T.U.B Investing

I had sold off ALL OF MY POSITIONS in The Trendlines Group Ltd . Initially, I believed my losses to be more than 50% due to my excel tracking. But after I calculated, the losses is about 40% instead after holding for about 1.5 years. Nevertheless, it is still a major hit to my portfolio. The main reason why I decided to take the losses was due to a few reasons: - I want to have more cash for my margin REIT strategy (Do note I do not add funds to my portfolio. Thus, if I had a new idea, I will probably need to sell an old idea.) - It is not really about the company. Having already written numerous pieces of the company, I still believe it is a good company. But it is probably not suited to investors living in Singapore whom believes significantly in dividend. Thus, when the company did not release any dividend during the Full Year Report, I decided it was time to breakup with it. - My new investment enlightenment/philosophy – The importance of certainty and comfort-ab...

Recently, I had emailed 2 separate companies' investor relations department. Both of the companies are in my portfolio but only 1 had replied. I am still waiting for the other company to reply... For those that have been waiting for this interview, sorry for the delay. Here it is - An Interview with The Trendlines Group! Do note that some of the questions came from other investors of The Trendlines Group. 1. Trendlines Group (aka Trendlines) has a decrease in the portfolio value as per the latest financial statement. May I know if it is due to writing off of companies? No companies were written off in Q2 2018. Only one company was written off in Q1 2018 due to lack of sufficient technological advancement and funding (amounting to approximately US$0.8 million - reported in the Notes to Income on page 14 of our Unaudited Financial Statements Q1 2018).  The decrease was mainly due to a decrease of US$2.3 million in the fair value of Stimatix GI Ltd., which was because of a...

This article may have came a bit too late. I felt I have to write another article about The Trendlines Group Ltd (Trendlines) after my last post on them, as well as my very bold estimation of Trendlines on IN. Screenshot from IN But since the last post and estimation, Trendlines share price has been on a downtrend on a prolong period. Screenshot from IN I am not sure if the post or estimation have influenced anyone to purchase Trendlines. Nevertheless I still felt that I had to be responsible and thus, I will write out my current thoughts on Trendlines. First of all, I will like you to know that I am still vested in Trendlines (about 2.5% of my portfolio). Why am I still vested? If you had read my previous post on Trendlines, other than point 1*, all the other positive points are still relevant. Some of these points, as elaborated below, have become even more advantageous! *CEOs did not continue to purchase Trendlines and the company also did not made...

As a blogger, I like to write about my analysis to keep track of what I thought of the counter previously and if the situation have change now. Therefore, I decided to do a general review on all the counters that I wrote in 2017 for this post. I believe I will be able to pick up some factors that I could improve on next year so that I can eventually make more gains! *Do note that I will only be doing a review on counters I wrote a full post on. Those that had more than 1 counters in the post will not be tagged in this review. *Click on the date to refer back to the old posts. Counter 1: Bukit Sembawang Estates Ltd ( 23 Jan 2017 ) This first article in 2017 is a counter I have been vested since 2016. Bukit Sembawang Estates Ltd is a major property giant with a huge land bank. While all the property firms are busy participating in the current en-bloc frenzy, the company do not need to do anything due to its huge land bank. Decisions In 2018 I really like Bukit S...

Being a blogger and yet an investor of this company, I met Reyna at the Invest Fair 2017. She is the Financial PR rep office of The Trendlines Group Ltd (aka Trendlines) . Even though she is not a direct rep of Trendlines, she was able to answer my questions very clearly. This was unlike the other companies there whose employees are unable to answer some of the simple question I posted. She impressed me with her understanding of the company and I immediately went back and bought Trendlines' share – a small portion but this is a start. Then 1 week later, she actually invited me to Trendlines' management briefing. I agreed straight away. So guess what happens after the briefing? I bought more of Trendlines after the briefing. The reason is because despite having 2 CEOs, Todd Dollinger and Steve Rhodes, they seem to be able to complement each other very well. In addition, they were upfront, honest and were able to articulate their strategy very well to the ...