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Our CAPS Update – February 2010

February 28th, 2010

Motley Fool CAPS  for 1stmilliondollar

It’s the end of the month; and we’re going to give an update of our Motley Fools’s CAPS performance. For those who don’t know, we’re setting up a Motley Fool’s CAPS account to track our stock picks. It’s different from our stock picks for the contest because we can pick as many stocks as we can in CAPS (no limitation to 4 stocks).

Note that we don’t necessarily invest our real money in all of these stocks at this time. We do invest in some of them.

Ticker Stock Gain S&P 500 Gain
PEGA +4.14% +1.44%
CAGC +38.05% -3.48%
BIDU +12.05% -3.48%
ITC +6.12% -0.75%
EW +6.85% -1.01%
CTRP +3.35% -1.01%
ARD +1.57% +2.35%
ASIA +25.88% +3.38%
CHK +4.32% +7.11%
POT +17.61% +4.87%
DAR +13.84% +8.02%

Stocks with More than 10% Year Dividend Yield

February 22nd, 2010

If you believe that we’ll be in a range-bound market for some time, you might be looking for stocks that has high dividend yield. We posted a couple of stocks recommendation from Dr. Mark Skousen in our previous posting. Now, we’ll post stocks recommendation from Bryan Perry, editor of Cash Machine.

As always, we remind you to consult your financial advisor before making any decision. Some of Bryan’s recommendations are actually closed-end funds. Note that stocks with high dividend yield do not guarantee that they cannot go down in price. They may also cut their dividends at any time.

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Canadian ETF Screener

February 21st, 2010

Canadian ETF issuers

A couple of days ago, someone posted a question at Canadian Money Forum about Canadian ETF screener. The good news is that there are only four ETF issuers in Canada, i.e.:

So, as mentioned by Canadian Capitalist, we can just visit the web site of those companies and see what they have.

Alternatively, GlobeInvestor.com also provides a stock filter that can be used to search for ETFs. Go to the following URL

http://www.globeinvestor.com/v5/content/filters

and then select “ETF” in the “Security” box. Also make sure that “Toronto Stock Exchange” is selected in the “Exchange” box.

GlobeInvestor.com's ETF screener 

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