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Q: After Hours Trading Question: Perhaps you could educate me with respect to After Hours Trading. I have seen many examples where there have been trades after the close that have radically altered the 4pm closing price in one direction or another. However, in many cases where this occurs in the absence of news, it is being done with as little as one share changing hands. What would be someone's motivation in leaving investors with the impression that their shares have exploded or imploded after hours, when this is clearly not the case?
Read Answer Asked by Greg on December 16, 2019
Q: Can you explain the difference between panic selling in an individual stock and panic selling in say the S&P 500 ETF.
Would the fall in price between say Microsoft or Starbucks be about the same as liquid ETF like XSP or VBAL.
According to Michael Burrys article in Bloomberg he has said ETFS will fall like CDOS in the Sub Prime meltdown of 2007 because there is no true price Discovery and also the Market Maker might not be there to support the price in a Panic caused by a huge liquidity bubble he created by Blackrock and Vanguard.
Thanks Gord
Read Answer Asked by Gordon on December 16, 2019
Q: Hello 5i,
Could you please rank these cyber security companies for growth and moderate risk.
Also what would your favorite name in the space be if not listed.
Thank you so much for all you do!!
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on December 16, 2019
Q: My only gold holding is B2Gold Corp. (BTO). I would like to increase my gold holdings. Should I add to my BTO holding or consider Alamos Gold (AGI)? Are there other gold stocks you would prefer over AGI? Thanks for your insight.
Read Answer Asked by George on December 16, 2019
Q: I saw in a recent question there is a way to "Ledger over" CAD to USD to save on FOREX. Can you explain the steps to do this? I'm with TD.

Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Matt on December 16, 2019
Q: Morning gents. Can you please explain or provide detail on why one would purchase a US listed stock (eg: NTR, BAM, WCN) vs. the same Canadian listed stock. I assume that payment of US currency dividends is one reason but are there others? Where best to hold US listed stocks from a tax perspective (registered or cash account)? Truly a great service. Thx. Steve
Read Answer Asked by Stephen on December 16, 2019
Q: I am concerned about Badger Daylighting . I keep reading news articles that the rig count in the US keeps dropping and some layoffs in US in oil/gas industry. I realize that a lot of their business is with utilities but a portion is still with oil/gas. Your thoughts please. Buy more, sell or hold? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by James on December 16, 2019
Q: Greetings,

I am getting close to retirement so starting to shift my portfolio to get a better balance of income and growth. Is now the time to start looking at preferred shares of companies that appear to be fully priced. For example, BAM. A appears expensive but the preferreds esp the perpetuals, BAM.PR.N appear cheap on a relative basis. I already own BAM.A but wanting to keep for the growth but want to add the Preferred to get more income. Does this seem reasonable given where the preferreds are currently trading.

thanks as always for your advise.
k
Read Answer Asked by kelly on December 16, 2019
Q: Some info on IMPALA please.

Have watched it go up for a while.
Read Answer Asked by claudette on December 16, 2019
Q: I had been considering a purchase of BPY.un, but upon looking at their 2018 taxable income calculation, I see that while the full-year distribution was Cdn$ 1.64155, the total tax allocation to be reported was $2.47504. I'm interested in achieving less taxable income, not more. So, scrolling further down, there was another table for 2018 Canadian taxable income for a fund called Brookfield Office Properties Exchange L.P. , with the same full-year distribution, but entirely return of capital. However, I cannot find any information on this particular fund, so I'm hoping you can help out.
Read Answer Asked by chris on December 16, 2019
Q: Any ideas why COV jumped up 18% today? I know it is low volume but I have been holding it for a while thinking that It was being unfairly judged by circumstance. I am still holding it because I have sold stocks in the past just before they jumped up, sometimes I have sold stock the day before they jumped up 25 to 30%. i.e. I sold CSU a few years back because it had gone up to $135.00 per share. I panicked thinking that a 30% profit should be taken. Lesson learned.
Read Answer Asked by Bryan on December 16, 2019
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