Dear guys!
I am ready to share all information that i know, all thoughts that i have, all strategies that we use.. Do you know how many time hedge fund managers spent on speaking with colleagues? They speak a lot, coz they want to see real market picture, want to find new investing ideas. When you communicate with people, you thought becoming more clear, you find new ideas in you thoughts, you find some in thoughts of other people, so its great! Its hard to find good professionals on financials markets in Ukraine, but i am sure we have some number of strong professionals in Ukraine. Its greate if you write me from other countries. We can share expirience, speak about local markets... Maybe work together.. Dont forget that my native language is russian or ukranian. Add me to your skype.
My skype - dmytrenkoartem
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Michael Jackson debt and death
Michael Jackson had a debt of nearly 0.5 billions of dollars. How to get this money from man who are cannot dance and sing anymore? Michael used more and more drugs, his health became more and more worse. Creditors fully understood this. What could be waiting for Jackson? Silent death in some years? Did he want to live anymore? But anyway he didnt decide it. Creditors had control under his life. Its not prosecutions, just thoughts. Thoughts how creditors could done their buisness. Way on what we got this all sound very commercial. At first - to make announces of new concerts , to increase attention. Then make some press conferences, etc. Even sell tickets. Tickets are suspiciously fast were sold in internet even for Michael Jackson concerts. Then to kill Michael. This event increasing Jackson's popularity to the sky again. Everything which were connected with Michael's name selling with incredeble speed. And more! Jackson had nearly 200 songs which were not published. In this way, men who doing buisness on Michael can get large more moeny! Large more then 70 millions which Michael could earn on gastrols.
Can hedge fund be managing by 2 people?
Can hedge fund be managing by 2 people? We will find out it. Today's evening i serfed hedge fund's websites. I found that a lot of great hedge fund's are using quantitive strategies the most. A lot of their employes are Ph.D. in mathematics, physics and they are even not competent in finance, economics. They are working with retrieval of data and even dont know from what assets data are. The bright example is Jim Simon's Renaissance fund. We have a strong trend in markets - they becoming more and more mathematical. We can found less and less psyhology their. Program trading prospers. Methods that were used in daytrading are not actual now coz market became hybrid. Now reading ribbon is not actual, prints a random, we cant find how NYSE specialist works. So less psyhology, more numbers. A lot of people will go out from trading in some years coz they cannot competite with programs. In hedge funds we can found so many analysts, mathematics, statisticans. They can work with so much data, to find large more ideas, to test more.. Ofcoz its costs big money to have this quality staff.. So to have this, hedge fund have to big really big sized. But is it possible to beat this groups of the smartest people with 2 people? I trust that we can. Having not so big capital we can concentrate all on few best ideas which can give us even better returns. Trust in God, trust in us :-) . Be with love ! :-)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Thoughts adding on standart deviation
Mistake here. Look to this
In last post i wrote that our portfolio standart deviation is 30% versus market 64%. In real - our standart deviation in large more lower. So our risks are minimal. As we have long/short strategy with full balance long/short side standart deviation from long compensates standart deviation on shorts and vice versa. Other factor that make our risks lower - stocks correllation with index. Our diversification efficient , as avarage correllation on our portfolio 47%.
In last post i wrote that our portfolio standart deviation is 30% versus market 64%. In real - our standart deviation in large more lower. So our risks are minimal. As we have long/short strategy with full balance long/short side standart deviation from long compensates standart deviation on shorts and vice versa. Other factor that make our risks lower - stocks correllation with index. Our diversification efficient , as avarage correllation on our portfolio 47%.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Portfolio standard deviation
Mistake here. Look to this
Today we calculated our portfolio standart deviation using historical data. Our result - 30%. Wide market deviation - 64%. So we can say that our portfolio is less risky than S&P Index fund investments. By the way yesterday we saw good earnings from Oracle. Thats a good sign for our technology stakes. Our technology stakes export a lot of products abroad, so weak dollar for last quarter have to support their earnings.
Today we calculated our portfolio standart deviation using historical data. Our result - 30%. Wide market deviation - 64%. So we can say that our portfolio is less risky than S&P Index fund investments. By the way yesterday we saw good earnings from Oracle. Thats a good sign for our technology stakes. Our technology stakes export a lot of products abroad, so weak dollar for last quarter have to support their earnings.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Evaluation portfolio's investments ideas
Our portfolio is in small positive zone now, but we are rather confidence about its future nice perfomance. Saying that investment ideas on what portfolio is build now are working. We saw that our portfolio feeling much better on good trendive days where we can saw big changes in S&P. Until today we saw only 3-5 those days on June.
I want to acknowledge that we did some mistake with thin stock. This mistake are in risk managment area. We have some think stocks like DW, TECUA, VOXX. If we would have news on it which will push stock much , we will have big problems to cover our more than 1000 shares stakes if we will need it coz avarage trading volume on this stocks are somelike 100k , etc.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Interesting situation. Stock - WCG
I want to acknowledge that i am not experience stock daytrader. So this situation looks pretty interesting for me. Need to know what behavior to chose when we see something like this. Market in stong down trend, WCG too. I was looking to this stock as its in our portfolio with short position. Nothing special beofre 18-00 Kyiv time. After big down move volume sharply increased and we saw 25c up move. Hm..Sell? Not sure but lets suppose that we sold this for example @17.63. We know that this stock is weak fundamental, so why it will be attractive even intraday on this strong down trend? But if we were enetered @17.63 we should have stop loss , coz up move didnt stop. Ok. Lets look for some bearish candle and volume fading. At price 17.85 we saw something like this. Short again! But again we have stop loss on new uup move and big volume! Heh. What it was? Just fund's buying large stake? Or maybe some speculation? When i am writing this post price comeback down to 17.7$.
Bearish propaganda
This week opening with huge down move on US Markets. S&P broke 900 points level.
Was interesting to see news background today. It is looking like propaganda. In one time all powerfull financials began to say the same about economy. Trichet said about potentional new wave of unstability, said that we are still in down trend in economy. World Bank said that the recession will be deeper than they forecast in March. Interesting change after 3 month stong bull rally and good earnings. Also we saw a strong sell from insiders. S&P losing 2,5% on Monday's evening. The largest from June 2007. This is interesting that this all news brought down on market on one day. FED on wednesday can keep bearish move going. Oil finishing 2nd day in strong down trend. Think if we will see self powered trend by all catalysts above we will see oil comeback to much lower levels.. Hard to say.. For now maybe 55-60$ area. Commodity can fall hard coz current prices represents not real demand but hopes of economy recovery and inflation expactations.
Was interesting to see news background today. It is looking like propaganda. In one time all powerfull financials began to say the same about economy. Trichet said about potentional new wave of unstability, said that we are still in down trend in economy. World Bank said that the recession will be deeper than they forecast in March. Interesting change after 3 month stong bull rally and good earnings. Also we saw a strong sell from insiders. S&P losing 2,5% on Monday's evening. The largest from June 2007. This is interesting that this all news brought down on market on one day. FED on wednesday can keep bearish move going. Oil finishing 2nd day in strong down trend. Think if we will see self powered trend by all catalysts above we will see oil comeback to much lower levels.. Hard to say.. For now maybe 55-60$ area. Commodity can fall hard coz current prices represents not real demand but hopes of economy recovery and inflation expactations.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Knowing yourself weaknesses you become stronger
Many writers/philosofers tried to build a model of really successfull people. They researched bios of great humans and than tried to found same in character traits, type of thought. For me, I think its critical to know own weak sides. When you know your weak sides you can concentrate on what dont using your weak sides. You can find a best areas for you character, skills. One of managment classics, Peter Druker, were saying that we need to improve our strong sides and its really more important and will give us better results. For example i am not ashamed to be acknowledged that i havent enaough discipline to work intraday now. Maybe its just because i havent chances to concentrate only on this. I understand it fully that at least i will not concentrate only on daytrading i will lose money on it. So i will not even try to put in one daytrading and portfolio running. If i will do so my productivity will be less. I dont like to work with details and work with numbers. So i will prefer to work with philophy, ideas, macro stuff - all ares where i could fully use my type of thought to get bigger pleasure and better results. So guys, concentrate on your strong sides and work on areas where you can use it fully! Be true with youself about your weak sides! Go for better results!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Economic reforms - new stakes in portfolio
Now we have so many stakes that i even cant post full screen shot of portfolio :-). In future we will concentrate only on best ideas and we will have less stakes. Just need to keep normal level of diversification. But on other we need to remember that diversification mean from ignorance as Warren Buffet saying :-) .
Before we had an idea to long canadian banks due to its strong fundamentals and financial health. Today we realesed this idea by hedging with short big american banks. We looked to our database and found that STI, JPM, KEY have to be the weakest in near future. Also with shorting this banks we hedged it with our old idea to long CSCO from technology. Large growth of broadbend in Asia will support solid CSCO fundamentals.
Also we now have a hedged stakes in healthcare. Due to Obama healthcare reform plan we shorted health insurance companies and longed pharmaceuticals companies which making generic drugs. So we shorted WCG, UNH and longed JNJ, PFE.
Thanks Victor from Belarus, he will program for us portfolio tool which we need so. It will calculate all numbers we need.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Random thoughts
Our portfolio feeling better last time. Now we have drodown -0,23%. This drodown coz of falling gold prices but we are rather confidence of it. We see good resistance @900$. Our fundamental view on it wasnt changed. We are happy, coz our portfolio strategy we think is working, especially that we made real investment portfolio for 1st time in life. Other our picks filling good.
Last time i have a lot of global thought/professional dreams. At first was inspired by golden boy of 80x - Mikel Milken. He made in whole word sense junk bonds market in America. I read far time ago book about Wall Street in 80x and this really fun, interesting, scarry, sometimes inspired, emotional.. Book author James Stuart, name of book - "Gang of thieves from Wall Street". We can read a story of Mikel Milken, Ivan Boeski and others. 80x - was time of avidity on Wall Street. Do you think something was changed? ))). A dream - to MAKE MARKET in Ukraine. Now RTS conquers bigger and bigger market share of exchange operations in Ukraine. Regulation fund of RTS UKraine is only 12mln UAH. But i think it will hard to get a part of RTS, coz its a lot of market, market policy power, etc. So even with money its a question. It would be really cool to make liquidity in Ukranian market, derevatives, etc.
Other professional interest is on options. Need to work a lot with numbers, graps trading options, i dont like this much but anyway i feel this is good area for making money, huge less efficient than stock market. There are must be huge more "free lunches" here. For russian language readers can give a really nice blog of rus guy - Option trader .
Eric Nayman from UkrSocBank - here his blog made calculations of Herst index with target to find trending on financial markets. With this calculations he refutes Effective Market Hypothesis, EMH. Question of EMH was always worrieng me. Sometimes i think market Efficient/not efficient depending on how we thinking about it. Somelike thought become real :-). I trust that this phenomen we have in life, so why we cant have it even in scientific researches :-) especially on researchs of social proccess. EMH investigation from classical economic theory where buyer and seller are rational. But on banal philosophy we can to refute EMH easy. Why economists acknowledge trends in economy but not acknowledge trend in stock markets? This to process are influence one on other, so if one is trendive , other have to be trendive too? This sounds crazy and very simple? Maybe i just have small skill in economy? Other look have Victor Niedernhoffer. He is statistican and calculated that there is no trends on markets, but he dont trust in EMH. He dont trusts in trends but trust in conformities to law of motion of price.
Other old professional dream is to build dynamic model in which we could see a line of how economy sectors will grow/fall, in what sequences, how they will influence one on other, etc. I found deep scientific works on it. For example - Klein-Goldberg Model, Warton economic model. But to work on this theme need solid economy, econometic background.
We didnt find a good portfolio tool on free. Dont understand why. Is it hard to programm nice portfolio tool, which will calculate coefficints automaticaly?) Bullshit. In future we will program it by ourselves and it will be on our site ))).
Last time i have a lot of global thought/professional dreams. At first was inspired by golden boy of 80x - Mikel Milken. He made in whole word sense junk bonds market in America. I read far time ago book about Wall Street in 80x and this really fun, interesting, scarry, sometimes inspired, emotional.. Book author James Stuart, name of book - "Gang of thieves from Wall Street". We can read a story of Mikel Milken, Ivan Boeski and others. 80x - was time of avidity on Wall Street. Do you think something was changed? ))). A dream - to MAKE MARKET in Ukraine. Now RTS conquers bigger and bigger market share of exchange operations in Ukraine. Regulation fund of RTS UKraine is only 12mln UAH. But i think it will hard to get a part of RTS, coz its a lot of market, market policy power, etc. So even with money its a question. It would be really cool to make liquidity in Ukranian market, derevatives, etc.
Other professional interest is on options. Need to work a lot with numbers, graps trading options, i dont like this much but anyway i feel this is good area for making money, huge less efficient than stock market. There are must be huge more "free lunches" here. For russian language readers can give a really nice blog of rus guy - Option trader .
Eric Nayman from UkrSocBank - here his blog made calculations of Herst index with target to find trending on financial markets. With this calculations he refutes Effective Market Hypothesis, EMH. Question of EMH was always worrieng me. Sometimes i think market Efficient/not efficient depending on how we thinking about it. Somelike thought become real :-). I trust that this phenomen we have in life, so why we cant have it even in scientific researches :-) especially on researchs of social proccess. EMH investigation from classical economic theory where buyer and seller are rational. But on banal philosophy we can to refute EMH easy. Why economists acknowledge trends in economy but not acknowledge trend in stock markets? This to process are influence one on other, so if one is trendive , other have to be trendive too? This sounds crazy and very simple? Maybe i just have small skill in economy? Other look have Victor Niedernhoffer. He is statistican and calculated that there is no trends on markets, but he dont trust in EMH. He dont trusts in trends but trust in conformities to law of motion of price.
Other old professional dream is to build dynamic model in which we could see a line of how economy sectors will grow/fall, in what sequences, how they will influence one on other, etc. I found deep scientific works on it. For example - Klein-Goldberg Model, Warton economic model. But to work on this theme need solid economy, econometic background.
We didnt find a good portfolio tool on free. Dont understand why. Is it hard to programm nice portfolio tool, which will calculate coefficints automaticaly?) Bullshit. In future we will program it by ourselves and it will be on our site ))).
Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Our potentional stakes
Our potentional stakes
Canadian bank
Canadian financial institutions mostly avoided the worst of the fallout from the credit crisis due to tougher regulation and a more conservative culture that kept them away from risky credit derivatives that hurt so many of their competitors in Europe and on Wall Street.
The problem is that retail banking – one of the main engines of the sector – is deteriorating, with earnings collectively down 10% from the second quarter of 2008.
For expample we are looking for buying TD stake.
Energy/commodities stocks
We are bullish on comodities mostly not by that we see potentional demand increasing but mostly by inflation expectations. We are not sure that real economy demand on commodities will increase huge. We assume “W” vivid structure of economy recovery. With second down wave on august/september 2009.
We have big inflations expectations and doubtful market growth. If no risks will be converted in to reality we will see continue of market growth and gold growth too. Market will growth by better fundamentals, gold will growth by inflation expectations - if economy is began to recover - inflation wiil begin growing quick. If we dont see real economic recovering now, we will see second wave of recesion. It will mean more money to print again, bigger inflation in future, so market in this scenario will go down again, but gold after some down move, will grow even more quickly. For our fund we wanna to acumulate positions in gold, silver, stocks which are producers of commodities. The focus of our fund will be on silver. We have to be happy buy silver companies but silver companies is very expensive on fundamentals. Better way just to buy silver as metal.
On oil OPEK will not increase supply until oil prices will rich 100$. For most OPEK countries 75$ - comfortable price. Other positive on oil was Goldman upgrades to 85$. Before last rally they said about oil growth and then we saw 150$ price .
So we dont saying that this type of stocks will growth, we just saying that they will be strenghter than market.
Technology
Even now we see a nice up in buisness activity of technology stocks. They have a good balance sheets with large cash positions and ready to invest in new buisnesses, innovations. We already have a large stake in technology but we see opportunities even to increase it. Candidats are DELL, CSCO, ORCL
Canadian bank
Canadian financial institutions mostly avoided the worst of the fallout from the credit crisis due to tougher regulation and a more conservative culture that kept them away from risky credit derivatives that hurt so many of their competitors in Europe and on Wall Street.
The problem is that retail banking – one of the main engines of the sector – is deteriorating, with earnings collectively down 10% from the second quarter of 2008.
For expample we are looking for buying TD stake.
Energy/commodities stocks
We are bullish on comodities mostly not by that we see potentional demand increasing but mostly by inflation expectations. We are not sure that real economy demand on commodities will increase huge. We assume “W” vivid structure of economy recovery. With second down wave on august/september 2009.
We have big inflations expectations and doubtful market growth. If no risks will be converted in to reality we will see continue of market growth and gold growth too. Market will growth by better fundamentals, gold will growth by inflation expectations - if economy is began to recover - inflation wiil begin growing quick. If we dont see real economic recovering now, we will see second wave of recesion. It will mean more money to print again, bigger inflation in future, so market in this scenario will go down again, but gold after some down move, will grow even more quickly. For our fund we wanna to acumulate positions in gold, silver, stocks which are producers of commodities. The focus of our fund will be on silver. We have to be happy buy silver companies but silver companies is very expensive on fundamentals. Better way just to buy silver as metal.
On oil OPEK will not increase supply until oil prices will rich 100$. For most OPEK countries 75$ - comfortable price. Other positive on oil was Goldman upgrades to 85$. Before last rally they said about oil growth and then we saw 150$ price .
So we dont saying that this type of stocks will growth, we just saying that they will be strenghter than market.
Technology
Even now we see a nice up in buisness activity of technology stocks. They have a good balance sheets with large cash positions and ready to invest in new buisnesses, innovations. We already have a large stake in technology but we see opportunities even to increase it. Candidats are DELL, CSCO, ORCL
Portfolio. Stakes overview
BCS (current result +9,58%) - we see what we wanted to see. BCS was really attractive and now we have $13.5bn deal to sell its Barclays Global Investors unit to BlackRock.
DW, USG, TECUA - nothing special we had on this stocks, sector.
VOXX - before this stock show its weakness but yesterday we had good report on retail sales. This catalyst pushed stock huge higher, but then we saw pullback. So nothing special now. Just holding short.
MSFT - having some talks about their search engine Bing which they started on 1st of June. Microsoft invested nearly 100mln in this project. Also have talks about their products. They will not sell their own fin program, will make own antivirus program. So with good balance sheet and strong fundametals this stock is on the move now.
IBM - feeling good. They improve their buisness activity now. Looking for oportunities deals. They opened a new center in China to drive the development of high tech railroads, builds networked security system in Chicago, takes social networking to its channel partners, etc.
SOHU - no changes. Exelent fundamentals.
ABFS, CNW, VMED, MHK - no changes.
ABX, NEM, HMY - we see a range this week in gold between 965$ and 945$. We assume gold prices falling in short term period. Our middle and long view is the same.
FWRD - we saw huge up on this due analyst upgraded by KeyBanc Capital Mkts. Bullshit :-) .
SPWRA - up move in oil prices helped this stock to go higher. But now we see nice resistance in oil. We shouldnt expect large up move in oil in short term as we think this growth explaining not by increasing demand on oil as commoditie but just as safe active, inflation hedge, etc.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Professional info systems. WOW! What they can give us!?
Below you can see screenshots with transactions in professional info systems
No words. Just look to the pictures.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday. Portfolio
Coefficient which we will calculate for our portfolio
Alpha. To see how effectively we running fund.
Beta. To see fund volatility.
Long's relative strenght (comparing with S&P including long's beta). Do we really bought strong stocks?
Short's relative strenght (comparing with S&P including short's beta). Do we really sold weak stocks?
Drawing a chart of fund valuation every day.
Other coefficient that figured in portfolio theory is not usefull for us know. 1st because we havent history of our fund. 2nd - its developed for more long term investing.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Portfolio. Weekend overview.
Portfolio structure by sector
Total invested money - 480852$
Long - 287164$
Technology - 136104$
Financials - 54480$
Gold - 97030$
Short - 193238
Short - 193238$
Services - Trucking - 83480$
Electronics wholesale - 6920$
Media - 16980$
Overall services - 107380$
Industrial goods - General building materials - 46850$
Textile industrial - 19345$
General contractors- 20293$
Overall industrial goods - 86488$
Biggest drodown we have in "gold" part of our portfolio. Its not strange, we had big gold drop on friday. Nothing change fundamentaly. Our look to gold the same as before. So we will not change gold stakes in short\middle time.
Another drodown - SPWRA - SunPower Corporation. Solar-energy companies's sector known for its volatility and speculative interests. Usually this sectors going up when oil prices increasing. Before companies from this sector reported about better earnings then expected. We dont expect strenght of this sector until we will see stong trend up in economy and large increasing of oil prices. We expect slow growth\range of oil prices.
VMED - we should be more carrefull next time about shorting of Richard Branson company :-). Richard - adherent of theory of chaos have motto - "To the devil all, undertake and do" :-) . Not far ago he bought Hefner's Playboy. On 3rd of June Virgin Media closed 1$ billion bond offering. We are carrefull about it, but dont see power for growth on it now.
BCS - we are in 2.59% plus on it know. We wont to see institutional support on it.
VOXX - we are now pretty right of VOXX shorting. Nothing special now. Just looking for 5$ price now.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Portfolio. New stakes.
New stakes
Long. Technology
IBM
SOHU
MSFT
IBM
MSN rank 8
large non-US revenue base
IBM's Q109 results indicate its strong position in emerging markets, which should continue to help drive growth.
Company has focused on driving its bottom line through cost cutting efforts. It re-affirmed EPS guidance for the full year of 2009 and 2010. Although, revenue is not expected to grow by much, expecting margin improvements in 2009.
MSFT
MSN rank 8
Big hedge fund support
Nice classical coefficients
SOHU
MSN rank 9
Sohu - is the second-largest Internet portal and one of the most well-known online brands in China. Sohu's pipeline for its new online games remains strong and is expected to drive meaningful growth in late 2009 and 2010.
The company spun-off part of its gaming division Changyou.com via an ADS offering, which is expected to increase its user base and help gain shares in the MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game) market. We are also encouraged by the company's growing cash balance as well as its debt-free balance sheet.
We believe that the current stock price does not fully reflect the company's intrinsic value. Concerns related to online ad spending, as consumers remain cautious in their spending.
Shorts
Industrial Goods
MHK - textile
SPWRA - general conducator
VOXX - Electronics Wholesale
TECUA - General Building Materials
Also we shorted aditional 700 shared on DW for portfolio long/short balancing.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Portfolio overview
My thanks to SeekingAlpha . Its wonderfull resource!
For today we have fully balanced portfolio on Beta coefficient.
BCS - 3000 shares
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
4,9 14,63 9,6 0,63 28,97
Can Slim Rating - 82
Key Abu Dhabi investor on Barclays sold his stake yesterday. Analysts began to speak that this is a time for profit taking on financials. We have a risk that we will see self powered down trend on financials on this catalyst. But also we can suppose thats nothing fundamentaly change on this and BCS is still attractive for investors and they could use this possibility to long BCS.
Paulson & Co hedge fund have short stake on Barclays @16.86
BCS havent now institutional support.
If BCS will not find large investor in short time - we will close this position.
Below our gold stakes. About our look on precious metals i wrote before.
NEM
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
34,17 7,85 0,82 2,73 11,66
Can Slim Rating 74
MSN Rank 9
ABX
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
52,31 4,11 1,1 2,14 20,31
Can Slim Rating 73
MSN Rank 6
HMY
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
15,12 6,29 0 1,4 32,35
Can Slim Rating 93
MSN Rank 9
Shorts
Our trucking picks
Trucking shipment data is often a gauge of overall economic health, because truckers haul more than two-thirds of all U.S. manufactured and retail goods.
The American Trucking Association's advance seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index fell 2.2 percent in April, after plunging 4.5 percent in March.
Compared with April 2008, tonnage shrank 13.2 percent, marking the worst year-over-year decrease of the current cycle and the largest drop in thirteen years.
We can expect trucking growth when we will see recovering in real sectors of economy. This is sector which have delay from overall economy. We are looking to USA indicators of buissness cycle. Here we can see that down trend is over. So lets keep eyes on it closely.
CNW
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-15,53 1,3 3,34 -15,82
Can Slim Rating 61
MSN Rank 4
ABFS
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
282,75 0,4 2,2 1,15 -5,34
Can Slim Rating 45
MSN Rank 6
FWRD
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
20,34 14,88 1,4 2,81 -3,21
Can Slim Rating 20
MSN Rank 4
Media
VMED
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-41,57 2,2 0,86 -16,46
Can Slim Rating 59
MSN Rank 3
Industrial goods - Building Materials
DW
USG
Our portfolio wasnt hedged yesterday and overnight. All short positions was opened today in the morning
For today we have fully balanced portfolio on Beta coefficient.
BCS - 3000 shares
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
4,9 14,63 9,6 0,63 28,97
Can Slim Rating - 82
Key Abu Dhabi investor on Barclays sold his stake yesterday. Analysts began to speak that this is a time for profit taking on financials. We have a risk that we will see self powered down trend on financials on this catalyst. But also we can suppose thats nothing fundamentaly change on this and BCS is still attractive for investors and they could use this possibility to long BCS.
Paulson & Co hedge fund have short stake on Barclays @16.86
BCS havent now institutional support.
If BCS will not find large investor in short time - we will close this position.
Below our gold stakes. About our look on precious metals i wrote before.
NEM
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
34,17 7,85 0,82 2,73 11,66
Can Slim Rating 74
MSN Rank 9
ABX
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
52,31 4,11 1,1 2,14 20,31
Can Slim Rating 73
MSN Rank 6
HMY
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
15,12 6,29 0 1,4 32,35
Can Slim Rating 93
MSN Rank 9
Shorts
Our trucking picks
Trucking shipment data is often a gauge of overall economic health, because truckers haul more than two-thirds of all U.S. manufactured and retail goods.
The American Trucking Association's advance seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index fell 2.2 percent in April, after plunging 4.5 percent in March.
Compared with April 2008, tonnage shrank 13.2 percent, marking the worst year-over-year decrease of the current cycle and the largest drop in thirteen years.
We can expect trucking growth when we will see recovering in real sectors of economy. This is sector which have delay from overall economy. We are looking to USA indicators of buissness cycle. Here we can see that down trend is over. So lets keep eyes on it closely.
CNW
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-15,53 1,3 3,34 -15,82
Can Slim Rating 61
MSN Rank 4
ABFS
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
282,75 0,4 2,2 1,15 -5,34
Can Slim Rating 45
MSN Rank 6
FWRD
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
20,34 14,88 1,4 2,81 -3,21
Can Slim Rating 20
MSN Rank 4
Media
VMED
P/E ROE% Div Yield% Price to book Value Net profit margin%
-41,57 2,2 0,86 -16,46
Can Slim Rating 59
MSN Rank 3
Industrial goods - Building Materials
DW
USG
Our portfolio wasnt hedged yesterday and overnight. All short positions was opened today in the morning
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
First positions in our portfolio
Today we bought
BCS@18.25
ABX@37.20
HMY@11.8
NEM@48.00
BCS - one of our banks stock which was on the buy list. We use opportunity which market gave us today. BSC fell on 14% today. One of Abu Dhabi investors from royal family went out from this stock on what he entered on October 2008 and made 54%. He explained it that they want to have free money for energy investing.
Three other positions ABX, HMY, NEM are gold stocks. We plan to make good bet on gold, silver, commodities companies as i wrote below.
Industry analysis. Gold/Silver. Show me guy who want sell gold
Gold Analysts Not Expecting Inflation This Year. They expect avarage price 918$. In generaly i am agree with them. But markets are driven not by facts but by expectations. They dont see inflation in 2010 now, but if market will grow up more we could expect increase infaltion even in 2010.
Nevertheless, the funds continue to pile into metal. Hedge funds and other large speculators increased their net-long position in New York gold futures last week, by 7.7% over the previous week, according to CFTC data.
Hedge fund manager John Paulson recently bought tons of gold and gold miners.
There is the gold/silver price ratio. For most of history, this ratio has averaged roughly 15:1. However, currently, this price ratio has swung to an extreme ratio of nearly 70:1. This alone should make silver an automatic first choice among investors.
Here we see from what places we demand on silver.
Ratio between gold and silver can be reduced as silver is not only precious metal but also its using for industrial needs. Two nonprecious metals reasons for Silver's upside: It is an Industrial metal which means greater usage in the years to come and its supply has been disrupted since it is a byproduct of the mining of other Base metals whose prices have to go up before they reopen.
My conslusion
We have big inflations expectations and doubtful market growth. If no risks will be converted in to reality we will see continue of market growth and gold growth too. Market will growth by better fundamentals, gold will growth by inflation expectations - if economy is began to recover - inflation wiil begin growing quick. If we dont see real economic recovering now, we will see second wave of recesion. It will mean more money to print again, bigger inflation in future, so market in this scenario will go down again, but gold after some down move, will grow even more quickly. For our fund we wanna to acumulate positions in gold, silver, stocks which are producers of commodities. The focus of our fund will be on silver.
Nevertheless, the funds continue to pile into metal. Hedge funds and other large speculators increased their net-long position in New York gold futures last week, by 7.7% over the previous week, according to CFTC data.
Hedge fund manager John Paulson recently bought tons of gold and gold miners.
There is the gold/silver price ratio. For most of history, this ratio has averaged roughly 15:1. However, currently, this price ratio has swung to an extreme ratio of nearly 70:1. This alone should make silver an automatic first choice among investors.
Here we see from what places we demand on silver.
Ratio between gold and silver can be reduced as silver is not only precious metal but also its using for industrial needs. Two nonprecious metals reasons for Silver's upside: It is an Industrial metal which means greater usage in the years to come and its supply has been disrupted since it is a byproduct of the mining of other Base metals whose prices have to go up before they reopen.
My conslusion
We have big inflations expectations and doubtful market growth. If no risks will be converted in to reality we will see continue of market growth and gold growth too. Market will growth by better fundamentals, gold will growth by inflation expectations - if economy is began to recover - inflation wiil begin growing quick. If we dont see real economic recovering now, we will see second wave of recesion. It will mean more money to print again, bigger inflation in future, so market in this scenario will go down again, but gold after some down move, will grow even more quickly. For our fund we wanna to acumulate positions in gold, silver, stocks which are producers of commodities. The focus of our fund will be on silver.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Industry analyses. Technology
All the trends in technology are still down. It is known that the numbers in the Durable Goods report do bounce around from month to month so it would be foolish to ignore these trends. Lets focus especially closely on the last few months. Here is where things get interesting. Tech indicators saying that low points were hit three to six months ago. The data for Shipments and New Orders have since then have shown a struggle to establish a bottom. We now see a few months of what could be characterized as erratic performance but definitely no new lows.
It is safe to say the tech sector is on the mend. Tech stocks have performed strongly over the last few months in anticipation of a recovery. The data do not yet show a V-shaped recovery but they do seem to show some kind of recovery in its early stages.
XLK is approaching its recent high, it is solidly above its 200-day moving average and its 50-day MA has just crossed above its 200-day MA.
I find interesting that most of technology companies not allocated much cash to equities. With so much cash and minimal or no debt on their balance sheets, these companies have the means to continue investing in internal growth initiatives and acquisitions.
Relative Valuation Chart -This graph shows the Percent to Target Current (Valuation Attractiveness) for a universe relative to the overall market. Values greater than 1 indicate the universe is more undervalued than the market, while values less than 1 indicate the opposite. The red line identifies the historical median value to provide a basis to understand valuation levels relative to historic norms. This example illustrates that the median Technology company is undervalued relative to the market currently and has been trading at a discount to its historic relative valuation, indicating a potentially attractive opportunity.
Technology Firms Continue to Downsize. There could be a number of reasons for the job cuts but it all boils down to “cost reduction”. Recession is always time to look to buisness and reorganize it more efficient. So we can expect that technology companies will become even more healthy.
Conclusion
Technology one of the most attractive industries in US economy now. Most of them have very strong balance sheets and only waiting for some economic growth. Classical coefficient saying that they are much undervalued.
It is safe to say the tech sector is on the mend. Tech stocks have performed strongly over the last few months in anticipation of a recovery. The data do not yet show a V-shaped recovery but they do seem to show some kind of recovery in its early stages.
XLK is approaching its recent high, it is solidly above its 200-day moving average and its 50-day MA has just crossed above its 200-day MA.
I find interesting that most of technology companies not allocated much cash to equities. With so much cash and minimal or no debt on their balance sheets, these companies have the means to continue investing in internal growth initiatives and acquisitions.
Relative Valuation Chart -This graph shows the Percent to Target Current (Valuation Attractiveness) for a universe relative to the overall market. Values greater than 1 indicate the universe is more undervalued than the market, while values less than 1 indicate the opposite. The red line identifies the historical median value to provide a basis to understand valuation levels relative to historic norms. This example illustrates that the median Technology company is undervalued relative to the market currently and has been trading at a discount to its historic relative valuation, indicating a potentially attractive opportunity.
Technology Firms Continue to Downsize. There could be a number of reasons for the job cuts but it all boils down to “cost reduction”. Recession is always time to look to buisness and reorganize it more efficient. So we can expect that technology companies will become even more healthy.
Conclusion
Technology one of the most attractive industries in US economy now. Most of them have very strong balance sheets and only waiting for some economic growth. Classical coefficient saying that they are much undervalued.
Idea on gold
I see that many hedge fund managers are long now on gold or gold trusts , etc. I think its not just hedging in classical term. We have big inflations expectations and doubtful market growth. If no risks will be converted in to reality we will see continue of market growth and gold growth too. Market will growth by better fundamentals, gold will growth by inflation expectations - if economy is began to recover - inflation wiil begin growing quick. If we dont see real economic recovering now, we will see second wave of recesion. It will mean more money to print again, bigger inflation in future, so market in this scenario will go down again, but gold after some down move, will grow even more quickly.
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