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Q: Wednesday morning cibc investors Edge was plagued with issues. The app was spitting out system errors.

Any one else have issues? Sadly on one of my trades I chose the wrong currency with all the errors on my screen, hard to keep everything straight.

Called cibc. They verified system issues, though they had less sympathy for my mistake while their system was coughing up furballs.

Are their any online brokers that are bullet proof ?

Read Answer Asked by Mark on March 18, 2024
Q: I was not able to watch the full webinar about the new analytics because I had to run to work - is there a link to the recording? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Kim on March 18, 2024
Q: There is an old adage about when to buy and sell. It was somthing like"Don't buy before 10AM and don't sell after 3PM" or maybe vice versa or something si,ilar. Do you remeber the adage and has it been totally debunked by now? Thanks have a good weekend
Read Answer Asked by Paul on March 18, 2024
Q: Can you send me some advertisement on 5i that I could give to my friends?
Read Answer Asked by Lorraine on March 15, 2024
Q: I have a small amount invested with wealthsimple and they are asking me if I would like to participate in their stock lending. I can earn passive income if any of my stocks are loaned out.
Do you see any problem with doing this?
I don’t really understand how you can make money doing this but am willing to do it if basically risk free.
Thank you for any input
Read Answer Asked by Lois on March 14, 2024
Q: In one of your podcasts Peter had mentioned looking at small caps for growth opportunities. Can you suggest what screening criteria one could use to come up with a list to potential candidates?
Read Answer Asked by Ken on March 13, 2024
Q: Me, would like 5iR's take/opinion on 2 measures - Piotroski Score where a higher scores classify a stock as a strong financial position, and also Altman Score that helps investors to gauge the probability of a company going bankrupt ........Keen to hear what you have to say about these two measures/scores......Thanks.....Tom
Read Answer Asked by Tom on March 11, 2024
Q: Hi 5i Team - If a company is listed on both the U.S. and Canadian exchanges, do you have an opinion on which would be the better choice, I realize that this may be a bit of a complex question with a number of variables to consider so if you could address just a couple of those variables that would be great.
As a corollary do U.S. dividends need to claimed in RRSP's and TFSA's.
Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Rob on March 11, 2024
Q: My question concerns the significance in a stock’s price bid & ask price difference. Today LMN’s bid ask difference is .15 cents while BCE’s is .01 cents. Question 1 is why do stocks have varying bid ask differences. Question 2 is it better to buy stocks with small bid ask differences. And question 3 does a third party prosper if a stock has a large bib ask difference. Thanks … Cal
Read Answer Asked by cal on March 08, 2024
Q: I would appreciate your opinion on the use of covered call ETF's for income oriented investors. There seems to be a lot of advocates for this Passive Income Investing strategy for the higher than normal yields being generated but I just wonder, when something seems too good to be true, it often is. Maybe you have answered or have an opinion elsewhere. Is your view the same in registered/non-registered accounts.
Read Answer Asked by Steven on March 08, 2024
Q: Where can I find founder ownership percentage of a company?
Read Answer Asked by Nick on March 07, 2024
Q: Hello folks,

This is a follow up question to Ross' on March 6 2024.

You didn't answer the second part of Ross' question!

Are there any studies comparing "selling" calls or puts and buying and holding the stocks?

I know intuitively that it depends on stocks! Some are so good for writing calls. Some are good for puts and some for buying and holding! But that is not evidence based! Also a "cop out" answer!

Any studies that you know of?

Thanks Ross for asking that excellent question. Thanks Peter et all for your answer.
Read Answer Asked by Savalai on March 06, 2024
Q: A full position is considered to be 5%. So if a family has say 2 tfsa’s of $50k each and an RSP of $100k for total of $200k, would you look at a 5% full position in each account, which would amount to $2500 in each tfsa and $5000 in the RSP, or would you look at 5% based on the household registered total of $10,000 and be ok with a $10,000 hold in 1 RSP account even though in that account its 20% but still only 5% of the family portfolio if you will. Hope this makes some sense.
Read Answer Asked by Steven on March 06, 2024
Q: Put Options betting the stock will go down or Call Options betting the stock will go up.

Do you prefer one over the other?

Thinking of trying both, I'm a 10 year self investor.

Or just continue to buy stock for the long term?

Are there any statistics that prove using Put & Call's perform better than buying and holding stocks?

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Ross on March 06, 2024
Q: How does one use the question text selection effectively in your Q & A feature?
thanks Hugh
Read Answer Asked by Hugh on March 05, 2024
Q: In response to Ben’s question on March 1 regarding to buy LMN or not you stated that if one has a time frame of 5 years or more, then he should buy it at the going price. Are you saying not to buy the stock if less than 5 year timeframe?
What if one does not use timeframes as a reference but uses percentages ? In my TFSA ( where I have my riskier stocks ) I use 20% as a point of consideration to sell. I may be leaving money on the table but I have locked in a good gain. I would appreciate your thoughts on this approach. Would your answer on LMN be the same if one used the 20% ?
Thanks . Derek
Read Answer Asked by Derek on March 04, 2024
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