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Strategies & Market Trends : Underexposed Canadian Stocks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Underexposed who wrote (39)	6/8/2018 2:48:38 AM
From: Underexposed	1 Recommendation Recommended By bull_dozer Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65

There is a huge difference between the American stock market and the Canadian stock market. The Americans consider a penny stock to be less than $5.00/share. The Canadian market considers pennies to be less than $1/share. Americans basically ignore less than $5 stocks mostly considering them junk. In Canada, a stock worth between $1-$5 per share as junior stock taking the first steps to becoming a more mature stock. You can see this by looking at the number of stocks at various price levels... When I did this long ago, this was a complete eye-opener to me and I suddenly realized why I was not being successful investing in American stocks (this was 10 years ago) I am not including the USA grey market/pinks or Canadian greyish markets in this analysis Price level .................................American stock total ........................... Canadian stock total $500+ ...................................................... 18........ 0.24%....................................... 4........ 0.11% $250 - $499.99 ....................................... 58........ 0.78%....................................... 2........ 0.05% $100 - $249.99 ..................................... 517........ 0.70%.................................. 114........ 3.05% $50 - $99.99 ........................................ 1170........ 7.02%.................................. 120........ 3.21% $20 - $49.99 ........................................ 2607...... 35.38% ................................. 767...... 20.52% $10 - $19.99 .........................................1372.......18.62%.................................. 466.......12.47% $5 - $9.99 .............................................. 700......... 9.50%.................................. 219........ 5.86% $1 - $4.99 .............................................. 796 .......10.80%................................. 335........ 8.97% $0 - $0.99 .............................................. 130......... 1.76%................................ 1709....... 45.74% ............................................................... ____ ..................................................... ____ Totals..................................................... 7368 .................................................... 3736 As you can see over 50% of Canadian stocks are under $5...whereas with the American markets 50% of the stocks are between $10-$50. Only about 12% of American stocks are under $5 and frankly most American consider them junk pennies. In Canada our economy is resource based as opposed to America which is basically business/hitech. We have business/hitech stocks in Canada too but they are a minority compared to resource stocks. I did not realize this when I first traded in American stocks. I naively hunted in my normal hunting grounds $0.50 - $5.00 and I started with just $10,000 in my American dollar account and over 15 years I successfully whittled this start point to less than $1000. I learned a lot on this website and I would be better at doing American stocks NOW as evidenced by my phantom USA portfolio in my "Underexposed Technical analysis" thread. But I refuse to take a 25% hit on my money converting it to $US ... forex is the problem with investing in foreign stocks. Under $0.50/share are mostly junk in Canadian stocks... the ones between $0.50 - $2.00 have junk in that range but also there are good resource stocks that are struggling startups. If you can successfully identify the best of breed in this range then you can make serious coin. My philosophy at the time was it it easier for a stock to go from $1 to $2 than from $20 to $40.. both at which get you a 100% gain. I have changed that philosophy since then but I still check out stocks that are <$1... but it is more difficult right now since mining and O&G stocks in Canada have taken big hits in the last 18 months. Right now there seems to be hope...Trump with his dealings on NFTA is creating problems though. I am currently looking for the best-of-breed in each sector... the survivors will eventually rise like a phoenix but currently I have a significant portion of my cash on the side. I do have one stock though that currently is less than $0.40/share. I have held this stock for over 18 months. I have not made a dime on it yet but things look good as it is a biotech with a bladder cancer treatment which has passed Phase 1 of it's clinical testing. It treats non-muscular bladder cancer (cancer in its early stages. There phase 1b trial was scheduled to treat 9 candidates for safety/tolerance and efficacy (lessening the cancer). Well it has only treated 6 candidates but not only did the 6 candidates safely tolerate the treatment but they all had their cancer eliminated! which has shortened the test and they are discussing phase 2 trials with Health Canada and FDA... very exciting!!! I liked the science 18 months ago and these guys also are looking at brain and lung cancer as well... so not a one trick pony. I am going to add this stock to the portfolio here with this statement effective June 9, 2018 I will enter a bid at the start of the trading day for 10,000 shares of Theralase Technologies Inc [TSXV:TLT] @ $0.375/share Americans can invest in this company using the symbol [OTC:TLTFF] It is too late to discuss this stock and charts right now... I just wanted to make sure I got this bid in before trading tomorrow. good trading UE _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: I am not a registered broker. I am retired and use Technical Analysis as the main tool in my investment decisions. Accept or reject my comments as you will, but do your own Due Diligence (DD) before making any decisions based on the information I provide. Underexposed

To: Underexposed who wrote (39)

6/10/2018 5:58:12 PM

From: Underexposed

Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 65

I am getting back on track with updates on the portfolio every Friday... I have removed the Thursday update just for the sake of the chart not looking so choppy.

We had a good day on Friday... Canaccord Financial Inc. [TSX:CF] gained $0.38/share (5.95%)... very nice. This translates into about a 1% overall gain that day.... May it continue :)

Here are the financials as they stand as of Friday June 8

Underexposed Canadian Fantasy Portfolio Value

Initial:	$100,000.00
Cash :	$83.75

Date	Value	%Gain/Loss
15-Dec	$100,000.00
22-Dec	$99,900.00	-0.1%
29-Dec	$104,680.00	4.7%
5-Jan	$107,615.00	7.6%
12-Jan	$106,765.00	6.8%
19-Jan	$112,170.00	12.2%
26-Jan	$107,160.00	7.2%
2-Feb	$106,065.00	6.1%
9-Feb	$104,505.00	4.5%
8-Jun	$110,355.00	10.4%

Current Portfolio as of June 8, 2018

Ticker	Company	Shares	Price	Value	Dividends	% Gain/loss

DRG/UN.TO	Dream Global REIT	2500	$14.51	$36,275.00	$333.35	14.85%
ADW/A.TO	Andrew Peller Ltd. Class A	2000	$18.20	$36,400.00	$180.00	2.75%
CF.TO	Canaccord Financial Inc.	5000	$6.77	$33,850.00	$50.00	-1.02%
TLT.V	Theralase Technologies Inc	9250	$0.405	$3,746.25	$0.00	0.00%

			Totals	$110,271.25	$563.35

			Dividends added to available cash
			%Gain/Loss based on Dividends + Value


ORDERS
	Buy 9250 shares of Theralase Technologies inc @ $0.405/share - done June 8, 2018

	June 10/18 - Limit Stop-loss order for DRG/UN.TO for 1500 shares @ $14.90 - $14.95

You will note that I have placed a limit stop-loss order for DRG/UN.TO

It is not for all the shares but for 1500 of them.... I only have $83.00 to play with in cash... I will get a few dollars from dividends next week but not enough to purchase another stock and/or add to the Theralase Tech holding. I want to add about 10,750 shares to bring that stock up to 20,000 shares.

I still have faith in DRG/UN.TO but I have to get money from somewhere and it seems prudent to me to remove some profits.

I am in the process of assessing several stocks right now. My next post will discuss them in detail.

here are my candidates in the running so far:

Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation [TSX:AI} @ $12.77
BCE inc [TSX:BCE] @ $54.78
Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. [TSX:BRE] @ $17.85
CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd. [TSX: CWX] @ $7.22

A range of share prices. As far as BCE Inc is concerned I would only be able to buy about 300 shares at most... less if I also wanted CanWel Building Materials.

All look pretty good so far on the first cut.

You might think I am buying too many shares of one stock. This is my usual buying volume but in real life I am not limited to a portfolio of $100,000 to start so this is challenging for me.

Smaller volumes just don't advance the portfolio value fast enough. As long as you pick quality stocks and monitor them you can put a few more eggs in the basket :)

Good Trading

UE