These are tough markets for Canadian microcap investors.  The toughest in a number of years in my opinion.  The TSX Venture Index is down more than 25% in 2015.  The stock prices of many small companies I follow are down more than 70% from their peaks.  Granted some of these stocks got ahead of themselves. […]

Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Assets (ROA) are two ratios that are widely used by investment professionals when comes the time to analyze a business. However, it seems like these tools are far less popular in the case of private or retail investors. Upon reading about these ratios for the past month or two, […]

Over my fifteen year investing career, I have made so many mistakes that I have lost count.  Some of these were made due to poor analysis of the business, some were made due to inadequate research, and countless more blunders were made treading outside of my areas of expertise.  However, many times, the mistakes were […]

In this article we will explain our method for finding suitable investment candidates in the microcap space. If you are a part-time investor like we are, we recommend you focus your energy on only one market to start off. We recommend the TSX Venture, home of Canadian microcaps, where most institutions stay away making it […]