Investment Q&A

Q: I was on holidays at Christmas so I put a stop loss on a few stocks. Trade Desk which was trading at a low of $256.00 for quite some time for a split second dropped $10 to $246.00 and took out my stock and was right back up at $256.00 again. Would the market maker have dropped that so some lucky guy could get the stock cheap?
A broker I know told me that since I average at the most 30 trades a quarter, Revenue Canada could classify me as not an investor by making so many trades which could cause me to not qualify for the 50% capital gains rule and I would have to pay tax on 100% gains. I put it on forums but I haven't had a response yet. Hopefully you can enlighten me on this.
Nice call on Park Lawn. I get a lot of emails pertaining to the market and one advised me the other day to buy Park Lawn as it was going to break out above $30.00. I already own Park Lawn so nice call from 5i that I got it a lot cheaper some time ago.
Thanks for making my trading easier. Dennis

Q: Hi, I just have a question about holding CAD listed stocks that currently pay dividends in CAD$. If the stocks are also US listed, how do I go about getting the dividends in US$ if I wanted to?? Do I need to ask my broker to convert the cad stock to the US equivalent? In that case, would they just convert it at the current FX rate and would I get them to journal it over? Would I use norbert gambit to do this possibly to save on FX conversion? Any advice would be great!

Thanks!
Keith

Q: Currently reviewing these two stocks, could I please get your opinion

Q: Can you give me info on this preferred. I'm intrigued by the brookfield purchase.
I know little or nothing about preferreds in general. My wife is a U.S. citizen and am thinking about this for her 401k.
Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

Q: Which stocks are expected to rebound (over sold due to tax loss)

Q: Earlier this month PG issued a press release stating that their Hardrock JV partner is challenging a project update, issued in October, and that his update should not be considered a feasibility study. What advantage does the JV partner gain by challenging this update/study. Thanks

Kenn

Q: Hey guys,

Happy New Years to you and your 5i family. What is the difference between iip.un and this private reit Equiton (also based out of Burlington,Ontario). Could you base your answer on dividend, past performance, size and mer.
Thanks,
Jim

Q: What is your outlook for WCN? Buy hold or sell? It has been trending sideways after a good long run.

Q: Can you please provide your comments and thoughts on this mining company and whether you view it as a reasonable speculative investment? (Yes, I know that can be seen as an oxymoron!)

Q: Your thoughts on the above at these prices. Do you think efx has good upside with nautural gas given the nod for 2020 and going forward?

Q: You recently recommended these 2 US companies. Please tell me more about them and why you recommended them?
Happy New Year to you and your staff.
Bryn

Q: Hello 5I: Just a miscellaneous query. BYD.UN has recently reorganized and has become BYD. Someone here threw out the idea that this company might want to list in the USA and you answered saying there are no such plans known. But if they ever did want to list in the USA, what would they trade under....there already is a USA company with that ticker, "BYD", (Boyd Gaming Corp). Would they have to use a different ticker there? would that cause confusion?
Thank you for your excellent service.

Q: Greetings 5i - I am helping my 29-year old daughter with her TFSA. She has $9,500 to invest and we're thinking about putting it into VFV:CA so she has some US exposure. She currently holds BNS, FTS, PPL and PBH. Alternatively, we were thinking of dividing it between AQN and ATD.B or BAM. Would appreciate your thoughts on what's best for a long term hold. Happy New Year to you all.

Q: I am a rookie and do not want trouble with the 'taxman'. Ha!Ha! If I have a loss in my Canadian Cash Account can I apply it to a capital gain in my USA Cash Account? I believe I cannot receive a tax loss in my Tax Free Savings Account. Is that true? Finally my RIF Account...I believe it is a separate entity...I cannot claim losses with other accounts OR within the account itself...I just pay income tax when money is withdrawn. Am I in error here?
Thanks for the clarification!

Q: Good morning,

I have become aware of RA and INF through your Q/A section. I currently own VZ and XUS in my US dollar accounts for income. I am considering replacing them with INF due to the higher return. However, I note that INF which is stock based, will be merging with RA which is fixed income based. I also note that RA is four times bigger than INF so the merged funds will become a largely fixed income portfolio. Furthemore, only 20% of RA investments are rated BBB or higher. I wonder if RA is able to pay such a high dividend because it bought these perhaps sub-par investments well below par. My question is whether the extra dividend provided by INF/RA outweighs its risk relative to XUS and VZ.

Q: Any explanation for the recent run-up in share price of Baylin stock and thoughts on its prospects? Thanks.

Q:
What are your opinions about commodities for 2020? In particular, what do you think about LIF?

Thanks for your help. Happy New Year

Q: If you were to choose between the 3 above. How would you rank them in terms of security (first and foremost) and total performance for a 3-5 year hold?

Thanks to all for your fantastic service and a very successful year in all your endeavour.
Y

Q: Can you compare the two stocks, how do you view them and have you a couple of better alternatives either Can or US.
Thanks and a Happy New Year to the group.
PB

Q: Just wondering if the "dividend" could be of a capital dividend and therefore the affect is similar to a pure capital gain. The tax reporting through the T3 should answer this.