So you want to Know How to Become a Stockbroker

So you want to know how to Become a Stock Broker

STEP 1: Begin to organize for your Brokerage career in high school by taking courses in math, economics and business. And even with a small sized float, you can manage your own stock portfolio (in a parent’s name if you are under 18) allowing you to learn about diverse investments and their returns. Do learn how-to-invest time.

STEP 2: Join or start a Stocks and Bonds Investment Club, which compares dissimilar investment opportunities, analyzes results and jointly invests its funds, $20 bucks each is all you need. Re-invest your gains or distribute your profits.

STEP 3: Go to College or University. Most brokers are College graduates with a degree in finance, economics or business. Real business experience or a strong desire is all-it-takes to capture the attention of the Investment Firm you target.

STEP 4: Pass the Canadian Securities Course, administered by the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI). All provinces require the Financial Planning Course be complete and that you pass the Examination within three years. The Canadian Securities Institute also requires ongoing continuing education… forever.

STEP 5: Be advised to take advantage of on-the-job training, obtainable through most brokerage firms via their sales assistants programs, preparing you for the above exams’, a process that takes four to six months (some never pass). It is self directed!

STEP 6: A person passing the mandatory exams, becomes a Stock Broker, a registered representative agent of his or her sponsoring firm. Now garner support from your contacts and join the Chamber of Commerce… and network… network… network.

STEP 7: Anticipate a very competitive work environment after being employed. Firms often hire a plethora of graduating college and university students as juniors; with the expectation or knowledge that a large percentage of you will ‘wash-out‘ during the gruelling early months of training, while building your clientele or book.

STEP 8 or ∞: Emphasize your studies and work experience in finance, economics and/or business when writing your résumé. A professional, aggressive image is crucial at the sponsoring dealers interview, where prospective employers will be testing your drive, evaluating your resolve and your business adviser savvy.

Due-diligence, is the Key to being a best-of-class broker, to the benifit of your client.

Tips & Cautionary Warnings - The Bull and the Bear of it!

* Success in the brokerage business is qualified and quantified by sales volumes. It can be a realistic and rewarding career move for someone changing over from a sales position in real estate, insurance or the banking business and the Canadian Bond Market for example.

* Sample firsthand the products you’d be brokering by visiting any brokerage firm, agent, promoter, advocate, bank or mutual fund Web site. Also, visit job fairs where securities firms are recruiting and talk to a real live stock broker. Get live data in due-diligence, business and life.

* Negotiate a sales assistant position, become a Junior, with the right to have a number of your own clients… why not get paid while you take the course, become an advisor, and build your book.

* A Stock Broker, as in any sales position, needs to be thick skinned to succeed, and especially surviving those lean early years of long hours… disappointment… plain spaghetti dinners… and an acquired and unexpected taste for wiener water…

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"The Canadian Stockbroker © is an electronic marketing medium providing information services to select companies. All statements and expressions are the opinion of TCS and are not represented to be either investment advice or a solicitation or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold a particular stock or any securities. Statements made herein do not represent the opinion of, represent the counsel of, or are to be considered a recommendation by The Canadian Stockbroker© or any individuals associated with the creation and maintenance of this profile or On-line presence. Readers of this TCS ™ On-line message or stock profile are cautioned that any stock investment is a high risk investment and must admit the same". Also, Whenever you are thinking of making a new investment, you should first do some Due Diligence, research about the company and the investment.. Some starting points:

1. A good place to start is the investment prospectus available through your broker or agent. The prospectus or OM is a document describing an investment offered for sale.



2. It usually contains a short statement of the objective of the company or mutual fund. It also contains a financial statement showing assets and liability, performance over a number of years, and any fees the investor must pay.



3. Check out the officers and directors, where are they from, how long are they staying? Keep in mind that past performance is not a guarantee of future success. REITs are good and there is The Titan REIT up-coming next month sometime.



4. What is the relationship between the selling Group and the owners of the potential investment?



5. What is your Broker's role with your porfolio, is he promoting the stocks his Company "likes" ?



Most companies will send copies of their annual and quarterly reports free of charge to prospective investors. The annual report contains a description of the company's business, its financial statements and other updated and condensed financial and non-financial information. It is important that you read this information so you know exactly what you are investing your money in. Remember asking to see a prospectus does not commit you to making the investment. further economic gains into the future depend on attention to the entire portfolio, there will be little need for analyzing the results of neglect."

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The Canadian Stockbroker © 2005 predictions; Oil, Gas, Interest and Mortgage Rates, Consumer Spending, Budget

The Canadian Stockbroker © 2005 predictions

Elevated oil prices will slow overall Canadian fiscal activity, delaying a recovery in non-residential and municipal construction.

End user spending will be partially compromised, inflation will run stronger, job gains will be smaller, and reaction (spending) in both the consumer and business areas will be more cautious.

The intensity and composition of construction spending is shifting. In retrospect, 2004 represented a year of transition for the markets.

The strengthening economy and increase in interest rates have set the stage for a recovery in public and non-residential construction activity. The wildcard in our conjecture is oil price.

A scenario of elevated oil prices and slower economic growth translates into three considerations in our 2005 forecast.

First, slower overall economic growth implies a gradual recovery in capacity utilization and vacancy rates and generally lowers the expected return on investment for most commercial properties.

Second, slower overall economic activity implies sluggish growth in employment and therefore a muted improvement in the tax bases of the provinces. TCS expects public construction will record a 2.9-percent increase for 2005.

Finally, mortgage rates will continue to rise but slowly. TCS considers a mortgage rate of 6.5 percent the tripping rate (the rate that will exert enough pressure on home affordability to result in significant declines in single-family home construction activity). The tripping rate is not expected to materialize until the end of the third quarter of 2005, thereby adding "legs" to an already strong urban construction run.

TCS sees North American construction spending reaching an inflation-adjusted level of $755 billion in 2005 (or 2.9-percent growth).

From 2005 to 2008, non-residential and public construction spending is expected to assume the mantel of growth leadership, while residential activity will step down to become the growth laggard (although maintaining historically strong levels).

Non-residential construction will sit near 0-percent growth for the next few months before a sustained upward trend is established.

Office employment growth is now advancing at a 2-percent rate. This is faster than the 1-percent rate estimated in TCS s’ summer 2004 forecast. If a more rapid growth rate of office employment can be sustained, then vacancy rates will decline at a faster rate than previously expected — potentially leading to a more rapid and meaningful recovery.

Manufacturing construction continues to post modest declines in activity. Recent statistics, however, point to some positives. Manufacturing capacity utilization rates, for example, have recorded more than one year of sustained increases. Further, manufacturing and Technical employment has gained with the addition of 100,000 net new jobs since the beginning of 2004.

Despite the good news, industry vacancy rates remain high. TCS economic research suggests that manufacturing capacity utilization must reach 80 percent before a significant revival in urban construction spending materializes.

Recent monthly statistics indicate that retail construction activity has reached a trough point. TCS expects strength to emerge in this sector soon. Retail construction is largely driven by conditions affecting the consumer. While recent statistics indicate a pause in consumer spending growth, TCS believes this pause will be short-lived.

Once an indication of sustained consumer strength is clear, retail construction responds in a rather quick fashion. TCS believes that strong retail construction activity will materialize during 2005.

Educational spending in 2004 was down by 11 percent compared to totals reached in the previous year. In a large part, the soft educational construction spending was a result of difficult budget conditions facing Municipal governments. (Public educational construction spending accounts for 82 percent of total construction spending for education projects.) TCS believes that at least two quarters of surplus budget conditions at the provincial level are required before a construction spending revival for education projects materializes.

Overall, public construction activity was down by 1 percent in 2004 when compared with totals reported in 2003.

Gains in highway construction (+1.5 percent), conservation (+1.2 percent) and utility systems (+3.4 percent) were offset by declines in publicly financed building construction (-2.9 percent), sport facilities construction (-10 percent) and water supply systems (6 percent).

In recent months, highway spending has recorded negative growth rates. TCS believes this is a reflection of continued budgetary constraints at the Federal level.

The US Congress will add in the area of $300+ billion giving considerable fuel to a positive outlook for public construction spending in 2005 hopefully Canada will follow the lead.

TCS has incorporated an upward adjustment in supplier intensities for most non-residential and some public construction sectors. Tight budget conditions currently prevail in portions of Canada; however, not all portions of each province are characterized by tight fiscal restraint. Where money is in short supply, the reasons are typically two-fold: (1) a strong budget demand has materialized due largely to strong infrastructure deficits coupled with tough renewal and rehabilitation construction activity needs (2) not enough grants or provincial transfers are available to bring operational budgets in line.

For 2004, TCS anticipated an increase in municipal infrastructure spending, a 4.4-percent gain from 2003. A gain of 2.9 percent is forecast for 2005.


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