BUY

5.2% yield. He likes yield for oil stocks. It keeps the companies honest. It is a great place to park money to play the potential upswing. We are positioned for another leg up. Geopolitics can cut both ways but it is a tailwind right now. He feels the Iranian barrels will get to market but there is the risk premium from it. He also likes that the yield is getting higher. It makes the hurtle rates higher for shale buys. Higher interest rates are good for everyone.

DON'T BUY

It is expensive. The digital payments world is very crowded; however it is more interesting than PayPal. It has had a phenomenal run. He is worried about very well capitalized competitors in the banks. Long term it will be overwhelmed.

WAIT

Marijuana Space. There could be a flood of oversupply. The top ten players are going to be about 2000 tons. Demand will be about 800. And the black market is not included in that supply. The space is very interesting and it will be a commodity once the bubble washes out. Marijuana is perishable so oversupply will have to be converted to oil quickly.

N/A

Illegal growing of Marijuana. Every house has the ability to grow 4 plants. That is .25 to 1 lb per plant. It is the informal economy. It will be hard to police. It is an unpolicable grey market that adds to the supply.

WATCH

It pulled back. It trades at 53 times, but is one of the best plays for graphics and video games. People go to video games as a sporting event now. He does not go to it but he can get around the Crypto Currency part. He would love a pull back to reassess.

BUY

Given the M&A lens, if he was long in the space he would want the names that were trading below the average. This one is 8.5 times. The average is north of 16. This is a more attractive name. The medical side is interesting. He is not sure how the medical market is going to shake out once you get full recreational. This is better than being on pain killers.

WATCH

This is a managed market. The biggest challenge otherwise is big, new supply. He thinks it will get interesting. But now is not the time to place big bets on these stocks. Once it gets reset it will get interesting. He would tend to stay away right now. Wait for weaker equity markets.

N/A

The bulk of the Marijuana is produced indoor and requires electricity. You have to look at a company's mix of greenhouses and outdoor growing. You have to own the lowest cost producers.

TOP PICK

It is a fun site. It connects independents to customers. It is a baby AMZN-Q, who can't do what ETSY-Q can do. It is half the multiple of AMZN-Q. (Analysts' target: $31.00).

TOP PICK

If you can't buy the coin directly this is a very interesting leveraged play. It is one of the biggest bit coin miners out there. Two years from now the net asset value of the company could double. (Analysts’ target: $7.85).

N/A

Market. It looks like the extreme populous Italian movement and the national front party in Italy are coming together to form a government. This was thought to be the worst case scenario. It looks like it will be negative and the bond market pressure could ignite again. Spreads out of Italy are starting to widen. It will play out over the next couple of weeks. We could see an important technical level breached – see Educational Segment today. This could be as disruptive as Greece several years ago. Germany and France are not big enough to write a cheque for Italy. If this Italian government forms they will want a lot of freedoms that they don’t have in terms of austerity. NAFTA looks like it is in the final innings. Best case is that they agree on something new but it looks like we will not get anything, which adds uncertainty to the markets.

N/A

Educational Segment. The Bull Market in Bonds. The double bottom has one of the most efficacies of all. In the last couple of years we have gone down to the low single digit yields and experienced a double bottom in 2011/12 and then again in the last couple of years. 4.72% is the price target for 10 year bonds to go to. He thinks the world would fall apart of it ever got there. The world cannot handle higher interest rates in his opinion. He thinks 3.5% is the top. Late 2019 or 2020 the yield curve inversion is signaling a recession. As an alternative, he can see the bull market in bonds continuing as interest rates continue the previous down trend.

DON'T BUY

It is 100% speculative. You have to be ready for a bumpy ride. We saw a big M&A transaction today and you will see a lot more of them. There will be a handful of survivors. This is incredibly overvalued today. If the US went for legal weed use, it would be a game changer. Wait until it is a value play after the next recession.

HOLD

There is an ETF for the communications industry, which may be more appropriate if you are speculative. This late in the investment cycle you might want to stick with BCE-T until after the next market downturn.

COMMENT

A pick up in Natural Gas over time is likely as the world moves to getting as clean a carbon footprint as possible. There is a natural floor on gas prices. We are very over supplied in North America and LNG distribution is slow to get going.