**Hot Stocks to invest in right now** - 2005 HOT STOCKS to be posted shortly..

[McPaul]

I'd recommend you go to tdbank.ca and sign up for a waterhouse account. It will take some time for this to go through. You might also consider getting a td bank account if you donn't already, as it just makes transfering to and from each account a breeze. Go to yahoo.ca, click on finance, and look up some of the symbols discussed here. A lot of these are short term stocks so you'll want to buy them at a low point. click on chart, and look up the intraday, 5 day, and 1 month performance of the stocks. I use limit orders so I don't have to watch these things all the time. A limit order is sort of like "I want to buy Crowflight Minerals at $0.58", and you wait til it hits 58 and it's bought automagically for you with next to no work on your part. Waterhouse shows your commissions on each order summary, make sure you take these into account when figuring out your selling price.

Read as much as you can. I recommend watching MSNBC if you ever get some time off during the day. Read all the information available where your account is held, they will have a lot of good information for you. Read books and magazines. Check out some websites like www.stockscores.com read as much as you can, the more you know how the markets work, the more you become one with your stocks and get a feeling for how they are going to move. (I know it sounds wierd but it's true)

Stocks that I have benefited from lately:

Air Canada (AC)
Cumberland Resources (CBD) - although I believe the symbol has changed to something.
Tahera Minerals (TAH)
Crowflight Minerals (CML)
EDIT_ add Stelco to that list as of a few mins ago.
and of course Nortel Networks (NT)

I have made some tidy profits. Almost a second income, actually.

[McPaul]

*L* and don't buy a used book. That's just gross!!

I do have a question though, what's the best place to get real time quotes??

[McPaul]

Would you guys recommend Jet Blue right now? (N)

[zero hour]

Check out Cedara Software Corp (CDE.TO). It's gone from $2.45 on Nov. 5, 2003 to over $10.40 recently. It doesn't seem to falter and just seems to progress upwards at a slow 2%-5% almost each day with pretty good volume. Seems some institutions are accumulating it and haven't taken profits off the table yet.

[McPaul]

Well Jet Blue has made a nice n tidy profit for me in the last day or two and I'll keep holding

but everything else has pretty much stood pat, and hit some recent lows which have allowed me to buy in and now I'm all in my budgeted spending amount on the markets. Waiting for one of these stocks to make a jump to my target prices, and pretty quick I hope....

[topwop]

I have a GOOD one. I will post it monday morning. Its currently in the 50 cent range and specializes in wifi for hotels,airports, etc. Very underdeveloped IMO.

[bionicbadger]

Centurion Energy (CUX on Toronto) have been in for a couple years, bought more in september. This has really picked up in the last year or so, and lots of interesting prospects coming up...

[topwop]

wow that centurian is fantastic if you stuck in there for the long hall. slow and steady wins the race

[zeroace]

Originally posted by zero hour+Feb 6 2004, 12:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (zero hour @ Feb 6 2004, 12:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Shaf@Feb 6 2004, 11:51 AM
I'm new to stocks (deal with mutual funds often).

Who do you guys buy through? All done online? What are the fees like? Any websites?

Thanks!

Unlike the U.S., we don't have as much selection in terms of who discount brokerages. Almost all are owned by the banks here. They normally charge anywhere from $25 to $29.99 (CDN or USD depending on the currency you settle in) per transaction if you do it on-line. You should go to their web sites to check out the fee schedules as there are caveats. The cheapest is Ameritrade Canada at $10.99 USD but you can only trade U.S. equities.

I've used Action Direct, TD Waterhouse and now Ameritrade (www.ameritrade.ca). Overall, I prefer Ameritrade since it's cheaper, updates your portofolio value in real time and seems to be the quickest in order execution. I still have my other accounts in case I trade Canadian equities. [/b][/quote]
What are the initial costs/requirements needed to have a Ameritrade account??

[eelfliw]

Any recommendations for some med - long term stocks? Something I buy now and don't have to look at for at least 5 years? Preferrably with dividends.

[zero_]

Originally posted by eelfliw@Feb 28 2004, 12:02 PM
Any recommendations for some med - long term stocks? Something I buy now and don't have to look at for at least 5 years? Preferrably with dividends.

banks (bmo, td etc.) or insurance companies (mfc, slf etc.)

[j3fan]

Originally posted by eelfliw@Feb 28 2004, 11:02 AM
Any recommendations for some med - long term stocks? Something I buy now and don't have to look at for at least 5 years? Preferrably with dividends.

Nortel.....but if u want something for dividends, get bank stocks....

[goaler845]

Medium/Long:
Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Precision Drilling. Solid free cash flow, favourable FDA rulings, and PD has a solid foothold of the oil field services sector in Canada....way ahead of schlumburger, Tesco et al.

But honestly, a lot of the info I see here is very irrelevant. Past performance means nothing..."Day late...dollar short." Either, people are trying to window dress, or they are making picks based on intraweek quote info. Plus, Taking a long 100 block position in itself is expensive...far to expensive for RFD's main demographic.

Taking investment advice here is risky. What I recommend everyone do is old fashioned fundamental analysis, comp analysis, and DCF/Free cash flow analysis. If you don't know what I am talking about...you probably shouldn't be taking any positions in any securities without the advice of an advisor.

[Dragonrana]

For mid-term stock to hold I believe the TSX Group would be a good hold (X- symbol on TSX). Basically buying the TSX exchange.

Heres my reason:
I don't see any issues with holding this stock, since it's a Monopoly and it has unlimited ability to jack up fees if it wanted to. Great management and huge cash flows and possibly increase dividends this year. Also, there could be a possible split if the price keeps going higher. If you have a bit of capital, park your money here and forget about it. The trend line keeps going up and there's no stopping it....well at least this year. I've already made a handsome profit this past 4months. Happy investing.

Check out this article.
TSX Faces Few barriers

[sharkyJay]

Originally posted by goaler845@Feb 28 2004, 04:08 PM
Medium/Long:
Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Precision Drilling. Solid free cash flow, favourable FDA rulings, and PD has a solid foothold of the oil field services sector in Canada....way ahead of schlumburger, Tesco et al.

But honestly, a lot of the info I see here is very irrelevant. Past performance means nothing..."Day late...dollar short." Either, people are trying to window dress, or they are making picks based on intraweek quote info. Plus, Taking a long 100 block position in itself is expensive...far to expensive for RFD's main demographic.

Taking investment advice here is risky. What I recommend everyone do is old fashioned fundamental analysis, comp analysis, and DCF/Free cash flow analysis. If you don't know what I am talking about...you probably shouldn't be taking any positions in any securities without the advice of an advisor.

Buying any stock based on just the post is very risky. I like to get ideas from here but everyone should do their research.