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This is a guest post by Dale Roberts who writes and operates the Cut The Crap Investing blog that helps Canadians find the many paths to sensible low-fee investing.    Mike, aka The Dividend Guy asked my to share my personal experience as an investor as it includes the use of individual stocks and ETFs. From my experience that combination appears to be the most common approach or the most common ingredients in the portfolios of Canadian self-directed investors. Of course the most …

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Selling stocks is a common topic discussed among investors. Sell because the company cuts its dividend. Sell because the market is about to crash (definitely my favorite reason). Sell because the stock is overvalued, etc. Those examples discuss more the timing to sell a position to eventually use the proceeds and invest again. But what happens when you need to sell stocks to finance a project? One day or another, you will have to sell stocks to finance your retirement, buy a rental property, pay …

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Why should I pay for your services? There are plenty of great free investing websites! If you have the time, the knowledge and the interest of managing your own portfolio, chances are you don’t need anybody else. In fact, there are several great free investing resources for DYI investors. Instead of putting a long list of websites,  I spent time to analyzing my favorite sources of information and data. The list ranges from deep analysis (rare to find free), to stock lists and financial news. …

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