Bought .4% position in PAL to bring position to 2%. Price was $5.10 down 6.6%
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Bought more PAL – North American Palladium
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Bought more ABX – Barrick Gold
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Bought 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, 2008Sold entire .5% SUN position at $43.96 – 17% loss on position.
Sold VLO – Valero
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Sold 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, 2008Bought another .5% OPCDF – Optio Canada (oil sands) at $21.99 USD to bring position to 2%.
Sold CX – Cemex
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Sold .75% Cemex position (entire position) at 29.21 for 10% gain
Bought more EWC – iShares MSCI Canada
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Added another .75% EWC to bring position to 2% at $33.58 (up 1.63% on day)
Bought ABX – Barrick Mining
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Bought a 1% position in Barrick Mining (gold) at 39.75
Bought NEM – Newmont Mining
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Bought a 1% position in Newmoint Mining (gold) at 45.9164
Sold part of HTE Harvest Energy Trust position
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Sold 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.