5 Reasons why I am buying convertible ETF SPDR Barclays Capital Convertible Bond ETF (CWB) February 3, 2010
Posted by deminvest in Convertible Bonds, Defensive Stock, Internet stocks, bonds, etf, investment, investment strategies.add a comment
Convertible Bonds are Bonds that take advantage of stock performance
1) Convertible Bonds seem great:
- they guarantee returns like Bonds,
- they also offer opportunity to take advantage of stock market growth
- they should be quite safe, because at the end of their lifetime they can give the capital back if stockprice is below convert price
2) SPDR Barclays Capital Convertible Bond ETF (CWB) offers a nice yield: it pays monthly $0.072 which makes yearly $0.864 representing 2.3% of its $37 current price.
3) Expenses for this ETF are 0.4%, which is not too much, even though usually ETF charge less
4) CWB is defensive as compared to stocks. It tracks the S&P 500 but with less volatility and with much less downswing
5) last but not least, CWB is the only ETF for convertible Bonds, so I don’t have much choice.
Here it is. The iPad sucks. I had guessed right. January 27, 2010
Posted by deminvest in AAPL, Apple, Nasdaq stock, growth stock, nasdaq.Tags: eBook, iPad, ITablet, Kindle, Steve Jobs
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I had guessed right the iPad sucks. It is just an overgrown iPhone that we can’t hold in our pockets or purses.
My guesses were right.
6 Reasons why Apple ITablet sucks. Or should I say IPad sucks? January 26, 2010
Posted by deminvest in AAPL, Apple, Nasdaq stock, growth stock, investment, nasdaq.Tags: E Ink, electronic paper, Ibook, iPad, ITablet, Kindle, tablet
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imagine holding the ITablet in one hand while typing on the Subay
1) We can’t use Apple iPad to read books because it doesn’t have E Ink electronic paper display like Amazon’s Kindle . Apple iPad will emit light and tire our eyes. We can only read our last book on the IBook.
2) We can’t use Apple iPad to make phonecalls: too big to carry around
3) We can’t use it in the office: We type better on our keyboad. We also need a large screen to do 15 tasks at the same time.
4) We can’t use it at home: we like to type from the sofa at home. With our laptop we lay the keyboard on our legs, the screen will be in front of our eyes so we can use both hands to type or move around the pointer. Try to do that with a tool that doesn’t have a keyboard. Our spouses aren’t going to be willing to hold the IBook in front of our sofa, so we can use both hands to type.
5) We can’t use in the car. We have to drive
6) We can’t use it in the bus. Too unstable: the iTablet is meant to be held in one hand while the other hand types and works. At first stop or sharp curve it will slip out of our hand. I won’t be usable in a crowded subway where anybody can easily grab and run out with our $1000 toy.
I changed my mind. “Votingmachine” convinced me, so I just bought 15 RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIMM) at $63.7 each. January 21, 2010
Posted by deminvest in Nasdaq stock, RIMM, Research in Motion, growth stock, investment, nasdaq.Tags: Blackberry, mobile computing, smartphones
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A passionate and smart Blackberry user and RIMM investors convinced me to change opinion and buy RIMM shares. I just bought 15 RIMM shares, at $ 63.72 each, spending $955.80 plus $ 4.50 in commissions stolen by zecco.com.
In mobile computing era, can Blackbarry (RIMM) and Nokia (NOK) keep up with Apple’s (AAPL) and Google’s (GOOG) innovation speed? January 18, 2010
Posted by antibeppegrillo in Google, NOK, Nasdaq stock, RIMM, Research in Motion, goog, growth stock, investment, nasdaq, nokia.Tags: Blackberry, innovation, Iphone, mobile computing, Nexus, smartphones
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A BlackBerry vs a Google phone Smart phone ‘Nexus One’ vs a cool IPhone
Facts that (amazingly) do not matter:
- Google’s Nexus 2 is a phone that sucks
- Many say that Apple’s IPhone is a phone that sucks
- Blackberry is a great phone and is great for E-mail, Calendar and typing
- Nokia sold great cell phones that work perfectly and are cheap to a Billion humans
If it was just cellphones or smartphones I’d:
- immediately buy a big load of Research in Motion (RIMM) shares that are only priced 13 times forward earnings, 16 times current earnings. Cheap for a company which grew 40% last year and produces the only smartphone suitable for businesses and corporations.
- or I’d get some shares of NOKIA (NOK), which is still World market leader, yields 5% dividends, is priced 0.8 times current sales and has Forward P/E supposed to be 13.
Compared to Apple’s and Google’s Forward P/E in the twenties and P/Sales over 5 times, NOK and RIMM look good.
What scares me about RIMM is the fact that we’re moving toward mobile computing. Computing needs even faster innovation than mobile phones or palms or smartphones.
I think Apple and Google will innovate their products at such a speed that they will become great usable tools before everybody else can figure out how to cope with them.
Hate Ketchup, but love Heinz’s fat dividends! I’m buying 23 HNZ shares in 5 minutes December 29, 2009
Posted by deminvest in Defensive Stock, HNZ, Heinz, Single stocks, investment, stock I own, stocks, stocks that pay high dividends.Tags: good taste, ketchup
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Heinz yields 3.9 % dividends. I can hardly resist such juicy dividends, considering that, according to Yahoo finance:
- HNZ has a honest 16 P/E ratio.
- HNZ is supposed to grow its earnings. Next year P/E is supposed to go to 14. (more…)
Just sold 9 Google shares. I now own $5000 worth of free GOOG shares. December 25, 2009
Posted by deminvest in Google, Internet stocks, Nasdaq stock, goog, growth stock, investment, my free stock, risky investments, stock I own, stocks.3 comments
Google shares went up and down between $300 and $600 during last tumultuos 5 years. Thanks to my free stock strategy, several times I managed to buy low and sell high accumulatating 8 free Google shares worth about $5000.
Below the list of my buy and sell operations on GOOG shares. Everytime I managed to get all my money off the table, gain a few dollars and fill my chest of free GOOG shares.
7/1/2005 Buy 4 shares of GOOG @ $290.87/share -$1163.48
11/3/2005 Sell 3 shares of GOOG @ $382.93/share $1148.79
ONE FREE GOOGLE SHARE
One more free stock for me: Intercontinetal Hotel Group [IHG]) happily hit my +40% mark in 5 months! December 11, 2009
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Holiday Inn in China, just 5 minutes from Macao Border
International Hotel Group is a large franchisee owning hotel brands like Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza .
I bought 90 IHG shares on July 20 2009 for USD 10.45 each spending a total amount of $ 940.50 + $4.50 commissions.
Today I sold 65 IHG shares @ $14.66. I made a total amount of $ 952.9.
I am $12 richer and I do own 25 free Intercontinetal Hotel Group shares, which hopefully one day will make me rich, thanks to my free stocks strategy.
One more free stock for me: 3SBIO (SSRX) happily hit my +40% mark! November 23, 2009
Posted by deminvest in 3SBIO Pharma, China stock, growth stock, investment, investment strategies, my free stock.Tags: biotech, Pharma
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3SBio is a Chinese Biotech company.
I bought 110 SSRX shares on Aug 1 2008 for $9.15 each. I spent a total amount of $1001.5
Today I sold 77 SSRX shares @ $13.21. I made a total amount of $ 1017.17.
I am $11 richer and I do own 33 free SSRX shares, which hopefully one day will make me rich, thanks to my free stocks strategy.
I reinforced BIDZ throwing some spare change on that looser November 21, 2009
Posted by deminvest in BIDZ, My investing mistakes, Nasdaq stock, growth stock, investment, nasdaq.Tags: gold, jewlery
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BIDZ lost 75% Since I bought 100 shares for $ 1008.
I checked on Alexa that the online auctioneer’s website still attracts large number of visitors. So I figured I may average down (which usually is a bad idea!) by buying 90 more BIDS for about $230.
Here is my silly order:
Executed Size: 90
Executed Price: 2.47
Let’s see what happens.
