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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canadian REITS, Trusts & Dividend Stocks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tommaso who wrote (7895)	10/18/2004 2:05:03 PM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11633

<Canadian Oil Sands Trust is big enough to be considered by a mutual fund.> With such a low avg daily volume wouldn't it be difficult to build a position without moving the market? I could see it taking ages trying to accumulate 100k shares. It would have to appeal to a smaller fund or a manager who didn't mind: a. the challenge of building their position into enough of a portion of the portfolio to have an impact b. the relative illiquidity of the position. COS, with over 10x the avg daily vol is more appealing to Institutions. I do like accumulating OST on the COS down days, since it usually overreacts both ways. I would not be surprised if there are some traders in this one, but you have to be careful of the Grand Canyon-like bid/ask spread and-I know I'm repreating-illiquidity. It would be interesting to know the institutional ownership of OST and whether there are mutual funds in there.