Time really fly, it has been slightly more than 6 months since my first post. Many good things have happen since I started this blog, besides wanting to openly THANK many of the peer retail investors here in dropping by, commenting and interacting with me regularly, I also like to openly recap what I've done (in both stock investing and blogging) so far.
Being a small retail investor, my focus is not on the actual dollar size of my investment(profits/loss) but rather recounting what I've done (at least I can now openly tell others that I've actually traded in stocks and not just NATO [No Action ; Talk Only]).
A. 6 Months Recap In Stock investing:
1. Completed 7 trades involving 5 counters (sold 2 and currently holding 3 counters).
2. Realised Profit of 35.62% (including dividend and taken into consideration of commission/fees).
3. Unrealised Loss of -10.39% (including dividend but have not taken into consideration of the commission/fees)
NOTE : For more details of my actual portfolio, click here. Also, in the absolute dollar sense, my unrealised loss is more than my realised profit but it is OK as I intend to hold on to the counters (especially those that I bought using CPF fund) for longer term.
B. 6 Months Recap In Blogging:
1. Have written 349 posts (including this one) i.e. about 50 blog posts per month.
2. Attracted 86,232 pageviews as at today (including my own views).
3. Attracted a total of 529 comments (including my own comments).
4. Interviewed 21 peer retail investors via my "Interview With Fellow Investors" Blog Series. For details of the interviews, click here.
5. Incorporated a few ads and affiliate links/posts in my blog. So far, the PPC (Pay Per Click) Ads Revenue is only a few cents a day but managed to close an affiliate sale last month (which is to my utter surprise! This is the one that I am referring to).
How about you? What is the highlights of your past 6 months' investing and/or blogging journey?
Cheers!
i only started blogging for 1 month.
ReplyDeleteso far nuffnang $0, infolinks $0. views 4000.
Hi Low Paul,
DeleteKeep going.. traffics is the key for the success of ads revenue. Besides nuffnang and infolinks, when your blog is qualified for Google Adsense (they have a 6-months waiting period for eligibility), you may want to try them out as they are the best ads network at the moment.
Cheers!
One of common mistakes by CPF investment investors,
ReplyDeleteCPF money is like "paper" money. Can see. Can't touch. Never mind. It is for long term. Often they may have forgotten that CPF investment fund is 2.5% CAGR over really long term. At 55, it will become real losses when they need to transfer balance to RA. No?
Uncle CW8888, you are back, sooooo missing your comment! hehehe. Yes, you posted similar comment in my other post before, I already jot it down in my notepad ;-)
DeleteLooking forward to your new sharp and sweet post soon...
Looking more posts from you Richard for the next 6 months and beyond.
ReplyDeleteHi B, I sure will try my best to write as regular as possible.
DeleteCheers!
A very good progress.......averaging 50 posts per month is a real feast! Even if I go into full time blogging, don't think I can achieve that.
ReplyDeleteCongratulation.
David, thanks for the kind words and constant support. I guess the trick to my quantity is because my posts usually quite short! ;-)
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