December 5th, 2011 
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December is finally here, I love its festive spirit, family reunions and most importantly my upcoming holiday. I thought I’d spare you the carnage of my portfolio this month and offer a small gift in return as a token of thanks to all of my readers. The best part of writing on BTI is not posting the wins and losses; it’s the interaction with you that I appreciate the most. So here’s your chance dear reader to enter and win a small prize right in time for the holidays.
Special thanks go out to the following sponsors:
- McGraw-Hill which regularly publishes quality investment related books.
- To my good friend and fellow blogger Invest It Wisely.
A total of 5 prizes will be given away:
- $100 through paypal from BeatingTheIndex
- $50 through paypal courtesy of Invest It Wisely.
- 3x Books courtesy of McGraw-Hill Canada
Book winners will have the opportunity to select their book from the following list:
On to the giveaway! The giveaway will close on Christmas at 12:01am, and the winners will be contacted shortly thereafter. Please enter the giveaway below:
This contest is also listed at the following sites:
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Happy Holidays and good luck!
My DIY stock portfolio is overweight in Canadian oil producers for a reason. I believe Oil consumption is on the path of growth for the next decade and I intend to take every advantage possible of it:
Happy Holidays, Mich! I wish you and your family all the best, and let’s look forward together to a great year in 2012!
Happy holidays to you too as well IIW, let’s kick some ass in 2012!
Happy holidays. Congrats on the giveaway. I will promote it.
Thank you Miss T!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Mich.
Thanks for the giveway, Already get the
email and on facebook, so I didn’t them again.
Doug
Merry Christmas to you and to your family Doug. You are one of the earliest readers on this site,thank you so much!
Wow, great giveaway and very generous of you!
An early, but very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you Mich!
You’re right, the wins and losses are nice to track but it’s the interaction and learning that’s invaluable with blogs like yours.
Cheers,
Mark
Thank you MOA! MErry Christmas and happy holidays to you as well. I’m loving all the interaction with my readers!
I’d like to see more on SRI index investing.
Interesting suggestion SPF, doesn’t SRI suffer from relativism?
Hi Mich,
I just wanna wish you and family happy holidays and keep up the good work. I’ve been a reader of your site now for a year and hope to have the opportunity to continue for many more!
Cheers,
Luc.
Thank you Luc,
I also would like to wish you and your family happy holidays. Don’t hesitate to share your opinion with us on this site. You guys are what make it all worth it.
Cheers!
Merry Christmas. Looking forward to 2012 and the new Marquee!
Merry Christmas NLR, the new Marquee is ready to rock n roll in 2012!
Merry Christmas, Mich! I’d like to hear more about how your investing mentality plays into your personal finances.
Merry Christmas Echo, thanks for your suggestion, duly noted!
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great site. Thanks for the giveaways. Keep up the good work
Thanks Mike!
Great giveaway. I would love to win any of the prizes.
Good luck Patricia
Mich,
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to you and your family. Thank you for the very informative blog postings and Weekend Edition reports. May the New Year be prosperous and your writing continue.
Blessings,
Thank you Douglas, I appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing more from you.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well, here’s to a healthy and prosperous 2012!
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Merry Christmas Mich… best to you and yours over the holiday.
Thank you Doc, Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. Here’s to prosperous 2012!
Mich, best wishes for a Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
Thank you 101, Merry Christmas and here’s to a prosperous 2012 to you and your family!
Wow, a generous giveaway!
I mostly come here for the analysis of individual companies, so of course more of that, but you haven’t done a general post (like on better understanding a bit of oil extraction technology or a geology play) in a while…
You’re right Potato, it’s been a while I haven’t covered a resource play. I got a post coming up in the next few weeks. stay tuned
Love the blog and the promotion is great!
Been following for some time, but not much for posting however, I can not resist a giveaway.
Would love to see you update us on many of the junior firms you have brought up on the blog that you may or may not have taken a position on, but brought to our attentions. Firms like BVD, TOC, SPO, etc… that have been in your portfolio, or discussed.
I for one would love to learn how you see these firms fairing under the current circumstances with this sector being undervalued in my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback RV, you can count on me covering more junior firms as I follow several in parallel.
Merry Christmas! I would like investment advice for people living from paycheque to paycheque.
Mitch,
I have been reading your post regularly and this has given me a better understanding of the oil & gas industry which I was not so familiar with. Are you planning on covering the oil & gas service stocks soon. I think that is also a rising industry and would do well in a buoyant oil & gas industry
Thanks for your post and hard work. apatel
Thanks for your feedback Abdul. You are right there is a lack of coverage on the O&G services sector. I promise to try getting some coverage on a couple of stocks.
I would love to see more stories on investing wisely and also an analysis of the current economic situation North Americans find themselves in (an honest explanation in lay-man’s terms). Thanks!
Aliya D.
Happy Holidays and anything related to personal finance.
Thanks for the giveaway! I would like to see more about the entire oil and gas sector, and not just Canada!
love the giveaway! I’d like to see more budget specific articles.
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Very generous giveaway! I would love to see info for beginners who would like to get into investing-what the terms mean, how to start, the best type of investments to make etc. I also love seeing the financial tip posts-they contain lots of great info!
I agree with Abdul, about covering Oil and Gas Service Stocks. He’s dead on!
I’m new here, so I’m not sure what I would want to see more of. Seems great so far!
Great contest! Thanks for putting this together and happy holidays!
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I’d love to read more on how to understand broad “sectors” — like the finance sector, the consumer discretionary sector, the utilities sector, etc.
I’m pretty new here, but it would be nice to see something like “Investing for dummies” on here; something for the beginners like me!
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Great holiday prizes! Keep up the great blog!
Great prizes
I’d like to learn more about the targeted retirement date funds. I’ve heard they aren’t very good, but I’m not really sure why???
Like to know more about Covered Call ETFs.
No idea how I missed this! Looks like it went well.
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