The Canadian Investor - 12 Stocks We’re Watching as the Market Pulls Back
Episode Date: March 17, 2025Markets hate uncertainty, and it’s showing. We break down the recent volatility, from the steep drawdowns in the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to the tariff-fueled market jitters. We also discuss why k...nowing what you own and being diversified is so important when markets are volatile. We also talk about how the recent volatility is creating opportunities for investors with capital to deploy. We highlight stocks on our radar, including TFII, CP, Nvidia, American Express, Costco, and Amazon, and discuss what makes them interesting at these levels. Plus, why sometimes market moves have a clear reason—like tariffs or earnings surprises—and sometimes, why the reason is not as obvious. Tickets of stocks/ETFs discussed: TFII.TO, CP.TO, NVDA, AXP, COST, AMZN, MDA.TO, TMO, QXO, KSI.TO, EQB.TO, NET Check out our portfolio by going to Jointci.com Our Website Canadian Investor Podcast Network Twitter: @cdn_investing Simon’s twitter: @Fiat_Iceberg Braden’s twitter: @BradoCapital Dan’s Twitter: @stocktrades_ca Want to learn more about Real Estate Investing? Check out the Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast! Apple Podcast - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Spotify - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Web player - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Asset Allocation ETFs | BMO Global Asset Management Sign up for Finchat.io for free to get easy access to global stock coverage and powerful AI investing tools. Register for EQ Bank, the seamless digital banking experience with better rates and no nonsense.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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My name is Brayden Dennis,
as always joined by the resourceful Simon Bélanger.
You having fun yet, buddy?
We having fun?
A little drawdown to start the year?
Hey, it's making,
it's definitely making things not too boring,
that's for sure. Yeah, that's for sure.
Yeah, that's for sure.
I mean, this is nothing, this is nothing.
You know, it's good to taste a little volatility
every once in a while, especially when, you know,
things just go up and to the right every once in a while.
Gotta be grounded a little bit.
This is normal, of course, there's lots of news. This is normal, of course there's lots of news.
We're gonna talk about how there's lots of news
and lots of moving parts.
But there's also just a lot of,
hey, this is what happens, all right?
Like, you can point to reasons X, Y, and Z,
but this is what we signed up for.
Yeah, yeah, and I mean, I think for a lot of people
it's a reality check.
Unfortunately, I mean, that's what it is.
If you haven't been in the markets for too long,
this will be a bit of a reality check
that it does not always go into the right.
And it's probably going to get as volatile
as it has been since probably the last 15, 20 years.
I'm going that far back as March 2020, yes we saw some big drawdowns but it was short-lived. Quick. Yeah but with the
truth or down south there is that what they call it? So truth social. The truth.
Truth social. He truthed with his constant truthing will definitely be
having a lot of volatility in the market because I mean I think at this point
Canada and even the US is probably heading into recession with everything that's happened and
Obviously markets don't like that and the uncertainty clearly the markets don't like
Yeah, it's it's also just like folks zoom out like you it doesn't, it's not a smooth up into the right
all the time of course.
Zoom out a little bit.
I mean the performance of some of the major indexes
on a trailing one year are nothing short of fantastic.
I mean look, Apple stock total return,
like the largest constituent of their index,
total return trailing one year,
even after this pullback is 28%.
Yeah, I mean.
That's the largest large cap, you know?
Yeah, that's not one,
that's one I would not touch with a 10 foot pole,
but you know my opinion on Apple.
I think it's just too much for me.
Okay, let's look at the S&P 500.
Trailing one year, you're at 9% after a drawdown, right?
It's like, guys, let's zoom out a little bit,
but let's get into the content.
I think that this is relevant here.
I got a segment, you're gonna talk a little bit
about how markets don't like uncertainty.
And then we got stocks on our radar,
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We're doing something a little bit different today.
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So yeah, lots to look forward to.
Yeah, exactly.
And yeah, you're right, the markets don't like uncertainty.
And I mean, I think with with Trump that's what you get.
You get a whole lot of uncertainty, no one really knows and before I go into this I was
actually as I was eating preparing for a recording with Dan I'm like oh let me see what Fox Business
News is saying about terrorists because they're notoriously pro-republican and very favorable
to Trump. So I just wanted to
see, see how different it is and because today we're recording this and Ontario
imposed 25% export tariffs on New York for electricity and then Trump announced
that he was raising the tariffs from 25 to 50% for aluminum and steel. So I
wanted to see what they were saying and they were actually interviewing the Alcoa CEO and they're like oh are these
tariffs making you want to invest more in America so that you don't do that is
like to be honest no because the issue is like tariffs come and go and we can't
plan long term with just the threat of tariffs.
Like for us, we're planning for like 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 years down the line when we're
building these.
And they have a legitimate capex cycle.
Yeah, exactly.
And he's like, our main concern is low electricity costs.
And the reality is most of the aluminum, Canada offers it, most of the aluminum comes from
Canada into the US and we just don't have that much incentive in the US.
And they were asking him about Trump's policy of build baby drill, making energy dominance,
making energy cheaper.
And again, he's like, well, I mean, it's a step in the right direction, but we'll have
to see whether it materializes or not.
So I thought that was really interesting,
especially on Fox Business News,
that the Alcoa CEO is basically pushing back on this saying,
like, it doesn't change all that much for us.
Yeah. I mean, again, those CapEx cycles
and lifetimes that they're building,
when they're spreadsheeting out all that math
and getting into the nitty gritty,
there's no timeline that's,
oh, over the next three months, this matters.
No, they're planning for like actual capital recycling
and actual replacement of large,
sometimes five-year life cycle type equipment, 10-year year lifecycle type equipment,
10 year lifecycle type equipment, right?
So that's what they're looking at.
But I thought that was a fun little anecdote
just to see, right?
Cause we get our news, right?
Where like Canadians, I wanted to see that other side
of the aisle news in the US.
But you're today talking about the uncertainty.
TSX 60, which I was looking at with ZIU from BMO, is flat.
The S&P 500 is down 4.1% looking at it in US dollars,
and the NASDAQ is down 7.3%, actually.
I think it's a little worse than that for the NASDAQ
and the S&P 500 year today,
just because I took these numbers earlier this morning,
and it's been a yo-yo today, which seems like it's every day. It starts positive, negative,
positive, it goes up and down. And looking at the last six months which is about a
month before Trump was elected, the drawdowns are more noticeable. So you're
looking at negative 4.6% for the TSX, 60, negative 8.5 for the S&P 500,
negative 12.4 for the NASDAQ.
Now, of course, if you isolate the Mag-7,
it gets pretty rough when looking at drawdowns
over the last six months.
So you have Tesla down 54%, Nvidia down 29%,
and that's from their maximum drawdown,
so from the peak to where they are now and down
20% for Google and Amazon down 19% for Meta, 16% for Microsoft and down 13% for Apple. Now to be
fair and that's what I had in my notes is if you're looking at them for the last year the only one
that's negative, no it's not Tesla, is
actually Microsoft. So Microsoft is the only one. I'm sure if I would have asked you, I
don't even know if you probably would have said Tesla, not Microsoft, right? If I asked
you which one is in the negative for the one year?
Yeah. Well, I knew that there was a huge run up before this drawdown on Tesla. Such a battleground stock,
and now it's like a battleground comp.
It's moved from a battleground stock
to a battleground company, which is interesting to see.
Before it was like a battleground stock,
but just kind of generally loved by consumers,
and now it's a battleground company politically.
It's crazy seeing what's happening.
I mean, like Elon, like what did you expect?
Honestly, like you put yourself so close to polarizing president and he's been so
visible that at some point, you know, people that are really against Trump, I
think they'll start pushing back on the products and just offer alternatives.
Like, I mean, to me, like this, just the way it's been played out like obviously it would have an impact on his business and he's
also saying and I feel for the guy in that way is that I think he's having trouble running his
businesses because he's spending so much time in on Doge which I mean at the end of the day
it's a bit worrying but again I would not bet against Elon.
That's the other thing I will probably mention. What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, I tend to agree. I mean, it doesn't matter what your thoughts are on how close to the sun he's getting here in this administration.
There is no debating that he is a generational type of innovator and generational type of ambition
and what he's accomplished.
And I mean, look, like he's going to,
it doesn't matter who it is,
you're gonna ruffle a lot of feathers
if you're digging in some old creaky closets
of the US government.
Like, let's just call a spade a spade.
Like he is leading an organization
that is turning over rocks of the US government
in places, a lot of places that people have hoped
that you wouldn't look and hope where no one's tracking
where money goes for a long, long time.
Like a lot of kind of built up, like, you know,
it's like when you have a lot of clothes in the closet
and you're like, you look at it and you're like,
I need to go to Salvation Army.
Yeah.
I need to go to Salvation Army to do some of this stuff.
So of course he's gonna get some pushback on that too.
So it's a perfect storm really.
And what's funny is like, if I had to guess,
I would have to guess that Trump is probably
Not not Trump
But Musk is probably not that supportive a tariffs in general because it affects his businesses
But he's taking a lot of flack because he's so close to Trump, right?
So I think and you're seeing a lot of other countries like Canada
I mean people are starting to push back to It's just interesting to see how it is impacting
the stock prices.
I don't think there's any doubt that it's impacting
the Tesla stock price at this point, negatively.
Unrelated, but do we have a date for the official
transition for Carney?
For, for now?
No, it's supposed to be in the next few days
is what I thought. I was listening to a few maybe by the time this I mean people
probably know the answer to that but for for us recording right now I don't think
we have a date yet no I was listening to a couple of political podcasts just to
get a sense when the election would happen and his transition and I think
no one knows for sure but they're saying like probably within a week transition
to Carney and then probably within two weeks
an election call is what most were predicting.
So I have a, I've had,
I have the still the exact same viewpoint
that I've had this whole time.
What is it?
It's going to be the very last,
it's going to be the very last second.
There's not going to be that early election call pull. I could very well be wrong. Yeah. I have always had the stance that it's going to be the very last second. There's not going to be that early election call,
I could very well be wrong.
Yeah.
I have always had the stance that it is going to drag
all the way till October.
And because they want to ride the momentum of,
this is the party, it's not the Trudeau party, right?
And they want a longer time for that to resonate
with voters in my opinion. So I just don't think it's going to be
pulled earlier. I mean I'll go with the ones that are more connected and say it's probably going to
happen in two weeks but I get where you're coming from. We'll see. Yeah we'll see. Yeah we'll see
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So aside from that, right? Like going back to the uncertainty, obviously the tariffs,
threats, and it's not just like tariffs, threats. It's like, you know, going on and off, increasing
pause, like all this stuff going on,, clearly it is making things difficult. It's
not easy to invest, make large investment if you're a business because, you know, as
much as Trump is trying to get businesses to invest more in the US, a lot of the time
it just doesn't make sense for these businesses to invest for the US for XYZ reason because
other countries are just more competitive even when you factor in those tariffs for whatever
reason whether it's labor whether it's cheap energy costs you name it natural resources
it just doesn't make sense so what's the best course of action for your investments i mean the
first thing we've talked about this time and time again if you didn't know already know what you own
there's a lot of uncertainty right now
in the markets and big part of it is because Trump but it's not the only
thing the tariff uncertainty is a big one but there's also reduction in the
US government spending which will put downward pressures on the economy so the
cuts that Trump and his team are doing and the fact that they want to reduce
spending that's money that's no longer being spent and going into the economy even if there's fraud and waste. You know even if
only 20% of that spending goes down to the economy. I mean it's still a lot of money that will
be subtracted from the GDP and that's something to take into account and I think it's a big
reason the US is also likely going to enter a recession at some point this year.
And a lot of companies will be refinancing debt that was issued during the pandemic years.
And that's something that you should know. So if that's your company,
while I'm trying to look at my notes because Brayden is copy and pasting.
There's a lot of charts flying around above you on the dock here.
So after five years he still does it, but I digress.
I don't think I'll ever learn.
No, no, exactly.
Just like going up and down all over the place.
But a lot of companies refinance are dead during the pandemic and they'll have to refinance
at likely higher
rates in the next few years.
So make sure you know if that's a company you own and just understand what the impact
could be through their bottom line in their business.
And there's just the reality is there's going to be businesses, not all of them.
It's probably going to be just a small portion of businesses, but some businesses that are
publicly traded will get absolutely crushed
in the next few years because of the uncertainty, the tariffs. Some business will just not survive
because of this and that's the hard cold reality. It may not be a lot, I don't think it will be a
lot. The best businesses will be resilient, but that's the reality. Some businesses will not be
able to survive that and you need to understand whether, you know,
maybe one of the 20 companies you own
could be at risk of that.
I'm not trying to alarm anything,
but I think that's just a cold hard reality
is this will systematically change some businesses
and will have an impact to a lesser degree
on other businesses as well.
And some will probably feel little to no impact
from all of this.
Yeah, it's a mixed bag.
Yeah.
Which inherently makes for investment opportunities.
Yeah.
I know it's hard to like, you know,
that's kind of our job, you know,
find the light at the tunnel and the positive spin
around this. We're kind of eternal optimists because to be honest, I think that's kind of our job, you know, find the light at the tunnel and the positive spin around this.
We're kind of eternal optimists because to be honest, I think that's how you make money
in the stock market.
But when you have a mixed bag and real nuance, that's when there are opportunities.
Like just as a blanket statement, bar none, that's one of the best opportunities come
up is when there is nuance, when everything is, you know, all the, there's a leak in the bathtub
and all the rubber duckies sink,
there is, there's opportunity there.
Yeah. And I guess one thing that I think for me,
it's very important.
And I know for some people they like to be more
concentrated and that's fine,
but I think diversification will be key.
I know some people will be a hundred% in stocks and that's fine.
You'll probably be fine over a long enough holding period. If you're thinking, you know,
10, 20, 30, 40 years, you'll probably be fine. The only thing I was caution people is that we are going through,
I think, the early stages of a changing world order. And what we've seen over the last 20, 30, 40, 50, even going back close to a
hundred years after the second world war, not quite, but let's say 80, I think
there's a lot of things that will be.
Which Ray Dalio book did you just finish?
All of them.
No, but I think it is true.
I think we are changing.
The world order is changing and I think we have to just be caution, just exercise caution on taking what has happened in terms
of return for stocks, bond, gold, cash over the last 20, you know, historically, just
because I think that going forward period will, there's a good chance that it will be looking very different
I'm not trying to say like oh everything's crashing. That's not what I'm trying to say
I'm just saying that maybe other assets will perform much better than stocks or maybe certain stocks will perform much better than others
That you can't really group all of them together. That's entirely possible
But the fact that if you're diversified,
not only in stocks, but also in other assets,
I think it will help you mitigate kind of that risk
so that your portfolio perform well.
And you can take my portfolio, for example.
Most people will think I own way too much Bitcoin
and Bitcoin ETF.
It's about a third of my portfolio.
It's not for the faint of
heart because it is pretty volatile. Bitcoin is up 39% over the last six months and down 14% year
to date. And despite that, I'm only down 5% for the year and I am up 9% in the last six months.
And for the year, that's similar to the S&P 500 and over the last six months, I'm crushing all the
indices. Now I just
wanted to put that into context and even if you take my parents portfolio which
is much better balance I would say less concentrated from a balance perspective
they still have Bitcoin, gold, US treasuries and stocks exposure and
they're still up 5% over the last six months and 4% year to date despite
having a mix that a lot of people would be like wow this
Should not be in a retirement portfolio, but again it is diversified
It's not they don't own a third in Bitcoin of course not
But it just goes to show that having a diversified portfolio in terms of assets and
different sectors of course and geographies
I think the geography part
is quite important too, can be a really good approach to have going forward because it
allows you to do well in a wider range of outcomes.
Yeah, hard to disagree with any of that.
The traditional diversification will not include the assets
that you're talking about if you go to a financial planner,
but that doesn't mean that there's not merit to it.
And I mean, the results speak for themselves, right?
Like I love when people can kind of hate on an asset
for a really long time.
And then you just get to like, be like,
look at the performance.
Like there's this viral LinkedIn post about this guy bashing Bitcoin.
And he was like, oh my God, it's falling to like 75 grand on how anyone will hold this.
Like, how could anyone hold this?
And it's up like 15 times in five years.
Yeah.
Even if you back out the, like, even if you include the fact that it just lost like 25
grand on the share price, US dollars,
you're still gonna pick that battle?
We can all keep score, right?
We can all keep score.
And if you keep score over one month, two months,
three months, I don't think that that's good, right?
That's like only a few minutes of the first period.
But if we're keeping score over a whole multiple years
or like keep the hockey analogy like, you know,
by the all-star break, the results matter
and we've been keeping score and you know,
you're kind of, I don't care about your biases,
I care about facts, that's all.
Yeah, and a great way too and we've,
we probably should do another segment on that
but it's just allocation, right? Having proper allocation sizing. I think that's important too. You know, I say that with
that much exposure to Bitcoin and I know you're the same with Constellation Software, but you know,
having, using that sizing to your advantage to lower volatility is a very powerful tool
that's available for investors that unfortunately
I think a lot of retail investors don't always do all that well and don't understand the
consequences of not doing that well.
We may be a bit more concentrated, but we also understand the consequences of being
more concentrated, whether they're positive or negative.
Yep, makes sense.
Anything else? whether they're positive or negative. Yep, makes sense.
Anything else?
No, let's move on,
because I think people are probably waiting
for your next segment,
so we can move on after that to Stocks on a Radar.
Yeah, yeah, we'll do Stocks on a Radar.
We have like 10 different names plus here
that you and I are gonna talk about,
but I have something called,
that's relevant to this discussion called,
everyone's looking for a reason.
That's what I've called this. Everyone's looking for a reason. A reason why the stock price jumped
today. A reason why the business disappointed on earnings. Why the market is down. Why gold is up.
Why Bitcoin is down this month but up last year. Why Canadian stocks are outperforming. Why growth
is doing better than value and value is doing better than growth
and utilities better than real estate.
And the list goes on and on and on and on.
Why this sector is rotating to that sector
and just CNBC stuff.
Like, I don't know how else to categorize it.
CNBC stuff.
They're really loving the market and turmoil right now.
Oh, markets and turmoil, red, red, red.
By the way, I forget the stat.
I brought this up on the podcast.
The positive forward returns for every time markets
and turmoil happens on CNBC.
The results are incredible.
And we're talking about a pretty large sample size every time CNBC's
had their markets in turmoil segment. Of course, there are certain scenarios where the market
keeps falling, but historically it has been a fantastic time to buy stocks.
Yeah. Sorry. It's market route now. It's not market in turmoil. So we were wrong on that.
No, they had markets and turmoil yesterday.
Oh, they added, okay.
They have to mix it up a little bit.
Exactly.
It's another route today, but a turmoil yesterday.
So everybody wants a reason, right?
It's intellectual porn to have a reason
of why things are the certain way that they are, right?
Sometimes the reason is obvious. I'll give you some examples. So CrowdStrike
caused a major global tech outage last year because they made a mistake. Stock
down. Okay, not that hard to understand, right? Not difficult to understand, you
know, one plus one equals two. Starbucks just hired an exciting new CEO from Chipotle.
Look at his track record.
Stock went up.
Not anymore, but on the news, on the news,
there is a reason why that you could point to and go,
OK, I don't need to look further into it.
This is why.
OK, Trump slaps on tariffs, which
hurts a Canadian manufacturer's ability to be competitive.
Some examples, right?
Sometimes the reason is not obvious.
Maybe there's some natural rotation from one sector to another sector.
Large funds are moving from growth into value or, you know, they're moving from data center REITs to office
or, you know, people are moving from sector A to sector B
for reasons X, Y and Z, right?
Like some of these reasons are not as obvious.
And I think that there's some natural rotation
that happens in the market all the time
that you don't really have to have any sort of rationale or understanding
other than the fact that it's happening. Sometimes value stocks are more or low P.E. stocks are more
in favor. Sometimes high growth or stocks are more favor. Sometimes certain sectors are really hot
because people who are maybe excited about utilities because of the growth of AI,
these kinds of things. There's these kind of like second order effects that are not as obvious.
Okay, sometimes it's a combination of the two,
which can magnify the results
when you have a combination of the two.
And that's where you get like some huge bull run
or some massive kind of quick correction.
And I believe that's to be the case today.
You know, you're seeing bad sentiments,
bad sentiment from tariffs coming online
combined with, look, the market is expensive, man.
The market has been really, really on a tear
and is due for a pullback.
You get kind of this combination
of it's time for it to blow some hot air.
High PE, like high multiple
growthy stocks are getting smashed more because the stock
market corrects all the time and more speculative companies get
magnified in those sell offs.
They can run up faster, but they can also fall off the cliff faster.
I'll use an example of cloud flare.
Okay.
Cloud flare is a, what's the, what's the market cap on CloudFlare?
CloudFlare.
I haven't looked at it in a while, yeah.
40 billion, 40 billion US today.
It's a micro cap in today's number.
Yeah, it's a tiny tech stock.
No, of course, for Beach Vashis,
this is a massive enterprise of a business, a huge technology
company.
They power a lot of the, they power a lot of Finchette, I'll tell you that for sure.
So it is a high growth tech stock that I personally would love to be a shareholder of at an attractive
price, but that's neither here nor there.
You have a company that's what I believe a fantastic product, they provide great value to customers
compared to what they charge.
The market knows all of this stuff.
The numbers are great, it grows very consistently
at high rates.
The market knows all of that, but it sold off 32%
in like, you know, the last week and a half.
And it still trades at 25 times sales.
So this is not some like screamingly cheap stock
just because the share price fell off a third in a couple
weeks.
Now, you zoom out a little bit.
Cloudflare equity is up 5x in five years.
So investors have held on.
They've made 5x theirX in five years. So investors have held on, they've made 5X their money in five years.
And my God, it's been a bumpy ride.
I mean, the stock ran from,
you got there on the chart there,
the stock ran from 20 bucks to 200 bucks,
down to 40, up to 180 and down to 120 again.
Now that's a lot of volatility for a company
that if you just looked at their financials
everything kind of goes up into the right. You have three times the customer base during that time,
three times the revenue. They're now generating positive free cash flow, nice product enhancements.
I know that as a user. Nearly 5X the big enterprise customer count. So you got the market in a 10% drawdown, but Cloudflare's
in a 32% drawdown and it was in an 80% drawdown in 2022, which is my God, I punched myself for
not. I knew it was a fantastic purchase there and I chickened out. Anyways, so that's what happens is
Anyways, so that's what happens is more richly valued,
inconsistently profitable stuff just falls faster.
It is what it is. I mean, Simon, we've seen enough in the markets
to know that the high growth, high PE,
high multiple stuff, people flight out of it.
They flight out to safety.
They flight out to different asset classes
or they flight out to more valuable, more value stocks.
You know, they go buy General Motors or something.
And so there's that flight to safety.
And third, Simone, okay, is actually fourth.
Sometimes there's no reason at all, okay? Sometimes there's no reason at all, okay?
Sometimes there's no reason at all.
And this is the one that really, really
messes with investors.
I'd say you gotta have a few years of experience
under the belt to just kind of know and feel out
and be okay with there's no reason.
And I don't need a reason.
And I know it's so difficult
for the intellectually stimulated folks people listen this podcast people who
like to analyze businesses that's a really frustrating reality is when
there's just no reason at all like Like the market fluctuates. That's what more do you want?
That's the reason.
So those are the kind of four things that happen
and kind of categorizing them and understanding them
and it comes with experience,
but they're no re they just create opportunity typically.
Yeah. And I mean, sometimes I would probably say
there's almost always a reason, but sometimes it's very difficult to understand the reason
Because if you start looking at hedge funds
I think the best hedge funds can usually see those coming whether it's one thing
I've been reading more and more about is just global liquidity
But it's so difficult to measure that you can't with just traditional metrics
So there's like experts that have their
own formulas. Like that could be one, but without like massive resources behind you,
it would be very difficult to be able to, you know, to be able to quantify that. And some people do a
pretty good job of doing so, but even then, you know, for how long, for how long will the cycle last for
liquidity and so on.
So it's very difficult to pinpoint and oftentimes you don't know until
several years after the fact anyways.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good point.
I mean, based on those factors, I mean, there, there is always technically a
reason and that reason is like, you know, oh, well there's more sellers than buyers.
Yeah.
And some ways you can measure that
and somewhat not reliably, but somewhat predictably
forecast that.
But for the purposes of me, many of the listeners,
the buy right, sit tight,
the manage a portfolio of diversified assets
that try to grow your wealth over time,
you just don't need a reason a lot of times.
And that's like, once you can be comfortable with that,
you'll actually see your returns go up.
And I'm not just saying that,
like I actually truly mean that.
Yeah, no, I think so. I mean, you just have to be comfortable with volatility a lot of the time.
And just knowing, I think going back to what we talked, right? Knowing what you own
just goes a long way to be able to weather those big swings. Yeah. And, you know,
word I haven't said a lot recently, but it's okay to trim even if you love the
company if you're feeling uncomfortable with how big the position is or the valuation is.
You know, there's no harm in taking a little bit of profits off the table.
And I think that's one of the biggest mistakes I've seen retail investors.
It tends to be an all or nothing.
Where instead, you know, they own Nvidia and it's grown to like 10%
of their portfolio and they're like okay like it's getting way too expensive I'm just gonna
sell everything well maybe like why don't you just sell half and then let the other half ride like
there's I think that is one thing that is I think it's important to reinforce is it's fine to take
some profits you don't need to sell at all if you still like the business,
but you realize that it's a training very expensively,
just take a little bit of profits
and keep the position the rest of it.
Yeah, especially if the thesis is still intact.
Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
I really, nothing on the podcast's advice here.
No, no.
One thing I strongly believe personally
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sure, trim it, as you said.
But don't sell the freaking thing.
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That's why trimming is a good alternative.
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I saw that you threw on a bunch of different names
and I thought let's do that.
Rapid fire a little bit.
Yeah, let's just kind of offload our list
that we have here.
Why not just talk about one?
Let's offload a list of companies here.
So take us away.
By the way, we have two that overlap.
I saw your notes, but I just pasted mine
from FinChat watch list.
There's two that overlap.
So I'll start with the ones that don't overlap
and I'll finish the two that do overlap
so then you can jump in and go with yours.
That work?
Sure.
Okay, so the first one, one we've talked a little bit,
you and I, Dan and I have talked about it,
is TFI International.
And you'll see some themes for a few businesses,
but I think where you can get
some amazing businesses right now, well maybe
not right now but you'll be able to get it in the next little while in the short term,
is businesses that are dependent on the economy. Because let's be honest, I think you know nothing
is 100% but from all the signs we're seeing, whether you're looking at Fed productions in the US,
the Bank of Canada, talking here in Canada,
I think there's a really reasonable case to be made
and a strong case to be made
that there's gonna be a recession.
And investors will be selling off companies
that are tied to the economy.
And TFI International is clearly one of those companies.
So it's a name I have on my radar because as investor become more and more bearish about
the economy, they'll be selling off a company like TFI probably even more than it is right
now.
Maybe not, but it is one I have on my radar.
The next one in the same category is CP.
So obviously Canadian Pacific, fantastic company.
We know all the modesats associated with railways,
it goes from Canada to the US to Mexico. CP is clearly going to be in the cross area if
the economy weakens and you add that in terms of tariff uncertainty. I would not be surprised
if you see CP trading at a much lower valuation in the coming months. It's still relatively pricey in my opinion with all the uncertainty ahead, but I think
medium to long term, fantastic company.
So if I can get it in decent valuation, that is one I have on my radar.
Believe it or not, Nvidia is one that I'm looking at closely.
The main reason for it is it's trading at 0.8 roughly,
price to earning growth ratio.
Typically, I think, who was it, Peter Lynch,
that said, you know, a one peg or lower
becomes very attractive because you're looking
not at the price to earnings,
but you're looking at the price to earning
in relation with the growth that is coming up.
Where it gets a little tricky for Nvidia is, you know, you had mentioned this on the podcast
and now it's starting to come out even more is the pass through issues that are happening
with Singapore sales that are being funneled to China despite export bans.
So what is the extent of that?
What impact will it have on the
business? There's still some uncertainty relating to that. And clearly with everything that we saw
with DeepSeek and the advancements of AI, like will the growth slow more than analysts are
predicting? And I don't think it'll stop growing. It's just the rate of growth could affect that PEG ratio.
So that's why it's a little trickier,
but if it goes down enough that maybe you get to 0.7 PEG,
then you're like, okay, I still have a decent amount margin
that even if growth estimates are reduced,
it's still looking as a pretty decent place.
So that is another one, believe it or not,
that I have on my radar.
What, I see you nodding there, yeah.
No, I don't think it's crazy at all.
I do not think it is crazy at all.
It's a fantastic business.
It's a fantastic business.
It really is.
There's a lot of questions about the next few years.
Exactly.
For sure, in terms of technology, how it's gonna change.
But right now today,
I can't think of many better
businesses. Yeah, really, like the margins are like cheat
codes. Their margins are cheat codes. It's unbelievable how
much money they're making.
Yeah. And where I've been critical of Nvidia in the past
was always like about the expectations and the valuation.
But hey, if it gets to a reasonable enough valuation with
the growth, I mean, why not?
And then you have Costco. Costco is still very expensive, but it's currently in about a 13%.
It's a drawdown for ants.
Yeah, drawdown for ants and has had a remarkable time. So it's still very highly prized,
but definitely one of my radar kind of goes into the same category as CPTFI,
just in terms of the reasoning behind it. So clearly
if there's a recession people will probably pull back on the spending a little bit and it could
impact Costco short term but I still think it's a wonderful business and it should be relatively
resilient with the membership model that it has as well. But hey, if the market becomes bearish enough on
Costco and there's a big enough drawdown, again could be a name, and then the two names we have
in common, American Express is the first one, ticker AXP, currently in a 20% drawdown. Clearly
it's going to be, I think, a company that will be affected. If there's a slowing economy you can probably even put a MasterCard and Visa there but I like American Express just because it
targets premium members a little more and the fact that it would give me some
banking exposure because American Express is a bank and it's a company
it's almost a hybrid between a bank and a Visa and MasterCard. Clearly, their network's not as big, but I think it is, for me, it's kind of attractive because of that reason, because it's
a hybrid. I'm not a fan of owning banks in my personal portfolio, and that would give me that
exposure with some extra payment exposure as well. Yeah, it's a little bit more attached to
financials in terms of performance. And that's's why I did so there was some outperformance there
because financials did so great last year. Shocking honestly how well they did but
I'll add to that which is yes it's a hybrid between that and it's also about
30% membership club. Yeah. It's about 30% Costco, 30% Visa MasterCard, 30% bank.
That's kind of like what the business is today.
I have some thoughts on this as well
because it's also on my list.
I've always just preferred to own Visa and MasterCard.
But as I sit here, I'm looking at,
okay, there's 146 million active cards in force
for American Express, which is obviously lower lower than the other two players
American Express has
Increased the average fee per card. I knew exactly where you were going. Look at the screen
Yeah, you got it up there from what do you got?
$39 to a hundred and three dollars
So they've more than two more than two and a half times
the price of the cards in terms of average.
Now I'll raise you one, go to the quarterly data.
This is how effective they are at dragging out
more and more value from cardholders
in terms of the fees paid.
It has gone up every quarter, not just every year
over year. It's gone up every single quarter during that timeframe. It's just a remarkable
pricing power business. It is a top tier pricing power business in my opinion, like on the Mount
Rushmore right now. And the brand is resonating with the next generation,
which is a question that I never was able to understand
until the last few years with American Express.
It always felt like such an older brand
and it is crushing it with Gen Z.
They love the perks.
That's as simple as that.
I've been listening to their conference calls
because we've been talking about them a bit more often for the earnings and use Dan and I and that's what
they've been saying. They've been really focusing on that younger generation and
offering those perks and people are happy to pay the premium if it gives them additional
perks. And from what I've heard too is their customer service
compared to competitors of you know issued by the big banks it's not even
comparable yeah I know Dan Foch was like on a big
rant because he was having so much issues like trying to I think change his
seat for his daughter because he was going on the flight and he has like his
credit card with one of the big Canadian banks. It's obviously a Visa or MasterCard, but he was saying it's just a pain.
And he was basically saying like, next time I'm just using my American Express
card and my points, because for them, like they'll bend over backwards to help you
out where the big banks is just like, well, good luck.
We'll transfer you to five different people and you won't get a resolution.
From people, they all say a different thing.
Yeah.
For one, there's no really consistency in their message.
I had a problem the other day with American Express.
I called them just to clarify, I couldn't get one of my statements to come through online.
And I called them and it's like I had, what's the, who's the Batman's assistant?
Robin?
No, no, no, not a sidekick.
The butler.
Alfred Pennyworth, okay?
I had Alfred pick up the phone.
It was like this proper English man,
and he was just like, I couldn't believe,
how often do you get like that kind of person on the, on the
customer support line?
I had like Alfred Batman's assistant helping me out and just like boom, boom, boom, boom.
My problem was fixed and it's just, it is refreshing for sure because when you call
the bank issued cards, let it like get to, it's a wild goose chase, but just get into someone,
you're on hold for 30, 45 minutes, man,
like who has time for this?
Yeah, so I think, yeah, I think they're doing
a lot of things, right?
And the last one that we share without going
to too much detail, because it's a pretty well-known one,
is just Amazon.
Amazon, I think, is around 19% drawdown, 20%.
What's not to like with the retail
and cloud Amazon web services?
It's growing at a nice clip.
And at this point, I mean, why would you doubt Amazon?
I don't know, I don't have any better ways of putting it.
Yeah, I also like that Jeff's kind of a little bit more
involved in the business again.
Like I know that doesn't hinge on him, but you have a kind of generational little bit more involved in the business again. Like I know that doesn't hinge on him,
but you have a kind of generational type founder CEO
in that chairman position, really focused on AWS
and how it works with AI in the next vision of the company.
I think that that's quite nice
to have Jeff involved again.
I mean, look, the company did 40 billion of operating income on just cloud last year, right?
40 billion of operating on just cloud. And people are all are very excited about, you know, how cheap Google Search is right now. And don't get me wrong, that that makes sense. But that's around 200 just 200 billion.
This is just, you know, what's the billion income for the, 15 billion, you know, 100 billion, whatever.
Obviously fantastic, but you're talking about a significantly different growth clip
and not having your business under attack from all these different angles of AI.
And look, is search volume going to go down and fall off a cliff? No.
Look, I own Amazon, I own Google stock.
You're preaching to the choir,
the people who have those thoughts,
but I'm just looking at what we've done with AWS,
the subscription business.
This thing is just gushing cash on like kind of the X
retail part of the business.
And yeah, I'd be happy to be a shareholder today.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I think this is just one, like,
I think a lot of things
and a lot of the names that we have,
they're just great businesses and we're just looking
at a more attractive entry point.
I think that's, at least that sums up most of my names here.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that's what a watch list is.
It's businesses, I kind of have two watch lists.
I have my big list of interesting ideas that I wanna do research on. And then I have my big list of interesting ideas
that I wanna do research on.
And then I have my workbench of watch list positions
that I do not own, that if the price was right,
I've already done the work.
And I think that that's an important list to hold.
All right, so that list that I don't own,
I stripped it down a little bit
into things that I'm excited about.
You and I both share Amazon and American Express. Just talk about that.
I'm going to talk about some Canadian names and some US names. The three Canadian names
are MDA Space, which I've talked about more and more on the podcast in previous times.
They're a space and aerospace contractor. They've won some huge, huge contracts with
the Canadian government recently. Impressive execution and stock has been a beast lately. Neat.com, which I've talked about before
as well too. They're a Canadian software company. Pull up a Neat.com income statement and KPI list.
It is really, really impressive what they're doing right now and digitizing kind of the more
blue collar workforce industries.
And then three, a stock that I don't own anymore,
ironic presented by our friends here at Iki Bank,
stock I don't own anymore, but is still sitting on that,
would be happy to go back.
It's so, so there you go.
In terms of the US list,
mention names on American Express.
Thermo Fisher.
Now Thermo Fisher and what I'll also call,
it's probably just the one I understand the best,
but life sciences and pharma are so cheap.
Like I actually be hard pressed to find a better place
for value hunting than pharma and bio life sciences.
Large caps in the US.
They've been depressed for a long time post pandemic now.
Yeah, I mean, I think even more.
So I think it's accelerated with Trump winning
and then naming RFK Jr.
I think that's put a lot of pressure
on that. Like I haven't looked recently, but when we looked at it a month or two ago, you could see
a demarcation line with Trump naming RFK for a lot of these stocks. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So very interesting that the three Canadian ones I listed, like
they probably can be honestly moved off this this main list
I'm mostly looking at US stocks here. Yes in terms of like bright to pull the trigger
So thermo Fisher QXO is something I'm really trying to dig in and understand more. It's
You know XPO logistics
Brad Jacobs
This is his latest thing. he's working on right now. And it's just one of those things
where everything he touches turns to gold.
And his newest listing that he took
and is taking is called QXO.
The ticker is QXO.
Yeah, first time I hear of it.
Yeah, he's doing it again.
He wrote that book called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. Now he's doing it again. He wrote that book called, "'How to Make a Few Billion Dollars'."
Now he's finished the book.
Yeah.
Well, he's done it a few times now.
He's made a few billion dollars a few times now,
and he's doing it again with QXO, so.
Hey, good for him, yeah.
Pay attention.
And Cloudflare.
Yeah, which. We just talked about it earlier.
So that's the list.
I think the most difficult thing to right now is just finding value,
but factoring that in with how things will generally play out over the next,
I would say medium to long term.
I think that's the biggest thing and how it's not easy right? Like I think it can be overwhelming
for a lot of people and I understand why because you're looking at this and you're seeing a
lot of the foundations that we've known for a long time and how will these potential businesses
be affected to that. I think that's where you need to think in probabilities and that's where you'll be able to either make a lot of money
or lose a lot of money is making those right bets
when there's some opportunities that show up.
But again, you have to figure out which opportunity
is actually a value play versus a value trap.
And that's where it's a little bit more difficult
I would say right now. Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Don't need to rush into anything.
No, I mean, I'm sitting with like 15 close to 15% in cash.
So for me, I'm definitely looking and I'll be strategic about some additions, but I'm
starting to my eyes are starting to open because uh, yeah, I deployed some cash yesterday
Nice bought some into I bought some more intuitive surgical. I had not bought
intuitive surgical since my original
Purchase like four years ago. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's just been sitting there with the initial initial shares that I bought
So it's got a little little trot. It was like tiny like point eight position this announce. I tripled it yesterday
Yeah, a little 19% drawdown for intuitive, but it's not
Still expensive but still a little less little less, but when you get a chance to
Finally add to workbench position in your portfolio. It's like like I've kind of been waiting for this
So yeah, you know.
And what's nice too right now with, I know we're both using Questrade, they are a sponsor, but
the advantage of having zero dollar commission is you, if you really want to add a little bit
at a time, if you think these disc correction is going to go on for a longer period of time,
or you're going to have a lot of fluctuations. I mean, it allows you to do it
without taking on some additional fees, so yeah.
Yep, and so those are just the names
on our watch list that we don't own,
but I have lots of names in my portfolio
that I'm adding to and liking,
but you can go see those portfolio breakdowns
in a spreadsheet at jointci.com you can go see there.
That's our monthly portfolio updates,
spreadsheets and holdings.
Guess what I'm gonna be buying tonight.
You said tonight, so I feel like it's not a stock.
What are you buying?
I'll buy some Costco gold probably.
Oh.
Yeah, probably a little more.
Do they have inventory? I thought they couldn't ever get inventory. Yeah, yeah, they do. I mean, it. Swing it by. Do they have inventory?
I thought they couldn't ever get inventory.
Yeah, yeah, they do.
I mean, it's just because the price.
So you'll go and if the prices have gone up a lot in the last few days, what will happen
is it'll be sold out of the lower priced one, but then they'll have new of the higher priced
one.
That's, and then it's actually quite interesting if you have the executive membership
because you get the 2% cash back on it. So last year, because I bought a decent amount of gold,
I think I got like $400 or $500 back in cash back when they cap it, I think to like $700 a year or
something total. So you can't like, you know, buy 200, like a million dollars worth of gold
and then get, you know, 20 grand worth of cash back.
Arbitrage.
Yeah, exactly.
But no, it's probably what I'm gonna do.
Just I've been adding a little bit more gold.
So we'll probably, I like to do it 50 50
between ETF and physical gold.
So gotta be, we'll be doing that. But definitely we'll be adding
probably for our joint TCI listeners, I'll probably have some addition, whether it's new companies or
some companies that I've added. I think I'm going to be doing a bit of adding this month. You are so, Ray DiAulio, I can't read his books.
I'll be going to Costco and buying gold.
I'll be going to his books.
They're good, I mean it's-
What's the opposite of a gold bug?
Cause that's me.
Yeah, yeah.
But Ray, I mean I could hear that guy talk.
Like I would go a full day without being able to get up,
dehydrated, I would listen to him for like a full eight without being able to get up dehydrated.
I would listen to him for like a full eight hours
or something, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
Full man crush.
But you know, hey, what?
He's your kind of guy.
I get it.
I get it, man.
Thanks for listening, folks.
We appreciate you tuning into the show.
Lots going on, but you know, that's what we're here for.
So the pods here Mondays and Thursdays,
there's also a lot of interesting opportunities
coming up real estate wise in different parts of the market.
And so if that interests you at all,
go listen to Dan and Nick
on the Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast.
Yeah, I think you're gonna see for people
who have enough money to be able to purchase
some real estate.
I think the next year or two,
you could start seeing some really good deals.
Like I'm not as, obviously you either,
but yeah, I'm not as connected as Dan and Nick are,
but they start seeing some opportunities.
They definitely talk about it.
So it's definitely worthwhile
if that's something that interests you.
Can I bring up a theory that I have for you
that I tweeted out yesterday?
Go for it.
I'm not a trader, but if I was,
I would be using.
Uh oh, where is this going?
I would be using this theory as an instrument.
And probably people are.
I'm probably not that smart.
There's probably lots of people doing this.
Is Robinhood stock a spot price on retail sentiment?
That's, yeah.
I mean, maybe it's not, I haven't looked at it in a few months on retail sentiment. That's, yeah, I mean, maybe it's not,
I haven't looked at it in a few months, but wow.
Cause it sure as hell seems like it.
Yeah, I mean literally.
They've actually done a lot of cool stuff
underlying business wise, but,
but you know, in the short term, who cares?
Doesn't matter.
No.
Robinhood is, I believe, my working theory
is a spot price on retail sentiment.
Yeah, I mean, I would need to see maybe overlying it
with the fear and greed index.
Yeah.
But it does look like it, I mean,
it literally peaked mid-February February and that's around the time that so Trump had been talking about tariffs, right?
My stance have always been like, okay when they actually go into effect
Sure, but he kept delaying delaying and then people remember
He said he would have them first day in office delayed to February 1st delayed again
But then if you look at this it kind of lines up with most risk assets.
Is that-
The 2020, the 2022 drawdown,
and then, you know, basically did nothing
as people were like waiting to get back in the market
as soon as things picked up, 2024, ripped, ripped, ripped.
But the day it started crashing is the day he announced
his steel and aluminum tariffs.
That's literally the day peak where
I think when the market started to realize that it was, it might start getting serious.
Yeah.
Which is interesting. Now I had never thought about it. So that is definitely an interesting one.
That was like a bathroom thought of mine yesterday that I tweeted out into the internet world.
And I was like-
You don't need to provide any additional detail on what you are doing in the past. Oh, let me give you more detail. And I was like- You don't need to provide any additional detail on what you are doing in the tech world.
Oh, let me give you more detail.
And I was like, oh, it's kind of a banger.
Like, I think it actually is,
I think it's actually just fully a spot price
on retail sentiment.
It's crazy, like, how lined up it is.
Anyways, if I was a trader,
I'd probably be looking to use that as an instrument.
Yeah.
Just straight up the equity.
There's probably like, is there levered Robinhood ETF?
Probably, I mean, at this point,
Dan was like doing a search.
The T-Rex 2X Long Hood Daily ETF.
Of course there is.
Robin, R-O-B-N.
Is there more of like a market peak warning sign
than all those levered ETFs coming up in like the last-
Single stock levered ETF?
Exactly.
Or even like Dan was telling me he was searching on Google.
He had forgotten one of the Mag-7 names.
I'm always like that too.
I like come with six and then I'm always like,
it's a different one.
I'm like, oh, which one am I missing?
And eSenda was a 5X long mag seven.
That thing is just getting destroyed this year.
Oh yeah.
What's the 5X mag seven?
That's something.
Yeah, I think it's 5X.
I don't even think you can do leverage shares.
Yeah, 5X. Dude, this stuff is crazy. Yeah, yeah, I think it's 5X. I don't even think you can do leverage shares. Yeah, 5X.
Dude, this stuff is crazy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so five longs leverage.
Yeah, it's the leverage shares,
so I think it's just mag seven, the figure.
Mag seven.
Damn.
I mean, look, if you're a trader,
you kind of, like, you're happy that these instruments exist But you know from 99% of people they just stay far away
Yeah, it's yeah, that's how people get wrecked right like I think right now as much as like the drawdown might suck for your portfolio
If you have more growth names, you might be looking at 20 30 percent, whatever it is, right?
Yeah, you're gonna be fine. I think as long as you're might be looking at 20, 30%, whatever it is, right? Yeah. You're gonna be fine, I think,
as long as you're not levered.
Levered is how you get wiped out.
That's how you do it.
If you wanna get wiped out, just levered,
and then you may be doing well,
but then if you're too late on selling,
when the market starts rolling over,
that's where you get in a lot of trouble.
Liquor, ladies, and leverage, end quote, Charlie Munger.
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