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The Performance of our Stock Picks has been outstanding.

Our Track Record shows that our Stocks Picks earned an average 25% per year in the past five years and have beaten the market each and every year since the inception of this Site.

We can't guarantee any particular level of future performance but we will continue to use the same diligent methods that have worked so well in the past.

$53,000 turned into $200,000 in 8 years.

Here is a real-life story.  Shawn Allen the chief editor of this Site manages two retirement accounts for his family. In one of those accounts he has invested a total of $53,079 over the years and the dollar weighted average age of the investment is under eight years. And that account as of August 29, 2007 has almost quadrupled to over $200,000.  And this account was never invested in highly risky stocks. Most of the stocks were mid to larger cap stocks and paid dividends. This was not a matter of getting lucky on penny stocks. This portfolio has made money every year since Shawn began managing it in accordance with this Web Site in 1999. The market crash of the early 2000's was basically unnoticed by this portfolio. (In its worse year,  2002, this portfolio was basically flat and earned only 0.2%, but that was not bad considering the market was down 14% that year). The average return on this portfolio from 1999 through 2006 inclusive was 20.7% per year.

We think most of you will agree that turning $53,000 into over $200,000 in about eight years is an impressive feat. And imagine if that kind of pace can be maintained. If so, in another eight years the $200,000 would be $752,000. And eight years after that the $752,000 would be $2.8 million. And if the return on this account drops by half to 10%, the $200,000 would still grow to $429,000 in eight years and to close to $1 million in 16 years.

Our Investment Style

We are fundamental investors. That means we calculate what we think is a reasonable value for each stock based on its earnings, dividends, growth potential and other fundamental data. We are longer-term oriented. It's not our goal to try to turn $1,000 into $10,000 in a week by taking a wild chance on some penny stock. Instead we are very interested in turning $100,000 into $400,000 in 10 years and into $1.6 million in 20 years and into $6.6 million in 30 years. Mathematically we can do that if we can earn 15% per year. If that suits your style and ambitions, then our service may be just right for you.

Our Analysis Process

We analyze each company and its stock price in a consistent rigorous fashion. Our reports are brief and easily readable and yet they contain a large amount of data and information presented in a simple fashion. We give you the important value ratios like growth rates, price to earnings ratio, price to book value ratio and many more. We also tell you in plain language what all the ratios mean. We use a template approach which helps insure we look at a large number of factors in a consistent manner. For example we always check the insider trading data and we always comment on competitive advantage. We never forget to comment on these because it's always part of our consistent template to fill in those factors.

The Type of Stocks We Feature

Most of our stocks would be considered value companies, or "growth-at-a-reasonable-value". These include financials (banks, property insurance, life insurance, wealth management), restaurants, retail, railroads, cable, telephone, breweries, manufactures and more. Some would consider these stocks boring. But we wonder, what is so boring about making money year-after-year-after-year?

Independence

Our Stock Research is completely independent. We have never received any kind of fee or consideration from any company that we rate. In contrast much of the free stock research that is available is not completely independent of the companies being rated. We strictly use publicly available information which we analyze using a consistent approach. We are not reliant on insider information nor would we want to be. If we were reliant on personal contacts with each company, it would then be much harder to rate a company as a sell since that might sour the personal relationship with the insiders.

The investor relations department at almost any company would be happy to tell you why to buy their shares. We say, don't tell us,...  show us (for example by making high profits and yet having a reasonable P/E ratio).

Here is What Our Subscribers Get:

(All of this is via our members-only Web Page)

You'll Get a Table of about 17 specific Buy / Sell Stock Ratings with Research Reports.

Each Buy or Sell rating is backed up by a brief and yet information-packed analysis that provides the full rationale for our rating. We have invested many hours of research into each company that we feature. This is available to you on an exclusive members-only Web Site. While we typically have over 15 Stocks on the list, you can easily see which are the highest rated and which reports are the most recent. Rather than constantly suggesting new Stock Picks, we keep a very close eye on a stable of good companies and occasionally add in a new stock or weed out a stock.

In all cases these are mid to large cap stocks. These are not Penny Stocks.

Hear are the Stocks we have Buy or Sell ratings on:

(Ratings can range from Strong Sell to Strong Buy but most are somewhere in the Buy range)

Company	Trading Symbol
Burlington Northern Santa Fe	BNI
Canadian National Railway Company	CNI
Cognos	COGN
eBay	EBAY
FedEx	FDX
FirstService Corporation	FSRV
Kingsway Financial	KFS
Manulife Financial	MFC
MicroSoft	MSFT
Shaw Communications	SJR
Stantec	SXC
Target	TGT
Telus Corporation	TU
The Thomson Corporation	TOC
Tim Hortons	THI
Wal-Mart	WMT
Walgreen Co.	WAG

Do the above sound like a group of money making companies? Most of them certainly are. And our ratings will tell you which ones we think are the best bargains now.

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