Monday, May 21, 2007

The ups and downs of speculative investing

I am having a good run with junior stocks (mostly uranium and gold) although they went down somewhat recently. I only put a small amount of money in those stocks just for fun and to try to make some extra money. I still hope that my odds are better than going at the casino :-) Please don't do this unless you're fully aware of the extremely high risks (I could lose it all in a single day!).

I bought all of them early this year with pretty much the same amount in each. Here's my scorecard so far ... you'll see that it's not only positive:

Stock

Ticker

%

Type

Ditem Explorations

DIT-X

62.8

Uranium

Virgin Metals

VGM-T

62.8

Molybednum

Celtic Minerals

CME-X

28.4

Gold

Formation Capital

FCO-T

24.2

Cobalt

Sea Green Capital

SGS-X

15.8

Uranium

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd.

CVV-X

4.7

Uranium

Mundoro Mining

MUN-T

-9.1

Gold

Planet Organic Health

POH-X

-14.1

Retail

San Anton Resource

SNN-T

-17.1

Gold

Grey Island Systems Intl

GIS-X

-18.2

Software

3 comments:

FrugalTrader said...

You're more up than down, that's the important thing!

FT

NonyMous said...

why the one cobalt stock...do ya like the cobalt sector??

The Canadian Money Blogs Reviewer said...

FT: good point :-)

nonymous: I've read in Investors Digest that Cobalt was going to be one of the next minerals to be "hot" and was probably less overvalued at this point. Usual story: demand will increase, offer is limited.

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