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Q: Hi 5i,

For a 3-5 year hold what would your choice be between the following companies:

1) Methanex vs Agnico Eagle

2) Covalon Technologies vs Intrinsyc Technologies

Much appreciated as always,

Jon
Read Answer Asked by Jonathan on September 25, 2017
Q: 5i Team,

Thanks for your service.

My portfolio is made up of your balanced equity portfolio + several growth portfolio companies, some large cap US companies & some equity portfolio companies. Very balanced with a hedge towards growth.

I have big winners all over the place, thank you!!!!

I am however down big (approx. 50% each) on 3 small cap names: AT, CRH & ITC.

They are now about 0.5% weightings.. fairly insignificant to my portfolio and I am wrestling with whether I top them up... leave them alone as is... sell and consolidate it into other names in my portfolio (ie. CLS, PKI & CAE comes to mind right now)... etc.

I have no tax benefit to sell as they are all in registered / TFSA accounts.

My question is how confident are you in these names? For a riskier investor, would you be ok with top ups to 1% weightings today? Should I just let them sit and maybe top up during tax loss season in a month or two? Or just sell?

Thank you for your guidance.
Read Answer Asked by Ray on September 20, 2017
Q: I am overweight Tech, as well as a high allocation in small cap. With no Utilities or Telcos, I think selling GPS and ITC to buy ENB would be a prudent move. My problem is usually being prudent has cost me, over weight and high allocations has served me well for the most part, I'm sure I'm not alone here. Thoughts?
Read Answer Asked by Charles on September 15, 2017
Q: While working at buying into 5i investment methodology - invest long enough to see profits grow and stock prices to follow - I find my 5i sourced holdings negatively hitting my portfolio value.

I have to ask, what is the role of 5i and its methodology in preserving capital and/or helping to avoid investment losses?

In reading 5i answers, it is often noted that stocks need 5 years yet I am starting to see this as a way to avoid sell recommendations.
I read from you, HR is a good investment for income so I hold with a profit only to now see a price decline and profits change to losses.
I read from you, CGX was sold from 5i portfolio "but does not need to be sold". Now we are down substantially.

When you write, a stock is expensive, the stock is already up +% in the year, should this be taken that even though you write you are okay with a buy, a smart investor will not purchase as this time - decline is likely. Many of the stocks I have purchased with positive inference from 5i, are now down 20% (sometimes in one day).

I write this as I must determine where 5i fits in investment efforts. My 5i Stock losses have mounted through the past couple months. I need to find a way to interpret when 5i sentiment toward a stock really changes and not wait until the stock is slowly backed away from by 5i.

So, how does one differentiate between, a good Buy recommendation and 5i being positive on a stock but there is a great likelihood the stock price will decline? I am not please with reading positive remarks only to see investment profits disappear or losing 20% within days of a purchase.

Is there something in your words that should be interpreted to help me protect my gains and Capital and/or avoid losses within days of buying a recommended investment?

Thanks
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on August 16, 2017
Q: Thank you for your excellent service. The best piece of advice that you have given is not to add to loosing positions. Due to that advice both ITC (1.5% of portfolio) and CRH (0.6% of portfolio) contribute little to my overall portfolio of 34 stocks. Would you sell in a clean up trade or top them up to 2.5% weighting. My portfolio mirrors your balanced portfolio and is well diversified.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on August 16, 2017
Q: Hi, in a bad market, a slight miss of whatever metric leads to a big drop of price. It is Ok for long term investors who got in long time ago and had huge gain already and took some profit. What is your recommendation on the above mentioned stocks for those lone term investors just bought in recently. Buy more, hold or sell? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by victor on August 14, 2017
Q: Looking for growth, I seem to have overdone it in the tech sector which is now near 30% of my portfolio. I assume you will tell me to rebalance, the question is how best to go about it to maintain a growth portfolio while reducing duplicates stocks. My tech names are as follow: itc-t 1%, aaoi-q 2%,amat-q 3%,nvda 1%,shop-t 1%,bkd-x 1%, syz-x 1%,kxs 3%,sq-n 1%,goog-q 3%, fb-q 3%,momo-q 3%,cohr-q 2%,cgnx-q 1%,pho-t 1%,pur-t 2%. Grateful for your suggestions.
Please deduct the number of crédits you deem appropriate.
Jacques
Read Answer Asked by Jacques on August 08, 2017
Q: Hi Peter and Staff
I know you do not generally favour averaging down. If I was to top up one of the 3 below to small weighting ignoring sector allocation,please rank them, best to worst to average down on at present
Thanks for all you do
Dennis
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on August 02, 2017
Q: good day...these five stks are 5% of my portfolio of which I hold all of the balanced portfolio and six income portfolio stks...I am down on these five stks 24% cumulatively...what should I do in these circumstances as I tend to be a long term investor and am retired but do not require income from this portfolio for about two years from now...thank you for the best investing education that I have had...gene
Read Answer Asked by gene on July 21, 2017
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