nine stocks are profitable although only one of the four losers is decidedly so. The present bevy of stocks is up only 1.2%, and it has been trading profits that have served the Portfolio so well to date. [more]