Today, David Baskin and John Hood commented about whether VO-N, MDY-N, QMV-T, RPD-T, ZDM-T, ZID-T, XTR-T, RSX-N, ZWH-T, XEI-T, VV-N, ITB-N, ZWH-T, ZWB-T, HUN-T, T-T, TD-T, GM-N, POT-T, S-T, TWX-N, BB-T, BBD.B-T, VRX-T, MRK-N, CNQ-T, TRP-T, BNS-T, MG-T, TECK.B-T, ALA-T, DOL-T, HLF-T, CPG-T, JNJ-N, BRK.B-N are stocks to buy or sell.
Markets. Everyone knows that the Fed is going to increase rates at some point. There are going to be some traders reacting to that, but doesn’t think it means an awful lot for regular investors. He looks 3-5 years out for his clients, but these things create some anxiety. They are only raising it up a quarter of a percent, so it is not a big deal. He is being quite cautious at this time and is skewing towards the US. His holdings in straight equity are probably about 15%-20% Canadian and 30%-35% US. Has nothing in emerging markets or China and a small bit in Europe.
There is a huge amount of oversupply in natural gas. You might want to look at Horizons Natural Gas Yield ETF (HNY-T), which is a Covered Call on natural gas. It has a very interesting yield of about 15% because of the Covered Call premiums they are getting off of natural gas. That is the way he would play natural gas. However, you have to be prepared for a lot of volatility.
This is taking S&P stocks that are paying a higher dividend, and writing Calls on it. They also have one based on the 30 Dow stocks, BMO Dow Jones Industrial (ZWA-T). What he really likes about these things is that they are not writing Calls on an index, they’re writing them on all 30 stocks (or all 6 banks), so you are getting a better rate of return.