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Drip King

@drip_king

ETFs · 1m

What got you started?

Would love to know what motivated you guys to start investing!

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Nick

@realnickstrategy

Community · 🔥 Hot

Celebrating New Parenthood with $DAD Shares

Officially a $DAD shareholder.

Today, at 12:08PM my son was born. Mother and baby are heathy!

$DAD

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Zain @zains

Beginner Investors · ⭐ Featured

Beginner’s Guide to Stock Market Terms

One of the best parts about the Blossom community is how open everyone is sharing knowledge and experiences.

To make things easier for anyone just starting their investing journey, here’s a simple glossary to help understand and simplify various terms.

Common Terms:

Dividend: A share of a company’s profits paid to shareholders, usually quarterly.

Ex-Dividend Date: The cutoff date by which you must own a stock to receive its next dividend.

ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund): A fund that holds multiple stocks or bonds, traded like a single stock.

Covered Call ETF: An ETF that owns stocks and sells call options to generate extra income (higher yield, limited / capped upside).

Earnings Report: A company’s quarterly financial performance summary.

EPS (Earnings Per Share): A company’s profit divided by its number of shares.

Market Cap: A company’s total value (share price × number of shares).

ACB: The total amount you’ve paid for an investment, including the purchase price plus any fees or commissions.

Book Value: The value of a company according to its financial statements (assets minus liabilities).

Yield: Annual dividend as a percentage of the stock/ETF price.

Liquidity: How easily an asset can be bought or sold without impacting its price.

Volatility: The degree of price fluctuations in a stock or market.

Index: A benchmark of stocks (e.g., S&P 500, Nasdaq, TSX).

Bull Market: A period of rising stock prices and optimism.

Bear Market: A period of declining stock prices and pessimism.

False Breakout: When a stock’s price moves above (or below) a key level, making it look like a new trend is starting, but then quickly reverses back.

P/E Ratio: Price-to-earnings ratio (stock price ÷ EPS), used to assess valuation.

Blue Chip: Well-established, financially strong companies with a track record of stability.

Diversification: Spreading investments across assets to reduce risk.

Broker: A platform or firm that facilitates buying and selling investments.

Limit Order: An order to buy/sell a stock at a specific price or better.

Market Order: An order to buy/sell a stock immediately at the current market price.

Bid/Ask Spread: The difference between the highest price buyers offer and the lowest price sellers accept.

Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA): Investing a fixed amount regularly to reduce the impact of market swings.

Capital Gain/Loss: Profit or loss from selling an investment for more/less than its purchase price.

IPO: When a company first sells shares to the public.

Index Fund: A fund designed to mirror the performance of a market index.

Short Selling: Selling borrowed shares, hoping to buy them back cheaper.

Margin: Borrowing money from a broker to buy investments, which amplifies gains and losses.

Margin Requirement: The minimum amount of your own money (equity) you must maintain in a margin account to open or keep a leveraged investment position.

Margin Call: A demand from your broker to deposit more funds or sell assets because your account equity has fallen below the required margin level.

Time Horizon: The length of time you plan to hold an investment before needing the money. Short horizons = more risk-sensitive, long horizons = more room to ride out volatility.

Stock Split / Reverse Split: A split increases the number of shares (e.g., 2-for-1) while lowering the price per share. A reverse split reduces the number of shares (e.g., 1-for-10) while raising the price per share. Your overall value doesn’t change just the math.

Long (Being Long): Buying a stock or asset because you expect the price to go up.

Short (Being Short): Selling a stock you don’t own because you expect the price to go down, so you can buy it back cheaper later.

TER: The total yearly cost of owning a fund, including the management fee plus other costs like administration, audits, and legal fees.

MER: The annual cost that a fund charges for management (includes any leverage costs if used).

Management Fee: A portion of the MER that goes directly to the fund managers for running the fund.

Withholding Tax: A tax deducted on dividends/distributions from foreign investments (e.g., U.S. dividends to Canadian investors face a 15% withholding in TFSA/Non-Registered accounts).

Total Returns: The full picture of an investment’s performance, including both price gains and dividends/distributions.

CAGR: The average yearly growth of an investment over time.

NAV: The price of one share of a fund (stock or etf)

NAV Depreciation: When the fund’s share price goes down over time.

Mutual Fund: A pool of money from many investors used to buy a mix of stocks, bonds, or other assets.

Bond: A loan you give to a company or government, and they pay you back with interest.

Asset: Anything valuable you own that can generate money.

Portfolio: Your collection of investments.

Option: A contract that gives you the right (but not the obligation) to buy or sell a stock at a set price.

Future: A contract to buy or sell something at a set price on a future date.

REIT: A company that owns real estate and pays investors income from rent.

Alpha: A measure of how much better (or worse) an investment did compared to the market.

Beta: A measure of how much an investment moves compared to the market.

Sharpe Ratio: A way to see if returns are worth the risk taken.

Hedging: Protecting your investments from risk.

Rebalancing: Adjusting your portfolio back to your target mix of assets.

FCF: Free Cash Flow

Understanding these terms makes investing far less intimidating.

If anyone feels other terms should be included, please share in the comments.

I’ll update this post so we can build a complete beginner-friendly resource together!

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Greg

@wealthbuildingproject

Market News · 12m

Why Do We Panic Sell When Stocks Drop?

Part 2 of The Psychology of Investing is live on The Wealth Building Project.

The market drops, your account is red, and every instinct says sell. I walk through the three questions I ask before I ever sell, why some drops are opportunities, and how Galatians 6:9 keeps me patient when progress is hard to see.

Watch: https://youtu.be/Fr5056YNyqE

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Mr Financial

@mr.financial

Beginner Investors · 4d

Should You Buy the Dip? What dip? 🧐

"Buy the dip!" That drum is beat soooo often on social media. Sounds simple enough. The market drops half a percent or even a percent or even more, you buy more, and eventually the market recovers. EASY right?

There's one little problem though. You actually have to know WHEN to buy.

Look at the chart I'm sharing. The market experiences declines of 1% or more VERY often.

These aren't extraordinary events. They're part of normal market behaviour. Yet every time they happen, investors start talking about buying opportunities, waiting for a bigger correction or keeping cash on the sidelines until the market drops further.

But is buying the dip actually a better strategy than staying invested?

A 2024 study published in the European Financial Management journal by Stefano Bonini and two other academics examined exactly this question.

Their research compared holding cash and waiting for market declines against investing in a stock market ETF... so it was pretty relatable for the average DIYer.

What did they find???

Buying the dip does NOT necessarily maximize your real ending wealth. The results are HIGHLY SENSITIVE to market conditions when you begin investing.

Something else to note, under certain conditions, buying the dip can improve risk adjusted performance compared with passive investing or traditional dollar cost averaging. BUT there's a MASSIVE catch..... the strategy is subject to estimation risk.

In other words, you have to make assumptions about when the market offers an attractive buying opportunity and getting those assumptions WRONG can undermine the strategy.

This is why I don't actively "buy the dip" or suggest other too.

I don't want to sit on cash waiting for a correction that may take months or years to arrive. And I don't want to turn investing into a guessing game where I have to decide whether a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5% decline is enough, whether I should wait for 10% or whether the next 20% drop is just around the corner.

My strategy is to stay invested, maintain my asset allocation, and rebalance when necessary.

Does that mean you shouldn't invest when the market is down???? Absolutely not!!!! If you have new money to invest, a market decline doesn't need to scare you away.

There's a difference between investing consistently when markets are down and holding cash specifically because you're trying to time the next dip.

In my October Portfolio update, I share what I did during the tech sell off and what saved my portfolio. If you don't know my investment style, you'll be surprised what did!

https://youtu.be/H5JMG8Z_okg

What about you? Do you actively buy the dip or do you prefer staying invested and letting the market do its thing?

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Noor

@noor911

Market News · 25m

🚀 TESLA IS CLIMBING! ⚡📈

What's driving the latest rally? 👀

🔥 1. SpaceX Merger Talks
Tesla and SpaceX are reportedly working through discussions about a potential merger, including deal terms, governance structure and feasibility.

📅 A potential announcement could come as early as December 2026!

🚀 2. Potential Game Changer
A combined Tesla–SpaceX entity could bring together electric vehicles, AI, robotics, autonomous driving and space technology.

📊 3. Investor Optimism
Progress on merger discussions and positive regulatory developments are boosting investor sentiment.

💭 Could this become one of the biggest corporate deals in history?

👇 What's your move on $TSLA?

🟢 Buying
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The Market Matrix

@themarketmatrix

Market News · 🔥 Hot

NBIS Stock Analysis: Buy Zone and DCA Strategy

$NBIS now -50% since the strong trim right at the top.

Now it's a 3x right back into the buy zone after some relief yesterdat.

If you have a habit of chasing, this tool prevents that 100%.

Anyone waiting for a 4x..?

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Luis

@luiyo

Market News · 19h

$NVDA CFO Colette Kress emerges as a potential interim CEO candidate if Jensen Huang is removed, per Reuters.

She has served as Nvidia's CFO since 2013 and played a key role in the company's growth.

Let's see what happens tomorrow.

I'm waiting for more pullback before buying again.

Generational wealth I tell ya! 😁

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Micheall

@micheall

Trading · 27m

📊 TRADE RECAP | NOVEMBER 12

🚀 $NVDA $162.5C — Up 200%+
🔥 $GOOGL $300C — Up 58%
💰 $SWKS $95C — Up 25%
📈 $CRWV — Profitable scalp
🟢 $AMD $615C — Quick profits
🏆 $COST $1100C — Member reported +$540

⏳ WMT and CVX positions also added as speculative swings.

$NVDA stole the spotlight with a reported 200%+ move, while $GOOGL and $SWKS also posted gains.
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Eldon

@selldon

Memes · 31m

But, what about seconds?

I'm sorry... 😅

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The Market Matrix

@themarketmatrix

Market News · 🔥 Hot

$NVDA Jensen Huang reportedly had a second affair with Nvidia healthcare VP Kimberly Powell

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I mean are we fr 😭

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Moe

@moe_on_margin

Beginner Investors · 20h

Forget the Noise & Join Me In Tracking Money Flows

I know you guys appreciate the in-depth research posts more than anything else I write and tonight I have a JUICY 2 post series for you that will blow your socks off. We will be going on a journey of reflection to sniff out how institutional investors have been behaving with their money since Nov. 2nd until today.

All jokes, memes, market news & affairs aside... tonight we're back to serious insights about the lovely market. I've tracked every stock in the S&P 500 and split them up by sector to monitor how the money's been flowing for 8 trading days in November so far across every single stock and sector in the S&P.

Let's get started by unpacking how net flows moved over the 8 day period and watch how NET money flows went in & out of the S&P 500.

Nov. 2nd: -$73B
Nov. 3rd: +$6.2B
Nov. 4th: +$162B
Nov. 5th: -$580B
Nov. 6th: -$75B
Nov. 9th: +$335B
Nov. 10th: +$21B
Nov. 11th: +$566B
Nov. 12th: ??? (if the pattern continues it will be a Negative flow day)

We've been mere puppets this whole month with the wolves taking us on a rollercoaster ride for 8 days of ups & downs... enough swings to make anyone throw up.

On the worst day Nov. 5th only 15% of stocks closed positive and on the best day which was Nov. 9th 84% of all S&P stocks closed positive.

But, are all sectors reacting the same on the good and bad days? or are there visible rotations?

To answer that I will direct you to the first table in the images below. Watch the sectors Money flows.

The heavy concentration of money moving out has been directed towards:
$XLE Net Flows = -$80B
$XLK Net Flows = +$10B (barely made it across in W2)
$XLB Net Flows = +$4.2B

To show you how rough the Technology sector’s ride was please observe image 2 below showing the cumulative money flow of the period... the sector was left for dead last week and made a COMPLETE recovery to close flat earlier today.

That sector had $2.41 Trillion trading across its 76 stocks and netted out +$10B after all that… that’s peak volatility for you, not a smooth sailing anymore for AI.

The 3 best performing sectors where money flowed in aggressively:
$XLC Net Flows = +$114B
$XLY Net Flows = +$76B
$XLF Net Flows = +$67.3B

All other sectors were mixed performance through the period with $XLV & $XLP showing the most promising trend.

Now as you might know Technology as a much higher direct impact on the S&P as it represents almost 40% of the index while Energy with it’s -$80B outflows barely makes a dent as it only represents 3% of the index... Just for perspective.

Ok now for the GRAND FINALE... Do you guys want to know the top 20 stocks where money flows ran for the door and top 20 companies that attracted money flows as a safe haven ?

Well, I will give you just that and it will be an EPIC list of 40 companies showing you all exactly the winners and losers during the days when the market crashed and when it peaked.

But, You’ll have to stay tuned for my next post to see them…

I promise you won't wait for too long just have patience for 1 hour and you’ll see the second post…. in the mean time if you enjoyed this work and look forward to the lists show this post some love so more people can see it and benefit.
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Forget the Noise & Join Me In Tracking Money Flows — image 2 of 2

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Buythedip

@buythedipzw

Milestones · 1h

I just hit 100K views in the last 30 days!! 🥳

Here's a milestone I've been working towards for a while! It makes me so happy to achieve it.
Staying consistent is the key! (As Always) Can't wait to see what the future holds.
Thank you guys! 🎉

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Maxwell

@maxstocks

Technology · 🔥 Hot

😎 I met Dan Ives! Here's his thoughts on markets

🎤 Had a chance to meet and listen to Dan Ives (one of the most iconic tech analysts on Wall Street) and hear his thoughts on the Nvidia drama, the Anthropic IPO, and where he sees the opportunity in tech!!

He called this a “white-knuckle moment” for the tech trade but still thinks we’re in the 1995 internet moment of AI. Here’s my recap 👇

🤖 On Nvidia and Jensen

😬 Called it a “black eye moment” for Jensen and $NVDA. By his read, the market is pricing a 15-20% chance Jensen gets removed as CEO depending on how the congressional scrutiny plays out

📉 If that happens, he thinks the stock drops 25-30%. Jensen is the “central nervous system” of the whole AI ecosystem and Nvidia has no real succession plan

✅ He's still very positive on Nvidia but said the stock is basically trading on one question right now: is Jensen there or not?

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🚀 Where Dan is bullish

☁️ Hyperscalers: $MSFT , $AMZN and $GOOGL (and even $META) are “more valuable today than they were a week ago”. They already own the compute, so new restrictions on data centers give them more leverage and let them narrow the gap vs Anthropic and OpenAI

💻 Software over semis: thinks we’re entering the “use case phase” where AI finally gets monetized and called out $PLTR , $SNOW , $CRM and $NOW

🛡️ Cybersecurity: $CRWD , $PANW and $ZS

⚡ Energy: “AI doesn’t happen without energy.” We need 4-5x more power than we have today and he thinks nuclear has to be the answer (China has built 23 nuclear facilities in the last few years while a lot of US data centers are stuck waiting for power)

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😰 Where Dan is bearish

☁️ Neoclouds: “a game of musical chairs, some left without a chair.” With rates and credit spreads where they are it’s hard for $CRWV to raise capital. He sees $NBIS as the best positioned, but called the group a headwind, not a buying opportunity

💸 Debt-heavy AI plays: used $ORCL as the “poster child”... take on that much debt and it’s hard for the stock to work

🏛️ Politics: his #1 worry for tech isn’t valuations, it’s the political environment and the anti-data-center push since the election. “Every data center that gets voted down, China ultimately wins”

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🧠 On the Anthropic IPO

💰 Thinks ~$1T is the right valuation to go out at (more “digestible” than $1.4-1.5T) and that a successful IPO matters more than stretching it

🔮 Long term he thinks they can get to $500-700B in annual revenue, but warned newly public companies take years to build out and any speed bump gets punished... pointed at $SPCX as the example

👀 Curious what you guys think!!

P.S. shout our Direxion ETFs for inviting me to this event! Tagging a few of their ETFs as a thank you - feel free to check them out 😎 read more

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Brad Brunton @bradbrunton

Beginner Investors · ⭐ Featured

Summaries of some of my favorite investing Books 💯

For those who don’t have the time

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Omar

@wealthwhisperer

Market News · 🔥 Hot

Another One Jensen??? 👀

There’s not enough popcorn in the world 🍿

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Luis

@luiyo

Beginner Investors · 10h

Speculation Time

What if, Elon Musk recruited Jensen Huang and made him CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at $SPCX?

Let Jensen be in charge of Elon's chip factory, Terafab. Musk wants it to be the largest ever built, one terawatt of compute per year, from design to packaging under one roof.

Terafab's challenge is to do in a few years what the industry took decades to build. There's only one man on Earth who knows every layer of that stack.

Does it sound too far-fetched?

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Mike Heroux

@thedividendguy

Dividends · 1h

FirstService has been dead money for five years.

In a great bull market:
That's strange when you look at the business. FirstService is the largest property manager in North America. It runs more than 9,500 community associations under multi-year contracts, which means a lot of recurring revenue. Its FirstService Brands division sells plumbing, closets, maintenance, restoration and roofing to the same communities.
The dividend triangle:
Revenue: up 12% a year over five years
Dividend: up more than 10% a year
Earnings per share: up about 4% a year, almost flat between 2022 and 2026
The share price is flat over the past 12 months, after a bounce on its third-quarter results. I don't own it. It looks worth a closer look.
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Matt @tissuet

Market News · 1h

POPPED

Someone's bubble popped hahah

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Graham Stephan

@grahamstephan

Market News · 🔥 Hot

This just keeps getting more wild 😵‍💫

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Eze @eze1234

Trading · 1h

Warning: ⚠️ Don’t dump Anthropic IPO too soon!

If you plan to buy $ANT only to ride the hype and cash out later, know that you won’t be able to buy any future IPOs at Wealthsimple! You must hold the company for at least 60 days! I wonder if any other brokerage has this policy?

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Buythedip

@buythedipzw

Analysis · 🔥 Hot

Wow 🤯 there’s an opportunity here for first timers

I feel like if you haven’t invested in AI the time is now. You will most certainly see a return in your future.

If you’ve ever been curious about investing in AI but didn’t know when the right time was, I think now maybe the time. I’m team full recovery. ❤️‍🩹🩺

Did the Ai bubble officially pop?

🫧 there is no bubble

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🩺 due for a full recovery

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Omar

@wealthwhisperer

Market News · 6h

NVIDIA

Two things can be true:

- The jensen affair was extremely serious and resulted in him being canned in 2 days.

- Nvidia stock is likely good value here and will flourish without Jensen leading it, because he built a good company.

Some people struggle that both of these can be true at the same time.

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Maxwell

@maxstocks

Technology · 7h

😎 Anthropic stock page live!

You can now tag $ANT in your posts and add it to your watchlist in advance of the Nov 19 IPO 🫡

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BD Investing

@bdinvesting

Market News · 1d

Not 1 but 2!!?

Time to watch the show 🍿 $NVDA (no position…yet)

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Trevor Heslop

@trevorheslopinvests

Analysis · ⭐ Featured

Question For Individual Stock Pickers🧐

What’s the most important thing you look for when researching a stock and finding a winner?

What are the things that a stock must have in order for you to own it?

Let me know below, i’m super curious!

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Blossom

@blossom

Market News · 1d

🐝 Daily Buzz: November 11, 2026

📊 The AI trade came back to life. The Nasdaq jumped 1.60% to 25,466.19, the S&P 500 rose 1.31%, the Dow added 0.49% and Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite climbed 0.67%.

☁️ CoreWeave ($CRWV) rocketed 24.71% to $60.77 after beating on third quarter revenue and raising 2026 guidance for both revenue and operating income. CEO Michael Intrator said the company is 10 times oversubscribed on its remaining 2027 capacity.

🤖 Nvidia ($NVDA) climbed 2.9%, clawing back part of a nearly 10% drop to start the week after Jensen Huang confirmed the affair. The rebound helped lift the broader tape.

🍎 Apple ($AAPL) rose 2.04% to $355.63 for its third record close of November. The $5.1 trillion company is up 30.5% this year, nearly triple the S&P 500’s 11.6% gain.

🔌 Celestica ($CLS) led the TSX, jumping 8.38% to $345.43 as tech and energy drove the index higher. Kinaxis ($KXS) added 6.37%, while Lithium Americas was the worst performer at 12.27% lower.

🏛️ Anthropic said in an updated SEC filing that it will offer 825 million shares in an IPO planned for next week, at a valuation of as much as $1.4 trillion. Separately, Goldman now expects a Fed hike in March on top of December, and Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee called the October CPI print borderline disturbing.

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Anthropic is going public next week at up to $1.4 trillion. Fair value or too rich?

Fair, it grows into it

Too rich

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Blossom

@blossom

Market News · 2d

🐝 Daily Buzz: November 10, 2026

📊 Hot inflation and rate hike talk pulled stocks lower. The Nasdaq fell 0.74% to 25,065.87, the S&P 500 lost 0.38%, the Dow dropped 0.30% and Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite slid 0.76%.

🤖 Nvidia ($NVDA) sank 5.47% to $168.89, dragging all three averages, and its market cap briefly fell below $4 trillion for the first time since July 2025. Jensen Huang acknowledged the affair over the weekend, and lawmakers are now asking about chip purchases by the businesswoman’s company.

💻 Microsoft ($MSFT) dropped 3% after Anthropic announced a slate of workplace tools for Claude that could compete with Office.

🔗 Securitize ($SECZ) surged 22.38% to $8.53 after Citi upgraded it to buy on third quarter results and an expansion into asset-backed finance. Analyst Peter Christiansen pointed to monetization across token issuance, trading and stablecoin infrastructure.

🛒 Shopify ($SHOP) fell 4.73% to $204.69, extending last week’s slide. The loonie also weakened to 70.40 cents US from 70.81 Monday.

🏛️ October CPI rose 0.4% against the 0.3% expected, with core at 0.3% versus 0.2%. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped more than 14 basis points back above 5%. Fed Governor Christopher Waller opened the door to a half-point December hike, while Dallas Fed’s Lorie Logan called for two more quarter-point moves.

👨🏻‍💻 Researched and written daily by @timemino
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Waller says a half-point hike is on the table for December. Does the Fed go 50?

Yes, 50 basis points

No, 25 is enough

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Moe

@moe_on_margin

Market News · 1d

A Second Affair Just Became Public

And with an Employee this time….

What a shitty week for Jensen, NVDA and NVDA shareholders… I can see the lawsuits coming in mass! 😱😱😱

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Christopher J

@cjs033

Market News · 1d

Jensen’s wife right now. 😳

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Moe

@moementumfinance

Beginner Investors · ⭐ Featured

Money, Investing & Self Development Books 📚

Here are my top 9 most favorite books on the topics of money, investing, and the psychology related to it. 🙂 I have also shared my short takeaways from each of these books:

✅ Reboot Your Portfolio (Dan Bortolotti): By simply "owning the market" through globally diversified index funds, you will almost certainly enjoy better performance than the vast majority of investors who buy actively managed funds or try to pick their own stocks. Over the long term, index funds offer the highest probability of achieving your investment goals.

✅ Atomic Habits (James Clear): If you can get 1% better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. Focus on making tiny adjustments to your behavior, as small changes lead to lasting improvements.

✅ Die with Zero (Bill Perkins): Maximize meaningful and memorable experiences in your lifetime when you are healthy and have the capacity to do so. Invest in experiences that yield long-lasting memories and pay you regular "memory dividends".

✅ The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins): Build a financial cushion (F-You Money) to give you a choice, and invest through low cost, broad-market, diversified index funds.

✅ Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki): Use your money to acquire assets instead of liabilities.

✅ Choose FI (Chris Mamula, Brad Barrett, Jonathan Mendonsa): Achieving Financial Independence requires a plan, much like building a house, but it is not a one-size-fits-all approach and you can tailor it based on your own journey.

✅ Quit Like A Millionaire (Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung, JL Collins): Spend your money on experiences that last a lifetime that on material stuff and consumer debt.

✅ The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel): Managing your emotional impulses and learning how to behave in face of challenging money decisions, play a crucial role in your financial success.

✅ I will teach you to be rich (Ramit Sethi): Develop a "Conscious Spending Plan" that aligns with your values and financial goals.

📚 Learn More: https://youtu.be/KIXOYvKgtnw

➡️ What are your favorite money/investing/self-development book recommendations?read more

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Mr Financial

@mr.financial

ETFs · 4d

My Portfolio After the Tech Correction

What do I do when the stock market drops and my TFSA portfolio takes a hit?

This is a transparent look at my $322,250 TFSA portfolio after a volatile October, when global markets took a beating and the Nasdaq 100 briefly entered correction territory.... we all know November has continued the trend...

For those of you interested in seeing a real life example of what all in one ETF's do during a market pull back, one mcap and one using 4 single factors, see how $XEQT faired compared to $FEQT in the sharp pull back at the end of the month. That trend is continuing into November....

Also, I'm looking for a good emerg market multifactor ETF in Cad.... just to complicate my portfolio a little more 🙃 Let me know what you use please!

https://youtu.be/H5JMG8Z_okg

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37.6% held

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25.7% held

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Moe

@moementumfinance

Milestones · 4d

The Podcast Is Getting Some Moementum! 🎙️🔥😆

A little milestone worth celebrating! The Moementum Finance Spotify Podcast has officially reached 5,000 plays and downloads on Spotify! 🚀 What started as a passion for sharing financial knowledge, investing insights, and helping Canadians build wealth is growing one conversation at a time featuring many amazing Blossomers.

A huge thank you to everyone who has listened, supported, shared, and been part of this journey. Your support means a lot! ❤️

Here's to many more conversations and milestones ahead! 🥂

🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ju5r3cXUOSNtFlOzc9ovV

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LM @retiredyoung

Personal Finance · ⭐ Featured

Preparing for the inevitable.

I am currently 47 years old. Unfortunately in that time frame I have lost a lot of family members. Some (most) were accidents, some to age, some to cancer, and one to suicide. That’s 11 deaths total. Only 1 person out of 11 had a will.
When you are grieving the last thing you want to do is close an estate up.
It’s even harder if nothing has been prepared in advance.
After the initial shock of the death settles (the phase where everyone is usually nice), greed comes through in a most alarming manner. I’ve watched people turn into monsters. Make sure you have a will!!!! or people will fight.

I know most people hate thinking about their death or their spouses death but honestly it’s just a fact of life.

I’ve personally been the executor of 2 estates now.

This is my advice:

1. If your young get life insurance. If you’re retired it’s not worth it.
2. Make sure you have a will.
3. Make sure you have a personal directive.
4. Make sure you have a power of attorney set up.
5. If your married make your spouse the beneficiary of your TFSA and RRSP(has to be done through the account not the will), they will roll into the spouses account without taxation.
6. If you’re married, and you own a house, make sure both names are on the title, joint tenant, NOT tenant in common. This activates right of survivorship on property and doesn’t have to go through the estate.
7. If you’re married, both people should have their name on all the vehicles, joint, otherwise it’s a headache after death.
8. Buy a file folding system. I have a plastic one that has a clasp and handle.
9. Put EVERYTHING in this file folder that would be needed if you died tomorrow.
a) all land titles
B) information on house insurance so it can either be eventually canceled or name changed over.
C) your will (or the location of your will), power of attorney, and personal directive
D) the information for your car, car insurance, and registration on vehicles.
E) information on life insurance.
F) all current year papers needed for filing your taxes. Because the survivor will have to do it and will need that information.
G) where your household bills are. ALL OF THEM, electricity, gas, Netflix, magazine, subscriptions everything you can think of that is in their name. Because you are going to have to cancel them.
H) their credit card information where to contact to cancel the cards
I) birth certificate, SIN numbers, marriage, license, etc.
J) information on all your investments accounts, bank accounts, etc.
K) anything else you can think of for your situation

If you’re married, I’d have one box per person.

When you die, the funeral home will issue many death certificates. And your lawyer will give you copies of the will.
These will be needed to change over any accounts. Everything else goes through the estate which is taxed and the lawyers take their fees so I’d avoid this as much as possible especially if you’re married. This is why having property in both people‘s names is so important because it doesn’t have to go through probate.

I am widowed now and I have my black file folder and my two remaining children know if something happens to me, all they have to do is grab the folder. Everything they need to take care of my estate will be located in this folder.

At the beginning of every year, I open this file up and go through everything to make sure it’s up-to-date.

If you are young and do not own much or can’t afford a will, you can draft one up but it must be handwritten to be classified as a legal document. You cannot type it out!! If you’re not worth much, everything will most likely be sold to pay your bills and cover your funeral expenses. But you can state who your executor will be in your handwritten will.

Disclaimer I’m not a lawyer or an accountant and this is not legal advice. Talk to a lawyer and talk to an accountant. Make sure everything is set up for you and your situation. These are situations that I personally ran into.

Good luck

Also I’ll add in. IF you have a lot of assets make an appointment with your accountant first. They will tell you how to properly set things up. Then take that information to your lawyer. read more

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Brandon Beavis

@brandon

Community · 14d

Things are about to get a little hairy at Blossom!

This November, we’re putting our money (and moustaches) where our mouths are.

Team Blossom is officially joining the Movember movement, and inviting the entire community along for the ride!

Our goal? Raise $10,000 for men’s health, supporting mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer. But we’re not stopping at donations!

To make things a little more spicy, we’ve set up some fun fundraising challenges. From @maxstocks learning a KATSEYE dance, to mystery punishments, questionable moustaches, and a whole lot of chaos, every milestone unlocks something new.

The best part? EVERYONE can participate (women too!).

🥸 GROW A MO: Put down the razor and grow that glorious moustache.
🏃‍♀️ MOVE FOR A MO: Can’t grow a moustache? No problem! Walk, run, or get moving for men’s health. Track your activity through Movember and sync your progress to your Mo Space.
DONATE FOR A MO: Donate to a good cause and help us reach our $10,000 goal and unlock the next challenge!

📸 Post your progress photos throughout November and tag @meetblossomsocial on Instagram so we can share it along on our socials, bonus points if you're wearing Blossom merch!

JOIN THE BLOSSOM MOVEMBER TEAM OR DONATE:
https://movember.com/t/blossom-social-team?mc=1

Because investing in your future means investing in your health, too.

Let’s grow something good. Together!read more

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Cole Delarosbil

@investingwithcole

Beginner Investors · ⭐ Featured

🚩 3 Red Flags to Watch for When Buying a Stock 🚩

Here are 🚩3 big flags🚩that signal a company might not be a good investment, and I'll walk you through how to check for each one.

(Free Stock Checklist at the end)

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1️⃣ Declining Revenue or Earnings📉

🛑 Why it’s a red flag:A company with falling revenue or earnings may be losing market share, dealing rising costs, or the overall industry is shrinking.

✅ How to Check for This:

A) Look at the Income Statement📊
- Find the company’s total revenue and net income in its latest financial report. Top-line & bottom-line, respectively.
- Compare revenue and net income across multiple quarters/years. 3 years or 12 quarters is more than enough to indicate a trend
- If both are consistently declining, it’s a warning sign.

B) Check Earnings Reports🗂️
- Look at the company’s quarterly earnings reports to see if they’ve missed expectations multiple times.

C) Compare to Competitors🔍
- Is the entire industry struggling, or just this company?

📚Website for financial reports:

https://www.marketwatch.com/

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2️⃣ High Debt Levels

🛑 Why it’s a red flag:Companies with a capital structure heavily debt-reliant are more vulnerable in economic downturns and might struggle to repay obligations.

✅ How to Check for This:

A) Find the Debt-to-Equity Ratio (D/E)📊
- Go to the company’s Balance Sheetin its latest report.
- Find Total Debt and Total Equityand calculate: Debt-to-Equity Ratio = Total Debt ÷ Total Equity**
- A D/E ratio above 2.0 (varies by industry) is usually risky.

B) Check Interest Coverage Ratio🔍
- Look at the Income Statement for EBIT (Earnings Before Interest & Taxes).
- Find Interest Expense and calculate:Interest Coverage Ratio = EBIT ÷ Interest Expense
- If this ratio is below 1.5, the company may struggle to pay interest.

📚 Resources:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/debtratio.asp#:~:text=Key%20Takeaways&text=A%20company's%20debt%20ratio%20can,has%20more%20assets%20than%20debt

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3️⃣ Poor Cash Flow

🛑 Why it’s a red flag:A company can be profitable on paper but still run out of cash to fund operations.

✅ How to Check for This:

A) Find the Cash Flow Statement📜
- Look at Operating Cash FlowOCF).
- If OCF is negative for multiple quarters, the company may be in trouble.

B) Check Free Cash Flow (FCF)💰
- Free Cash Flow = Operating Cash Flow - Capital Expenditures
- A company with negative FCF can’t reinvest in growth without taking on debt.

📚 Read more about Cash flow:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/07/easycashflow.asp
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Thanks for reading, I am open to engage in friendly conversations so I encourage you to leave a comment!💬

Access my free stock checklist at the link below⬇️

https://investingwithcole.gumroad.com/l/stockchecklist

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