Stan Wong
Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1
QQQ-Q
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Jun 06, 2024
QQQ vs. XQQ
NASDAQ is primarily tech companies, and you pay up for that. Growth rate for a lot of those companies is strong. But he sees the market broadening out to other sectors. As the economy and the monetary environment improve, we'll see industrials and financials improve. We might even see some rotation.
The US version of a US-stock ETF will always be cheaper. For QQQ, you're paying 20 bps; XQQ is 39 bps, almost double. XQQ is hedged, which hasn't helped you, might help you going forward but doesn't see CAD having a big push against the USD. He'd prefer QQQ, but be cautious on tech at this point.
US tech space is going to be the market that outperforms. He'd definitely put some new money there on any pullbacks of 5-7%. Soon to be in a lower growth, deflationary environment, where tech historically has performed better. Low cost ETF, can get in easily.
For a tech innovation theme. Well diversified, mega-cap or large-cap positions. Listed in the US, but also available in Canada from many different providers in many different flavours and hedged/unhedged.
To protect his downside, he bought 450 puts with a Nov.15 expiration. If the market rolls over, he'll be protected. It's unheard of to recover from the recent volatility so cleanly upward. It's likely there will be some sort of backward move.
To protect his downside, he bought 450 puts with a Nov.15 expiration. If the market rolls over, he'll be protected. It's unheard of to recover from the recent volatility so cleanly upward. It's likely there will be some sort of backward move.
He uses the QQQ in 2 ways -- for trading and for hedging. The SQQQ is a short on the QQQ -- useful for Canadian platforms that don't allow you to get into futures and options on futures.
NASDAQ is primarily tech companies, and you pay up for that. Growth rate for a lot of those companies is strong. But he sees the market broadening out to other sectors. As the economy and the monetary environment improve, we'll see industrials and financials improve. We might even see some rotation.
The US version of a US-stock ETF will always be cheaper. For QQQ, you're paying 20 bps; XQQ is 39 bps, almost double. XQQ is hedged, which hasn't helped you, might help you going forward but doesn't see CAD having a big push against the USD. He'd prefer QQQ, but be cautious on tech at this point.