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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Happy birthday Brian Mulroney

Today is Brian Mulroney birthday. Last one before being put in prison.

I had been quite busy lately. I have to say, I took lot of free time when I wasn’t working at one of my 2 jobs. So when I am not working, I walk, walk, walk. I no longer have a metro/bus pass. Sometimes after work, I just walk around downtown before hitting back home. The walk from downtown Montreal to my place is about 1 hour. Those days, I had been walking more than 2 hours per day. It’s better this way because it allow be to not spend to much time in front of my computer watching my units and stocks going down, down, and down again. The European crisis may be a lot heavier than what I taught. Actually, when the crisis is there just in front of me, I never know what to think about it. The European crisis didn’t affect my portfolio as badly as the crisis of 2008. My portfolio had loss a lot in value and I decide not to update it for now. Not that I don’t want to exposes publicly my losses, but I feel kind of sad because I was way on track to reach the 90 000$ in assets for the month June or July. But it’s looking like nothing of this will happen. Well not the way it is known. It’s fun to invest, to earn dividend, but the stock market is sooo volatile, it’s crazy. The volatility of the market never scare me, but the ups and downs of the market are just destroying my 100 000$ assets goal. Anyhow, good news is, the companies I invested in are still going to pay dividends, European crisis or not. Well at least for now. Because of course the situation could change. I didn’t open my margin account yet because of the recent TSX point’s loss. It would be so fun i it something that could be done through the phone, but TD Waterhouse told me its something that needed to be done at a TD Canada Trust branch. And no credit evaluation needed, from what I was told. And no minimum payment required each month. Margin is still new to me, so I want to read more about it and I may call TD Waterhouse to ask any questions I may have about it. But for now, I don’t feel like getting into margin at all. So nothing had moved regarding my project that was to pay off 2 credit lines by using the money of my margin account. This project is pending for now.

My budget for June…

With the paycheck I received today plus the paycheck I will be receiving next week, I will have just enough money to pay off everything. I will just miss some money to pay my credit expenses, the one I use to pay for groceries and all other living expenses. So I will need part of my earnings of the first week of June to actually pay my expenses, but that’s ok. My next investment will be probably in July. July is a good month as I will be receiving 5 paychecks, as there are 5 weeks for the month of July.

Four Pillars Blog change its name for Money Smarts Blog

Back on May 16, a very well-known money blog had changed name from Four Pillars to Money Smarts. Four Pillars was such more a powerful title, powerful in the sense it was more original. The current blog title do not mean anything. It’s just too common. Just like if I will name my blog something like: Making money online or some boring stuff like it with no essence. Ok, myfirst50000.com may not be seen as very impressive but I have a very fun time with it and hey, it’s my blog after all. And the ex-Four Pillars now Money Smarts Blog logo just look… cheap. Ok, I may appear pretty mean here, but it’s not my blog who drive thousands of visitors per month lol. The Money Smarts Blog logo is a look-alike Walmart logo: cheap look. Anyhow, on his road to success, Four Pillars had lost his soul by wanted to be too much commercial. But guess what? I am not a fan of commercial stuff. I want the do-it-by-your-own stuff, not some stuff being written by some literate financial dude. And I pretty sure that people out there want to read about a girl being laid off from BMO Bank of Montreal rather than reading the too smooth stories of a young fortunate, well-educated young man right? lol The author of the Money Smarts Blog remains the same as for the Four Pillars, but now, it’s not the same good old stuff. It’s now a Money Smarts: boring ideas for your money.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Brian Mulroney or liar liar: the scandalous affair of a Quebecker, ex Prime Minister of Canada

Need another example of why Quebec needs to be kick out of Canada ASASP? Politicians like Brian Mulroney, corruption affairs coming directly straight from Quebec province are costing honorable Canadians like myself millions of dollars each year. Yep, Brian Mulroney is a Quebecker born in Baie-Comeau in 1939. Brian Mulroney will be celebrating his birthday on this upcoming May 20. If I count right, Brian Mulroney will be celebrating his 71 birthday.

It’s been reported that related to the Schreiber affairs, Brian Mulroney had been reimbursed close to $2 million in legal costs. And where the money had been taking from? From my taxes, from everybody else taxes! Scandalous! Poor living are living in the streets, some families are having problem to make ends reach and the poor man is getting his lawyers cost being refunded by money that could had help people in need. But guess the poor old man that is Brian Mulroney does not care about that! Brian Mulroney does not care at all about the welfare of real Canadians. The only thing Brian Mulroney had ever cared about is himself.

Watch out: it’s not the first time that legal costs are being refunded to Brian Mulroney. I don’t remember anything about it as I was too young at the time to understand what was going on, but back in 1997, Brian Mulroney had appeared in court for what had been known the Airbus affair. Back than, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was investigating allegations where it’s been told that Brian Mulroney had been accepting bribes in the retribution of contracts, Airbus contracts in this case. Later on, the case was closed but had resurfaced again in 2000 with the explosion of the Schreiber affair.

Can you imagine: in total, its not close to $2 million that Brian Mulroney had cost to Canadians, but we are taking of an amount of close to $4 million! $2.1 million reimbursement for legal cost regarding the Airbus affair and 1.8$ million reimbursement for legal cost regarding the Schreiber affair.

Brian Mulroney had cost to Canada more than $4 million in legal cost. And where the money had been taking from? Not from Brian Mulroney pockets of course, but from ours, from our taxes. You’re getting a taste here of what Quebeckers are as people and as Canadians: blood suckers. I experiment it myself, me Neo Brunswicker, I had experiment it with my laid off of BMO Bank of Montreal and it many more occasions. If you want a friendly advice, if you are a new immigrant, student, job seeker: to not come to Quebec province. Quebeckers will only make you loose your time and money. And Quebec shit needs to remain in Quebec, and in Quebec only. I had written previously about my experience at the Montreal call center of BMO Bank of Montreal. You can do a search in the search engine located in the right column if you want a taste of the shit... As for the other stories, I will write about them later on. But as for now, let’s talk about Brian Mulroney. Soon 71 years old, but not that much of a man.

When it comes to Brian Mulroney, historians are used to talk about 2 affairs: the Airbus affair and the Schreiber affair. But when reading about it, the 2 affairs are so closely related to each other that we could talked about 1 big scandalous affair. Not to say that Brian Mulroney is a scandalous man. Period.

So basily, we could say that the Schreiber affair begins as early as 1997, at the time the Airbus affair had been publicly exposed. So its all begin as early as 1995 when there have been suspicions about the affair. But the case itself begin in 1988 and involved Brian Mulroney, Air Canada and Airbus. The Airbus deal generated billion of dollars to Brian Mulroney elite close friends. Brian Mulroney himself had touched 300 000$ directly from the Airbus deal. The deal was the selling of 34 Airbus A-320 jets to Air Canada. Behind the deal was the man who later on denounced it all: Karlheinz Schreiber. Karlheinz Schreiber had paid Brian Mulroney a commission of 300 000$ for the deal to be book between Airbus and Air Canada. Karlheinz Schreiber had talked about a commission of $300 000 and Brian Mulroney of $225 000. Who do you believe between the two?

In 1997, the case resurfaces, but the investigations had been close too quickly by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The case resurfaces shortly in the years 2000. With the testimony of Karlheinz Schreiber, the case finally had been reopened. This episode is known as being the Schreiber affair. Karlheinz Schreiber, a German business man is the one who made the investigation possible. Without him, no one would had never known what kind of man is Brian Mulroney, a dishonorable cheater. The investigation had been taking place in May 2009 under the name of Oliphant inquiry. The Oliphant inquiry is an independent review of the allegations between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Ex-Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. David Johnston is the Independent Adviser of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The review is being done independently, even if the adviser reported himself to Stephen Harper. More than just lawyers’ fee, this commission itself is costing thousands of dollars, if not million to Canadians. And who pay for it? Certainly not Brian Mulroney, but us, people of the country, the real Canadians! The Oliphant inquiry had been going on since 2007. Which mean that since 2007, honorable Canadians had been paying for a commission needed because the dishonorable Brian Mulroney had been hiding the facts and the true for more than 20 years!

During the Oliphant inquiry, Brian Mulroney publicly declared that he had accepted $225 000 from Karlheinz Schreiber. In this affair, Brian Mulroney had said that he didn’t break no laws or ethical guidelines. For the Quebecker that is Brian Mulroney, it was ok to advantage of his position as chief of the Canadian military. The affair concerns the possession of Airbus Jets to Air Canada and also the purchase of vehicles for peacekeeping work. So now you understand why we are here talking about billion of dollars being involved in the Airbus-Schreiber affair. The affair is still going on, the Oliphant final report is expected to be released at the end of May. Time for Canadians to recover from financial loss that the affair had bring, but also time to recover in dignity and hope that Brian Mulroney will finish his days in jail for the financial crime that he is not intelligent enough to recognize. This Quebecker had been Canada Prime Minister for 9 years: between September 17, 1984 to June 25, 1993! Unbelievable!

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Yellow Pages Income Fund dividend for the month of May are in the house

I just received 29.14$ this evening from Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN). On Monday, the dividend should DRIP and provide me at least 4 new units! Thanks Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN). The dividend just keep adding up!

The Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund: 5 months after the departure of mutual fund manager Steve Martin

Back on February 2, 2010, Shirley Won from the Globe and Mail had announced that Steve Martin, one of the managers of the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund, was leaving Creststreet Asset Management Ltd. At the time, when I learned that Steve Martin was leaving the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund behind, I decided to do the same thing. And it appears it was the correct thing to do.

Back than, I was holding 29.229 units of Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund – Class A. I was able to sell the fund, making a profit of 100$ after commission. Originally, it’s 1 000$ that I had invested in the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund. On date of today, the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund had lost in value. You could blame the TSX points loss of Friday, but I had been checking on Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund quite often since Steve Martin departure and ever since, the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund had loss in value. Not that much, but still. The fund may not be able to reach 142% annual gain ever again without Steve Martin.

Just verify the graphic from February 2010 to today for yourself… All the way down. In January, when Steve Martin was still a manager of the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund, the fund had reached its highest point, reaching a value of more than 43$ per unit. Can you simply imagine what could had happened if Steve Martin would had remained at Creststreet? The units could have reached the value of 45$ by now, making me even richer… Interesting isn’t? Steve Martin was that of a good mutual fund manager. Wonder what he does now.

Getting rich and richer: stories about investment, laid off, and poor BMO Bank of Montreal banking system

This last Friday, I close the day with a non registered portfolio at 48 077.23$. This includes, of course, my new investment of today, 100 units of PGF.UN. The TSX loss a bit more than 100 points, so I won’t update my portfolio, it requires too much work for little results. A quick look at my investments let me think that the overall is quite stable. I was quite happy to make another investment this Friday. I really taught I would not be able to invest in anything for the month of May, but it appears that I was wrong. I hope to invest again in June and if possible, that time it will be 100 stocks of CDL.A and luckily, by that time, my investment portfolio will worth more than 90 000$. Until I reach the magic 100 000$, I will be working mostly exclusively at investment. I had wrote different things about what I will be doing with my money for the next couple of months, thinking about paying debt, margin, etc…. But once again I have chance my mind and I decide to exclusively invest until I reach my assets goal. Having more than 37 000$ in debts do not bother be at all actually. My debt never really bothers me too much actually.

As you can imagine, I am currently out of cash, I am waiting for my next 2 paychecks in order to be able to pay for my June expenses and even there, I may not have enough o cover all of June expenses. So some earnings of June will be use to pay the month of June itself… I am the one who decide to invest in 100 units of PGF.UN so I have to live with my decision, not that I regret it. It’s just I am imposing myself a very restricted budget. But I haven’t been saving as much money as I could lately, I did not control my expenses too much. For now am in good position anyhow. I just cannot wait to reach the 90 000$ in assets! Might be by the end of the summer if everything goes well.

Other project on the way for the Dividend Girl:

-Start a margin on my broker account to pay off 10 000$ in credit lines debt
I currently have a debt of 5 000$ at 8% at TD Canada Trust on a credit line. I also have a 5 000$ at 3.5% at BMO Bank of Montreal. I want to pay off my credit line at BMO Bank of Montreal for the simple and good reason that I got laid off from BMO Bank of Montreal and do no longer wants to give any of my business to BMO Bank of Montreal.. At the time they decide to layoff me from the Montreal call centre, shortly after giving a 5 000$ credit line and a 4 000$ value credit card, no one at BMO Bank of Montreal knew about my investments. By spilling on me, BMO Bank of Montreal has to say good bye to a future 100 000$ + dividend + interest rates and everything else.

Anyhow, just to come back on the center of my topic, 8% is kind of a huge interest rate for a credit line. I once call TD Canada Trust on how I could get a better interest rate. According to the representative I talked to before, I need to present myself at a TD branch with a copy of my credit score. Not enough for TD to have in their hands half of my fortune, TD is as bad as I am, they want always MORE. I know I should, but I don’t want to get a look at my credit score for now, but I want to be able to get a better interest rate. The margin at T D Waterhouse is at a real fantastic 3.5%. I post a couple of times about margin on my blog. At first, it came as a good solution. But after, I got scared of it and than after, I decide well, just to go ahead with it. Not only that I want to ruin BMO Bank of Montreal business, but I also want to get out of their silly banking system. Want to know what I am taking about? Last month, I came across this situation I pay my BMO Bank of Montreal on the first of the month or close by. But the payment had not be consider for the month of April, but as for the month of March because I had paid before my billing cycle date, which is the 5th of each month. So in result, I had been considered as being one month late in my payment and in result, I had to pay an extra 100$ on my minimum monthly payment. I never went to go through this again. I never had experiment such things at TD and with all the other institutions I had deal with. Do you really want to know why I am having this kind of problem with BMO Bank of Montreal only? Because BMO Bank of Montreal whole banking system suck. That’s why. I want to make sure I won’t get any problem anymore. I don’t want BMO Bank of Montreal to make money on the interest of the credit line anymore. I prefer to give ALL of my business to TD Canada Trust who had been there for me since 2005. I just need to get my margin approve at T D Waterhouse and, in the case I am being refused, I will close everything. Scary isn’t?

Friday, May 14, 2010

Welcome again Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN), 100 new units of PGF.UN in my investment portfolio!

I just purchase 100 units of Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN) at 10.50$! Nice deal. Going to be fun to update my portfolio again tonight. I want a terrific day for the TSX.

I also received my dividend for Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN). I had received 54.08$ from PIF.UN.

Got to go on the run for work now.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

More dividend money to come

Yesterday, the TSX gain some valuable points and it had a positive effect on my portfolio. I updated my investment portfolio and I close May 12 at a fantastic 88 709.51$. I also bring some changes to my blog. If you blog using the Blogger platform, you may have notice that bloggers can now bring pages to their blog. I did created mines. It makes the whole thing lot better than having all the data compress on my right column. I find it better this way.

Anyhow, I can say that I fully recover from the Dark Friday lost (of May 7). I read that the crash may had been caused by a Citigroup employee and that Barack Obama had opened an investigation to make sure than no other crash of this nature happen. Opening an investigation is a good idea because in my case, it almost took me a full week to recover from the Friday money loss. A crash like the one of May 7 is certainly not good for the stock market. And it’s certainly not good for myself as for small investors. And for everyone else.

My last paycheck received today bring my savings to 1 230.45$. And as you can imagine, I did what I was supposed just to do in June: I transferred money into my broker account!

I bring in 1 130$ into my TD credit line, which bring to 1280$ the money I now have available for investment. I just need to transfer the money into my broker account. And voilà, I am ready for another trade! Yeah! So now, what am I going to do with 1 280$? I know I had talked about CDL.A, but that once is for June. In June, we have 5 weeks, which mean 5 paychecks and I may find the money to invest in 100 stocks of CDL.A at that time. As for now, I have money available and I want it out of my saving account!

This is the fabulous dividend income:

From my non registered investment portfolio:
Sprott Inc. (SII): 512 stocks x 0.16$ = 81.92$
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): 106 stocks x 1.96$ = 207.76$
Methanex Corporation (MX): 103 stocks x 0.62$ = 63.86$
Fortis (FTS): 105 stocks x 1.12$ = 117.60$
Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN): 413 units x 1.56$ = 644.28$
Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN): 731 units x 1.44$ =
1 052.64$
Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN): 437 units x 0.804$ = 351.35$
Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (BA.UN): 100 units x 2.904$ = 290.40$
Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN): 106 units x 0.84$ = 89.04$
Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN): 308 units x 1.152$ = 354.82$
Corby Distilleries (CDL.A): 100 stocks x 0.56$ = 56$
Davis + Henderson Income Fund (DHF.UN): 100 units x 1.836$ = 183.60$
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH): 200 stocks x
1.176$ = 235.20$
TOTAL: 3 728.47$

From my Tax-free savings account (TFSA) portfolio:
Consumers’ Waterheater Income Fund (CWI.UN): 400 units x 0.65$ = 260$
TOTAL: 260$

From my RSP portfolio:
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 100 stocks x 0.80$ = 80$
Emera Incorporated (EMA): 200 stocks x 1.132$ = 226.40$
TOTAL: 306.40$

4 294.87$ + an extra 100$ from DRIP = 4 394.87$

I am now at an official 4 294.87$ in dividend income and at a nonofficial 4 394.87$. My dividend incomes slowly grow. What I don’t like about earning dividend inside a RSP is that dividend cannot be cash out, everything that been earned inside a RSP account have to remain inside the RSP account. Of course it can be remove from the RSP, but huge penalties will need to be paid, making cashing out dividend from RSP impossible.

With the TFSA, its possible to cash out dividend. I recently discover something with T D Waterhouse. T D Waterhouse authorize 1 free withdraws per year out of the TFSA. All extra withdraws are being charged 35$ or something like it by T D Waterhouse. AWFUL! But of course, brokers like T D Waterhouse, even if its own by TD Canada Trust, they are there to make money from investors. Even for more sophisticated investors (100 000$ in assets and up), the rule is the same: 1 free withdraws from the TFSA per year. Only one! Extremely annoying because I had 32$ in cash I would had like to withdraw. But when I learned the 1 withdraw per year rule; I decide to leave the little sum of money just where it is right now.

You might wonder what this post is all about, where am I going with all this stuff. Well, I have an awesome announcement to make!

3 728.47$: current dividend earn in my non registered portfolio
260$: current dividend earn in my TFSA

3 728.47$ + 260$ = 3 988.47$

I am very close to the 4 000$ in dividend earning with those 2 right? I mean dividend money that I can benefit from without penalties, if it’s just of that 1 withdraw rule for the TFSA.

With the money I currently have available, I decide to invest in 100 units of Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN). Currently, Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN) is at a bargain price. PGF.UN had made huge profit. The company is in good position and don’t forget, PGF.UN is being hold by Derek Foster. PGF.UN had once paid more than 2$ per unit in dividend. Due to the economy, the dividend distribution had been reduced. But at 84 cents annual distribution, PGF.UN is still a good player. Myself, I got scared when PGF.UN had announced their distribution cut so I sell PGF.UN. But since I do no hold thousands of dollars in cash, I have to look into affordable investment and PGF.UN is one of those affordable investments. Also, I wanted to bring an extra 100 units of PGF.UN in order to benefit from the DRIP. I won’t benefit that much, I will be earning 1 unit per month of PGF.UN, but its still worth it. Same thing for CDL.A, I want to invest in 100 extra stocks of CDL.A to benefit from the DRIP.

3 988.47$ + 100 units of PGF.UN at an annual dividend of 84 cents (84$)
= 4 072.47$

My newest investment will bring my dividend available money to 4 072.47$! I have exceed the 4 000$, which is nice. Overall, including the RSP dividend, I will be at a nice 4 478.87$. Next step will be to reach 5 000$ in dividend available money. I am not too far away without too much efforts, if not of looking at the TSX going up and down.

I am currently working at one the lowest income I have ever earned in my life. Before, I use to work at several jobs, multiple hours to make that of a salary so I can have money to invest. With my current situation, I make an average of 500$ per week after taxes. I may plan to remain on the same track. Why? Because of the taxes.

500$ x 52 weeks = 26 000$

For the fiscal year of 2010, I can invest a bit more than 7 000$ in my RSP.

26 000$ - 7 000$ = 19 000$

To this amount, we need to bring the dividend earnings from my non registered portfolio. But still, dividends are not being taxes that much. At this point, I will have to pay taxes on an income of a bit more than 19 000$. This is not bad at all. If I earn more, I will have to pay more in taxes. And I don’t really want to pay more taxes. Even if it’s mean having more money to invest. So that’s the scheme for now, until I change my mind. :)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

My stock investment portfolio in date of May 10, 2010

Savings:
844.64$

Non registered Investments:
Stocks & Units investment portfolio

Sprott Inc. (SII): 2 073.60$
Timminco (TIM): 134$
Blue Note Mining (BNT): 40$
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): 5 459$
Hanwei Energy Services (HE): 118.50$
Methanex Corporation (MX): 2 387.54$
Fortis (FTS): 2 843.40$
Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN):
7 587.84$
Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN): 9 459.14$
Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN):
2 748.73$
Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund
(BA.UN): 2 564$
Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN): 1 134.20$
Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN): 4 296.60$
Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A): 1 550$
Davis + Henderson Income Fund (DHF.UN):
1 740$
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH):
2 590$
Cash: 9.88$

TOTAL: 46 736.43$

Tax-free savings account (TFSA):
RBC O’Shaughnessy Canadian Equity Fund:
2 722.62$
The Consumers’ Waterheater Income Fund
(CWI.UN): 2 072$
Sprott Canadian Equity Fund:
5 253.11$
Dumont Nickel Inc. (DNI): 345$
Cash: 32.49$

TOTAL: 10 425.22$

RSP investment portfolio:
Claymore Gold Bullion ETF (CGL): 2 172$
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 3 211$
Emera Incorporated (EMA): 4 842$
Cash: 259.21$

CIBC Dividend Growth Fund: 501.94$
CIBC Emerging Markets Index Fund: 405.44$
CIBC Monthly Income Fund: 1 010.22$

Energy and Base Metals Term Savings (Indexed term savings): 546.25$
Natural Resources Term Savings (Indexed term
savings): 502.06$

GIC National Bank: 1 170$
GIC Finance Plus: 1 513.97$
GIC Plus: 500$

TD Canadian Bond: 113.37$
TD Monthly Income: 105.05$
TD Emerging Markets: 79$
TD Energy: 80.97$
TD Precious Metals: 111.38$
TD Latin American Growth: 91.32$
TD Entertainment & Communications: 104.12$
TD Dividend Growth: 199.25$
TD U.S. Mid-Cap Growth: 102.21$

Maritime Life International Equity Fund
(Templeton): 609.61$
Manulife Simplicity Growth Portfolio: 849.09$
Maritime Life CI Harbour Seg Fund: 974.85$
Maritime Life Fidelity True North Seg Fund: 945.24$
Maritime Life Trimark Europlus Seg Fund: 565.69$

Great-West – various: 1 753.62$

RBC Canadian Dividend Fund: 510.58$
RBC U.S. Mid-Cap Equity Fund C$: 1 817.04$
RBC Global Resources Fund: 889.09$
RBC O’Shaughnessy International Equity Fund:
564.44$
RBC O’Shaughnessy All-Canadian Equity
Fund: 1 017.99$

GIC Canadian Market: 1 000$

TOTAL: 29 118$

Social Capital at Desjardins Membership share
for 3 accounts:
40$

Savings + Stocks, units, mutual funds + Tax-
free Savings account + RRSP + Online Income
(25.44$):

87 189.73$
[In date of May 10, 2010]

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Trading Dumont Nickel (DNI) online

Remember that I own Dumont Nickel (DNI) in my portfolio and that had been trying for month now to make a profit out of this investment by selling my 23 000 stocks at 4 cents? Well, this haven’t happen yet and its been almost a year… lol.

On today May 11, Dumont Nickel stocks had rollback 8 to 1. This mean that I no longer own 23 000 stocks of Dumont Nickel. I now own I believe 2 875 stocks of Dumont Nickel. I say I believe because nothing had been changed in my broker account when it come to Dumont Nickel, if note just a « * » following the investment with still 23 000 stocks. I completely forgot about this and of course, during the day, when I saw DNI going from 0.015 cents to 15 cents, I got a taught, oh yeah, the rollback. No problem, but…

I had a sell order open to sell Dumont Nickel at 4 cents per stock. Since I forgot about the rollback, my sell offer at 4 cents for Dumont Nickel was still on… And during the day at work I wonder what was going to happen of my Dumont Nickel investment, if it was going to be sell or what. But it didn’t get sell, the order had simply been cancel… OUF! What a release. So now I just have to renew my sell order for Dumont Nickel once everything will be fix in my broker account. I hope it will be for tomorrow.

I originally purchased 23 000 stocks of Dumont Nickel at 3 cents per stock, for an investment value of 690$ + 29$ in commission fee for T D Waterhouse. For a total of 719$. If I want to make a profit out my now 2 875 stocks, I now have to sell at a higher price than 25 cents. I am not in a hurry to make money out of Dumont Nickel. Well not now, bt back in the summer of last year, I had made my investment in Dumont Nickel in order to make a quick sell and bring a 200$ in for the summer… But of course, it never happen… lol….. such memories.

Currently, Dumont Nickel no longer Dumont Nickel. The company new name is DNI Metals Inc. From my understanding, the company will continue to trade under DNI.

Monday, May 10, 2010

My stock investment portfolio gain 1 478.58$ today

Today had been a Sunny Monday, I just couldn’t wait for my day at work to be over so I can update my portfolio and see now things went on the stock market.

I close the day at a good 87 189.73$, which represent a gain of 1 478.58$ compare to May 7.

Back on May 1, my stock investment portfolio was at 88 632.34$. So compare to May 1, I am still experiencing a loss of 1 442.61$. But the gain of today were quite positive so hopefully, I will be once again near the 89 000$ in assets very soon.
 

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