On March 4, 2019, I boldly entered the market with leverage after getting shredded in weed stocks, to no fault but my own greed. My leverage in the new plan included:$100,000 on Margin$65,000 in Unsecured Lines of CreditTOTAL LEVERAGE: $165,000The idea was simple: buy undervalued stocks that yield more in total than what you pay [...]
The Black Swan theory was chronicled by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his popular 2007 book “The Black Swan”. Taleb writes about extremely rare or highly improbable events that have a major market impact, positive or negative, which impact global markets. The current Coronavirus scare originating in Wuhan, China has investors spooked. At the time of [...]
2019 marked the beginning of a new—and crazy—adventure. In March, I decided to leverage my portfolio in dividend paying stocks, borrowing $150,000 in both personal loans and margin accomplish this. At the time, the market had rebounded significantly from its December 2018 lows. In hindsight, everything is 20/20; what I should have done was go [...]
Last March I entered the investing foray by leveraging my portfolio to basket of twenty stocks. I was searching for a way to keep track of everything, and found it in Sharesight. Let me take you on a tour. Main Page: The main page shows your overall portfolio performance in various forms. I’ve chosen a [...]
The theme this month is VALUE. Talk on the street (and by street I mean dissemination through public channels) is that big money is moving back into value stocks. Since August 2019, many stocks have rebounded 10-30%, and indexes like the TSX are breaching all-time highs. Followers of this blog know that I have been [...]
A look at Canadian energy stocks since 2014 will make your head spin. Here are three examples: Baytex, Vermillion, and Crescent Point - pick any other energy stock and the chart looks roughly the same. They have been decimated, many losing upwards of 90% of value: So, this begs the question: Are these companies profitable? [...]
Let me start off with a small reflection: I am feeling bearish. And with good reason. The Trump/China affair is putting serious downward pressure on global stocks, coupled with sentiment that global growth is slowing and a recession is imminent within the next 12 months. What does this mean for my leveraged portfolio? First, it [...]
