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I think it probably is a double if you can wait 2-3 years. Another year before the semiconductor space rights itself and continues its growth.
 
I would choose NVDA over AMD. NVDA has more room to grow, and has partnered with many automakers for self-driving. Many more to follow.


At least buy both.


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AMD, Tesla and Amazon have the biggest Forward EPS forecast for 5years. Will they actually deliver? Market is starting to doubt all three. I own AMD and Tesla hoping both crash so I could buy more.

I know a guy who made a million on AMD stock. He bought at 7 bucks and sold at 150. His tax bill was gigantic.
 
AMD, Tesla and Amazon have the biggest Forward EPS forecast for 5years. Will they actually deliver? Market is starting to doubt all three. I own AMD and Tesla hoping both crash so I could buy more.

I know a guy who made a million on AMD stock. He bought at 7 bucks and sold at 150. His tax bill was gigantic.
shoudlve done it in a tfsa
 
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From my personal observations, I suspect the chip shortage is over and these is ample supply of chips because consumers have slowed buying to a trickle. I bought a Dell i7 desktop 12th. generation 12700 computer for $999 this summer during the Black Friday in August sale. This is an amazing price. If you want to confirm, wait till the actual Black Friday and see if you can find these high end computers for around $999.

I understand that the transit systems in Canada are operating at approx. 69% of capacity as compared to pre pandemic conditions. There are no sales in the stores. I was at two fast food restaurants this week at noon, KFC had no customers and Burger King had one that was leaving the counter as I arrived. I have not had a burger in almost three years, it was pretty good as the 5 member staff catered to my needs and I got a burger straight off the grill. The world economy will shake out over the next 2-3 years and it could be as long as 5-6 years before consumers will have confidence to spend. For now they will buy what they need and not much more.

As far as AMD is concerned, I do not think it will be doing as well as it did 3 years back. If you are a buyer, maybe it is better to wait for the short term dip to buy for a medium/long term hold.
 
shoudlve done it in a tfsa

I just looked into TFSA. It has a contributition limit. If you think you picked a 10x winner, as my friend who works in the industry thought at the time he dropped 100k into the stock to yield a million bucks, you will need that 100k TFSA limit if your goal is a million. TFSA is just 6000 a year. (55K USD total). Therefore, you'll need to buy it outside TFSA and therefore can't avoid that huge tax bill.
 
I just looked into TFSA. It has a contributition limit. If you think you picked a 10x winner, as my friend who works in the industry thought at the time he dropped 100k into the stock to yield a million bucks, you will need that 100k TFSA limit if your goal is a million. TFSA is just 6000 a year. (55K USD total). Therefore, you'll need to buy it outside TFSA and therefore can't avoid that huge tax bill.
You can also use your RRSP account for tax deferred status. You can skillfully invest to avoid big tax bills.
 
I was reading that if your trade count for the year is a certain number or greater, CRA thinks of this as employment and charges you marginal income tax on 100% of the gain instead of 50% of the gain.

Does anyone know what is that trade count? I try to keep my trades less than 5 a year but this year has been different due to rebalancing needed to buy some deals.
 
I was reading that if your trade count for the year is a certain number or greater, CRA thinks of this as employment and charges you marginal income tax on 100% of the gain instead of 50% of the gain.

Does anyone know what is that trade count? I try to keep my trades less than 5 a year but this year has been different due to rebalancing needed to buy some deals.
I have heard of this also. I am not sure but I think if it resembles a business(maybe like a full time job),then it will be taxed as a business. Kind of a grey area. I would be very surprised if only 5 trades would be a problem.
 
I was reading that if your trade count for the year is a certain number or greater, CRA thinks of this as employment and charges you marginal income tax on 100% of the gain instead of 50% of the gain.

Does anyone know what is that trade count? I try to keep my trades less than 5 a year but this year has been different due to rebalancing needed to buy some deals.
Read this. It has all the rules:

Rule #4: If you did more than 50 trades in a month, you will be classified as a daytrader, and all income will be taxed. It is illegal to daytrade in a TFSA.
 
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Wow 50 trades a month. Lol that's like 5 -8 years for me. Guess I'm good. That makes a big tax difference. Imagine hitting a 10x jackpot, fully taxed million vs 50% taxed million. Big difference.
 
I just looked into TFSA. It has a contributition limit. If you think you picked a 10x winner, as my friend who works in the industry thought at the time he dropped 100k into the stock to yield a million bucks, you will need that 100k TFSA limit if your goal is a million. TFSA is just 6000 a year. (55K USD total). Therefore, you'll need to buy it outside TFSA and therefore can't avoid that huge tax bill.
If we assume your friend didnt open that position as soon as he turned 18 (which is when the limit is the lowest), then he probably had enough in his tfsa to make that move. AMD didnt go from 7 to 150 like GME, it took almost 4 years, for long term plays like this, a tfsa is almost always the better way to go.
 
Read this. It has all the rules:

Rule #4: If you did more than 50 trades in a month, you will be classified as a daytrader, and all income will be taxed. It is illegal to daytrade in a TFSA.
Theres no actual stated number, its all assumption. I think it moreso depends on account size to number of trades. When my tfsa was small Id make like 15 trades a week, never heard anything from the cra. Now its bigger and with the same amount of trades nothing has happened. I think you need to be doing a lot of trades with an account like 25m+ to get caught
 
If we assume your friend didnt open that position as soon as he turned 18 (which is when the limit is the lowest), then he probably had enough in his tfsa to make that move. AMD didnt go from 7 to 150 like GME, it took almost 4 years, for long term plays like this, a tfsa is almost always the better way to go.

He dropped like 100k usd in a single day and held it. TFSA limits are accumulated over yearssss. He bought in 2016 and it was much lower limit back then.