I’m no math wizard but I know enough to not buy state sponsored lottery tickets. Your odds are much better when you buy your tickets via the natural resource sector where you can stack the deck in your favor and make life changing money.

Two steps backwards and one step forward is the name of the game as the Canadian Markets recovered from Monday’s drubbing by posting solid gains during Tuesday trading. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange rallied 4.15%, while the TSX Gold Index fell 0.8% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 2.39% with the advancing issuers inching past the decliners by a 474 to 460 margin on volume of 122 million shares traded.