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Yet another Portfolio....
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10-09-2012 10:29am#1Thought I'd give it a name to differentiate it from the others.
I might as well create this while things are going well for my portfolio (Friday was one of my best ever days)! I usually divide my portfolio into two different categories as the strategies are different. All stocks were bought in the last three months; I'm new to this whole thing and have had a bit of beginner's luck so far.
Non-oil exploration
Mostly my strategy was based on buying stocks which should do very well when the economy does well, as I'm reasonably optimistic about that. Aound the time I started investing, many stocks (particularly large cap) were at 52-year lows; I was trying to avoid the beginner's mistake of buying high, selling low, so I focused on cheap stocks which I thought would recover with the economy or for other reasons.
SIE (Siemens)
At the time I bought, I thought that EU problems had already being factored into the price, and the global nature of Siemens' business should balance that out. However the share price struggled after I bought and that continued when they reported less than expected Q2 profits. Since then they have recovered and are doing very well for me.
Buy Price: €65.12 (June)
Current Price: €77.69
Profit: 18.97%
TEF (Telefonica)
Not a good buy in hindsight due to the big debt load, but has done well for me; will probably sell soon anyhow.
Buy Price: $12.52 (August)
Current Price: $14.22
Profit: 13.60%
YNDX (Yandex)
My baby. Russian's answer to the Google Search Engine. Up 35.08% in a couple of months. And a lot of potential to go higher. I'm always keeping an eye on their market share in Russia and it seems quite stable. I was hoping they would expand into other services to mirror Google even more; adding online storage recently is another step in that direction.
Buy Price: $16.99 (June)
Current Price: $22.95
Profit: 35.08%
FLR (Fluor)
Very economy-dependant engineering company who also struggled in the period after I bought them but have improved since with the economy as a whole.
Buy Price: $47.12 (June)
Current Price: $53.66
Profit; 13.88%
GMCR (Green Mountain Coffee Cups)
They have patents running out, which I hoped had already being taking into account in the share price when I bought them. I was confident they will keep reporting high profits and they've done well for me lately. Like Telefonica, I'll allow them to ride out the current rise in the economy and then probably sell, as I'm not confident about the long term.
Buy Price: $20.30 (June)
Current Price: $25.73
Profit: 26.75%
Most of the shares above do very well when the market indices do well and struggle when they don't. They are those kind of shares. A big market rally in the last few weeks have seen those shares do very well.
Oil Exploration:
USOP (US Oil & Gas, plc.) (June)
A risky play which a huge percentage of my overall portfolio is tied up in. It's also my best performer, and nothing but good news since I bought in. I didn't dream of these profits when I first invested, but of course they aren't profits until I sell. Like many other people, waiting for those flow results this month. Has the potential to make me a rich man and make my other shares irrelevant; or lose me a lot of money. I'm confident about this one though, and if it doesn't work out, I'm young enough to learn from my mistakes.
Average Buy Price: £2.55
Current Price: £6.25
Profit: 245%
SMB (Simba Energy) (August)
The only share I have which is currently down - very long term though so I'm not too concerned.
Buy Price: $0.13
Current Price: $0.10
Loss: -23%3
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A Primal Nut wrote: »Thought I'd give it a name to differentiate it from the others.
I might as well create this while things are going well for my portfolio (Friday was one of my best ever days)! I usually divide my portfolio into two different categories as the strategies are different. All stocks were bought in the last three months; I'm new to this whole thing and have had a bit of beginner's luck so far.
Non-oil exploration
Mostly my strategy was based on buying stocks which should do very well when the economy does well, as I'm reasonably optimistic about that. Aound the time I started investing, many stocks (particularly large cap) were at 52-year lows; I was trying to avoid the beginner's mistake of buying high, selling low, so I focused on cheap stocks which I thought would recover with the economy or for other reasons.
SIE (Siemens)
At the time I bought, I thought that EU problems had already being factored into the price, and the global nature of Siemens' business should balance that out. However the share price struggled after I bought and that continued when they reported less than expected Q2 profits. Since then they have recovered and are doing very well for me.
Buy Price: €65.12 (June)
Current Price: €77.69
Profit: 18.97%
TEF (Telefonica)
Not a good buy in hindsight due to the big debt load, but has done well for me; will probably sell soon anyhow.
Buy Price: $12.52 (August)
Current Price: $14.22
Profit: 13.60%
YNDX (Yandex)
My baby. Russian's answer to the Google Search Engine. Up 35.08% in a couple of months. And a lot of potential to go higher. I'm always keeping an eye on their market share in Russia and it seems quite stable. I was hoping they would expand into other services to mirror Google even more; adding online storage recently is another step in that direction.
Buy Price: $16.99 (June)
Current Price: $22.95
Profit: 35.08%
FLR (Fluor)
Very economy-dependant engineering company who also struggled in the period after I bought them but have improved since with the economy as a whole.
Buy Price: $47.12 (June)
Current Price: $53.66
Profit; 13.88%
GMCR (Green Mountain Coffee Cups)
They have patents running out, which I hoped had already being taking into account in the share price when I bought them. I was confident they will keep reporting high profits and they've done well for me lately. Like Telefonica, I'll allow them to ride out the current rise in the economy and then probably sell, as I'm not confident about the long term.
Buy Price: $20.30 (June)
Current Price: $25.73
Profit: 26.75%
Most of the shares above do very well when the market indices do well and struggle when they don't. They are those kind of shares. A big market rally in the last few weeks have seen those shares do very well.
Oil Exploration:
USOP (US Oil & Gas, plc.) (June)
A risky play which a huge percentage of my overall portfolio is tied up in. It's also my best performer, and nothing but good news since I bought in. I didn't dream of these profits when I first invested, but of course they aren't profits until I sell. Like many other people, waiting for those flow results this month. Has the potential to make me a rich man and make my other shares irrelevant; or lose me a lot of money. I'm confident about this one though, and if it doesn't work out, I'm young enough to learn from my mistakes.
Average Buy Price: £2.55
Current Price: £6.25
Profit: 245%
SMB (Simba Energy) (August)
The only share I have which is currently down - very long term though so I'm not too concerned.
Buy Price: $0.13
Current Price: $0.10
Loss: -76%
Where are you getting -76% from ? Something badly wrong with your trading platform if it's showing those figures.0 -
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A Primal Nut wrote: »Simba Energy up from $0.115 to $14 or 21.74%. Hopefully that means some good news soon. They are using Passive Seismic IPDS (USOP's Karim Akrawi was involved but left) to look for oil in Onshore Kenya, and other African countries.
I sold Telefonica for a tiny profit; their debt is very high. Looking for another company to buy into.
from $11.50 to $14.00 surely
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It's a difficult one and unfortunately I don't have the answer. What I will say is the share price is either going to go way up or way down fairly soon, so the current share price isn't that important (in terms of whether you will make a decent profit or not). Obviously you won't make as much as people who got in earlier, but the risk is similar. If you think the oil will flow commercially (do your own research on that) and it does, you can still potentially make a good profit regardless of the current share price.
I thought I was getting in too late at £2.49 and £2.60. But all good so far.0 -
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Yeah GMCR collapsed in a few days. I'm still in profit and strongly considering selling. All my stocks took a hit in that period but all (except GMCR) recovered. Haven't re-invested in other stocks yet, waiting to hear about USOP's flow results first.
YNDX (46.62% profit), FLR (26.51%), and SIE (19.47%) are still doing well. Simba (-1%) are stable pending news. Yandex released a browser and cloud storage solutions so they are trying to expand which is good.
Have to admit I'm mostly occupied by USOP which is why I haven't updated this thread much about the other stocks. 0 -
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