Hi, Helene-
I've been convinced for a long time that if you expect to trade securities on a fairly frequent basis, rather than on a fundamentalist and long-term investor basis, there is much wider choice and better market liquidity in the US (the latter is especially important when you want to fold'em!). Accordingly, the only Cdn equities I follow daily are those which are also traded regularly, with good volume, on the US exchanges. These are all included in the QP data.
That being said, I will also admit to being more heavily invested in Cdn equities than US. I'm semi-retired, and I need to have a reliable, inflation resistant, auxiliary income. Thus, most of my Cdn investments are in good dividend- paying securities, dividend funds and bonds. I don't, therefore, need to follow these daily, but I do use proxies, such as the Cdn banks and utilities which are traded on both Cdn and US exchanges. (Actually, I probably should not even do that, since the trader in me starts getting twitchy trigger fingers when I see these usually stolid stocks behaving recently like junior growth stocks!)
Hope this helps-- doug |
