By Bob Cleaver
I am not alone. In 2011 I made a decision to move all our investments out of a mutual fund holder and into a discount brokerage in order to buy stocks.
I had begun to read books on the stock market: investing, history and psychology. It was a tremendous learning exercise.
Then one day during a conversation with a like minded friend he mentioned charts. I had read about charts; they seemed complicated but something struck a chord and I signed up for a stock charting service. The charting included with the discount brokerage I use is archaic and slow and I wasn’t learning anything from it. The charting service opened my eyes to a whole new world.
Why isn’t investing taught in the schools?
At the same time as I was learning I wondered why investing isn’t being taught in our schools. I wrote letters to several different ministers of education for the province of Ontario. All polite replies but nothing positive until one day I received a letter that referred me to two policy statements for the province for grades 4 to 8 and another for grades 9 to 12. “It’s all in there ,” was the reply. Continue Reading…