The Other Side

First I would like to say that I today bought some 200 shares of Home Capital Group at $6.80. I had bought shares in this company in March of this year and have, of course, lost money on them. The market has probably overreacted, but there are tons of problems at this company. Now I will just wait and see how this turns out. I believe that I will have a loss in any event, but perhaps not as great as if I sold today.

This is a very interesting blog by Michael Batnick on The Irreverent Investor . One section I find very interesting is how few stock do well over the longer term. Relatively few stocks tend to do most of the wealth creation by stocks. So he feel that you should try to avoid bad stocks rather than focusing on good stocks. (By the way, CRSP is Center for Research in Security Prices.)

Reading this made me add another column to my Index to my stocks with column entitled Total Return. This will show the IRR I have made over the time I held a stock. Currently I have 50 stocks and of these 2 I have just bought so I do not have IRR values on this. Of the other 48 stocks, I have made a profit on 41 and have a loss on 7. Of these 48 stocks I have 33 stocks with an IRR of 8% or higher. See spreadsheet on this here.

On my other blog I wrote yesterday about Power Financial Corp. (TSX-PWF, OTC-POFNF)... learn more. Tomorrow, I will write about WSP Global Inc. (TSX-WSP, OTC- WSPOF)... learn more on Friday, April 28, 2017 around 5 pm.

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