John Hood iShares TSX Venture Index ETF XVX-T PAST TOP PICK Mar 09, 2012

(A Top Pick Oct 5/11. Up 7.13%.) Has been disappointed with this one.

This ETF has 55 micro caps. It appears to be risky, so if you acquire this, you should limit the exposure in your portfolio to 8% tops. This is a way to participate in a totally destroyed Vancouver Venture Index, one of the worst performing group of stocks globally. A lot of components of the Venture are not going to survive. He thinks the time is right. Find out what the Offer is and put in a Limit Order.

A Top Pick Jan 28, 2014 Up 5.48% Bought in fall of last year. Downtrend was broken, developed base, and had an uptrend. He is also playing it as a seasonal play, will probably sell in the spring.

One of the issues this has is how many of the stocks are still going to be listed, as the Venture Exchange wants to kick out a whole bunch of stocks that are on there, because they are not liquid and are not meeting their listing criteria. Thinks that will be an issue for this. Not something he is interested in.