A BMO covered call ETF on Canadian banks. It is not a trading vehicle. The purpose of a covered call ETF is to harvest the premiums. This has gone down by less than an ETF just focused on banks with no covered calls. This is a longer term vehicle. Get it if you expect banks to be range bound or go up a little, but if they were going to rocket up you would not want the covered calls.

Canadian Materials ETF. It is 70% gold equities. They earn a dividend but MXF-T writes covered calls on 25% of their holdings and then pays a distribution. It has gone down with the overall market and then broke its trend to move sideways. If you expect the sector to do okay this is a good way to get exposure to this. Covered calls work well when there is slow growth in the stocks it holds.

It has come down a bit and broken its overall support level but the energy sector has been hit hard. If you are positive going forward, this is not a bad way to play the sector. He has not seen anything to say the dividend is not safe.

The lifecos in Canada have not done well this year. We saw a breakdown in this one this month. We see rising rates and this should help MFC-T. We have seen a substantial pull down in MFC-T and it tends to do well until April each year.

We have seen some of the Telcos pull back in the US. On one hand they pay higher dividends but they are suffering here a little bit. He would look at other sectors as we have seen a breakdown of the rising trend.

He is looking at it. It has been on his watch list for quite a while. They made the same mistake as before when they ran up debt. They are selling off things that will hurt them. They don't seem to care that much about Canada now. Governments may be less likely to feed them in the future. It could be a good buy later on. He would rather sit back and watch it.

He did well when he held it just before they started the dividend. He missed a lot of the major upside. It is back on the stock watch list. They pay a lovely dividend. But they have a fairly high debt load. He might buy it later on.