longlake95

thanks for the feedback. Don't need specifics, as I am familiar with the maneuver. I had heard that some brokers were reluctant to do the e-journaling - obviously to discourage the maneuver and make the spread. Thanks LL

Getting tired of the wide spread the brokers apply to fx transactions. Just moved some $$$ from the CAD "side" of my RRSP to the USD "side" and the spread, roughly calculated, was around 90 BPS. Thought of trying Norbert's Gambit to move cash. Have you tried this maneuver? LL

ARNC

WPK, CCL.b, TFII, GIL

For those of you that do DCF's, do you normally do a DCF using FCFE (and discount @ cost of equity) and just focus on the equity? Or, do you do use FCFF (free cash to the whole firm and discount using WACC), back out any debt, to arrive at the value of the equity? I realize that both processes will yield the same value of the equity - but curious if stock investors focus on the whole enterprise or just the equity.

more BRK.B

I like Rocket Financial as well, but they only cover US stocks - so far. I've sent them a note to ask about data for other country stocks. No word back.

Add me to the list of disappointed yahoo/google finance users...talk about brutal. Is anyone out there using the stockmarketeye products? Seems like a good product to track portfolios and watch lists - but I don't know if it will aggregate news for stocks in a portfolio.

I own the Pref's series III, as a chicken way to participate in DC. They are still waaay out of favour. But nice to see things improving...but slowly...might I add... Where's Ned?

depending on what the site offers, without seeing the final product, I can easily justify $150 (Canuck bucks) per year. If it saves me time sifting through clutter. Simple company financials both in text and graphically would be a nice add. Along with simple portfolio tracker, with price flags.I'm not a fan of Gurufocus - sure it's nice to see what the Guru's are buying, but I think 13F data should only be a smallish part of the site. That info is pretty easy to source. less clutter. If your going to have people post research...I'd limit it to the paying users who can post research...hopefully the serious investors. If you link to Seeking Alpha or others, you get a lot of fluff - VIC notwithstanding.

Looks like a nice start! I would pay (what price? a function of the quality and experience I get from the site) for well designed, great user interface, clean and crisp site that would aggregate news and company releases, without all the noise I get from Yahoo (which I stopped using 6 months ago) and Google "news" feeds. They are full of scrapped news bits that are totally useless. I don't need to know what the "stock rover" or "Rives Journal" has to say about my companies. A feed from legit news wires would be great. the 13F info would be nice too along with a simple stock tracker. My 2cents from a non-techy. LL

GIL.TO

Oh yes - lots of Chinese deals gone south! However, CCCI are the real deal. The have a track record of buying North American construction companies - like Fried & Goldman in Texas. Which by all accounts has been a success. I still need to dig some more, and in the meantime, the excitement may subside and provide a greater spread.

Aecon ARE.TO to be bought out at $20.37 in cash to close Q12018. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-aecon-group-m-a-ccci/chinese-construction-group-to-buy-canadas-aecon-idUSKBN1CV1DS Good place to park cash for a 4% return or 9% annualized.

I exercised a couple of weeks ago. B of A is no longer dirt cheap, so I figured the torque in the warrants will diminish. Also, I wanted to be all-in on the common since they jacked up the divvy by 60% - bringing my yield on cost to +4%.

OBE ( PennWest ) LL

People are more bullish on the preferreds too. The Series III's have moved some 12% in a week.

Ontario, north of GTA

Thanks guys!

Thanks Safety, the DC D's reset at 4.10% over the 90 day Tbill right? But the B'S reset 4.10% over the 5 yr gov't, so we'd likely get better exposure to rising rates owning the B's. But who knows what rates will do?

Card, you still own DC b prefs? I see many of the prefs have been weak the last couple of months DC b included. TA-j also has been weak. U still like Dundee prefs? LL

I hope so...adding to EFN and ECN ( ECN halted...waiting for an open)... Most analysts seem fine with the ABS

Thanks Netnet

Bouchard is one of my heroes. Couche tard Is also my biggest investing mistake - talk about DUMB. I was literally sitting on the throne, in 2001, reading the ATD.B annual report...the quality of this company and Bouchard was obvious...but I was too dumb to acknowledge that and too cheap to pay-up, as it seemed "expensive". instead I was buying crappy companies like Brampton Brick...no moat, low margin, lousy management, and shaky assets... 16 years later ATD.b is up some 50x. Oh boy...that still hurts... :'(

Me too! Friggen pay wall. Lol.