Thursday, 27 September 2007

Virtual Fund Performance

Sum invested = $540,050
Cash holding = $1,179
Realised profit = $41,229 = 8.25%
Unrealised profit = $55,880 = 11.17%

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Own transactions

Bought:

ChinaEnergy

Virtual Fund Transactions

Sold:
50,000 BH Global Marine @$0.755 = $37,750
10,000 Labroy Marine @$2.47 = $24,700

Realised Profit = $300

Bought:
20,000 ChinaEnergy @$1.38 = $27,600
25,000 FibreChem @$1.35 = $33,750

Sum invested = $540,050
Cash holding = $1,179
Realised profit = $41,229 = 8.25%
Unrealised profit = $57,450 = 11.49%

I feel that such a strategic switching of counters is necessary as I anticipate the China counters to continue surging ahead.

Virtual Fund Performance on this day Torres scored his first hat-trick for Liverpool

Sum invested = $540,850
Cash holding = $79
Realised profit = $40,929 = 8.18%
Unrealised profit = $57,750 = 11.55%

The unrealised profit jumps some $20,000 in line with the powering ahead of china related counters today.

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

Virtual Fund Performance

Sum invested = $540,850
Cash holding = $79
Realised profit = $40,929 = 8.18%
Unrealised profit = $36,900 = 7.38%

ChinaSports and Swiber continue the uptrends which contributed to the increase in unrealised profit for today.

Have a Happy and Fruitful Mid Autumn Festival!

Monday, 24 September 2007

Pine Agritech Launches New High Margin Health Product

http://info.sgx.com/webcoranncatth.nsf/VwAttachments/Att_6BB38C389CCB771748257360003CC4D1/$file/Pine_LaunchNewProduct_24Sep07.pdf?openelement

Own transactions

Sold 1,000 EZRA

The share price of EZRA has weakened for the past week since it announced the S$162.4 Million Order for a Multi-Functional Support Vessel. I feel that it is not wise to go against the general downtrend at the moment so decided to lock in the small profit.

The immediate concerns for investors would be how the Company fund this sophisticated equipment. It could use the proceeds from the partial disposal of EOC, alternatively, it could raise fund by share placement and lastly combining internal funds plus borrowings.

In any case, the market does not seem to appreciate this latest move. The huge capital outlay would leave shareholders who are expecting some kind of cash distribution from EOC listing disappointed. To do share placement would dilute the earnings further. Lastly the borrowings would increase the gearing of the Company and investors would need to price in some credit risk premium.

Virtual Fund Performance

Sum invested = $540,850
Cash holding = $79
Realised profit = $40,929 = 8.18%
Unrealised profit = $31,410 = 6.28%

The contributor for the significant improvement in the portfolio today is Jiutian. It jumped 21 cents or 7.4%.

Friday, 21 September 2007

2nd Batch Virtual Fund Transactions

Further Bought:
50,000 BH Global Marine @$0.755 = $37,750
50,000 C&G Industrial @$0.59 = $29,500
50,000 Foreland @$0.50 = $25,000
10,000 Labroy Marine @$2.44 = $24,400
20,000 Midas @$1.41 = $28,200
50,000 Sihuan @$0.76 = $38,000
20,000 Swiber @$3.12 = $62,400
22,000 Tiong Woon @$1.05 = $23,100

Sum invested = $540,850
Cash holding = $79
Realised profit = $40,929 = 8.18%
Unrealised profit = $15,000 = 3%

Virtual Fund Transactions

Bought:
50,000 Jiutian Chemical @$2.75 = $137,500

Sold:
500,000 CapitalandDBeCW80121 @$0.17 = $85,000
500,000 CoscoCorpBNPeCW080204 @$0.085 = $42,500

Sum invested = $272,500
Cash holding = $268,429
Realised profit to-date = $40,929 = 8.18%

Forbes Top 200 Companies in Asia Pacific

The following Singapore companies made it to the list:

- Asia Enterprises (vested)
- ASL Marine
- Best World
- BH Global Marine
- China Sun Bio-Chem
- CSE Global
- EZRA (vested)
- Food Empire
- Hongguo International
- Inter-Roller
- Jiutian Chemical (vested)
- Labroy Marine
- Midas (vested)
- Midsouth
- Multi-chem
- Raffles Education (vested)
- Raffles Medical
- Rotary Engineering
- Tat Hong
- Unisteel technology

I have invested in 5 of the above companies. Many were previously in my portfolio.

Thursday, 20 September 2007

Virtual Fund Transactions

Bought:

100,000 ChinaSports @$1.35 = $135,000
500,000 CapitalandDBeCW80121 @$0.17 = $85,000
500,000 CoscoCorpBNPeCW080204 @$0.095 = $47,500

Sum invested = $267,500
Cash holding = $278,429
Realised profit to-date = $45,929 = 9.18%

Own Portfolio

Transactions for today:

Sold Adv SCT Warrant
Sold ChinaWheel

Bought ChinaSports

Latest Holdings:

Cash
ChinaSports
EZRA
Sihuan
Foreland
Hongwei
Pine
Jiutian

CPF
Asia Ent.
Midas
Raffles Edu

Latest Football News

Thu, 20th Sep 2007

Chelsea Football Club and José Mourinho have agreed to part company today (Thursday) by mutual consent.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/300933/1/.html

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Happy Birthday to Me


No transactions to report for the day. I will have an early night cos I need to catch Liverpool match tomorrow at 2.30am. The new season of Champion League begins tonight. For those who stay up for the Fed decision, please take care. My personal view is that, whatever the outcome, the market is bound to fall eventually. Lets wait and see...

Monday, 17 September 2007

Today's Virtual Fund Transactions:

Disposed of all Put Warrants:
STI3500BNPePW070927: 500,000 @$0.13 Profit = $17,500
HSI21800BNPePW070927: 1,000,000 @$0.045 Profit = $5,000
DBS DBePW071001: 500,000 @$0.045, No Gain No Loss

Total Realised Profit to-date= $45,929 =9.18%
Sum invested = $0
Latest Cash Holding = $545,929

The decision to dispose of the entire equity porfolio proved timely. The STI was down by 60 points and therefore the put warrant made the most.

Tomorrow, market should be firmer ahead of the FOMC meeting. I have decided to clear all my position as the market could swing one way or another depending what Uncle Ben has to say.

Stay tuned for my next move.

Ezra's Subsidiary Contracts with Karmsund for Large Deep-Water Multi-Functional Support Vessel

http://info.sgx.com/webcoranncatth.nsf/VwAttachments/Att_7906A3D6D438E56C4825735900345B49/$file/DraftEzraPR17Sep07.pdf?openelement

Saturday, 15 September 2007

Contradicting Singaporeans

Funny truth....

1. Nite - Sleep with air-con; Day - Bathe with heater on.
2. Day - Cannot Wake up; Nite - Cannot Sleep.
3. Translation is needed between Singaporean Chinese and Mainland Chinese.
4. Smell Of rubbish besides letterboxes; Rubbish inside Letterbox.
5. Spore Chinese use different languages other then Chinese to communicate.
6. Sporean never likes to vote, but like to complain.
7. There are quite a number of rich/poor in spore - They have Car, Credit Card, CPF but no Cash and are liable to lots of loans
8. Education - Teach Less Learn More.
9. There are quite a few high-tech barbaric Singaporeans -they know how to use state-of-the art equipment, 3g mobile phone and powerful computers but they don’t know how to use a simple dustbin or a toilet.
10. Half Sporeans rushed to buy Hello kitty, but the other half busy killing stray cats.
11. Chewing Gum - Can Chew, Cannot buy?? (Restricted to buying).
12. Cigarettes - Convenient to buy; not convenient to smoke.
13. Private Cars - Cheaper and Cheaper to buy, harder and harder to Maintain.
14. Public Bus - Half the Crowd squeeze in front section of the Bus, Second section is for Carrying Ghost.

Friday, 14 September 2007

Disposed of Entire Virtual Share Fund and bought put warrants ahead of volatile week

3 Key events in US next week could make or break the recovery of global share markets:

(1) Fed meeting on 18 Sep - The billion dollars question: Will Fed cut interest rate? How much? What to expect next?

(2) Major Bank Earnings - Morgan Stanley to report on Wed and Goldman Sachs and Bear Sterns on Thurs.

(3) Expiring of Option and Futures Contracts (This is very "chim" to explain). The impact will probably not as big as the other 2.

The above factors could swing the global market in a big way. The rate cut has been priced in the recent market recovery. If Uncle Ben decides to do otherwise, investors will be done for. Bank earnings have also been widely estimated. What remains is negative surprises.

Due to all these uncertainties, I decided to unload my entire virtual share portfolio. I bought some put warrants in anticipation of a selldown.

Total realised profit = $23,429 = 4.69%

Warrants bought:
STI3500BNPePW070927: 500,000 @$0.095 = $47,500
HSI21800BNPePW070927: 1,000,000 @$0.04 = $40,000
DBS DBePW071001: 500,000 @$0.045=$22,500
Sum invested = $110,000
Cash Holding = $413,429

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Noble Group - The Best Performing Blue Chip in SGX

For the second straight year, Noble Group has been named to the Forbes Fabulous 50, Forbes third annual compilation of Asia's best public companies.

To assemble the list, Forbes studied long-term profitability, sales and earnings growth, stock price appreciation and projected earnings for every company in the region with revenues or market capitalisation reaching $5 billion and above.

Noble is joined by new entrants Neptune Orient Lines and SembCorp Industries as the only three companies to appear listed on the Singapore Exchange. The Fabulous 50 List appears in the Sept 17 issue of Forbes Asia.

Indeed, Noble's share price has appreciated more than 800% if you had held the share since its IPO in 1997. It is still the best performing share within its market capitalisation category. During this period, Singtel appreciated a mere 20%, Capitaland 70% and even the bigger DBS +200%.