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Sale – Ceramic Fuel Cells

Another day, another sale.

What can I say, we’re trading the Hades out of our little portfolio recently in the hopes of finding some short term gains in sectors new.

This time it’s our holding of Ceramic Fuel Cells (CFU.L) that’s been given the chop. We sold off 5,546 shares at 10.50 pence a share late last week after buying in for 8.84 pence a share back in June 2009. Not the sort of returns that are going to make us rich but it’s better than bank interest.

Now it’s not that Ceramic Fuel Cells had failed to deliver, it’s just that patience has never been a strong suit and CFU has been trading in a range for as long as I can remember.

Long term I love their product and on a whisper of good news to come I’ll be happy to re-visit our alternative-energy producing, Aussie battlers, but short term I’ve got an itch for speculative returns that’s just got be scratched.

But more on that soon…

Day 153 – Portfolio Value £10,413 Up £134 On The Day

So it seems an age since I’ve posted on Investor Trader but in reality its only been the best part of three weeks. Three weeks since we broke through the 10K figure.

And whilst the FTSE powers on northward, heading back towards it’s old stomping grounds of ’07 and ’08 – beyond the 6K level – our portfolio has spent the past few weeks neither gaining or losing too much ground. A situation that’s just fine by me.

So often with small caps, a round of hefty gains is followed by a round of enthusiastic selling as those in for the short term look to take their money and run. So gains in small caps followed by a period of levelling off, tend to instill me with a little confidence. It makes me think that maybe, just maybe one day some of these small caps we’re holding will become big caps and in the process make us all very rich.

So heading forward I’m pretty happy with the makeup of our portfolio. Longer term, I think there is a potential in each and every share we hold. And we’re still holding cash (a rarity) waiting for a few shares to make their move.

Strategy? Renesola is dipping down toward buying territory and we’ll probably look to top up around the 150 pence mark. In the past few months we’ve close to doubled our money on Ceramic Fuel Cells and Eros International so we may look at skimming the top off those holdings to put into China Biodiesel and West China Cement.

You could say we’re very bullish on China at the minute.

Thanks again for dropping by and don’t forget to pay Kiva a visit and give a leg up to entrepreneur in the third world.

Day 92 – Portfolio Value £7,378 Up £47 On The Day

Following yesterday’s regurgitation of all gains made on Monday (and then some), today was a little more settled with a handful of modest gains made across our portfolio.

Ceramic Fuel Cells finished the day up 6.5% on the back on news that it has extended its agreement with GDF Suez to develop and deploy fuel cell micro combined heat and power (mCHP) units in France.

Lloyds Bank continued it’s merry journey northward finishing up a further 2.7% today, whilst both our recent Chinese acquisitions – West China Cement and China Biodiesel – made small gains on the day.

Even Cosalt had a win, making back 8.5% of it’s value, though it’s bled closer to 50% since we took a stake – ho hum!

Thanks again for dropping by. Don’t forget to check out Kiva when you get a chance.

As you were.

Day 90 – Portfolio Value £7,690 Up £244 On The Day

Now that’s the way I like to start a week, an ocean of blue arrows pointing to the sky, followed by some chunky figures behind ‘em.

Leading our list of winners on the day was China Biodiesel which finished north 1.12 pence (12.3%) at 10.12 pence. A month ago you could pick up China Biodiesel for 5 pence, there’s been an upswing in volume especially in the last week and it seems biodiesel is back on the agenda in China at least. This from GreenMomentum.com:

The administration of energy in China is finalizing plans to increase production and promotion of biodiesel, including requiring a new 5% biodiesel mix. The new measure is being considered for next year in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Lloyds Bank had a strong day finishing at 83.33 pence, up 5.34 pence (6.85%) on the back of a Nomura upgrade to buy from reduce.

West China Cement added a further 6.83% today, continuing it’s meteoric month – we bought WCC.L at £1.70 less than two weeks ago and it’s now trading at £2.60. May have to look seriously at some re-shuffling of funds as I see a huge potential upside to West China Cement in the coming months.

Other winners (from our portfolio) on the day included Eros International, Clipper Windpower, Ceramic Fuel Cells and Low Carbon Accelerator.

Thanks again for dropping by.

Day 65 – Portfolio Value £7,202 Down £114 On The Day

So on the back of a triple-digit drop in the FTSE it was another day of low expectations. And low expectations delivered!

Eros International delivered some final results, highlights as follows:

  • Group turnover up 38.7% to US$ 156.7m (2008:US$ 113.0m)
  • Gross Profit up 13.4% to US$ 71.5m (2008: US$ 63.0m)
  • EBITDA up 41% to US$ 109.5 m (2008:US$ 77.9 m) with 62% of EBITDA converted to cash
  • Profit before tax up 7% to US$ 48.4m (2008: US$ 45.5 m)
  • Basic EPS per share up 5% to 35.1 cents (2008: 33.5 cents)

With everything probably factored into the price already, Eros dropped off 3% on the day.

Ceramic Fuel Cells gave some stock to staff and finished the day up 3%. Climate Exchange edged closer to 10 quid still buoyed by earlier news of the possibility of a takeover and that’s where the good news ended.

Oh, our punt on the British Pound against the Aussie Dollar is currently 133 pips to good for a profit of £266, a £100 turn around from this time yesterday.

Our portfolio as a whole seems to be in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment, probably with a slight tilt to the south if I’m honest.

Here’s hoping for a happier end to the trading week.


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