My 2011 investing year in review

I am in vacations for the next couple of days. It’s currently snowing in the X town of New Brunswick were I am and I am currently still in my pyjama, watching Ellen show and blogging, doing absolutely nothing at all or almost. This is the perfect time to review how this 2011 year went financially speaking! Yeah!

I was EXTREMELY pleased yesterday. Imagine this: my non-registered portfolio hit the 113 243$. WOW WOW WOW. Only less than 4k is missing before I totally recover from my internal capital loss. And right now, it’s even getting better, I am at 114 035.37$. It’s all going pretty well and looking great for a complete recovery.

You’ll see below my BUY activities for my new investments add permanently I hope, in my portfolio:

Buy: iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index (XRE)

Investment value (including commission fee): 1367.99$

Buy: Sprott Inc. (SII)

Investment value (including commission fee): 4 679.99$

Buy: CFX

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 479.99$

Buy: NFI

Investment value (including commission fee): 2 371.99$

Buy: EIF

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 998.99$

Buy: RSI

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 674.99$

Buy: CPA.UN

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 978.99$

February

Buy: STB

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 281.99$

Buy: GCL

Investment value (including commission fee): 2 353.99$

Buy: JE

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 575.99$

Buy: JE

Investment value (including commission fee): 3 132$

Buy: X

Investment value (including commission fee): 4 206.99$

Buy: DGI.UN

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 341.99$

Buy: DGI.UN

Investment value (including commission fee): 2 664$

Buy: WTE.UN

Investment value (including commission fee): 4 631.99$

March

Buy: KBL

Investment value (including commission fee): 2034.99$

Buy: WEQ.UN

Investment value (including commission fee): 2061.99$

Buy: DH

Investment value (including commission fee): 2107.99$

Buy: Sprott Inc. (SII)

Investment value (including commission fee): 4 974.99$

Buy: PSLV (US $)

Investment value (including commission fee): 2 039.25$ US

May

Buy: FR

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 943.99$

Buy: ATP

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 499.99$

Buy: PSLV

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 035.91$

Buy: EIF

Investment value (including commission fee): 2 399.99$

Buy: TRP

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 016.74$

Buy: K

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 667.99$

Buy: CNR

Investment value (including commission fee): 1 183.41$

Buy: FC

Investment value (including commission fee): 510.79$

Buy: CNR

Investment value (including commission fee): 960.99$

Buy: SFI.UN

Investment value (including commission fee): 486.99$

Buy: ENB

Investment value (including commission fee): 999.51$

Buy: AGU

Investment value (including commission fee): 950.79$

Those are the new comers in my portfolio for 2011! This was for the investment part, for what I plan to hold on to as long I won’t need the cash. Let see for the BUY for the day trading part:

Trading, short buy-and-sell for 2011

SPB

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee), January 27, 2011: 2 405.99$

Sell value (after commission), February 22, 2011: 2 252.01$

-153.98$

110 days x 0.2801495205479452 $ (interest of 4.25% x 2 405.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -30.82$

TOTAL: -186.08$

FTN

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee), on January 27, 2011: 1 029.99$

Sell value (after commission), on February 9, 2011: 1 050.01$

+20.02$

13 days x 0.1199303424657534$ (interest of 4.25% x 1 029.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -1.56$

TOTAL: +18.46$

HOD

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee), May 6, 2011: 674.99$

Sell: Value after commission fee, June 15, 2011: 675.01$

+0.02$

40 days x 0.0785947260273973$ (interest of 4.25% x 674.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -3.13$

TOTAL: -3.11$

YLO

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee), August 2009 + DRIP: 2 602.56$

Investment value on May 2011: 2 297.10$

-305.46$

No margin involved, for once.

FR

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee), May 6, 2011: 2 702.99$

Sell: Value after commission fee, May 9, 2011: 2 785.01$

+82.02$

3 days x 0.3147317123287671$ (interest of 4.25% x 2 702.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -0.94$

TOTAL: +81.08$

TD

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee) on February 14, 2011: 1 985.99$

Sell value (after commission) on May 9, 2011: 2 040.51$

+54.52$ + 16.50$ (dividend)

23 days x 0.2312454109589041$ (interest of 4.25% x 1 985.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN): -5.3176$

TOTAL: +65.70$

HZU

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee) on March 7, 2011: 5 027.49$

Sell value (after commission) on March 23, 2011: 5 126.01$

+ 98.52$

16 days x 0.5853926712328767$ (interest of 4.25% x 5 027.49$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -9.37$

TOTAL: +89.15$

HZU

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee) on May 10, 2011: 2 912.49$

Sell value (after commission) on May 10, 2011: 2 942.51$

+30.02$

HZU

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee) on May 13, 2011: 2 942.01$

Sell value (after commission) on May 13, 2011: 2 934.99$

TOTAL: -7.02$

HZU

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee) on May 18, 201: 1 903.99$

Sell value (after commission) on May 18, 2011: 1 930.01$

+26.02$

HZU

Buy: Investment value (including commission fee) on May 19, 2011: 2 961.99$

Sell value (after commission) on May 24, 2011: 3 056.01$

+ 94.02$

6 days x 0.3448892465753425$ (interest of 4.25% x 2 961.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -2.07$

TOTAL: +91.95$

Buy: HZD

Investment value (including commission fee) on May 5, 2011: 2 669.99$

Sell value (after commission) on May 5, 2011: 2 730.01$

+60.02$

Buy: HZD

Investment value (including commission fee) on May 11, 2011: 2 729.99$

Sell value (after commission) on May 11, 2011: 2 750.01$

+ 20.02$

HZD

Investment value (including commission fee) on May 12, 2011: 3 125.99$

Sell value (after commission) on August 18, 2011: 1 878.01$

-1 247.98$

98 days x 0.3639851369863014$ (interest of 4.25% x 3 125.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -35.66$

TOTAL: -1 283.64$

SII

Investment value (including commission fee) on January 17, 2011: 4 679.99$

Sell value (after commission) on February 7, 2011: 4 967.31$

+ 287.32$

21 days x 0.5449303424657534$ (interest of 4.25% x 4 679.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -11.44$

TOTAL: +275.88

JE

Investment value (including commission fee) on February 7, 2011: 4 707.99$

Sell value (after commission) on February 14, 2011: 6 279.69$

+1 571.70$

7 days x $ (interest of 4.25% x 4 707.99$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -3.84$

TOTAL: +1 567.86$

PHS.U

Investment value (including commission fee) on February 14, 2011: 5 424.91$

400 units at 13.49$

Sell value (after commission) on February 15, 2011: 3986.94

300 units at 13.72$

+46$

PHS.U

Investment value (including commission fee) on February 22, 2011: 7 017.60$

Sell value (after commission) on March 1, 2011: 7 049.68$

+ 32.08$

7 days x 0.8171178082191781$ (interest of 4.25% x 7 017.60$ / 365 = the interest per day (I made the investment using something name MARGIN) = -5.72$

TOTAL: 26.36$

OVERALL TOTAL: +648.87$

I know, I rock the place. With all the risk I took, I am extremely lucky to finish the 2011 year on a positive trading note. I work a big part of the day of this, so I hope you enjoy!

Overall, including the proper investment and day trading, I bought for over 114 000$ value in stocks this year! Funny fact, my non-registered portfolio currently worth 114 222.08$! 2011 had been a chaotic trading year. I had bought, I had sell, made money, lose money. I won’t be ever again trading like that of my life that’s for sure! Aie, aie aie!

2012 is going to be much soother for many reasons. First of all, it’s not anytime soon that I am going to buy stocks by using money from my margin account. The experience was fun, but I am extremely lucky to have gone through the whole thing without getting deep into losses. This was suicidal! I totally assume my entire investments move despite the craziness.

The whole day trading began shortly following November 2011, when Sprott launch the very fantastic Sprott Physical Silver Trust UTS (PHS.U). I began to buy and sell PHS.U on a regular basis. At the time, silver was a rocket, it was going up-up-up!

I always promised myself that if I would be to lose control over my investments, if my loses exceed my gain, than, at that time, I will stop investing and of course, stop blogging.

At the time, I am on a negative note but I find I did very well knowing:

a) All the trading involves in 2011.

b) The level of risk I took (day trading is RISKY).

c) Bad economy worldwide.

Let’s calculate the overall if you don’t mind:

Amount of money made on trades (non-registered): +648.87$

Non-registered portfolio current value: 114 257.34$

Securities book value: 117 836.15$

-3 578.81$

Interest on debt that are part from the non-registered portfolio: -3 564.03$

Dividend gain so far: 6 768.30$

+648.87$ -3 578.81$ -3 564.03$ + 6 768.30$

= +274.33$

This means that I am finishing the year 2011 with a POSITIVE gain of +274.33$ inside my non-registered portfolio.

This is actually VERY VERY good.

Why should be happy about a gain of +274.33$?

BECAUSE AT LEAST, I AM NOT LOOSING MONEY.

Don’t forget: if my loses exceed my gain, its game over.

No more investments, no more blog.

As usual, I am invincible. I consider myself lucky for not finishing on a negative note actually. I know my way to calculate is like unconventional, I am not counting the 30% taxes on the dividend income ok, but a girl does what she can do.

Will 2012 be as much WILD?

We are going to find out soon...