End January 2015 Updates

Time flies and we are already more than halfway into the second month of Year 2015. We are approaching the Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate and a time to get even more lazy for me, no mood to do anything constructive but to just idle my time away and immerse in the festive mood. :P

No new comer to my portfolio, stocks in my watch list is not within my ideal buy target pricing. I'm in no hurry to enter into any new trade if the price is not what I like as usual, just follow my own plan. Trading can be boring but seeing extra money being made from it is not, isn't it great?

So ladies and gentlemen, here is my latest stock portfolio, no change yet again for the month of January:

Stock	Lots	% of Portfolio
OCBC Bank	1	21.39%
Keppel Infrastructure Trust	4	9.37%
Starhub	1	9.12%
Mapletree GCC Trust	4	8.34%
ST Engineering	1	8.09%
Cambridge Industrial Trust	5	7.95%
Singtel	1	7.94%
Cache Logistics Trust	3	7.71%
Sheng Siong	5	7.28%
SATS	1	6.93%
Hong Leong Finance	1	5.88%

Total invested capital is S$44,705.65.
Total dividend collected to date is S$68.00.

Total current value is S$46,775.00 based on the closing price on the last day of January, a 4.63% gain on paper.

Dividend collect in January is S$68.00 from Singtel.

I would also like to share how my portfolio performed last year.

Summary of my portfolio result for Year 2014
- Average Invested Capital Per Month: S$12,552.28
- Total Dividends Collected: S$581.78
- Annual Yield Return: 4.63%

A small start for me towards a better future.

With that, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a
Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year! Huat ah!

End December 2014 Updates

Just realized I have not even update my monthly results for December 2014! And 2 more trading days, January 2015 will be over. Can see how a lazy bum I am! I realized it only after reading a few updates from other bloggers on their portfolio, haha... well, late better than never!

So here is my latest stock portfolio, no change since I added Cache in the list:

Stock	Lots	% of Portfolio
OCBC Bank	1	21.39%
Keppel Infrastructure Trust	4	9.37%
Starhub	1	9.12%
Mapletree GCC Trust	4	8.34%
ST Engineering	1	8.09%
Cambridge Industrial Trust	5	7.95%
Singtel	1	7.94%
Cache Logistics Trust	3	7.71%
Sheng Siong	5	7.28%
SATS	1	6.93%
Hong Leong Finance	1	5.88%

Total invested capital is S$44,705.65.

Total current value is S$45,960.00 based on the closing price on the last day of December (luckily I still keep a copy of the closing prices!), a 2.81% gain.

Dividend collect in December is S$112.50; S$62.50 from Cambridge Industrial Trust and S$50 from SATS.

Recently didn't have any 'feel' to buy in more stocks to keep. Only bought a few stocks which are for short term trading; stocks that don't fit into my requirement of 'good' dividend returns but stocks that I think I can make some money from, so far so good. Although the returns from such trading is much better than this portfolio that I have here, the strategy is different. So basically I have this portfolio for dividend returns that I'm sharing in this blog, something that I don't go and monitor that closely, just buy and hold until the dividend yield % is not attractive or whatever. Another portion of my money will be for short term trading; buy when I see the price is right, sell when the price is in my favour, and pocket the profit. This is a more risky and with the higher risk comes better returns. However my frequency of such short term trading is low; few trades per month and even none for some months. Even though I said short term, some trades I did hold for months, just to squeeze some profit out of them. Overall it still worthwhile in term of the returns I am getting, just more time and effort needed to hunt and monitor these trades.

So will Year 2015 be a better year? I think everyone should always work towards making each year a better year than the previous one, so that we can progress. It may be late, since the first month of the year is almost over, but like I always like to say, better late than never! I do wish everyone to have a much better year ahead than last year! :)

Cache - Not Data Storage but a Logistics Trust

Yup, not talking about the computing term for data storage but is about the new stock in my portfolio; Cache Logistics Trust. Welcome to the family!

Before I went for my holidays, I had tried to queue for it for a number of times at S$1.15 pricing but was not successful. Last week, while doing my usual 'morning business', I happened to login to my trading account and saw that the pricing was below that, so I just queue for 3 lots then and got filled in the afternoon I think, so I got a better deal than I initially wanted. And yes, it is not the first time I did my trading entries while in the restroom, hahaha...

Well, don't ask me why I choose to invest in them, I'm not in any position to give advice on such matter. I buy stocks based on my limited trading knowledge, on my personal feel or experience with them which can varies from logical to non-logical thinking. Anyway it's my own money, I'm responsible for it myself. Everyone should be responsible for theirs too. Read before that some even blame some bloggers just because they follow blindly on what those bloggers bought and shared in their blogs. Come on, if you earn some money, do you share part of it with them? If not then don't blame them if you lose money just because you are not doing your own homework before parting with your money. So please don't follow what I'm buying, there are many more professional guides out there that can help you better than reading my blog content. Reason why I have to say this is I received an email asking me for reasons why I bought one of my share that I posted previously. Seriously, I didn't expect that anyone will really ask me that! As if I'm some expert! No please, I'm just a nobody and who knows, all these info about my portfolio might be fake? You never know and should never just believe anything you read on the internet blindly.

You can believe that's the man and that's what the man really said?

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Having said that, let's go back to the main topic. Below is my latest stock portfolio with the latest additional to the list:

Stock	Lots	% of Portfolio
OCBC Bank	1	21.39%
Keppel Infrastructure Trust	4	9.37%
Starhub	1	9.12%
Mapletree GCC Trust	4	8.34%
ST Engineering	1	8.09%
Cambridge Industrial Trust	5	7.95%
Singtel	1	7.94%
Cache Logistics Trust	3	7.71%
Sheng Siong	5	7.28%
SATS	1	6.93%
Hong Leong Finance	1	5.88%

Total invested capital is S$44,705.65.

Think that should be the final list for this year closing. Holiday mood now, as usual very quiet atmosphere in the office with people clearing leaves. Best time to be in the office as not much activities going on and not many people to disturb me.

So if you are still reading till now, I wish you a very happy holiday ahead. Merry Christmas! May your Christmas present be this:

Money Money Money!

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But the money could be fake! :P

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End November 2014 Updates

Was travelling around for a bit for the past few weeks and have not been actively checking on my stock portfolio performance. While travelling, I do not have data roaming or even bother to buy oversea data sim card. As long as I can be contactable via normal phone call, I'm fine with it. I'm not one who like to 'report' where I am in Facebook unlike my other friends. Finding a free wi-fi spot is like striking lottery to them! Some may said it is useful to have internet connection to get around but I still prefer the way of using map and asking around for direction. Anyway we can pre-load the maps in our cell phones now, so no excuse.

I have cut down a lot on time spend looking at my phone or tablet in recent months. We can easily see people sitting together but each of them fully engaged with their hand held devices, even with couples on dates. Most of them were viewing their Facebook instead of facing their friends who are physically there in front of them. When out with my close friends, we often reminded each other to stop this 'bad' habit of taking phones out and play with it during our gathering. To me, it is also a show of respect to those with us. Hence I cannot understand why some parents would allow their children to play with their phones or worst, to plug in ear pieces during their mealtime, a common thing to spot when I am out for dinner. It is a strict no for my family during mealtime.

Anyway, enough of that, back to my stock portfolio; no change since the last update. On a look out for more stocks to add on and works towards a 50k portfolio. Also from January next year, we can buy at smaller lot size, great news! Even greater news is end of year, holidays season, AWS payment! More cash coming in! Haha...

Below is my latest stock portfolio, no change:

Stock	Lots	% of Portfolio
OCBC Bank	1	23.18%
Keppel Infrastructure Trust	4	10.15%
Starhub	1	9.89%
Mapletree GCC Trust	4	9.04%
ST Engineering	1	8.77%
Cambridge Industrial Trust	5	8.61%
Singtel	1	8.60%
Sheng Siong	5	7.88%
SATS	1	7.51%
Hong Leong Finance	1	6.37%

Total invested capital is S$41,257.43.

Total current value is S$42,370.00 based on the closing price on the last day of November, 2.7% gain.

Dividend collect in November is S$50 from Starhub.

So happy holidays to everyone! May the next year be a better year!

Keppel Infrastructure Trust Updates

Bought this stock only recently and now it is combing with CitySpring Infrastructure Trust and acquiring 51% stake in Keppel Merlimau Cogen; "Each KIT unitholder will receive 2.106 new CIT units for every KIT unit held.".

Something new to me! Let's wait and see.