100,000 and 170,000 Milestones

Happy New Year to all!  It is a bit late as today is already the 4th day of the Goat Year.  But as the saying goes, "better late than never", wishing all "Huat Ah" in the new year.

Yesterday there was a spike of the page views on my blog and the page view counters crossed "100,000".  I started this humble blog as a personal tracking on my investment and also a logbook for my small boat on the journey to Financial Free Kingdom.  Thanks everyone for the encouragement and support!

On the other front, my stock portfolio values have crossed 170,000 just before the Chinese New Year.  This was more due to the recent stock market run rather than injection of capital by me.

Because of this run, many of my counters are at or near 52 weeks high and it is now more difficult to find VFM (value for money) investment opportunity.

Lastly, wishing everyone luck on the $12 million TOTO Hong Bao draw on 27th February.  Huat Ah!!!

Another piece of the jigsaw - OCBC Bank

In the past week, I took a small nibble in OCBC Bank, and hence collected the first banking stock into my portfolio. Then came the news that OCBC failed to sell United Engineer...

Anyway this is just for diversification and it was really a very small nibble, just 200 shares.  So whatever bad news do not worry me.

I am still short of commodities at the moment.  In the past, I do have Noble Group for a very brief period of time.  At that time, Nobel was still a $2+ stock.  I did not like the volatility, the low dividend yield and got rid of Nobel with a small profit.

I was very lucky with Nobel.  After I sold it off, Nobel keeps sliding downhill.

The FIFA World Cup squad consists of 23 players.  I already have 22 stocks and probably will not go beyond 23......

My Stock Portfolio @ end Jan 2015

No.	Stock Name	Shares	Portfolio%	Avg Cost$	Breakeven$	Market$
1	SGX	4,000	18.53	4.95	3.75	7.77
2	Starhub	6,000	14.95	3.36	2.85	4.18
3	SPH	5,000	12.31	3.99	3.25	4.13
4	SingTel	2,190	5.33	3.37	3.03	4.08
5	SATS	3,000	5.29	3.02	2.95	2.96
6	CapitaMall Trust	4,000	4.98	1.76	1.29	2.09
7	Suntec Reit	4,000	4.48	1.58	1.24	1.88
8	AIMS AMPI Reit	5,000	4.38	1.47	1.36	1.47
9	CapitaLand	2,000	4.15	3.91	3.61	3.48
10	Starhill Global	8,000	3.96	0.74	0.59	0.83
11	CDL HTrust	3,000	3.22	1.66	1.06	1.80
12	SIA Engg	1,000	2.60	4.86	4.68	4.36
13	Keppel Corp	500	2.59	8.18	8.30	8.70
14	Sembcorp Ind	1,000	2.57	4.06	4.12	4.31
15	SPH Reit	4,000	2.52	0.99	0.99	1.055
16	Frasers CT	2,000	2.47	1.81	1.72	2.07
17	CitySpring	5,000	1.62	0.60	0.48	0.545
18	HPH Trust	3,000	1.59	0.90	0.81	0.715
19	Boustead	1,000	1.07	1.44	1.36	1.80
20	Frasers Com Tr	1,000	0.86	1.46	1.52	1.485
21	FE HTrust	1,000	0.50	0.93	0.85	0.845

Movement in my portfolio in Jan:-
Sold:- Sing Post
Bought:- Keppel Corp.

Dividends collected in Jan: $168.92
2015 avg dividends/month: $168.92 [108.7% up month-on-month 2014]


Boring process of building up my passive income portfolio brick-by-brick (bit-by-bit).  

Highlight - Finally overcame my hoarding mentality and sold off Sing Post for 161.0% gain inclusive of dividends collected.  Too bad I did not buy more Sing Post previously.