My Share Portfolio

[AirWolf]

Arcelormittal: -58%
Impala Platinum: -20%
Telkom SA: -43%

Net: -46%

 

[IzZzy]

Arcelormittal: -58%
Impala Platinum: -20%
Telkom SA: -43%

Net: -46%

And in other news, IzZzy bought into telkom at the low period and is looking forward to whatever news comes out (coz it can't get worse!). Interestingly enough, my next buys are ArcelorMittal and a platinum company, probably Lonmin

 

[guest2013-1]

personally i would have sold Telkom the minute I doubled my money (which would have been only 1/4 of what it reached at peak)

The other two I wouldn't worry too much about, they should bounce back IMO

 

[guest2013-1]

And in other news, IzZzy bought into telkom at the low period and is looking forward to whatever news comes out (coz it can't get worse!). Interestingly enough, my next buys are ArcelorMittal and a platinum company, probably Lonmin

+1

 

[hsmnel]

PAN (Pan African Resources) +136%

(Unfortuanately only bought R5K )

 

[patrick]

Ouch, but thumbs up for publishing. Serves as a good warning for people expecting easy money.

 

[supersunbird]

Diversification, my Satrix Divi and RAFI are holding steady...

 

[Goliath]

Made horrible errors past couple of months, net loss on portfolio currently +-18% so not very happy camper!

Current:
Arrowhead A -2%
Redefine -7%
Cipla -1%
Litha +17%
ISA Holdings -10%
Merafe -15%
Ansys -25%
RBA Holdings -10%

4 smallcaps make up around 7% of my portfolio so nothing serious... Made mistake of selling my Brait SE stake right before the big jump, son of a... Same mistake made with Clover when I had it! *sigh*

 

[AirWolf]

Diversification, my Satrix Divi and RAFI are holding steady...

Just started with the Satrix Divi and an Allan Gray unit trust account in the last six months, so still only a small portion of my investments compared to the above.

 

[AirWolf]

Made horrible errors past couple of months, net loss on portfolio currently +-18% so not very happy camper!

Current:
Arrowhead A -2%
Redefine -7%
Cipla -1%
Litha +17%
ISA Holdings -10%
Merafe -15%
Ansys -25%
RBA Holdings -10%

4 smallcaps make up around 7% of my portfolio so nothing serious... Made mistake of selling my Brait SE stake right before the big jump, son of a... Same mistake made with Clover when I had it! *sigh*

Bought my first lot of Telkom shares before the split from Vodacom. Vodacom shares were lingering in the mid 50s for a while. As soon as I sold, they started to climb . Still have 100 of the BEE shares though.

 

[AirWolf]

And in other news, IzZzy bought into telkom at the low period and is looking forward to whatever news comes out (coz it can't get worse!). Interestingly enough, my next buys are ArcelorMittal and a platinum company, probably Lonmin

I actually doubled my Telkom shareholding on my last purchase at around R20, but they continued on the downward trend after.

 

[AirWolf]

Ouch, but thumbs up for publishing. Serves as a good warning for people expecting easy money.

It's long term, and I do have some liquid funds so I don't have to start panicking (yet) .

 

[jambai]

have people with a 25% loss mever heard of a thing called a stop loss.If a trade goes against you ,you need to get out .The opportunity cost is also costing you money

 

[Freaksta]

I actually doubled my Telkom shareholding on my last purchase at around R20, but they continued on the downward trend after.

I got out at R22, decided enough was enough, rather put that cash into my satrix! Hope you have some upswings soon!

 

[Goliath]

Telkom with current management = no go, doesn't matter that they trade way below their NAV, if there isn't competent management it is going nowhere!

Interesting read for those interested in bit of smallcaps, Keith Machlachlans' portfolio:

http://www.smallcaps.co.za/web/inde...ousness-articles/991-snapshot-of-my-portfolio

Like his idea of making SatrixDivi the "center pillar" of his portfolio then many small picks for the long run, did the same with mine although I swopped SatrixDivi for Listed Property eg Redefine and Arrowhead A, not going to get 80% + return with these two but with constant dividends and relative safety of property over long run I chose the above 2(Redefine due to trading close to its NAV AND second biggest on JSE plus also the current Fountainhead deal that (might) go through and Arrowhead A due to it's quarter dividend payout target and all the big guns also invested there), will add more stocks as I save up but for now settled on the previously mentioned 8!

 

[AirWolf]

have people with a 25% loss mever heard of a thing called a stop loss.If a trade goes against you ,you need to get out .The opportunity cost is also costing you money

I'm not doing daily trading - this is more long term.

 

[AirWolf]

There are other ETF's out there. Here's a list.
http://www.etfsa.co.za/ETF_quicksheet.htm

I like the RMB ones.


There's a book called The elements of investing which is a good read for anyone wanting to know about etf's.

http://myclass.peelschools.org/sec/12/17301/Resources/The Elements of Investing.pdf

Thanks, will take a look .

 

[walterl]

Do you know this site - > www.sharedata.co.za and this one www.sharemagic.co.za

 

[jambai]

I'm not doing daily trading - this is more long term.

Losing 58% in mittal is not a long term trade like in the financial crises cause now the rest of the market are making new highs.You should have cut at -20% max -30% but then again it is your money and your strategy

 

[DJ...]

You don't need to be a trader to put in place proper stop-losses or trailing stop-losses on your trades. It forms a part of proper portfolio and risk management and when you decide to invest, you should have an understanding of valuations on both the up and down sides...