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I have written about Stock Chase in the past and how it tracks the comments from analysts and wealth managers on BNN. BNN is Canada’s Business News Network with many programs where experts are invited to discuss companies either on their own or from requests by callers.
By the way, if you want to get access to some daily stock trend reports on a technical front, try one of the services below. They are free and delivered to your mailbox. The reports are purely technical based on the stock trends.
Stock Chase
First of all, don’t let the look fool you! There is a wealth of information captured on this site from the investment experts that pass through BNN. Many years of comments are captured and easily accessible.
If you are simply researching a company, you can use the tools available on the site. You can query a company and get a full list of comments on that company for many years. It will go back many years and will show what every experts had to say about it and their recommendation:
- Top Pick
- Past Top Pick
- Buy
- Hold
- Sell
- Don’t Buy
- Comment
If you end up trusting a particular expert, you can search that expert for their comments and see their top picks. Obviously, you need to use Stock Chase and the comments as information in your research. What I like about some of the comments is that they may share some information that isn’t obvious through numbers. My stock analysis speak about the company in terms of numbers but a company is more than numbers and understanding the reason behind the numbers can often lead to buying a stock on the cheap or out of favor.
Top 10 Porfolio
With 20,000 registered users, the Top 10 Portfolio highlights what stocks investors have in common.
As of writing, the current top 10 is as follow:
- BNS – Bank of Nova Scotia
- BCE – Bell Canada
- CPG – Crescent Point Energy
- SU – Suncor energy Inc.
- MFC – Manulife
- TRP – TransCanada Corp.
- RY – Royal Bank of Canada
- AGU – Agrium
- BMO – Bank of Montreal
- TD – Toronto-Dominion
Back in October 2010, the top 10 differes by only one investment. Could you map investor sentiment based on the top 10? Or are those consistent holdings for investors? I know those are consistent holdings for mutual fund companies. Interestingly enough, only one of the top 10 is a Dividend Aristocrat.
Effective Use of Stock Chase
The most effective use I have found is to register and enter the list of stocks you own and track and suscribe to the email notification. By doing so, you will receive emails when the stock is mentioned on the air with a comment from the analyst.
Everyday I scan the list of comments that pertain to my stocks and the comments for the day. If there is a company I don’t know but look interesting, I look further into it and I add it to my list of stocks on my tracking sheet.
With the emails, you get to receive what consists of hours of commentaries right to your doorstep. Stock Chase also provide two RSS if you prefer to read it in your favorite RSS reader. I would still recommend to enter the stocks in the portfolio for easy notification of comments that pertains to your investments.
Readers: Have you used Stock Chase? Any comments?
I totally use that site. I like the daily emails. I’ve been using it for over a year now. You find out some experts that you can listen to and others that aren’t so useful.
A useful site that I use as well. However, make sure that what you read does not justify your buy/sell decisions. After all, you still don’t know what what he doesn’t know and more importantly what he didn’t say!
Correct. You still need to do your own research.
StockChase is cool, it gives you some extra thoughts on a stock you might be interested in. But I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it
Interesting site and content.
How many of those experts are talking up their book though?
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I listen to a number of calls and in most cases, they disclose what they own or not. However, they tend to manage billions in assets with many holdings. After a while, you tend to trust some more than others.
Seems like an interesting site. It could use some design help, but besides that, its really useful!
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What would you recommend as a passive investment?
Obviously not everybody has relevant knowledge and time to watch closely the market.
I think that buying individual stock and watching them is time consuming for most of the folks and very very risky. Two facts, as food for thought:
- Only 202 of the 500 biggest companies in the United States in 1980 were still in existence 20 years later.
- On December 29, 1989, Tokyo’s Nikkei stock average reached its all-time peak of 38,915.87. Twenty years later, the Nikkei has never again reached that level — and, in 2009, reached a new low of 7,054.98.
What do you think?
They key point in your comment is the time factor. If you really don’t have time, I would seriously consider having a financial advisor working with you.
There are dividend ETFs, and even mutual funds (be careful of fees), that will minimize your need to watch the market while still earning some dividends. As you mentioned, only some companies have long standing and it may be worth starting with Dividend Aristocrats. In my Dividend Income, you’ll notice that the companies I hold are mostly servicing our needs as society. You don’t need to trade in and out of them.
Understanding your goals and targets is also very important. You may notice that I take profits sometimes and that’s because I pay attention to the markets but you don’t have to. You can let it ride and let the dividend machine do its work.
I read this website on constant basis… just was wondering how you decide which expert better than other one? I tried to calculate who from experts has most “hits” – but it’s very time consuming…
Any expert names you like?
I have not settled on an expert really. What I use it mostly is to get a sentiment on the stock I own and track and then I look deeper into them. I do take the time to listen to the Top Picks comments online on their website.
For example, with respect to CPG, the sentiment is that it is a good company, well managed but also trading at a premium. From there, you can do your own research.
I would say that form the stock chase comments alone, you probably won’t settle on any analysts. You’d have to listen to what they have to say to understand them.
THANK YOU for posting this! I’m glad I found your blog!!
Steve
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I really enjoyed this posting as it provides a great summary of the how to use stockchase…
Thanks for this very nice article, and also thanks for the positive comments following. I’m the author of the “awful” website and in my defense, it was written with practicality in mind, not beauty. I’ve seen some very beautiful sites, that are very slow or have very little information in them. My design at least is fast and I think practical…
That being said, I agree that it isn’t pretty, and I have been working on an updated version. (keep watching that space!)
My father started this site, with notepad, then excell, then access, then I moved him onto the web so all you people could also use his notes. When we started, on the web, it was almost a whim. We expected to make no money or do much of anything. I can speak for him when I say that it has been an amazing journey and a lot of fun along the way.
Thanks for stopping by Chris!
Functionality and practicality is definitely a good focus and that’s why I did not want my readers to focus on the look. There is a wealth of information and I thank you for sharing all of the hard work openly with all of us Canadian investors.
This site is the bomb. Invaluable imho. I don’t subscribe or follow any particular person on there. I simply use the site as a reality check. If I am thinking of buying or selling something I go on there and see what the pro’s are saying. I am looking for consensus opinion rather than what any one person says. Also only looking for recent comments.
I can echo Fred’s recent comments. I love BNN but dont have time to watch much so I keep up by monitoring the stockchase “recent” page. Also, it was nice to hear from Chris, the stockchase guy.
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Just to let you know, that the awful look of the website is gone, and the new look is here.
Thanks for the article, and I hope you and your readers continue to find good information.
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