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Q: Hi 5i:
I've been away for a while and not keeping up with Questions, so this may already have been asked and answered. if so, please provide a link to the answer.
I'm hoping you could advise what sectors you think will reverse the current trend and begin to appreciate in value more quickly than others and, also, if you could identify three or so names you would expect to 'lead the charge' in each of those sectors.
If time and space permit, any commentary you might have regarding each identified sector and/or name would be appreciated. Thanks!
Peter
Read Answer Asked by Peter on October 13, 2022
Q: AX.UN,BNS,TD,GGS,CAE,CARUN.BEI.UN,LSPD,MG,ONEX,SLF. If any of this need not to sell please also guideme.
Read Answer Asked by Nizar on October 12, 2022
Q: Looking at EFN and TFII to deploy new money. EFN has done better the last 6 months and appears more expensive. RBC rates them both outperform. How comparable are their businesses and which one do you consider more attractive at present? Thanks for your help.
Read Answer Asked by Ken on October 12, 2022
Q: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPM has put a scare into me. Earlier this year, Dimon had asked investors to brace for an economic "hurricane". Due to runaway inflation, big interest rates hikes, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the unknown effects of the Federal Reserve's quantitative tightening policy, he is predicting some kind of recession six to nine months from now. Dimon said the S&P 500 could fall by "another easy 20%" from the current levels, with the next 20% slide likely to "be much more painful than the first. Yikes.

Can you give your perspective on his predictions, please.

Carl

Read Answer Asked by Carl on October 11, 2022
Q: Hi 5i, The FED seems to monitor lagging indicators for policy decisions. Could you give your views on these indicators and also provide a better, leading indicator for investors to follow. And links to these indicators would also be great.

Thx again for your sanity in a insane market!
Read Answer Asked by Christopher on October 07, 2022
Q: Hi team,
I have been a long term holder of ADW and overall with dividend and trimming at prior highs will come out just above par with this holding, which is not desired for multi year, but a nice learning experience for me.
I am thinking of selling and splitting between tc energy, sun life and alphabet. The first two for greater yield play, and all three on the belief that on positive macro news all will perform better relative to ADW (small cap, debt level, your B rating, consumer lag on discretionary).

Thanks for your thoughts.
Read Answer Asked by Allan on October 03, 2022
Q: Hi, Thanks for today's Market/Portfolio Update, specially the explanation of inverse relationship between value of USD (DXY) and risk assets ( S&P 500, TSX and Stocks in general). Do you think, the market bounce on Wednesday, was for no fundamental/technical reasons, but was a reaction to news from UK of BOE market intervention through Bond buying to support the fledgling economy and a one day breather to unstoppable US Dollar ascent ? Based on this thesis, besides other technicals, would it be prudent to keep an eye on USD uptrend breaking down, before entering into new long positions. Mr David Burrows of Barometer Capital was on BNN recommended to stay on the sidelines, until the market downtrend breaks and at least 2 days of Buying with High Volume is confirmed with follow through for 5 days. Their firm has 30% cash ( due to Stop Loss liquidations in Tech/Financial and others sectors). They own only defensives like Energy, Utilities and Telcos with 0% Tech. Does this strategy make sense, in your view, as most of us are almost fully invested presently as well as in past ? That seems to be the case for past several weeks and months - we buy/add to positions and stocks only get cheaper over following days. BTW, stocks with higher yields in sectors like Utilities/Telcos/Pipelines continue to get decimated - even though, bond yields declined over past 2 days - Any comments , please ? Thank You
Read Answer Asked by rajeev on October 03, 2022
Q: I see a lot of questions about tax loss selling with the intent to re-buy after 30 days, and I've never utilized this before. I have approx 250k in an unregistered account across 15 companies, and I'm obviously down on many of them (a lot of tech). Is it okay to not try and take advantage of tax loss selling in this way, given that I'm planning to hold many of these name for at least the next 3+ yrs, and potentially much longer (like 5-10+)? I will be continuing to add to my unregistered account (since I've maxed rrsp and tfsa), and hope to become an increasingly savvy investor, but I'm a bit scared of screwing up tax loss selling to this end, especially at this time with the current volatility. So, would you recommend that this is something I must add to my "arsenal", or just ignore it for now? Are there many successful investors that stay away from the sell then re-buy in 30 days approach all together? Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Andrew on October 03, 2022
Q: Having sufficient cash flow and/or ready liquid cash on hand plus sufficient prospective new business in the hopper to get to the other side of this nasty market being the criteria, in which order would you liquidate?

Carl
Read Answer Asked by Carl on September 26, 2022