Building Financial Clarity Through Smart Planning
We started Quickex Fast in late 2019 because the investment calendar tools available felt disconnected from how people actually manage their financial decisions. Too many platforms overwhelmed users with noise instead of helping them focus on what mattered.
Why We Built This
Most investment tracking systems dump everything at you at once. Earnings reports, dividend dates, economic indicators—all fighting for attention. But when you're trying to make informed decisions about your portfolio, you need structure. You need a way to see what's coming that actually helps you plan.
We spent two years talking to individual investors across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Not institutional traders or hedge fund managers, but people managing their own retirement accounts and investment portfolios. What we heard repeatedly was frustration with tools that either oversimplified everything or made it impossible to find relevant information.
So we built something different. Our investment calendar system focuses on helping you organize financial events that matter to your specific holdings, with enough context to understand why each date matters without requiring a finance degree to interpret it.
What We've Learned
Five years of working with Canadian investors has taught us plenty about what actually helps people make better financial decisions. Here's what stands out from tracking real usage patterns.
Individual investors across Canada currently using our calendar system to track their portfolio events
Typical advance warning users get for important dates, giving them time to research and plan
Users who continue using our platform after their first three months of tracking investments
Elliot Thackery
Founder & Principal Advisor
Who's Behind This
I spent twelve years as a financial analyst before starting Quickex Fast. Most of that time was spent helping clients interpret market data and understand timing around their investment decisions. What became clear was that the hardest part wasn't the analysis itself—it was organizing all the relevant dates and events in a way that actually made sense.
In 2018, I was working with a client who missed an important dividend reinvestment deadline simply because it got lost in the flood of financial information coming at them. That moment stuck with me. These weren't careless people—they were engaged investors who wanted to stay on top of their portfolios. The tools just weren't helping them do it effectively.
I built the first version of our calendar system for my own client base. Nothing fancy—just a structured way to track upcoming events tied to specific holdings, with enough context to understand why each date mattered. When clients started asking if they could keep using it after our engagements ended, I realized there might be something here worth developing properly.
We officially launched in January 2020. The timing was interesting, to say the least. Market volatility that year actually reinforced how valuable organized information becomes when things get chaotic. Being able to see your scheduled events clearly when everything else feels uncertain—that mattered to people.
How We Approach Financial Calendars
Our method focuses on making investment timing visible and manageable without adding complexity you don't need.
Relevance First
We only surface events directly tied to securities you're tracking. No generic market noise or irrelevant notifications cluttering your view.
Context Without Overload
Each event includes enough background to understand its significance, but we skip the analysis overreach that turns calendars into opinion pieces.
Customizable Views
Different investors care about different timeframes. Our system adapts to whether you're planning weeks ahead or just tracking the immediate horizon.
Clean Integration
Your calendar should fit into your existing workflow, not force you to adopt a completely new system for managing investment information.