Investment Q&A

Q: Good morning,
ABX has a big copper portion to its earnings, is it a good time to buy with copper at a seven year high? Q4 should surprise on the upside. Or is it still better to buy KL?
Thanks,
George

Q: When looking up price and volume information for some ETFs on the TMX website I noticed that for each symbol there are to other listings ending in :APH and :PUR. E.g. in addition to XEI, there is XEI:APH and XEI:PUR. Prices are almost the same but volumes differ. What do :APH and :PUR represent?

Q: For a 3-5 year hold,please rank.Any other suggestions in healthcare?Own Well.Thanks.

Q: Do you have any recommendations on safe ETFs to park some CAD and USD that will be needed in the next 1-2 months and earn a little yield?

Q: Hello Guys,
What do you make of the special dividend in Rifco and is their financial position secure .Also, is it worth holding for the longer term as a turn around stock?

Q: This company is looking IPO. Your thoughts on whether it would be a buy?

Q: Good afternoon Peter & Team,

LSPD. has gone up quite a bit recently. Please provide you comments on if further gains are possible based n earnings, etc. Or do you think I should sell as it has doubled since I bought it.
Thank you as usual,

Rossana.

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