Investment Q&A

Q: This is a question regarding your answer to my previous question regarding taxes for options. Thank you very much for your perspective, by the way.

But, my question was not on taxes on premiums. I know they are taxed. It was about when one buys back a stock which one has previously sold a a covered call option on. Is the underlying stock considered to have been sold?
thanks

Q: opinion

Q: Here is what Taxtips.ca gives as a reason for not selling options:
We traded options for about a decade, and in the end finally decided to quit, because

bullet there was too much record keeping to be done
bullet we always had to keep on top of whether the stocks were close to exercise price
bullet when we used a full-service broker, it seemed we would be warned before anything was exercised and that we could have some input, but once we used a discount brokerage options would be exercised without warning, and we would find out after the fact.
bullet it was impossible to quantify true gains and losses, and it certainly didn't seem worth all the effort we put into it
They undoubtedly know more than I do but I find their analysis a little extreme. Wondering what you think of it.

I was looking at their site in order to get an idea about paying taxes on options. wasn't really clear to me. My question is whether you pay capital gains on the stock, not the option premium, but the stock capital gain, when you buy back a call option?
thanks

Q: What's going on with Loblaws lately? I've been nibbling occasionally, but wondering why it's staying at a lower range then normal?

thanks,
Paul

Q: Do you perceive that this stock has truly hit bottom and is rebounding back to “respectability” or is their recent market success illusory?

Q: GOOG is now about 10% of my holdings excluding the fixed portion of my total portfolio. At what % would you let this one run before scaling back? In previous response to members you indicated an 8% start make you nervous but, this is GOOG a member of the trillion company.
Thanks.

Q: Hi,
Which do you prefer, for a holding company that is diversified and kind of gives you a mini-mutual fund effect, without the ongoing cost of an MER. ( I already own BAM.A).
FFH provides a dividend. Do you think BRK.B will ever initiate a dividend? Thx.

Q: hi... could you explain this huge increase in this stock the last couple of days.... thanks for your advice and should i sell some stock. and take a nice profit today or just sit on it. ThANKS for your valued advice. CLIFF

Q: Could you comment on the short position by Citron? Would you buy more, sell or hold if one has already invested in PLTR shares, assuming the money is not needed any time soon?

Q: Canadian banks have had a strong run in the past month. Do you expect them to give some of this back in the near term?

Q: Any idea why DCM jumped on Friday?

Q: Once the Covid phase 2 starts flatenning the CURB In a few months and Vaxine starts rolling which stocks like CGX can have possibly high growth?

Q: Hi guys,

Two questions so please deduct the appropriate credits:

1 - Is the energy sector now purely a trade going forward? Are the days or steady production growth gone given how volatile the price of energy can be? It seems like there are ample opportunities for trades, but buy and hold, unless its a pipelines seems to be finished for now at least. Agree or Disagree?

2 - Looking to add some consumer discretionary to my portfolio for a recovery. Deciding between QSR and ATZ. I like the size of QSR and the dividend, but ATZ has lots of growth potential in the U.S. and Internationally and my wife likes their clothes!! ;) If you had to choose one, which would it be?

Thank you,
Jason

Q: Last week KL announced that they had entered into an agreement to sell almost all the shares that they held in NVO at $2.45 with warrants at $2.80.

My questions are:

1. Has the brokerage assumed control of the shares, or can they back out of the deal, seeing as how NVO shares are now only $2.14?

2. Based on the cash that KL currently has, can you give me tow good reasons why they bailed on NVO at a steep loss?

3. Has E. Sprott bailed as well?

Q: Given my two portfolios (TFSA, Unregistered), I just added in some inheritance - 491 shares of CAE, I'm looking to trim back a good portion and reinvest in some other ideas to accompany my total list of holdings, or add to some current positions you feel are showing promise at todays price action and growth strategy would keep accelerating post covid.

I know you guys like CAE right now, Id like to know how much you feel would be a good trim to keep diversification and what would you recommend to reinvest in? I was thinking of trimming back to $4000 - would you agree?

Q: I realize these are two completely different companies with one dividend producer and one that could rebound significantly post Covid, If you were to choose one of the two for a two to three year return, which one would you pick.

Q: With the surge in this stock (which I missed by "watching") is it too late. I see target prices are $14.00 - Have I missed the boat?

Q: Have $12,000.00 to invest, current BMO Inv Line allocation is as follows:
Communication 8%
Cons Disc 21%
Cons Staples 13%
Energy 6%
Financials 32%
Health Care 11%
Info Tech 1%
Companies held AW, RBC, SLF, SBUX, WMT, BCE, PFZ,SIS, BB, ENB, TNY, HEXO,VTR,ParkLawn

Would appreciate your thoughts on how I could deploy the cash.

Q: Cheers. Could you give a brief synopsis of your thots on this stock. Thank you
Terry

Q: Can you please comment on the dividend reliability and prospects for this infrastructure firm? Are there similar Cdn. Or US firms you are aware of?