Investing and Stock Tips Thread
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Telus stock TSX ticker: T.
Put in a new low today filing with Securities & Exchange Commission a new CEO coming in 01July 2026. Debt and declining numbers of new subscribers. A 9% dividend while waiting on a '28 recovery.
Put in a new low today filing with Securities & Exchange Commission a new CEO coming in 01July 2026. Debt and declining numbers of new subscribers. A 9% dividend while waiting on a '28 recovery.
Been watching T also. Gotta sink to new lows before I’m see the value play. Maybe a futures or derivative play. Watching Canfor too for same reason, softwood price rebound eventually.
Can I ask what is the big difference with the Canadian or USA stock markets? From an investment view. My stocks are Canadian but I have been told the USA market can be more lucrative.
I have heard a few people mention investing in gold whether it’s stock or actual gold.
Canadian companies are generally undervalued so greater potential for upside or acquisition
With commodities you can invest in the actual finished product or as in the case of gold....the exploration, mining, refining....ETFs are a good way to go
In the short term there will be volatility but on the longer time frame you cant lose. We dont produce enough for actual demand and new supply sources take years to come online.
The USA despite all the bad press it gets recently is still the largest economy in the world. Tech is probably the biggest area where there can be a lot of upside if your investment timeframe is long-term. The US unfortunately is home to many of the world's biggest tech companies.
I highly recommend that nobody take direct advise from a public forum of any type.
Anything general is OK, as it is meant to steer people into researching their own positions.
Anything general is OK, as it is meant to steer people into researching their own positions.
I absolutely agree with this and think any advice or information should be understood to be just that. Of course doing one’s own research is super important. Critical thinking and research should be something we all do, when it comes to decisions we make, including financial ones.
I think this topic is interesting and we can discuss it and ask questions, offer our knowledge and advice but to be aware that not all advice is necessarily good advice.
I don't get it. The last few posts are examples of truism, and are patronizing. If all you’re going to do is jump in and remind everyone of the obvious, have you gone to other platforms where people engage with the topic and given them warnings as well? Reddit has lots of content on investing but you get downvoted for posting accurate and inaccurate info.
Critical thinking doesn't seem to exist these days. You can see the lack of it on social media and especially how things go viral. Besides, I’d rather lose money with people I know than with people I don’t.” 🙃
Critical thinking doesn't seem to exist these days. You can see the lack of it on social media and especially how things go viral. Besides, I’d rather lose money with people I know than with people I don’t.” 🙃
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What you recommend for high-paying/high frequency dividends stocks that also has potential to appreciate, or is that a unicorn?With investing, one can certainly take the gambling route and cash-out big.
There are still many opportunities to play the MUCH safer game of investing into what you know about, while doing research, then invest and hold.
Dividend payouts are insignificant for the lite investor, but can be substantial if investing large amounts.
Its nice when you hold significant amounts of shares in stocks that pay out healthy dividends while the stock price continues climbing.
Just watch and grin!
You still have to watch for significant changes that affect the stock you are in, but not over react when something happens that affects all stocks (unless long term it can adversely affect your stock).
That depends on what your perceptions are on high-paying/high frequency.
There are stocks out there that pay out dividends that are high and frequent, but this is relative to the rest of the market.
There are some good dividend stocks that do in fact appreciate in stock value.
In order to replace a pay cheque with a dividend stock, one must have 100s of thousands to millions invested in dividend payout stocks.
There are far too many that seem to think that the market is a path to becoming wealthy.
It is a path to wealth and not a path to being wealthy.
It is a long game. If somebody is playing the markets to become wealthy in a short period of time, they are IMO treating the markets like a gambling tool.
12 years ago I got into investing ... RY (Royal Bank) was around $76 ... today is is double that. Pays a consistent and decent dividend. If you'd bought then, held it and collected dividends, they would have likely paid off a big chunk of the cost of obtaining the stock and you'd be appreciating the appreciation in value and the fact that you were still going to collect decent dividends for the foreseeable future.
If I was going to buy RY today I'd consider it expensive. But with inflation everywhere, is it really actually expensive?
Instead of buying RY, I bought their EFT: RBNK last year. It is a mix of the big six banks. Pays a decent dividend and appreciated by 50% since I bought it. ZEB is another example, or you can look at ZWB which uses Call Options to increase monthly dividends but which also reduces appreciation. Finding both is often a unicorn, but they are out there and take work/luck to find.
NB: just checked my numbers: bought RBNK on April 10, 2025 at $26.11. Today (April 13, 2026) it is $41.96 which is actually a 60% increase in value. So I've done well there. Lots of examples of where I didn't do well at all!!!
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I don't believe in the quick money fix. Its all about long term investment. So bank stocks, oil and long term energy stuff is good.
As you go through things you see that apartments have none of these things.....
The 3 things people need to survive:
1. Oxygen
2. Food
3. Shelter
Air is free, Shelter most people have, but heating the shelter is needed.
So things related to heating technology:
1. Solar tech (home electricity production)
2. Heating tech (wood, mass furnace stone (rocket stove), fireplace (gas, need to add mass to make it more efficient), sand furnace (heated by solar panels)
You need food. So things related to food production and storage:
1. Root cellar (dug into ground) Your own.
2. Gardens in back yard. Your own.
3. Greenhouses to grow food in winter. An ICF house with south side only windows can act as a well insulated greenhouse even in -40F weather. So either government back or sometype of "Go Fund me" for greenhouse construction for farmers.
4. Food in the sources of chickens, Beef or Pork.
5. Companies that sell stuff in grocery stores.
Things you should be aware of:
1...... World is hitting its Top production in Oil between now and 2060. That means after that date oil will only get more expensive. So there is a very big search for alternate energy to replace fossil fuels... Ideally we get alternative now, and use fossil fuels for lubrication and plastic production.
2. Hydrogen is the most long term consistent clean environmental bet.... It just needs another energy source to break hydrogen atoms from water....Japanese companies are betting on a hydrogen fuel cell to power cars. So instead of gas you have a hydrogen tank and a fuel cell that uses hydrogen to make electricity. A hydrogen ICE needs better materials to withstand the heat; while a gas turbine is possible to control heat with bypass air for cooling. So hydrogen making stations and pipeline could be built.
3. Batteries of very large type to store solar energy. From electrical batteries to solid state batteries to heat batteries, to hydroelectric dams (2 reservoirs).
4. Nuclear Energy in the form of thorium and or Uranium.
5. Material technology- using rare earth metals, or just a new way to make or shape metals (eg foam metals).
6. Recycling of Materials. even plastics.
7. Fusion will be possible someday.
8. AI requires computers and computers need cooling. ONe project in Britain has the computer under water and that cools the wall and takes away the heat.
9. Alberta needs a refinery and so does Ontario/Quebec and the Maritimes. We need to get up to a 1-3 year supply for oil and gasoline, spread across the country for military and a separate civilian use. Need of system of rotating the stored fuel to be used and newer fuel stored. this way a bump in world prices don't hit us at the pumps right away.
10. Sell less than 50% of what we sell now as crude to the USA, they can use their own reserves. If this pipeline goes down now today, the world prices could go up to 160-200 a barrel, as the Strait of Hormuz and US is out of its supply of oil from Canada....
The way to the future will be a combination of Nuclear and Alternate (solar and wind) technology for immediate sourcing to get electricity. House should have a min of solar energy (the power company should pay you what it charges you for a KW) , while houses should be as efficient in heating and insulation and under net zero in the immediate future. See other thread on old technology.
The near and middle and far future will depend on Hydrogen, which means it needs electricity to turn water into hydrogen. In terms of employment it will still require people to make pipelines and storage places for hydrogen. Require steel for storage containers, which should be built deep in ground. This allow for any oil production to go to plastics and lubricants; not just to burn oil for heating and ICE.
The far future will depend on fusion. Still needs hydrogen.
AI will need computers and electricity.
Canada does have a problem. Its problem is when it runs out of natural resources. Today we mine without consequences and without reserving a % of metals and minerals mined for the future. Ideally between 4-6/6-8 % of minerals and oil should be conservedd every year. The thing is smaller countries will run out of resources before we will. So we will get invaded at some point for our resources without some kind of advanced technology. Our biggest threat of loss is in the Canadian Arctic where minerals are in abundance buried beneath in the rock under the permafrost.
Today we can refine oil sands but store certain types of oil in big oil tanks underground in used up mines (eg a potash mine) for future use in plastics. Making the biggest bomb in the world...if it leaks....
Store electrical energy in sand by use of heat in an insulated underground sand tank. The heat could be used in an heat engine near a water source....
As you go through things you see that apartments have none of these things.....
The 3 things people need to survive:
1. Oxygen
2. Food
3. Shelter
Air is free, Shelter most people have, but heating the shelter is needed.
So things related to heating technology:
1. Solar tech (home electricity production)
2. Heating tech (wood, mass furnace stone (rocket stove), fireplace (gas, need to add mass to make it more efficient), sand furnace (heated by solar panels)
You need food. So things related to food production and storage:
1. Root cellar (dug into ground) Your own.
2. Gardens in back yard. Your own.
3. Greenhouses to grow food in winter. An ICF house with south side only windows can act as a well insulated greenhouse even in -40F weather. So either government back or sometype of "Go Fund me" for greenhouse construction for farmers.
4. Food in the sources of chickens, Beef or Pork.
5. Companies that sell stuff in grocery stores.
Things you should be aware of:
1...... World is hitting its Top production in Oil between now and 2060. That means after that date oil will only get more expensive. So there is a very big search for alternate energy to replace fossil fuels... Ideally we get alternative now, and use fossil fuels for lubrication and plastic production.
2. Hydrogen is the most long term consistent clean environmental bet.... It just needs another energy source to break hydrogen atoms from water....Japanese companies are betting on a hydrogen fuel cell to power cars. So instead of gas you have a hydrogen tank and a fuel cell that uses hydrogen to make electricity. A hydrogen ICE needs better materials to withstand the heat; while a gas turbine is possible to control heat with bypass air for cooling. So hydrogen making stations and pipeline could be built.
3. Batteries of very large type to store solar energy. From electrical batteries to solid state batteries to heat batteries, to hydroelectric dams (2 reservoirs).
4. Nuclear Energy in the form of thorium and or Uranium.
5. Material technology- using rare earth metals, or just a new way to make or shape metals (eg foam metals).
6. Recycling of Materials. even plastics.
7. Fusion will be possible someday.
8. AI requires computers and computers need cooling. ONe project in Britain has the computer under water and that cools the wall and takes away the heat.
9. Alberta needs a refinery and so does Ontario/Quebec and the Maritimes. We need to get up to a 1-3 year supply for oil and gasoline, spread across the country for military and a separate civilian use. Need of system of rotating the stored fuel to be used and newer fuel stored. this way a bump in world prices don't hit us at the pumps right away.
10. Sell less than 50% of what we sell now as crude to the USA, they can use their own reserves. If this pipeline goes down now today, the world prices could go up to 160-200 a barrel, as the Strait of Hormuz and US is out of its supply of oil from Canada....
The way to the future will be a combination of Nuclear and Alternate (solar and wind) technology for immediate sourcing to get electricity. House should have a min of solar energy (the power company should pay you what it charges you for a KW) , while houses should be as efficient in heating and insulation and under net zero in the immediate future. See other thread on old technology.
The near and middle and far future will depend on Hydrogen, which means it needs electricity to turn water into hydrogen. In terms of employment it will still require people to make pipelines and storage places for hydrogen. Require steel for storage containers, which should be built deep in ground. This allow for any oil production to go to plastics and lubricants; not just to burn oil for heating and ICE.
The far future will depend on fusion. Still needs hydrogen.
AI will need computers and electricity.
Canada does have a problem. Its problem is when it runs out of natural resources. Today we mine without consequences and without reserving a % of metals and minerals mined for the future. Ideally between 4-6/6-8 % of minerals and oil should be conservedd every year. The thing is smaller countries will run out of resources before we will. So we will get invaded at some point for our resources without some kind of advanced technology. Our biggest threat of loss is in the Canadian Arctic where minerals are in abundance buried beneath in the rock under the permafrost.
Today we can refine oil sands but store certain types of oil in big oil tanks underground in used up mines (eg a potash mine) for future use in plastics. Making the biggest bomb in the world...if it leaks....
Store electrical energy in sand by use of heat in an insulated underground sand tank. The heat could be used in an heat engine near a water source....
Ironically the graph works the same if you turn it upside down!
Happy Investing!
Happy Investing!
