Buying some sin stocks

Sporting

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Chipped off a few long held AAPL shares into the selloff today and upped my allocation to "sin stocks". October saw a selloff in a lot of names I've been eyeballing recently.
So I added to Marijuana holdings and initiated Match.com.
Match owns Tinder and probably a bunch of others dating and matchmaking sites. Thought worthy of mention here, as both industries are perennials and probably have resilient long term growth runways. Match recently traded as high as $60. Picked up today for $52.05 at the close. Another similar site I have heard of is MOMO, a Chinese location based dating site.
With MJ, I prefer bundles. HMMJ.TO is an index ETF built a couple of years ago, so may not have some of the newer issues. MJJ.CN is a managed ETF, with an experienced team at the helm. I prefer the managed fund because it's early in the game and winners and losers are not apparent to anyone at this time. Better to have someone scanning the horizon and jockeying the portfolio somewhat. (MMJ.CN is also available as a mutual fund).
If you want to follow someone for ideas: Todd Harrison of CB1 Capital on TWTR. I've known him for 10 years and he's been pounding the table for MJ for at least 5 of those. His mantra: It's not about getting high, it's about getting well, and therein lies its true potential. Not that I think getting high is not important too. (-:
Another source that seems credible is https://grizzle.com/marijuana-investor-roundup-october-27-2018/?ck_subscriber_id=260976459

Not advice. Do your own due diligence.

Anyone have ideas to add?

Sport
 

badbadboy

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I've been watching a few Canadian companies on the OTC. Wild swings although cheap stock.

I haven't invested yet as I want to see what happens during the next quarter.
 

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For cannabis stocks, I like aurora. However, I prefer to trade rather than invest in stocks at the moment, as most are quite volatile.

In general, I find factoring receivables to be the best/most reliable investment without a need for constant review.
 

storm rider

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Damn wish I had shot for the moon in 2014 and bought $28,000 worth of Canopy Growth at a nickle a share via my TFSA.....at $76 a share at the peak it would be worth 42 million and completely tax free...no capital gains either.

SR
 

nightswhisper

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MoMo is not a dating app, but a hook-up app.

There's a "streaming" fad in China and MoMo is the pioneer of it. Girls (occasionally boys) sing, dance, do everything except sexual (in essence, perform) on camera for tips, sponsorship and attention, often making some good bundles of cash off the side.

It's not a "value" investment but it is an excellent trade on the shorter run.
 

nightswhisper

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Damn wish I had shot for the moon in 2014 and bought $28,000 worth of Canopy Growth at a nickle a share via my TFSA.....at $76 a share at the peak it would be worth 42 million and completely tax free...no capital gains either.

SR
There are some stupid hazy rules on the TFSA about it being taxable if you do aggressive and frequent trading. A few daytraders got stung and are now fighting some tax case on it.
 

UhOh

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If you plan on travelling to the US you should look into implications of holding cannabis stocks.
 

Gardener

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Canadian cannabis trade is by and large over. Run up has been intense, legalization event has occurred, no more industry specific catalysts to come other than maybe beverages and edibles. Now it’s a long period of growing into their lofty valuations. Lots of money to be made outside of Canada. US, South America, Europe focused names get all my attention. They are alll where Canada was 3/4 years ago. What was Canopy 3/4 years ago...maybe $0.20.
Risk/reward favours non Canadian cannabis names.
My take
 
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