Monthly Performance

Percentage gains - a slight lift on the last day of the month helped a little, as did some quite volatile stocks that are ignoring the current market conditions, such as DYE, CSM & MRX.

I include all expenses and income. I also adjust for all changes to capital - withdrawals and capital additions. I don't go back further because I only got my cashbook under control last financial year, although dollar value gains are reported for previous years in previous posts.

stevo
Note that although I mention some stocks above my systems would not be buying them now. I have had an individual buy a stock that I mentioned and then blame me when he lost money! We are all responsible for our own actions and decisions.

Another chart - AZZ exit

I noticed that I haven't been posting too many price charts lately. Here is a trade I exited at the end of June for a 31% gain. I have only had 2 other exits since then, BCF & FAN, and they lost around 9% and 6.5% respectively.

In the chart above the ribbon at the bottom of the price chart monitors a share index. Red means that this system turned itself off 5 weeks ago.

stevo

Year end performance

Whilst I can't complain about the performance of this portfolio it could have been better, especially when I compare the results above with the results I got out of the super fund (approx. 50% increase at first glance).

One of the reasons for the poorer performance was coming to grips with some large additions of cash to the portfolio. The trade size jumps dramatically and, whilst I might have a big winner it might be off a substantially reduced position size because I bought it when I had less capital. A big winner in the super fund (IPL) helped out, but I picked up QGC in the results shown above using the smaller capital base.

Both QGC and IPL are up over 200%

stevo

Small Caps Rule! (and another sell)

Out of Oakton on a profit exit (140% gain) - but it doesn't appear to be slowing down.

The Small Ords index has outperformed the All Ords by around 10% over the last year. Many people focus on stocks they know, many of them in the top 100. The biggest gains are in stocks outside the top 100 (ASX100) - those stocks we probably haven't heard of until they pop up in a scan of the entire market.

Stevo

% Gain in a portfolio after adjusting for cash movements

I have tried to get a % gain calculation up based on;
1. The amount in cash and shares at the start of the month,
2. Adjust for withdrawals and additions of cash during the month,
3. Determine the % movement in the portfolio after adjusting for the cash movement.

I get the following graphs as % gains / losses from the spreadsheet, although it is probably not correct to just sum the % moves.



The % gains of my portfolio on a monthly basis are shown below;


It's relatively easy for me to work this out now that I am balancing my cashbook and timing issues over time will be pretty irrelevant.

I better go and check to see if I have to take any action next week.

regards
Stevo