Archive for the ‘Investment Portfolio Changes’ Category

Bought more PAL – North American Palladium

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Bought .4% position in PAL to bring position to 2%. Price was $5.10 down 6.6%

Bought more ABX – Barrick Gold

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Bought another 1% position in ABX at $39.10 to increase total to 2%. Profitability up, production up, hedging stopped and dividend raised.

Sold SUN – Sunoco

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Sold entire .5% SUN position at $43.96 – 17% loss on position.

Sold VLO – Valero

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Sold entire VLO position – 2.5% at $47.23 which represents a 20% loss. Just way to early on this as oil continued climbing putting more margin pressure on the refiners. Still Have TSO, SUN and HTE which are in that segment.

Bought more OPDCF – Opti Canada

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Bought another .5% OPCDF – Optio Canada (oil sands) at $21.99 USD to bring position to 2%.

Sold CX – Cemex

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Sold .75% Cemex position (entire position) at 29.21 for 10% gain

Bought more EWC – iShares MSCI Canada

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Added another .75% EWC to bring position to 2% at $33.58 (up 1.63% on day)

Bought ABX – Barrick Mining

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Bought a 1% position in Barrick Mining (gold) at 39.75

Bought NEM – Newmont Mining

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Bought a 1% position in Newmoint Mining (gold) at 45.9164

Sold part of HTE Harvest Energy Trust position

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Sold 1% piece of HTE at $22.12 USD. Remaining position is about 2%. This company bought a refinery and hasn’t performed well ever since. Just wanted to reduce the risk by dropping the position size a bit.