My virtual Portfolio - 5 Years counting
When i lived in London i setup a virtual portfolio to see if i could select stocks as good as my friend who did it for a living.
He is currently managing a portfolio of 100m$ himself, so he’s done pretty well, but i remembered it today, and logged in and checked how it had done.
The portfolio was created in January in 2003, so it’s 5.5 Years old now.
Looking at it i start to wonder if i should do this for a living instead since it’s up almost 100%, even though i don’t understand the public market what so ever. Orbitz gained 22.5% yesterday without any news, now i know the most likely reason, but since it’s not public information i will keep it to myself, but the reason i’ve heard would certainly not mean a 22.5% in a “functioning” stock market in my humble opinion.
Anyway, i have uploaded the portfolio for you to see.
It’s not 100% correct, because Macromedia was bought by Adobe, at 41$ so that’s over a 350% return. Overture however lost 30-40% before it was bought by Yahoo.
Overall i still think most stocks in the portfolio is a good stock to hold today, i loved JetBlue’s new inventions at the time (having all customer service reps working from home at what was then a new VOIP setup) - I thought Microsoft would have been competing at a higher scale with Dell today, and i thought Dell would have competed more with Sony/Samsung etc.
Anyway, feel free to check it out below.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Have you considered jumping in the VC game in a different capacity?
here in Canada (Toronto) you can put up say 10g’s CAD each with 3 or more other founder or “seeders” issue your selfs shares for 5c ea, do a IPO of 2mil max at 10c and seach for a private company to take public within 24 mo. Typically you do a reverse take over between 30 and 40c, a heafty return from your initial 5c investment.
visit for the details:
tsx.com/en/listings/products_services/venture_market_information.html
I’ve been investing in them at the open market level for a few years, I’d like to try it at a different level with more control. there are alot of good companies out there that could really get a good boost from a public listing.
regards
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene
December 10th, 2008 at 1:45 am
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January 29th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
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January 29th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
martin dear friend, you will be missed…..
January 30th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Hi Bruce,
Are you sure Martin was in that small plane? I can’t believe it.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Dear Friends of Martin,
I am very sorry for your loss. I did not know Martin. I’m a reporter for the New York Observer, and I’m interested in writing a story remembering his life. I’d be grateful to speak to anyone who knew him. Please email me at smorgan@observer.com.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Martin: Peace. You are missed
February 8th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
A great person, n always will be in my heart, learned us alot…When I think of martin now I get sad at first ofcourse but then Im always smileing in the end, he thought me to feel how intressting everythinhg in life could be, and that Is really what you always schould be around!..Love 2 u Martin….R.I.P…Xo J
February 26th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Hasta siempre,Martin