As a young investor, it is essential that I take advantage of investment principles such as compounding interest rates and the time value of money. History has proven that although riskier than other forms of investments, Canadian and U.S. common shares have yielded double digit percentage returns. ...

Furthermore, if analysts revise their earnings expectations for a company, share prices are expected to shift in the direction of that forecast revision in the period the revision is announced. In the period subsequent to the revision, security returns should be random. The extent of the share price...