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Reduced Applied Materials

I keep on fine tuning my portfolio, concentrating on my riskiest positions and cash management. I just sold 3 strike 10 Jan 2014 calls. I had bought them in mid May at 1.92 when the stock was slightly under 11 … Continue reading

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Sold my USG bonds

Just saw that my limit order to sell was activated. It sold out 3030 US$ worth of USG bonds at 101% of face value on the 7th September. Those are the same bonds I bought last September at 77% face … Continue reading

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How To Find Investment Candidates ?

That’s an interesting question I just received from one of my contacts. This is basically what I replied: Hi M., Most of my time is focused on what I have, specially on the most risky investments, to avoid losing money. … Continue reading

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Sold out USG – United States Gypsum

It has reached what I consider to be fair value. That fair value has been going down due to the longer than expected (by me) recovery in housing. Since 2007 up until now the fair value of the company has … Continue reading

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Portfolio Performance Evaluation And Some Thoughts

The first table shows the relative returns of my portfolio, a part of which can be seen here, compared to the S&P total return for the last years. Both returns include dividends. The second table shows the absolute results and … Continue reading

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Reduced slightly more USG and continue to build a collar

I sold 20 more shares at 15.30 last Friday. I have now reduced to 170 the number of shares I own and still have 5 strike 7.5 Jan 2013 calls which are equivalent to 500 shares. I might replace the … Continue reading

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Reduced risk to United States Gypsum

I bought back the strike 12.5 put I had sold last year. That’s equivelent to reducing my possible loss by a bit over 10%. This was part of 4 puts I sold and bought back, the last one I bought … Continue reading

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