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| PAST TOP PICK | 18.010 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Jan 28/11. Down 4.66%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Still very comfortable with this one. | 2012-02-03 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.030 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Dec 8/10. Down 7.91%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Still likes. Banks have been clobbered, which is one of the reasons it has been hurt. Now that it is down, he is happy to be buying this. | 2011-12-22 | |
| BUY | 17.360 | John DeGoey | S&P/TSX 60 ETF (XIU-T) versus Cdn Fundamental ETF (CRQ-T)? Both are industry leaders. Very good products. XIU tracks S&P/TSX 60, 60 largest Canadian companies. One of the cheapest in Canada. CRQ tracks RAFI index, more broadly based and more expensive but more of a value tilt and has outperformed XIU. | 2011-11-09 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.740 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Oct 22/10. Down 0.15%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Always has this in his portfolio and can write options on it. | 2011-11-04 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.580 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Sept 3/10. Up 1.59%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. He always has this in all of his portfolios and they all did quite nicely until they started hitting August. Everyone should have something based on an ETF on Toronto. | 2011-09-16 | |
| TOP PICK | 18.410 | John Hood | (A Top Pick March 4/10. Up 9.9%.) Has this in every portfolio he runs. Very good representation of the Canadian market. He also writes options on it from time to time. | 2011-07-29 | |
| TOP PICK | 18.490 | Richard Croft | Buy Dec 19 Call Options on the S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Thinks we are in a trading range and in the 4th quarter we may actually see ourselves come out of this. Think you could get a double on your money. (If you do, sell half your position.) | 2011-06-24 | |
| TOP PICK | 18.880 | John Hood | (Top Pick Jun 8/10, Up 13% total return) A core holding. This is what you buy if you want something for the long term. | 2011-06-10 | |
| TOP PICK | 19.480 | John Hood | (A Top Pick May 5/10. Up 13.65%.) TSX60. Likes it because it is optional. You want to make sure you have a core holding in Cdn and US stocks hedged. | 2011-05-06 | |
| BUY | 20.260 | Christine Poole | Broad Canadian exposure to large caps. | 2011-03-30 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 20.390 | John DeGoey | (Top Pick Feb 19/10, Up 23%) Best way to play the Canadian market. | 2011-03-23 | |
| TOP PICK | 19.830 | John Hood | (Top Pick May 5/10, Up 15.37%) Always likes having it in a portfolio. Long term Canada will do very, very well. Strong commodities and financial system in Canada. | 2011-03-11 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 19.880 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick March 16/10. Up 13.96%. iShares Large-Cap Covered Strangle expiring Mar 18/11.) Started with owning the stock and did a covered straddle to Sell his holding at $18. Then sold a March 17 Put at the same time and got $1.20 a share. He’ll end up losing his shares but will keep both premiums. | 2011-02-11 | |
| TOP PICK | 19.380 | John Hood | (A Top Pick April 9/10. Up 10.12%.) Tracks the S&P TSX60. The only time he will Sell it is if he thinks the market is getting overheated or to rebalance his portfolios. | 2011-01-28 | |
| TOP PICK | 19.250 | Jeff Black | (Top Pick Jan 14/10, Up 13.57%) A core holding for a lot of people. It was outperformed by the small caps, but he can’t emphasize the value of dividends going forward. High quality slice of the Canadian market. Gives you the beta of the market at a very low cost. Dividends are cash so they can go elsewhere. Over time we will revert back to large caps out performing. | 2011-01-11 | |
| TOP PICK | 18.920 | John Hood | (A Top Pick March 4/10. Up 11.27%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Half of the revenue of these companies is coming from offshore. Uses covered call strategy on this also. | 2010-12-08 | |
| TOP PICK | 18.220 | John Hood | (Top Pick Jan 25/10, Up 11.4%) Core holding. Highly liquid, optionable. S&P 60. Core holding; buy it and put it away. In Canada we have the banking system and the resources that people want. | 2010-10-22 | |
| BUY | 18.230 | John DeGoey | The grand daddy of all ETFs in Canada. You could consider XIC or XMD because they are more broadly diversified. XIU is the cheapest. | 2010-10-19 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.930 | Jeff Black | (A Top Pick Jan 14/10. Up 3%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. A core holding. Tracks about 60 companies in Canada with 3 main sectors of resources, mining/minerals and financials. | 2010-09-29 | |
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| TOP PICK | 17.790 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Oct 15/09. Up 5.6%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. The premier Canadian ETF. Very good solid market cap weighted product. | 2010-09-03 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.200 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Jan 25/10. Up 4.6%.) S&P/TSX 60 Index. An important one for your portfolio. | 2010-07-30 | |
| TOP PICK | 16.780 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Jan 25/10. Up 0.24%.) S&P/TSX 60 ETF. He has this as a core holding. Essentially, you are just buying the market. This will save you the huge portfolio manager and mutual fund fees. | 2010-07-07 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.280 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick July 9/09. Up 11%.) Covered Call. S&P TSE 60 ETF blue chips. Buy at $14.72 and write 03/2010 Calls at $1.35. | 2010-06-14 | |
| Comment | 17.280 | Craig Machel | Does he recommend delta hedging? Delta hedging is making money on the price movement of the underlying stock with an option strategy. An effective management. Works well in volatile times. Don’t use it for the entire portfolio. With XIU alone, he thinks you would need to use the strategy across many more securities to do it properly. | 2010-06-11 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.050 | John Hood | (Top Pick Jan 25/10,Up 3% total return) A core holding. He always has this as part of his portfolios. It is very liquid in terms of the options market. | 2010-06-08 | |
| BUY | 17.050 | John Hood | Has gold in it and he uses this instead of gold ETFs. | 2010-06-08 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.050 | John Hood | Core Canadian position. It is optionable. He does write options against them, particularly in markets like this. Been around the longest. He does covered calls, 6 months out. | 2010-06-08 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.150 | Hap (Robert) Sneddon FCSI | (Top Pick Apr 20/09, Up 22.85% + dividend) Sold a few weeks back. | 2010-06-04 | |
| Comment | 17.100 | John DeGoey | Is range bound. Some people sell covered call options every month to generate extra income. | 2010-06-01 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.460 | Brooke Thackray | (A Top Pick Nov 23/09. No change.) TSX 60 index. Has gone back and forth between this and the US index, depending which market was better. | 2010-05-06 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.500 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Oct 15/09. Up 3.19%.) TSX 60. Has always been a core holding for him. Also good for covered call writing. | 2010-05-05 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.990 | Richard Croft | You buy Sept 18 Call at a premium of $.80 and Sell the same Calls at $.25. This is a Calendar Spread, which in a low volatile environment, will do well if volatility picks up.. | 2010-04-23 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.990 | Richard Croft | (A Top Pick July 9/09. Up 15%.) Bought S&P TSE 60 ETF blue chips at $14.72 and wrote a March 15 covered call option for $15. You would've taken in $1.31 immediately (taxed as a capital gain). This reduced the cost of the stock giving you lower risks. The strategy makes money in a down or flat market. | 2010-04-23 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.900 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Oct 15/09. Up 4.2%.) This tracks the TSX60 and is always a core position for him. | 2010-04-09 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.920 | Richard Croft | iShares Large-Cap Covered Strangle. Basically buying underlying stock (about $17.85) and Selling $18 Call for March/11. This presumes the Canadian market will not do much next year. If the market is above the TSX 60 and the XIU is about $18 he'll simply sell it and keep the option premium of $2.40. If the market goes down he will have to buy another block of stock but it will be at $17 a share. | 2010-03-16 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.140 | John Hood | Highly liquid. Represents those kinds of commodities that Canada has for sale that other countries want. Always has this as part of his portfolios. | 2010-03-04 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 17.140 | John Hood | (Top Pick Oct 15/09, Up 1.45%) Held for any years. Always a core position. Heavy weighting in oils and materials. Has the products from Canada that the globe wants. He can write options on this one. | 2010-03-04 | |
| Comment | 16.580 | Colin Stewart | S&P/TSX 60 ETF. This is a vehicle that he would use if he wanted to short the market. It is very liquid. | 2010-01-28 | |
| TOP PICK | 16.660 | John Hood | (A Top Pick Oct 15/09. Down 2.7%.) S&P/TSX 60 Index. Cdn banks are a much better position than global counterparts and it is heavy into materials and energy. A core position in every account. Much cheaper than a mutual fund as well as more tax efficient. | 2010-01-25 | |
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| TOP PICK | 17.350 | Jeff Black | S&P/TSX 60 ETF. This is a time to stay large-cap and defensive and count on the dividend flow that is going to come. This gives you the top financials, top energies and top materials. | 2010-01-14 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.410 | Brooke Thackray | S&P/TSX 60 ETF. Investors should have a core holding in than going out and getting the sectors that appeal to them. | 2009-11-23 | |
| Comment | 17.340 | Richard Croft | S&P TSE 60 ETF. 60 largest companies on the TSX. Well diversified. He is convinced we will have a double dip and there will be a selloff before we go higher. Won't go higher in a hurry but will be a long, slow, grinding recovery. | 2009-11-20 | |
| Comment | 16.500 | Derek Webb, CFA | Believes stocks are much more attractive than bonds right now because there is more risk of interest rates going up rather than down so he would choose this over bonds. | 2009-10-29 | |
| BUY | 16.520 | Mike S. Newton, CIM FCSI | 60 Biggest plays. You only need the one ETF (Caller wanted to add IGD-T). | 2009-10-27 | |
| TOP PICK | 17.190 | John Hood | TSX 60. This is basically the gold standard for all ETFs in Canada as it represents the largest 60 stocks in Canada. Our banks are very strong and we also have the resource economy. | 2009-10-15 | |
| BUY | 16.620 | Som Seif | iUnits S&P TSE 60 E.T.F. Very low cost. This will give you the broad benchmark index. | 2009-10-05 | |
| BUY | 17.110 | Barry Schwartz | iUnits S&P TSE 60 ETF. Gives you the best of the 60 TSE companies with a good dividend yield and caps it so that no one company can exceed 10%. | 2009-09-29 | |
| SELL | 15.940 | Steven Conville | Tracks an indexes and there for is picked by humans and no one should have a substantial portion of their wealth in an index. | 2009-08-17 | |
| TOP PICK | 14.880 | Richard Croft | S&P TSE 60 ETF blue chips. Doesn't know that we are going to have any real surge in the market so he is suggesting a March 15 covered call option. If stock is above $15 return is about 12% not including dividends. If stock the same, return is about 10%. You have downside protection of $13.72. | 2009-07-09 | |
| TOP SHORT | 14.970 | Jean-Francois Tardif | iUnits S&P TSE 60 ETF. A lot of people feel that markets are at risk. By Shorting this, you are hedging against the setback that is potentially coming. This ETF has 60 stocks so you are diversified. An alternative to selling stocks. | 2009-07-07 | |
| PARTIAL BUY | 15.680 | Steve Carlin | iUnits S&P TSE 60 ETF. The risk you bear with this is basically market risk. Expects the market will have a bit of a pullback so he would suggest 1/3 now, 1/3 in the fall and the last 1/3 late in the year. | 2009-06-19 | |
| BUY | 14.240 | Jeff Black | Is Corporate Canada’s at its best in one single exposure. | 2009-04-30 | |
| TOP PICK | 13.960 | Hap (Robert) Sneddon FCSI | Support at $11.50 | 2009-04-20 | |
| BUY | 13.440 | Richard Croft | (Marked Call Minute.) S&P TSE 60. Thinks the Canadian market has got a little ways to go and could be at $10,000 by the end of the year. | 2009-03-27 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 13.120 | Don Vialoux | (A Top Pick Jan 16/08. Down 27% but up 21.5% if you sold in May as he suggested.) Canadian market has formed a nice little base pattern so there is good reason to believe that technicals will take us to new highs. Current target is $17 by April when you Sell. | 2009-01-30 | |
| Comment | 12.800 | Som Seif | S&P TSE 60. Use for long-term, low-cost Canadian equity exposure. You could also consider Claymore Cdn Fundamental (CRQ-T). | 2008-12-12 | |
| BUY | 13.230 | Rick Stuchberry | (Market Call Minute.) You can own this thing now. | 2008-11-26 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 13.000 | Don Vialoux | (A Top Pick Jan 16/08 to be Sold May 20/08. Up 18%.) Classic seasonal play. Buy when it snows, Sell when it goes. | 2008-11-24 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 15.460 | Don Vialoux | (A Top Pick Aug 27/07. Down 23%.) Exited in May with a 15% profit. Now is the time to Buy. | 2008-10-20 | |
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| BUY | 14.430 | Vinny Catalano | In times of uncertainty, large caps tend to outperform the mid and smaller issues. Relatively safe place to be. Ultimately, when the market stabilizes and gets into a bull market trend (probably 2009 or 2010) you will want to be in the mid and smaller cap issues. | 2008-10-17 | |
| VAGUE | 15.690 | Jeff Black | It’s time to take a broader exposure in ETFs. Feels we are going to be in a global recession. | 2008-10-06 | |
| Comment | 19.700 | Som Seif | Pure free floating on the S&P/TSX 60 index (Canadian Large Cap). Not capped like XIC-T. Long term he likes XIC better because of the capping. | 2008-08-19 | |
| BUY | 78.120 | Som Seif | (Caller - Suggesting shorting so that he does not get 2X the leverage and 2X the risk.) Depends on how long a short position you want to hold. If you are looking at a short term short he would suggest BetaPro S&P/TSX 60 Bear E.T.F. (HXD-T) which would be an alternative to this one. This one is a great product, lowest cost equity fund out there. Hard to beat if you want to get short-term exposure or long-term exposure to the equity market. | 2008-02-13 | |
| TOP PICK | 76.930 | Don Vialoux | (A Top Pick Aug 27/07. Up 0.9%.) Seasonal play for the overall Canadian market is Oct through to April. Wait for technical indications of a bottom, 15 days of support and short-term momentum indicators. | 2008-01-16 | |
| TOP PICK | 78.650 | Don Vialoux | Basically the Canadian market. Period of seasonal strength is from the end of Sept until April. Delay any purchases until the end of September. Chart shows a long support level but now has a bounce. Big spread between the support and the top in July, ind | 2007-08-27 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 78.850 | Don Vialoux | Seasonal strength from the end of September to the end of March, but it's been extended. (Sell on exit points.) | 2007-05-05 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 78.520 | Don Vialoux | (A Top Pick Oct 17/06. Up 14.5%.) Have reached the end of the seasonal strength, which runs from the end of September to the end of March. Waiting for a technical signal for a Sell. | 2007-04-25 | |
| Comment | 77.010 | Michael Sprung | ETF’s are good adjuncts for investors that want to capture market movements and diversify risks. He only looks at individual stocks, not the market as a whole. If you own, you might take some profits. | 2007-04-11 | |
| SELL | 74.490 | John Zechner | Breakdown of the Canadian market shows 35% in financials, which are very high, 45% in resources, which will have a difficult time as the global economy, slows. If you own, would consider moving out, perhaps offshore. | 2006-12-12 | |
| DON'T BUY | 69.090 | Rob Callander | The Canadian market is trading, sort of near a peak, so he expects to see the index sell off in the short term. This will trade almost in sync with what the index does. | 2006-10-23 | |
| TOP PICK | 68.550 | Don Vialoux | “Buy when it snows and Sell when it goes.” This has been coming down and reached a very important low on Oct 4. Since then, the signals have turned positive. Historically, this would give you a 9-10% return, but if you use the MACD buy/sell signals, the return can be much better. | 2006-10-17 | |
| BUY | 67.290 | Glenn MacNeill, P.Eng. | These are large caps with elements of safety and good liquidity. If the general overall market goes down, this will go down. The market is slowing down and there might be some correction here for the next couple of months. | 2006-09-08 | |
| Comment | 68.730 | Gavin Graham | Q: Has 30% financials and 70% commodities. Would buying a “put” on this be a good way of balancing his portfolio. A: A smart question. To hedge yourself on the downside, this is not a bad idea. Don't expect to make money on it. It's a loss/risk reducer. Would suggest a pharmaceutical ETF instead. | 2006-05-03 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 52.470 | Don Vialoux | (A Top Pick Dec 6/04. Up 3%.) Has been one of the most actively traded securities in the last few days. Has only gone up 3% due to the decline in the Cdn$. In terms of the US$, you have actually lost 2%. | 2005-02-10 | |
| DON'T BUY | 50.820 | Richard Croft | Worthwhile selling options on this? Good strategy of selling a covered call, but in this case the option premium is not very high. Won't get a lot for your money in this case. Likes the i60's units as a holding though. A low cost way to trade the Canadian economy. | 2004-12-14 | |
| TOP PICK | 50.680 | Don Vialoux | Portfolios should have a core position in equities which should be cost effective, tax efficient and transparent. Indices are cost effective because of low MERs, tax effective as they don't create much capital gain. An average investor might have 70% in the core part and 30% in special situations, seasonal or hedge plays, etc. | 2004-12-06 | |
| TOP PICK | 45.700 | Phil Smith | Market at a low and interest rates dropping. A great time to get into equities. Low mngmnt expenses | 2001-03-14 |
