Thursday, November 23, 2006

So you want to Know How to Become a Stockbroker

So you want to know how to Become a Stock Broker

STEP 1: Begin to organize for your Brokerage career in high school by taking courses in math, economics and business. And even with a small sized float, you can manage your own stock portfolio (in a parent’s name if you are under 18) allowing you to learn about diverse investments and their returns. Do learn how-to-invest time.

STEP 2: Join or start a Stocks and Bonds Investment Club, which compares dissimilar investment opportunities, analyzes results and jointly invests its funds, $20 bucks each is all you need. Re-invest your gains or distribute your profits.

STEP 3: Go to College or University. Most brokers are College graduates with a degree in finance, economics or business. Real business experience or a strong desire is all-it-takes to capture the attention of the Investment Firm you target.

STEP 4: Pass the Canadian Securities Course, administered by the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI). All provinces require the Financial Planning Course be complete and that you pass the Examination within three years. The Canadian Securities Institute also requires ongoing continuing education… forever.

STEP 5: Be advised to take advantage of on-the-job training, obtainable through most brokerage firms via their sales assistants programs, preparing you for the above exams’, a process that takes four to six months (some never pass). It is self directed!

STEP 6: A person passing the mandatory exams, becomes a Stock Broker, a registered representative agent of his or her sponsoring firm. Now garner support from your contacts and join the Chamber of Commerce… and network… network… network.

STEP 7: Anticipate a very competitive work environment after being employed. Firms often hire a plethora of graduating college and university students as juniors; with the expectation or knowledge that a large percentage of you will ‘wash-out‘ during the gruelling early months of training, while building your clientele or book.

STEP 8 or ∞: Emphasize your studies and work experience in finance, economics and/or business when writing your résumé. A professional, aggressive image is crucial at the sponsoring dealers interview, where prospective employers will be testing your drive, evaluating your resolve and your business adviser savvy.

Due-diligence, is the Key to being a best-of-class broker, to the benifit of your client.

Tips & Cautionary Warnings - The Bull and the Bear of it!

* Success in the brokerage business is qualified and quantified by sales volumes. It can be a realistic and rewarding career move for someone changing over from a sales position in real estate, insurance or the banking business and the Canadian Bond Market for example.

* Sample firsthand the products you’d be brokering by visiting any brokerage firm, agent, promoter, advocate, bank or mutual fund Web site. Also, visit job fairs where securities firms are recruiting and talk to a real live stock broker. Get live data in due-diligence, business and life.

* Negotiate a sales assistant position, become a Junior, with the right to have a number of your own clients… why not get paid while you take the course, become an advisor, and build your book.

* A Stock Broker, as in any sales position, needs to be thick skinned to succeed, and especially surviving those lean early years of long hours… disappointment… plain spaghetti dinners… and an acquired and unexpected taste for wiener water…

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

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Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor: "Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor

Who buys stuff from spam? Usually, there's no way to tell. Spammers aren't exactly forthcoming with their sales numbers. If only those numbers were required to be made public; then we could correlate the arrival time of the spam to the volume in sales at that point.

A pleasant daydream, you say? Well, actually, there is one type of spam where we can see the results: spam that tries to get you to buy stock. Companies or third parties will send out spam promoting a stock to try to drive up the price. Presumably, people then buy it. Since in this networked age we can get stock quotes in near-real-time, it's easy to match spam arrival time to stock price and trading volume.

Below you'll see a graphical representation of the stock spam I received over the most recent day of stock trading. Each stock price graph has been annotated with a vertical red bar every time I received a spam for that stock. On the left side of each graph you'll see any spam that came in after the market closed yesterday but before it opened today. If that spam had any effect it's likely to be all bunched up at the very start of trading."

Friday, October 21, 2005

The Canadian Stockbroker© | TCS newswire™ ; Private Client Good Morning Notes

Friday, October 21, 2005
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MARKET FLASH
8:43 AM - ATI Technologies Inc., (ATYT-NASD), SELL
Chartered Semi shows Xbox360 ramping up, confirms forecasts Bruce Krugel
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GOOD MORNING NOTES
8:31 AM - Your Good Morning Advantage

Transportation Securities
Pacific Gateway announcement to have positive implications for both CNR and CP Avi Dalfen
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Finning International, (FTT-TSX), BUY
Strike action to hit high-margin service revenues Avi Dalfen
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Zarlink Semiconductor Inc.
, (ZL-TSX), BUY
FQ2/06: profitability in sight, raising target to C$2.35 from C$2.20 Bruce Krugel
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Labopharm Inc., (DDS-TSX), BUY
3-year exclusivity? Biovail's Tramadol ER expected in FDA Orange Book today Carl Martel
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Cott Corporation, (COT-NYSE), HOLD
Cott in a rut; reducing target price to $17 David Hartley
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Rothmans Inc., (ROC-TSX), HOLD
Imperial Tobacco's shuttering of Cdn plants to arm company with more cash David Hartley
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Energy Post
Fundamentals unchanged Kurt Molnar
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Semafo Inc., (SMF-TSX), BUY
Q3 prod. results in line; bidding process for Managem block concludes next week Richard Gray
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Thursday, October 20, 2005

The Canadian Stockbroker© TCS News Wire™ ; Blackmont Capital Ink ; Good Morning Notes

Thursday, October 20, 2005 -Up-dated

Point-of-View
12:30 PM - Glamis Gold Ltd., (GLG-TSX), BUY
Glamis: a Gold Stock for All Seasons Chad Williams
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12:29 PM - Workbrain Corporation, (WB-TSX), BUY
Workbrain 5 Takes a Step Forward in Industry-specific Functionality Wojtek Nowak
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Market FLASH
10:02 AM - Cott Corporation, (COT-NYSE), HOLD
Q3/05 earnings miss Street estimates again David Hartley
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GOOD MORNING NOTES -►October 20, 2005
8:46 AM - Good Morning Advantage

Livingston International Income Fund, (LIV.UN-TSX), BUY
Hostile bid for PBB; strategic, but questionable timing Barbara Gray
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Cardiome Pharma Corporation, (COM-TSX), BUY
Initiates ACT 4 study to strengthen its RSD-1235 FDA package Carl Martel
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IAMGOLD Corp., (IMG-TSX), BUY
More drill data from Quimsacocha confirming previous results Chad Williams
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Bank Of Nova Scotia, (BNS-TSX), HOLD
Domestic strategy shows nothing radical; glimmer of hope offered for margins Darko Mihelic
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Financial Services
BNS entering non-traditional mortgage market; may be larger than thought Darko Mihelic
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Vincor International, (VN-TSX), SELL
Let the bidding begin, but there appears to be only one player; SELL David Hartley
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Alcan Inc., (AL-NYSE), BUY
Alcan makes executive changes Lawrence Smith
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Workbrain Corporation, (WB-TSX), BUY
Workbrain 5 takes a step forward in industry-specific functionality Wojtek Nowak
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GOOD MORNING NOTES -
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
8:38 AM - Your Good Morning Advantage

Canadian National Railway, (CNR-TSX), BUY
Despite higher fuel costs, productivity gains propel CN to strong Q3 results Avi Dalfen
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Connors Bros. Income Fund, (CBF.UN-TSX), BUY
Proposition 65 trial underway Barbara Gray
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ATI Technologies Inc., (ATYT-NASD), SELL
Intel (INTC) Q3 shows reduced exposure to chipsets; S-T opportunity for others Bruce Krugel
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TD Bank Financial Group, (TD-TSX), HOLD
RY announces Enron reserve; is TD under-reserved? Darko Mihelic
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RBC Financial Group, (RY-TSX), BUY
Enron reserve announced; perhaps resolution is near? Darko Mihelic
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POINT OF VIEW
9:04 AM - Yellow Pages Income Fund, (YLO.UN-TSX), BUY, Hold , Sell it is
Still a BUY, But Sector Risk Remains Barbara Gray
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

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The Canadian Stockbroker© | TCS newswire™ ; Where is the security

M. Shane David

Where is the security to
invest in a start-up company the investor
requires?

If
you're thinking that some companies in start up phases might make
bad investments because their security is low or non existent,
think again.

Start-up companies who seek
capital investment funds (usually extremely aggressively) to pay
bills or to have their dream get some wings are asked for security.
While looking for investors, the company continues its operations
and moves towards its goals while it finds finances. With any luck,
it will get its act together find visionary investors and become
stronger than before continuing to grow. If the company cannot
generate enough start-up capital and begins to have problems paying
off its creditors or getting to its target market and cash flow it
will close or be forced to change.

In secured financing the debtor company in good standing manages
its business and is in possession of its own assets. In unsecured
financing the debtor company is partially controlled by the
creditors, and completely controlled soon after the conditions of
the credit are breached. In either case when the company fails to
perform or meet its obligations to lenders the results are the same
or at least the process does not differ.

The failing debtor company must then file a plan of reorganization
with the creditor’s council. If any of the creditors are to receive
less than full value for their claims, they will have the right to
vote on their acceptance. After the vote, the court can then elect
either to accept or reject the plan. So the company has some
flexibility, but if it tries to deal too harshly with various
creditors, its plan isn't likely to be approved.

In most cases of failure to meet its obligations, the company will
have to sell off assets to raise money to pay creditors. The
proceeds usually won't be enough to pay all prioritized creditors
in full. So the creditors can take a reduced amount of money,
and/or some stock in the reorganized company. Creditors don't have
to share anything with existing shareholders. Even the insiders'
stock stakes are generally always reduced to zero value.

If you notice much attention being paid to creditors and little to
shareholders, you're not imagining things. Those who hold shares of
common stock in the company are not near the front of the line.
They're behind debt holders, merchant creditors, trustees,
employees, the Tax Man, and even preferred shareholders.

Some companies in money troubles, start-up money shortages and debt
do emerge from it and survive -- but many don't. And with those
that do, it's rare for insider shareholders to benefit unless they
are part of the fix. Insider shareholders are the least secured and
as they're last in line the creditors and preferred shareholders
are in control of the company.


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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

GOOD MORNING NOTES

8:38 AM - Your Good Morning Advantage

Canadian National Railway, (CNR-TSX), BUY
Despite higher fuel costs, productivity gains propel CN to strong Q3 results Avi Dalfen
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Connors Bros. Income Fund, (CBF.UN-TSX), BUY
Proposition 65 trial underway Barbara Gray
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ATI Technologies Inc., (ATYT-NASD), SELL
Intel (INTC) Q3 shows reduced exposure to chipsets; S-T opportunity for others Bruce Krugel
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TD Bank Financial Group, (TD-TSX), HOLD
RY announces Enron reserve; is TD under-reserved? Darko Mihelic
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RBC Financial Group, (RY-TSX), BUY
Enron reserve announced; perhaps resolution is near? Darko Mihelic
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POINT OF VIEW
9:04 AM - Yellow Pages Income Fund, (YLO.UN-TSX), BUY, Hold , Sell it is
Still a BUY, But Sector Risk Remains Barbara Gray
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GOOD MORNING NOTES
8:52 AM - A Morning Advantage October 18 repeat

Gateway Casinos, (GCI.UN-TSX), BUY
Gateway Casinos raises distribution 4.5%, but sector risk remains Barbara Gray
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Zarlink Semiconductor Inc., (ZL-TSX), BUY
FQ2/06 results preview: we do not expect any surprises Bruce Krugel
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Far West Mining Ltd., (FWM-TVX), HOLD
Positive new drill results from the Santo Domingo Sur target area in Chile Don Poirier
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Comaplex Minerals Corp., (CMF-TSX), BUY
Final results for the Meliadine West project; zones tend to be narrow at depth Don Poirier
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Grand Petroleum Inc., (GPP-TVX), BUY
Grand Plans Kurt Molnar
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Cameco Corporation, (CCO-TSX), BUY
CCO will not participate in restart of two additional reactors at Bruce Power Lawrence Smith
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Golden Star Resources Ltd., (GSC-TSX), BUY
Mitigation measures completed; mining to resume following EPA review Richard Gray
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CGI Group Inc., (GIB.SV.A-TSX), HOLD
TPI Index supports our view of a challenging outsourcing market Wojtek Nowak
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Workbrain Corporation, (WB-TSX), BUY
Deal with Ultimate Software a positive step in partner-led sales Wojtek Nowak
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

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GOOD MORNING NOTES
8:52 AM - A Morning Advantage

Gateway Casinos, (GCI.UN-TSX), BUY
Gateway Casinos raises distribution 4.5%, but sector risk remains Barbara Gray
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Zarlink Semiconductor Inc., (ZL-TSX), BUY
FQ2/06 results preview: we do not expect any surprises Bruce Krugel
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Far West Mining Ltd., (FWM-TVX), HOLD
Positive new drill results from the Santo Domingo Sur target area in Chile Don Poirier
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Comaplex Minerals Corp., (CMF-TSX), BUY
Final results for the Meliadine West project; zones tend to be narrow at depth Don Poirier
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Grand Petroleum Inc., (GPP-TVX), BUY
Grand Plans Kurt Molnar
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Cameco Corporation, (CCO-TSX), BUY
CCO will not participate in restart of two additional reactors at Bruce Power Lawrence Smith
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Golden Star Resources Ltd., (GSC-TSX), BUY
Mitigation measures completed; mining to resume following EPA review Richard Gray
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CGI Group Inc., (GIB.SV.A-TSX), HOLD
TPI Index supports our view of a challenging outsourcing market Wojtek Nowak
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Workbrain Corporation, (WB-TSX), BUY
Deal with Ultimate Software a positive step in partner-led sales Wojtek Nowak
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Saturday, October 15, 2005

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