Weekly update... working at taking decisions

I just received on yesterday a package from the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS). And there I saw the address of Halifax, Nova Scotia on it. I was surprised to see the address of Nova Scotia, as silly as it sound. It’s like I do not have any real connection or interference with the company I invest in. But who really does anyway? I am quite excited here. It’s like me, taking important decisions for the Bank of Nova Scotia? WOW! It’s just unbelievable. But as a proudly shareholder, I am going to do my search and vote seriously. And Nova Scotia is in the Maritimes and me from the Maritimes I. That’s where is located the connection between me and the Bank of Nova Scotia.

The power now belong to…… me, New Brunswicker lol!

Another week pass – and I prefer to take it one week at a time. The TSX is now up to something like 9 000 now. Oh no! I want my low market back! It’s like I am having so much fun! I cannot wait for next week, I will have 1 000$ or so to put down on my credit line and I will be able to purchase other stocks. This time, I might invest in something else than PGF.UN. As little money that I have, let’s diversify, diversify and diversify!!!

And talking about TD (because I unfortunately have a TD Waterhouse account), I get very angry at TD as I received that letter – TD was going to make client pay 35$ for inactive credit line… I was so upset! How disappointed I was, I cannot tell, even if I was not being directly touched by the measure at the time, as I (unfortunately) use my TD credit line on a regular basis. But at least, now, Canadians know, all Canada know now, that TD is just like the other, just a bank looking to make profit on small people. I am saying this, even knowing that now TD had step back – and they probably did it because of complaint they have received. The reason why I was upset is the following: I imagine that if I was going to stop investing and stop using my credit line, it wouldn’t be far for me to take out 35$ of my pocket just because I do not want to continue to use another bad service coming from TD (I just cannot help it).

The ideas behind my taught are the following: if eventually TD had move forward with their bad decisions, I would eventually had to close my TD credit line and open another one someplace else. But than, I would had affect my credit score and than, I taught that if it was going to happen, I would eventually sue TD and ruin them by doing a collective cause and get millions and millions of dollars of those dogs for all the people who had suffer from the same condition as myself (because of a ruined credit score). But lucky for them, they never move forward. Shame on TD and on their way of doing business. Their administrators have no heart.

That’s all I have to say.

And when I read the following coming from TD spokeswoman Kelly Hechler:

"We wanted to cancel the inactivity fee and also do something that we thought would be helpful and meaningful to our customers"

I just can think of one thing: BULSHIT!

(!!!!!)

Another month

We are now in February, another month had passed by without me being able to reach my first 50 000$ lol But that’s ok.

The situation is looking a bit better at my jobs, even if the overtime had been cut at my evening job. And now, I begin to regret times where overtime was available and I wasn’t doing any or so little… But again, the overall is not looking so bad at the end, but only at the end. And I get a point where I get exhausted, just like for last Sunday evening. But I felt a lot more better Monday morning and I didn’t sleep in like I taught I would as I was feeling better than the previous evening. The weekly routine is quite awful for me. Week after week, day after day, I know exactly what my day will be, from 9 am to midnight, from Monday to Friday, no surprises, or almost none. And than, again, Saturday and Sunday….(lol)…. But good thing it’s only an 8 hours shift on the weekend. And the fact is that if it wasn’t from it, I wouldn’t be able to purchase as much stocks and I really enjoy investing, as I keep writing.

I plan maybe to take a couple of days of vacations from my evening job. I now accumulate something like 1 000$ in vacation pay. I try to cash in the money without having to take the vacations, but it’s seemed impossible. And I taught of that idea that it’s should be aloud by government to cash in vacation pay if it’s for RRSP investments. I am in this situation like now.

All my little efforts seem to be so vain lol. Concrete real-life example: I had 30 000$ in my TD Waterhouse portfolio and now the 30 000$ only worth 18 000$.... lol. And there is multiples reason for this. A bad market and bad choices. Let say I learn from by bad moves. But it’s not that it should be read as bad moves by itself, its just maybe that I am trying too hard. The worst for me was Sprott and Timminco. At this time, Sprott is doing better than Timminco. If only Sprott could reach at least its original stock price, I will sale them all, and instead I would buy TD stocks or BNS or PGF.UN or just something else lol. I doubt Timminco will ever reach back its 20$ or so as the price is so low now. However, I do no regret any my choices and I continue enjoying the market and act stupidly lol. I just be just out of my mind when I purchased BN lol… I am just an operator and a survey girl after all.

My good moves and the ones I am proud of: FTS and PGF.UN. But also BNS and MX. And let’s add to that list LIV.UN and also MX. At this time, I still need a low market so I can invest massively in stocks. Just in 2008, I invest more than 30 000$ in my portfolio. I only need to repeat the same thing for 2009 and 2010. In 2010, I will be 30 and I hope I will be able to reach 15 000$ in dividend earnings at that time. And if, by any chance, the market remain as low as it is now, I will probably be able to built a nice portfolio who could provide more or less 5 000$ in dividend income by the end of 2009. That’s really the goal for 2009. I keep calculating over and over again my dividends earning from the stocks I have so far and I am still like, Wow! I just hope I am getting the whole concept correctly. And who said anyway that you have to understand the company you invest in? Oh yeah, it’s DF again. Well, I do not understand it all but my idea is that if I keep investing, than, something good will come out of it. Stock, market, all those companies, it is all complicated and it make it impossible for me to understand. And I barely know the company I earn. I will not deny it.

Thinking again, the really best would be a 2 years of low market. By low market I mean a market where stocks are cheap enough so I can purchase them all lol. Because I don’t have that much money, when a stock price reach 20$ or more, that’s expensive for me.

I will probably be able to purchase 200 extra stocks of PGF.UN by next week. For a total of 500 at the end, as I already own 300 of those precious stocks. I just pray that the stock price won’t explode in the meantime… !!! I could invest 1 000$ right now, but I prefer to wait and be able to invest around 2 000$ or a bit more and than purchase 200 stocks. At 29$ per trading, I way prefer to wait until next week. I just need to be more patient. But I am pretty please with my portfolio the way it is right now, even if I lost a lot of money and I won’t be too sad if I would have to stop purchasing stocks for a while because of a lack of work, job lost or anything else. From my point of view, my portfolio show a good potential of growing as time pass by. And it’s getting ridiculous, working 70 or more per week as result of a sweet obsession. But as far as I remember working, I almost had been working like this for a long time. And it get at a point that I want to cash in my vacation pay, but it’s seem not to be possible and I find it very unfair knowing that the money could had served for my RRSP.

Nothing else had been done this week for my RRSP. I am really getting bored when it get to it. The only left that I see I could do about it is the Fidelity Frontière Nord mutual fund and also the little money left in ING Direct. But lucky am I if I can reach 5 000$ this way for my 2008 RRSP. The best would be to be able to reach the max possible of 7 000$. But it’s look like things never turn out the way I want.

Another busy week

This week was quite a busy one, as I get another step in the 2008 RRSP direction lol. I transfer the mutual funds I had at CIBC into RRSP. I proceed over the phone only and everything went smooth. The guy was super good with me and once, I just cut him off and I ask him if he was going to offer me to take a loan lol! (I was still shock from my experience with RBC!!lol). And than he told me that no, he was just letting me no that he could had work out something better for my RRSP, like one of their portfolios but I said no. But it was gentle from him to offer me that and it’s really the best experience I had with an advisor. And it was over the phone. The name of the guy appears on the paper and it’s seem like it might be a sexy Italian guy. He had a very nice voice.

Even with those changes ahead, even with my new RRSP mutual funds at RBC, I do not reach the 7 000$ I need to save in taxes. Anyway, I try very hard. One thing that didn’t help me at all is the fact that the RBC O'Shaughnessy Canadian Equity Fund is close. Which make it impossible to move it into RRSP. At this time, the only « transformation » left and possible is the Fidelity Frontiere Nord mutual fund I own at Desjardins. Lucky am I if, in total, it make an overall of 5 000$ for my RRSP.

Other than that, I am quite busy with all my jobs and other, but the hardest is my morning job, where I have to call almost 2 times per day on weekdays to see if there work available for the next morning. At a point, it’s really driving me crazy and I got tired. I am lucky enough that when I end earlier or when no work is available, I can run to my evening shift and do overtime, as overtime is available even if we are not that much busy. I find it really strange that’s some overtime is available, but I believe they still need, as a contractor, meet their hours and that’s why overtime is available. But it make it very long to make a 12 hours shift at the same job in one day and sometimes, when I learn in the morning that there’s not enough work for me, I just go back home or I go to a coffee shop or do something.

Like right now, I don’t know for sure if I will be working tomorrow morning, but form my end, I don’t think so. Worst part is not having a phone or cell at home so I could call before actually getting out, but I do not have a phone. So each morning, I get ready, phone in when I close to their office, and if they told me yes, there’s work, I just go in and if not, well, at least, there’s my evening job.

But right now, I am tired and if something happing tomorrow, well, I will just go back to sleep. I will be able to sleep in until 14h30 if I feel like it.

But the worst coming from the inside of my left hand. I have this pain since the end of December. Its all begin when I invite that guy to try to fix my laptop for free to the movie, just for fun. But unfortunately for me, he didn’t know where was located the parking lots – its true it’s was a bit difficult to find. And unfortunately for me again, he park in a place where the snow was in ice and once he wanted to go, he was stuck there for good. So I push and I push so hard on the back of his car, there was nothing to do. We were stock until someone stop by and had the proper equipment to get the car out of the snow.

Not that it’s that painful, but it’s very annoying, that little feeling I have in my left hand. I don’t think my hand is broken, as I have no problem to open or close or move my fingers, but anyway, I feel that pain and its make me realize that hey, inside my hand, there might be muscle or something like that lol.

For now, the overall portrait is not looking so bad, but I desperately need a hair cut lol

Working to make it happen

This past week had been quite awful for me. Other than the RRSP at RBC part, I invest in Livingston International (LIV.UN). I purchase the stocks at 5.99$ or 6$. I purchase 100 of them. The annual dividends was supposed to be at 1.70$ or so, but now its down to 50 cents. Facing dividends cut is very sad, but its look likes its part of the game. I don’t regret the purchase any way. And it might be the reason why the stock price false down to less than 6$. Facing dividend cuts like taking away the dream of financial freedom. But still, the overall portrait is not looking that bad for now.

I take a review of my futures dividend earnings, and it should be something like this:

LIV.UN : 100 x 50 cents = 50$
PGF.UN : 300 x 2.70$ = 810$
SII : 500 x 10 cents = 50$
MX : 100 x 0.62 cents = 62$
BNS : 100 x 1.96$ = 196$

Total Dividend earnings with stocks I have so far: 1 168$

Which I am quite happy with. I just can’t wait to see the money coming or seeing it « dripping » - if only it can. I enroll in an automatic DRIP. I gain one MX stock that way back in December. I hope to gain enough money in 2009 to continue to purchase stocks from time to time. What I wish for is a low market so I can continue to purchase stocks at cheap price. Investing in stocks is very addictive and the more I buy, the more I am being additive.

Other than the RRSP part, I have 2 horrible news. At my daytime morning job, they are facing lack of work, which mean I probably won’t be able to make my 22.5 hours per week every weeks. This is quite awful for me. And also, at my weekend job, even if I call to confirm my weekend schedule, its seem like I am not on the schedule for next weekend, so I have to call this Monday. And even for tomorrow morning, I do not know if I am working for sure, as I totally forget to call at the end of the day on Friday… It’s getting more and more complicated and I just can’t wait to leave the workplace forever! It’s driving me crazy.

For now, I just have to complete the very complicated RRSP part. After what, I will see next if I return job searching again. My life is pretty exhausting.

And another bad luck of mine, like if I needed another one, the zipper of my winter coat is broken!! I cannot just put on my coat probably. I might need to purchase a new one. The coat is so old and looks a bit old; it just doesn’t worth it to get just the zipper change on it. I guess I will purchase a new one. Just like if I needed an other bad luck…

SOS 2008 RRSP

Yesterday, I finish (again!) early at my morning job, so I call RBC to transfer the mutual funds I transfer too quickly into the free of tax savings account into RRSP. And it was quitted of a challenge. At first, I call and ask if they could transfer the mutual funds I had in the free of tax account outside of it, so after, I could just visit a financial advisor who could had just transferred everything into RRSP and printed out the taxes paper I desperately need. I got the entire plan in my head on how it should have been done, but it didn’t exactly turn out the way I wanted!! lol!! The person I first talk to over the phone explain to me that they would be able to do all the transactions needed onsite. So I ask if someone was available for that afternoon. I had an appointment an hour later with a financial advisor. Until there, everything was working find. Until I actually meet the financial advisor lol!!!

It didn’t turn out the way I wanted. The financial advisor didn’t agree with the move, from moving the mutual funds out of the free of tax account into RRSP. She wanted me to take a RRSP loan at 4.75% with no payment for the first 2 months or something like that.

But hey, where in the world was I going to take the money for a loan? I already have 15 000$ or so in debts right now. Anyway, as I saw she just didn’t want to follow my plan, I apologize to her, saying I had to think about it. But the worst part was when she actually tell me that investing in mutual funds was for long term investment (like am I looking that dumb) and explain I should definitely take a loan and invest in… no mutual funds (that was the worst part was to come) but in MONEY MARKET FUNDS. And I the end, forget about making money through my investments!!! What a shame!

BUT WHY DID SHE WANT ME TO INVEST IN MONEY MARKET FUNDS?

I didn’t ask. I didn’t want to destroy her self-esteem forever.

She gave me a card that I throw away in a garbage can. Before that, she told me she would give me a call to see if I was interested. But I told her not too bother, that I was going to call her (lol) and that anyway, the number I had was just paging number.

Immediately after, I call RBC. And over the phone I explain what I wanted without talking about the meting I just had and without talking about the RRSP loan. But the agent I talk too also suggest me a RRSP loan him too! I was liked what the hell is going on?

RBC is too sell oriented and a bank should be there to help out small investor and it’s a real shame that having to deal with the stupidest financial advisors of all time and ever of my life I will invest through a financial institution. With a brokerage account – no investor profile, no « update » needed (because if I do not update, everything get freeze and out of control).

Anyway, at the end, I explain to the agent that I didn’t have any money left for new investment this year and that I already had a student loan. It was like a desperate situation. It was like no one was willing to help me! I am the one who’s working 80 hours per week for the money and things are going to be one the way I want them! And it did!

But he finally agrees to help me out. But before that, he put me on hold, and I wait and wait and than, I learn the happy news, it was going to be ok; he will transfer everything into RRSP.

But there again (lol!!), I run out of luck.

He calls me in the evening around 8PM because one of the funds I have is now close and it couldn’t be move into RRSP. Financial system is so suck, the only thing it make me wanna do is to run away and never look back. For the rest, it was ok, but the other funds had been put into RRSP. Finally.

Financial advisors really suck and they are just like sale persons and I really dislike financial advisors. I try many times to deal with them, but each time, it didn’t work out too well, as they wanted to keep too much control on my assets. Like I don’t have too much money here and all the decisions regarding my money will be mines. All mines, for the better or the worst.

Dealing with bank, financial advisor and mutual funds, but especially mutual funds is complicated. Its seem like I couldn’t just get the thing transfer like that. They had to sell, and purchase back to transform it into RRSP. Or something like that. But I do not really want to learn more about it. What a nightmare. Or what a nightmare am I.

Next step, is CIBC and Desjardins. I am basically taking everything I have out of RRSP (as mutual funds) and turning them into RRSP. It’s taking a lot of my time and I find taxes, RRSP and financial advisors very annoying and frustrating.

I now understand how it’s all work

And I am very excited and I need more cash! Because I want to Stop working right now! But in 2 hours from now, I will be back at work.

At the time I write this, I taught that PGF.UN was provided a 2.04$ annual dividend…. I was so wrong, but I don’t remember I get the 2.04$ info from where. No better source than the Web site of the company itself… I visited PGF.UN Web site… and oh surprise, the annual dividend is being set at 2.70$... Knowing I purchase last week 300 stocks, I will earn, in 2009, the income of 810$ of that investment alone… WOW!

It took me times and 3 DF books to understand but I finally get it, purchasing stocks is the way out. And it’s part of the reason why it didn’t take me too long before purchasing PGF.UN. For a 9.70$ per stocks, I received 2.70$. Which is around 21% of the initial value of 9.70$ in return.

I read here and there that there was going to have a dividend cut around this stocks. But still, I do not mind and I do not worry too much about it. On this date, the PGF.UN Web site still advertise 2.70$ in annual dividend.

I just keep thinking about it and went with this idea:

I do not make any big expenses and usually, my expenses for a month are around 1 200$, up to 1 500$ when I am in a shopping mood. So lets say I am need of a total income of 15 000$ per year. PGF pay 2.70$ per share.

If I calculate: 15 000$ ⁄2.70$ = 5 556 stocks. Which mean I need 5 556 stocks of PGF.UN to reach an income of 15 000$ per year. It’s about all I need for my little living.

Right now, PGF is at 9.81$.

5 556 x 9.81$ = 54 504.36$

All I need is the amount of 54 504.36$ and invest in all in PGF.UN.

But of course, I cannot just invest in a one stock. But….. It’s quite tempting to do so! Especially with PGF.UN.

My goal is not to become rich, it’s just to make my life easier and, if not retired early, just make a more comfortable living and move in something that’s a bit bigger than a 1 and a half apartment lol. And after that, who care about the market volability?

On my every day life

As I just get up early to go to work this morning for nothing. There was no work for me and I had been send back home. I am getting sick of this situation as sometime there’s work and some time not. It’s getting really frustrating. But it was part of my fault, as I didn’t call the previous evening to see if there was work for the next morning. I didn’t call because I taught there was enough work. Yesterday, I did my full shift, 4.5 hours, and everything went fine. Anyway, it’s a chance I can write about it, its provide at least a small release. I call it therapeutic blogging.

The trick with having multiple jobs is to remain calm when critical situation like this one happen. But I feel I deserve better treatment. In the morning, I am free from 8-9am until 3pm the latest. I can barely work 22.5 hours per week at the morning job I have right now and it’s been going on like this for several weeks now. And not only for me, for all other employees too.

I do not really want to get involve into job searching as I dislike searching for job and at a certain point, I just gave up, get into 3 jobs and that’s all. But now the plan is getting hurt a bit because one of them is just not working out correctly. I give myself until the end of the week to see what I will do about it. For now, I enjoy my free morning. But I am just not using the time correctly as I had my RRSP to look at and other. At this time, the situation is not critical. Last week, I work around 19 hours or so, and earn 200$. I just want to earn extra cash at this time.

I just take a quick look at my stocks and right now, PGF.UN is up to 9.83$, FTS is at 24.27$, SSI remain at 4$, which is better, and TIM down to 4.29$, BNS up at 31.52$, MX up at 12.04$, my funny BN down at 0.02 cents… and I could continue watching like this all day long, but it wouldn’t make any difference.

I had a friendly talk, if I can call with a colleague of mine. It was getting really quiet and than he begins to ask me why I was working at this place, the salary is low; I am bilingual (!!) and so on. The funny part came when he told me that I was the only one around who was a Quebecker and than, I told him proudly that I wasn’t a Quebecker, that I am from New Brunswick and so on… I didn’t go through the overall explanations, but part of the reason I have that night shift because its allow me to have a morning and beginning of the afternoon other job. And its also allow me to wok at another place during the weekend. But of course, I didn’t go through all this with him.

And another part of the reason why I remain like this is that before I had a well paying job, back in somewhere 2006, I was around 20$ per hour, but too much was taking away from the pay check – part of it was for the wealth benefits we were receiving and they were also taking money for my RRSP. That year, for the taxes, I was all mess up and really dislike the initiative, as I almost end up investing too much in my RRSP. Anyway, at the end, I was only touching 535$ after taxes per week on my pay check and I couldn’t take any other job with that one because it was too much. It’s after that job experience that I begin to make big money and invest in stocks and so on. And I am happily ever after and never regret the move.

Why Crestsreet Alternative Energy Fund is such a pain?

I invest 1 000$ in the Crestsreet Alternative Energy Fund back on January 5th over the phone with my broker. I taught everything was fine… until I consult my account online. Than, on the 9th, at the time I purchase some PGF stocks, the order had not been executed. I could clearly see that the order had been placed as I wanted, but the problem was that the order haven’t been executed and it date of today, the issue is still the same, even if I had been told by TD that the order would had been executed by Friday (of the 9th). I was quitted disappointed because when I proceed to the purchase over the phone on the 5th of January, I wasn’t told anything regarding the time of the process.

TD Waterhouse really suck and those people do not give a damn about small investors. If I would had knows it would had take so much time, I would probably not invest in the Crestsreet Alternative Energy. Instead, I would have purchased an extra 100 stocks of PGF.UN, which would had made a total of 400 stocks at an annual dividend of 2.04$...

Last week that just pass, I do not what happen to me, I just borrow almost 5 000$ on my credit lign and I invest in that miserable mutual fund and all the rest in PGF.UN. I really wanted to make my move. I was fascinated by Crestsreet Alternative Energy and I was totally enthusiast by the 2.04$ annual dividend of Pengrowth Energy.

And just like a fellow reader wrote to me previously, there’s never been a better time to invest, and I really believe it’s true. My only regret is not having enough money to invest. I do not worry too much of the money I took form my credit line.

I now have a tax-free savings account

I was quite busy this week as I try to figure out a plan to make things better for me. I realize – but too lately, that I have invested too much in mutual funds. But I believe it was something I had to figure out by myself. It took be time and several reading if DF books. However, I do not regret any attends I made.

I finally read Money for Nothing of DF. At first, the reading was difficult, but I bring the book at work with me to read over again and some guy notice I was reading and come to me, asking what I was reading. At work, it’s aloud to read a book when do not received calls, but we are not allowed to magazines. And recently, we are not receiving as much calls as usual. I just hope I won’t loose my job.

Anyway, I show him the book and he asked me if I had money invested in stocks. I told him that no, that I was only reading the book for fun, telling him that the author was pretty good and that he had self-published 2 other one before this one and so on. I never told anyone about my investments I do not plan to do so. No one knows about my 50 000$. Let say I do not talk to others about my money. I prefer not too and its part of the reason why I prefer to blog anonymously and just to have fun with it by my own. And I have to say, I would look pretty stupid if I would go out about it, as my 3 jobs pay, 10.68$, 12$ and 10$ per hour.

Earlier this week, I open a tax-free savings account at RBC and I transfer some of my mutual funds in there. I was quite happy to learn that it’s possible to reinvest the amount of money I could withdraw from the savings account. It’s a huge benefit. But knowing how much I am paying in taxes, I really needed something like this at this time as my overall earnings before taxes make it around 43 000$. It’s not that much, but for me, it’s a lot. And it might be a lot for the government too as I expect to be paying extra taxes on this salary, unless I invest in my 2008 RRSP.

As usual, I did not invest in a month-to-month basis in my RRSP. With my terrible job situation, I prefer, as always, to wait at the beginning of the New Year. And with all the investments I made this year, I do not have extra money to invest in my RRSP. At this point, I realized I might have done my move too quick in the savings account. The issue being that if I do not invest the max of my limit for the 2008 RRSP, I will probably have to pay extra in taxes. And I currently do not have a penny left to pay on taxes.

I consider moving some of my non RRSP mutual funds into my 2008 RRSP.

May 2009 be the year

I had been searching lately for a mutual fund or stock that would had help me gain money – knowing that I had lost so much so far. That’s part of the reason why I purchase Fortis. And its part of the reason why I purchase Dereck Foster third book just today actually.

Today I was off from my 2 jobs and I really enjoy the stay. I sleep in and I went downtown. Some stores were open until 9pm. It was amazing.

On my way, I went to Chapter. Read on some magazines about Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears and so on and, it wasn’t plan from me, I went on the upper floors and there, I saw it, it was it, the third book of Dereck Foster. So I told myself, why not? And there you go, I went home with the book. At first, I read a couple of pages, and I was like gees, he is repeating himself from his previous books, talking about mutual funds and their fees and blabla… But than, I begin to read some new content, something about options… There, I decide to purchase the book, as I felt there was something new right there. And I felt that it was important to purchase and not just to read directly on the spot. One of the reason why of this is that everyone deserve to earn money from what they want to share with others and second, I couldn’t understand at first what it was all about so I decide to buy to study the book at home… oh lol! And I didn’t read it yet.

In the meantime, I am just looking for easy alternative to make money. And I am really sucked at investing. I lost around 15 000$ if not more. But anyway, I just continue doing my way. And there it comes, the Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund (CAM400). The fund had provided a very huge benefit of 21.33% within the last 3 months. This is the kind of return I am looking for. I first did a search on MorningStar. Only the Horizons BetaPro catch my eyes, but those are closes now, from what I understand. After what I go through La Presse Affaires. And there I read Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund. The minimum investment is of 1 000$, which is perfect for me. I read in Canadian Business about the fund and for some people, the fund is kind of suspicious. And no one seems to know about the fund fees. And someone told that the fund had provided 1% in return per week…. For 1 000$, I have nothing to loose. And after loosing so much, I decide to give it a try. My next purchase, on Monday 5th will be Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund.

I am now a little engineer

Yesterday, on Christmas evening, I went to an Internet cafe I am use to go, and I test my Wireless connection. It’s now working perfectly well after proceeding with another scan of my computer. I now have Avast as anti-virus. After the scan, I disable the drivers for the Wireless connection. From there, I taught that if I had mess up, I would had purchased a new laptop on Boxing Day… But it’s seem like God might be from my side…

After the drivers were disable I restart the computer and… than, a miracle happen, on Christmas Day, something happen… I got connect on the Wireless connection of the Cafe, which status was Excellent... Just to make sure it wasn’t just a one time deal, I restart my computer, and…. I was still able to connect…. I am really happy about this because I don’t really have enough to cover the cost of a new laptop. I am just having problem to realize that I make this all by myself. Not like I am working on my laptop every day, I just connect to the Internet a few times a week, and than go online for a couple of hours, that enough for me. And its part of the reason why I do not have Internet at home. I just don’t want to pay for something I barely use.

Before I went to the Cafe, I withdraw some money from my banking account, since I was running out of cash, and oh my god, I never smell that kind of smell before, there was a homeless and it was smelling very badly. He was lying somewhere in the back. There’s always some homeless at that place. But I never got any trouble. I thing they are just looking for a place warm for the night. And knowing there’s no bed for all homeless living in Montreal, I don’t mind seeing some when I withdraw money, as long I am not being attack.

Yesterday, I calculated my overall earning, and I have less than ever, not even 30 000$ now. But I believe market will react positively to Barack Obama after January 20 and I should than have at least 35 000$. Market went down really badly. And what’s happening is terrible.

And its part of the reason why I am looking for the next best thing, the product that will make me or believe that I am rich, and I think I have find it. More to come… :)

On Christmas Eve

Its Christmas and I just arrived from work. Outside, it’s raining, and water got inside my boots and I am really thinking on purchasing a new pair on Boxing Day. My laptop got infected by several viruses and I have been dealing with the problem for several days now. On Boxing Day, Staples have a special on Norton 360 and, before even getting new pair of boots; I want to purchase a good anti-virus. I also have an eye on a mini-laptop, which is at 299$. At the end, it’s all make a big deal of money. I still have something to pay on my credit line since I purchase not those long ago Fortis stocks. I am really into that stocks thing now and nothing make me happier than seeing my portfolio grow, even if it’s lost half its value. But I am still on in and I believe I will continue like that for a while, until I get tired of loosing money like crazy.

The major problem is that I begin to purchase stocks just a couple of months ago. And since we are in the middle of what so ever recession, I just follow the flow, just like other, I am loosing money.

Another problem is that I am getting addictive and it’s a good thing I can move funds from my credit line to my brokerage account. I know it wasn’t made to help me out – but just to make money from small investor like me, but I really enjoy it and so far, the way I have handle it is that as soon as all the amount due on the credit line being paid off, I take another loan to purchase other stocks and so on. And if I keep investing like this, I might no be able to see positive result anytime soon, because markets are so volatile. It’s exhausting me. And I wanted my 50 000$ so hard, it’s so silly and funny at the same time. Sometimes, I take a look at my blog and I laugh at myself because it’s just make no sense and its hilarious, the way its stand out, My first 50 000$, in a so basic English. So innocence and naive, I just love it. And I prefer to blog in English just for the fun of it.

I might have talk about it earlier, but my next projects are, opening a tax-free account at RBC and move in some of my mutual funds I already have with them. I just hope such move is possible. I really enjoy the fact that yearly, an average of 10 000$ per year (5 000$ into the tax free account and the other half in RRSP) can grow away from taxes.

Second project is being to put money in my RRSP because I know for sure that if not I will probably have to pay taxes and I won’t let that happen. I just worried where I am going to take the money from. Like right now I only have enough to cover the expenses of January. Next paycheck in January will all go on the credit line and so on. And I just keep going like that over and over again. But is there anything else I love most than money?

Tomorrow, I am off and I am quite happy. I have been spending a lot of time working on my computer. Next step for me will be to test it into a cafe. My problem being I cannot connect to Wireless which status is Excellent. I can only connect when status is Low or Very low. I have been reading on the topic and I find the word of virus very interesting. But at the same time, I am kind of amused of myself since I have been going on Wireless for so long without the appropriate protection. It’s just like having sex with a complete stranger without any protection…

Anyway, let say I can pretty much handle any kind of situation. And reaching the goal of a laptop without virus had amused me as much as working at reaching my first 50 000$.

And I had been thinking even deeper, about my situation, having to work at 3 jobs just for the money. But I am at the point that I would like to find better paying jobs and it might be possible. It won’t be that of a challenge to find a job paying at least 15$ per hour. But at the same time, I don’t know if I should place my move knowing I am quite ok the way things are at this time. I have been thinking about this over and over again and I finally decide to remain the way I am right now for at least another year or until I have enough of saving money and trying too hard.

But life had been unfair with me but things are the way they are and I am spending the Christmas Eve along in front of my computer.

Me and my little shares

As for my investment, my famous Blue Note Mining is getting up up up… well, from 0.05 cents to 0.025 cents….. that’s pretty good. I am willing to take everything. They have discovered some gold near by the Caribou mine and the stock price begin to rise a bit. But it’s true that for the rest, I am not doing so well, but I comfort myself by saying it’s all for a long-time investment and I have still time to recover from my lost since I didn’t sell anything. I was quite shock by reading MorningStar website, as they were saying that October and November had been the worst months for mutual funds, seem like everyone are selling their units. It is so not the time to sell, it’s just contribute to make things worst than ever, as I consider it will be important that all players small or big keep the money were it is invest. And anyway, it’s not fun to sale now and loses money like crazy. By not selling, I believe I keep a chance to see things coming up again like its use to be. I would just like to see everything go back to normal as I was so close to reach my first 50 000$.

I am not getting too desperate as I begin to purchase stocks. And the funniest thing is that I try to buy when I think we reach the lowest, but the lowest is being beat my another lowest and so on…lol That’s what happen to me with Bank of Scotia. I purchase the stocks at 44.82$. I taught it was a good deal…. But now, the stock price is at something like 30$.......... Oh no!

And that’s not it… as for my Sprott Equity fund, I first did a bad move, I invest 5 000$ at the price of 50$... After what, thinking I could do a good deal, I invest another 1 000$ at 35$ the unit price….. And now, in date of today, the units are around 25$ or less…

The lesson I learn…when I think I have reach the bottom, it’s not being reach yet… lol!!!!!

And what to tell about TIM? And Sprott stocks……….. I just prefer not to talk about it. :)

I believe that when I will have enough of loosing money, I will consult a financial adviser. That’s sit that’s all. But that day might never come as I like purchasing stocks like a rock and I follow the index with a huge interest each day. My only regret is to not be able to make enough money to invest more. This is just so difficult those days to follow the index as t goes up and down and it’s turning me crazy. But I really enjoy. Dividends are really great too to earn.

A smart move of mine was Methanex (MX) even if I didn’t have a clue of what was methanol back than lol. I purchase MX at around 15$ per share. Now they worth 13$ or something. I just don’t want to loose money that much, I want to make some. That’s why I am saying that purchasing Methanex at 15$ was a great move.

I have an eye on HSE, BPO, FTS, ENB just to name a few. But the only concern is where I am going to find the money….. And that’s the reason why my next purchase might be BPO. I would just like to purchase 200 stocks around the price of 6$ and get the high dividend of a it more than 0.70 cents…

At the end, I just can’t wait who things will have turned out for me in about one or 2 years for now. I would very much to reach 100 000$ in asset by the end of my 30 birthday. What’s nice with me is that I can never barely reach my goal, but I prefer to fix myself some funny unreachable goal and make fun of myself than just to go with a little things that I can easily reach.

Just getting better

Things are getting a lot better for me those last days. First, I got my laptop repair last week. I had a problem with it, I couldn’t use the Wireless connection – so I couldn’t connect to the Internet since I always go to a cafe about once a week or so to connect. I got it repair from a guy at my workplace and he was generous to do it for free, after refusing the 60$ I had offer him. That’s for the laptop.

It’s been officially been more than a year that I am at my full-time day job as a customer representative. I plan to maybe look for a better job later on. But for now, it’s still working pretty well for me the 3 jobs all combine together. It’s just I can get pretty tired sometimes and my morning job is killing me, as they continue to cut some hours from time to time. And they sometime tell me to call in the early morning to see if they have work available. And it’s killing me because I don’t have a cell or phone at home and I have to get ready anyway, each morning and call from a pay phone to see if they have work. For now, I only have a little pager. I wouldn’t like to have too much bills to pay as for now my mainly expenses are my rent and my student loans. After the regular living expenses, I wouldn’t like to have a lot of bills to pay as it will kill me to have less money to invest. And forgive about paying on my student loan, I enjoy purchasing stocks too much for now.

I now pay off my credit line at TD Canada Trust and it’s just amaze me how much I can save and pay off debt really quickly. Taking money from my credit line to purchase stocks might not be the best thing to do, but I do what I want and what I like about this is no one has a word to say on anything.

Next big project is my RRSP. I plan to save money from December to March 2009 for it. This year, I have around 7 000$ I can invest in my RRSP and I can’t wait to be finally done with it, and the taxes. Its look good for this year, I might be able to make a bit more than 40 000$ which is a lot knowing that just a year or so, I was down to almost have of this. It’s really difficult to make this amount after taxes for me. And I just hope to me able to make more money in 2009 but I haven’t think of doing anything extra, but maybe joining the army but I am in bad shape and I gain a little weight by working 80 hours a week and not doing that much exercise. And I am white like dead. The only things I like about myself now are my hair. But that have nothing to do with my money.

Running out of time.... and of money

My latest purchase of Methanex Corporation (MX) for 100 stocks was a desperately move to try to make some money as I lost so much. What make me loose a lot are those Sprott Asset Management shares, that I purchase near 10$ and now, its value is not even half of that. Not too much I can do about it. I got also pretty unlucky with the Blue Note Mining stocks, which I purchase at 60 cents, and now, the share only worth 0.015…. And what to say about Timminco… In a way or in another, I don’t regret anything as those where my choices and I completely assumed them.

My only real regret is just not having enough money to invest even more. Time is running too fast and in December, I had to save for my RRSP. I had 7 000$ I need to save – I had until March 2009. I will probably done paying my credit line in December, only if I decide not to purchase new shares until December.

I really like Fortis, and if only I was making 2 000$ more this month, I will definitely purchase some Fortis shares. Fortis is really great, even during rough times, the share didn’t really go under 20$. Now it’s value is 25.98$. If only the share price could false down again, it would be my ultimate buy. And Fortis is based in Newfoundland and as a New Brunswicker, I like the idea to purchase something form the Maritimes. As my Blue Note Mining didn’t turn out really well… The famous Caribou mine is… closing its doors…….. oh lol! It is so funny after all. Mines might not be my stuff after all. I should just gave up on stock and stop trying so hard.

My 3 jobs got well again. I am so desperately in need of money right now. I get upset at some points but I do not show anything about it. At least not openly. At a point, if I was not that dead focus on making money, I thing I could lose control and run out crazy like hell. But that’s my secret, I want to reach 50 000$ one of these days. And writing about my problems is really releasing for me and I especially pay 8$ this evening just to write on my blog. It’s just not the fact on going and writing, it’s the writing and posting, both need to be combine together. The wireless on my laptop still not working.

And now it's Desjardins

After having many issues with TD Canada Trust, now came Caisse Desjardins. I had to update my investment profile with them just because of one mutual fund investment I have with them.

I was really frustrated when I received the letter they send me for that purpose because they told me that if I was not going to update my investor profile, my banking account other asset will be all frozen… No way am I going to invest ever with Desjardins. And this is even worst than what I had last time with TD Canada Trust. Like if I didn’t go through enough yet. Anyway, I place the call, update the stupid profile with them over the phone and promised myself there I would ever again purchase a mutual fund outside a broker account again. It is way too complicated and annoying. And I don’t know if they even realize it, but they are loosing me as an investor and a customer.

When I call to update my profile, I was on my two mornings off and I expect to had nothing to do, but like usual, my plans get disturb and I had to call about 3 times to get this done by an arrogant advisor who was really mean over the phone. Desjardins really suck, just like TD and I am just hoping to find a way out of hell once of these days.

Latest details

For now, I lost of money. And from what I read around, the worst is to come. I didn't sale any of my investment. I might had lost thousands of dollars, but I didn't count how much money I now had, because I know it could happen I only now worth 20 000$ or so. And I probably won't be able to reach my first 50 000$ by the end of the year, but I don't bother. I plan to leave things like they are and invest the max for my RRSP. Which mean I still need to save a 7 000$ by the end of March 2009.

But now, things are more difficult than ever, especially now.

I got flag at my evening job. I laugh at a client, but from my part, it wasn't a laugh in the sense of I am making fun of you; it was a laugh about the situation. Anyway, I learn the hard way, not to laugh at anything. I am pretty serious most of the time, but knowing I work from 9 am to midnight - in 2 different jobs daily, I might got tired at some point and started laughing. After all, maybe I was laughing at myself. Who knows? That’s for the first thing that is going wrong. But luckily, I didn't get suspend - but it was a final written warning. No more laughing. My job is so easy, I am not supposed to loss control.

The price of my monthly rent just gets higher of 15$. When I receive the news, I didn't react. No reaction at all. I am just tired of life and my life in Quebec. I hate Quebeckers and all the rest.

Lack of work at my part-time morning week-days job. I was giving 22.5 hours and since 2 or 3 weeks, I never been able to make my hours.

Other than that, just in date of today, I had another bad surprised at my week-end job as I present myself to work and they told me....... to go back home.... And my whole day was pay. It's the last time I ever present myself there. They went to far my lying to me, saying that they had try to reach me. And I won't accept any lies, just plan to change of week-end job. And good-bye. It's very liberating to use big words in my written. I had a friend of mine who’s under therapy - and for me, instead of exploding, I just use the F word and it's just do the thing. It really does. I just love to use a rude language in writing, as I never used such language in real life. Because my blog is not real, my money disappears and it's really nothing at all.

I am job searching. I didn't search for a job since, I believe - the month of February 2008. It's been 7 months since no job searching. I taught everything would have been ok. Money was coming like crazy. For the month of September, I earn more than 3 000$ after taxes. That's money! I would like to have a job offering 30 hours weekly, flexible, mornings and week-ends. I just don't understand why things are the way they are for me. I sometime laugh at myself by thinking that I am too good for myself, I am too highly skills, my portfolio rock no matter what no one thing, Quebeckers are just too stupid to get that, I am a cool girl and I belong to someplace else.

In the meantime, since I am stuck here, I am job searching and just pray I could find a steady part-time job because right now.

$$$

I finally start to earn good money from my investment. The stocks I purchased yesterday are going up up up. I purchase Bank of Scotia Bank at 44.82$ and now each stock worth 49.40$... Which mean I made 458$ from that investment. I never earn that much, and so quickly, from other investments of my whole life.

And the Hanwei Energy Services (HE) stocks are going up to at 2.20$. I made 15$ from the investment, as originally I purchase the stocks at 2.15$.

Just from yesterday, I made a total of 473$!

WOW!.... Especially that the HE was a wild pick... As I had some money left. I pick the stock in a special edition of a magazine about finance that I don't remember the title. So I "try" to do my search and beginning to think for myself and I came with a list of stocks that eventually provide a good return only if chance is by my side. They are:

BRC DiamondCore Ltd (BCD-T)
Highest: 4.74$
Lowest: 0.70$

This stock look like it's been closed or something. The stocks remain at 60 cents and no trade had been done on it yesterday. I don't know the reason of this.

Chariot Resources Limited (CHD-T)
Highest: 1.32$
Lowest: 0.46$
But I find CHD-T a bit too volatile.....


Antrim Energy Inc. (AEN-T)
Highest: 7.49$
Lowest: 2.10$


Lundin Mining Corporation (LUN-T)
Highest: 13.97$
Lowest: 4.53$


Western Goldfieds Inc. (WGI-T)
Highest: 4.13$
Lowest: 1.59$


And, the current pick:
Hanwei Energy Services Corp. (HE-T)
Highest: 6.29$
Lowest: 2.08$


All data provide below should be modify, as its common from me to make mistakes.....

And for those stocks below, I didn't proceed with any intensive research, just a bit of reading over the Internet and it's about it. Anyway, I like Hanwei, once again for the name, it's sound a bit like Hawaii and it's exotic. That's why I pick it.

I really need that 473$ right now because my famous BN are now down to 0.04 cents, I am still loosing with Sprott Asset Management, TIM, and not to talk about my mutual funds. It's a disaster.

As for my loan I made from my credit line, if I calculate the right way, I will be able to refund within 2 months. I plan to transfer the rate with one a check I had from one of my credit card. I can get the rate of less than 3%, rather than 18% of my credit line. If I calculate right, 18%, for 2 months, make a total of more than 100$ on 4300$... which I could even believe but I guess its what it is. And I don't care if it will affect my credit score. It's really too bad I don't had more money from my own to invest in stocks.

Bank of Nova Scotia and Hanwei Energy Services

I maybe did a wrong move, but I take 4 300$ from my credit line to purchase stocks... I now had 100 stocks of Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) that I purchase at the price of 44.82$. Since I had some money left, I take the chance on Hanwei Energy Services Corp. (HE), for 300 stocks at 2.15$....

I won't do any more for a couple of weeks, as I want to pay off as quickly as possible and I will possibly pay it off within 6 weeks. I took a look at my investments, SII, TIM and other, and they all go up, so I just hope that it will turn for the best. It's a good thing I invest in Bank of Nova Scotia, it will provide some stability to my portfolio.

There was the TD Canada Trust stocks that were at 59$, but I wasn't having enough to purchase even 100 stocks. Below that, the fees are higher.

I am all happy with my move and I will work hard in the next few weeks to pay it all.

I am doing ok after all

I am still loosing money like crazy today, my Sprott Asset Management stocks value is still low, even with Blue Note Mining, I lost money. But I didn't loss enough to tell myself I won't invest ever again... I have an eye on Bank of Nova Scotia stocks and I might do my move tomorrow. I am just too excited see how things will turn out by the end of the day. If only I could have a 10 000$ somewhere... but right now I still don't have too much in my bank account.... But anyway, I plan to borrow 5 000$ from my credit line and purchase some stocks... I had been waiting for so long to purchase a bank stocks and this is the good time. I am all getting excited and yeah I can't wait.

And talking about banking account, yesterday, I was quite shock about a conversation I learn at my job. It's my full-time job, and it's in a call center. We are being paid 12$/h. It's very low for all the work, but anyway, for now, still I stick with 2 other part-time job and I had a regular schedule, I stay there. And the job is quite easy after a couple of weeks. Anyway, I heard the conversation of that lady, she's in her fifties and she was talking to someone higher and she was telling about the medications she needs and than in the fact that she was living in poverty. When I heard her saying the world something like "my poverty" I kind of freeze there. "Living in my poverty" is what she said. It was so weird to hear her saying something like that. Like if she wanted that we had her in pity. And I once hear her telling to a customer something like "I work 11 hours a day". Is she looking for a some kind of recognition from the customer or something like it? And anyway, if she work 11 per day, in the end of the 2 weeks for the pay, she will get a 1 000$ paycheck after taxes. After that your telling me you live in poverty?

I never, of course, tell her anything of what I was thinking of her behavior. But I dislike it very much and I just hope someone will listen to her calls and tell her just to stop looking for recognition coming from customers. Myself, I am not the type who's looking for some kind of recognition. Not that I am careless, but a job is a job and for myself, the only thing I am into is money.

And sometime, I told myself that if I would had been very great, I wouldn't be working at low salary jobs and it will be really easy to find a well paying job. I am just like that and I like to be mean to myself. Like just for my portfolio. If I loose everything, I am going to loose anything. But from the start, I build everything for a long time commitment and I am not afraid of the stocks market or about anything else as everything had been plan and at the same kind not being plan - for a long time adventure.

And a bad news, other than the stocks market is that I yesterday ask someone if there was overtime available and I was told I need to ask for my supervisor. Usually they put on the board if there is overtime but these days, nothing. And I know a couple of co-workers who are doing overtime without asking. For myself, I am too scare of that - and what if there's no overtime available? They don't seem to be very concern about it, but I am. One of them told me he wasn't giving a damn about it. I am just curious to ask to be able to do my Sunday, especially after what happen to me last week at my little survey job... Like I show up at work but there was no one to open the place. I don't even know what's going to happen to my pay for that day. Anyway, I am supposed to call tomorrow to find out if there's any work available.

I really had the worst and the most miserable jobs in the whole word but the things is mixing them all together make a huge $$$ after the week. The only thing is I am getting annoying of the weekly routine sometime.

This Saturday, I am getting a hair cut.

Loosing money like crazy

I gave a quick look at my investments, and I am loosing money like crazy with my stocks and if things don't get better any time soon, I will probably not be able to reach my first 50 000$. I am loosing money with my investments and also because of my employment situation.

Like today was the worst day of my life. lol. I present myself at work, and like other, we were like about 15 employees to wait outside for a supervisor. And the supervisor never shows up, I wait for about an hour before going back home. I am upset because, like those 15 others, we were told we were working today. I am upset because that's by weekend job, I am getting about 330$ bi-weekly, which is good because it help me to cover my rent and a part of my metro pass... But today, there was no work and I was told there was some for me. So at this point, I really don't know what to do. We are out of work for next week... For that I knew, but for today, it was supposed to be ok. So that is for my weekend job.

It's a bit the same situation for my morning part-time job, I am getting in and out of jobs and it makes it difficult for me to reach my goal. It's really only at my full-time jobs that things are relatively ok. So the plan is too see who things turn out in about 2 weeks from now. After what I will begin my search for at least one other part-time job. I am running out of look and I am sad because I wanted to remain at the same work place to provide some stability to my resume. But is it my fault if I suffer from a lack of work?

I enjoy my free time today. I even dye my hair, which haven't been done for about 3 months and I am looking much better now. For the rest, I will take it one day at a time, since there's overtime available at my full-time job. But refilling 11 hours in a row some prepaid accounts is just giving me one of those headache lol.

My very best picks

I hold more than 30 different investment products. On that bunch of 30 of more investments, only 5 never let me down, in a sense that I never lost money (meaning never lost the initial investment money), even in bad times.

My top 5:

Fonds Desjardins Fidelity Frontière Nord
Energy and Base Metals Term Savings (Indexed term savings) – with Desjardins, but this GIC is now close
Maritime Life CI Harbour Seg Fund
Maritime Life Fidelity True North Seg Fund
CIBC Monthly Income Fund

Proof that it's very difficult to find very good investments.

I plan to invest in the Fonds Desjardins Fidelity Frontière Nord for my next coming RRSP.

Blue Note Mining all the way

It’s seemed like my problem with computer partly resolve, so I quite enjoy my evening. And I am quite all proud of myself and with my Blue Note Mining pick. The share jumping from 0.055 cents to 0.07 cents. Which made a profit of 180$, which is more than what I earn in a near 13 hours of work per day.

For now, I keep the stocks, I won’t sale for 180$, knowing it cost me 29$ to invest in those stocks, and it will probably cost me the same thing to sale them.

I just hope things continue to keep rolling and going……

I really like what I read about Blue Note in the following paragraph. The most interesting for me was this specific part:

“We just need metals prices to improve and this mine will kick off lots of cash," said Michael Judson, Blue Note's President and CEO”

Source: http://www.huliq.com/13/67010/blue-note-reduces-costs-caribou-mine

And when I read “Caribou”, it’s just making me laugh, like hey, I know Restigouche, Caribou and all those tinny little places. That’s back home, even if I am not exactly from there!

Rock on New Brunswick.

Summer time is almost over

Now summer is almost over and I didn't see too much of it. But it was quite an exciting time as I just purchase my first stocks, but the fun stop there. Or almost, as I make a lot of fun of myself -me with my 3 low paying jobs, working 7 days a week - how don't know how many hours. I believe that when the time will come, I will do something else. But earning money is quite bad as I just want more and more of it.

I quite enjoy TD Waterhouse now that I am all set up with them. It's quite unfortunate the things that happen previous, but their online system is very easy to use and I really enjoy purchasing stocks by myself. For the first transaction, the Sprott Asset Management stocks, I purchase them over the phone, for the rest, I did everything online, except for the mutual funds of Sprott, which I purchase over the phone, since it was done without any fees.

I would just like to purchase stocks from a bank - from TD, as I read they are the one who are the least affect by the credit crisis we are in. I would had care about Rogers stock, but I still don't know.

I didn't calculate the overall value of my investments, as I believe I had lost money here and there again. But it doesn't matter, as I am ready to lose money - but I want to gain as twice more. I really had faith in the Blue Note Mining. It's kind of a lovely name for a mine and I read things around and the things is it's a good company to invest in. As soon as the price of zinc will start raising, the big cash will come and I might be finally be done with my student debts. As soon as the share can just reach - one more time the 60 cents - I sale, and make $$$ and pay off some of those debts.

That's the plan.

About Blue Note Mining

Yesterday was my birthday, I am now 28 years old and I didn't reach my goal yet... But anyway, I quite happy to where I am at this point and I just hope things will just continue to improve for me.

Really lately, I purchase 12 000 stocks of Blue Note Mining, for no specific reasons, just I find accidentally the company by searching for the National Bank symbol (which is Banque Nationale in French - BN). What I find was quite interesting. Blue Note Mining has a mine of zinc near Bathurst in New Brunswick - which pick my interest because I am myself from New Brunswick. The investment cost me a near of 700$ in total, for 12 000 stocks.

And the fact that the cost of each share is super low interest me, and also the fact that earlier this year, the price reaches 65 cents or 60 cents per share... So if, by any chance, the share price can still reach the same 65 or 60 cents, I will be able to make a lot of money as I purchase each share at the price of 0.05 cents... Since I really don't have that money to invest, I find the possibility interesting and well, if I lost money, I won't lost that much, only 700 or 600$... But the share price is pretty stable, it goes around 5 cents to 0.055 cents.... and I don't understand how a share can reach 0.055 cents as 0.005 doesn't mean anything in Canadian money.

I still have a lot to learn I guess... ;)

100 more Timminco stocks

I just purchased an extra 100 stocks in Timminco, at the cost of 16.37$ per stock. I now had left around 800$ in my bank account... I just couldn't help it, I just wanted to purchase more stocks. Forget about paying my student loan.

I didn't calculate my overall income for quite a while now since I still have the problem with the Wireless of my laptop. Anyway, I spot that place where it's free to use the Internet, so I can still blog on my little activities. I just hope Timminco will turn well. If it can still reach that 22$ per share like it's once did, I will had make 600$ from the investment. I continue my search regarding Timminco, and what I learn was very positive and think Timminco stocks will just starting to rise in a not too far future. And not too elaborate too much on what I find, well, it was something like they had the contracts they needed and they just had to wait for the money to come in or something like that and for me it was just a buy buy buy comments... or from what I understood from it. I purchase Timminco knowing, again from what I understand, that Sprott sell part of their shares, and the reverse, Fidelity purchased Timminco... and me too lol. And it's hilarious, knowing I purchase 100 little shares. Well, I don't have that much money and now I am broke for the rest of the month lol.

I just kind of disappointed about my Sprott Asset Management stocks and there is no reasons why I had to loose money with the stocks like I did right now because from what I understand, they make 16 millions in profit for their last quarter, if the number is not correct, I know for sure they make some profits and now, a share that I pay 10$ now work less than 7$. But why? It's just doesn't make any sense.

At one of my job I had, I speak to someone who just pass his course to be a financial advisor or something like that and I ask him, just to chat around, why stocks were doing ups and downs all the time lol And than he explain that it was depending the temper of investors and also the news regarding the company, and so on. Like if everyone would just stop selling during bad things and keep holding like me, well, it could help, but just a bit, as he kept explaining to me, because it's not only the fault of investors. So I would like to say to people out there to stop selling Sprott shares. PLEASE.

On what to do next

I am still earnings good amount of money because of my 3 jobs and I am wondering what to do next. If I should keep investing like I was doing, in mutual stocks or funds, or should I strat just putting money away in the ING Direct account that I have or should I finally start to pay off more seriously those student debts that I have.

I had been thinking of all this lately and I am still interest in investing anyway, at least a final try if I can say. I would like some Bank of Nova Scotia stocks. If the market can get low enough, good opportunities will show up, just like it's the case with Rogers Communication right now.

It might be in my interest to save also for my incoming RRSP of 2008 but there still time ahead to save 7 000$. I was thinking that the period of December 2008 to mid-March 2009 to save the money and before that, I could basically do whatever I want with my savings until December.

It's very difficult to see all my value going away like that and I just hope things will get better and start making money from those investments.

Me and my little money

I am loosing money with crazy. My Timminco (TIM) drop from about 5$... Sprott Asset Management (SII) is now around 7$..... And I just don't want to think of the money I lost with my other investments, not to talk about my mutual funds and so on. And I just don't know the reason for all this. But I was kind of aware of the financial situation were in, but it's hurting me anyway. I didn't calculate my total value for quite a while now and I won't do so for a while, I am too scare too see hoe so little I have now.

Anyway, things are not so bad as I get back that morning job at a full part-time status like it was before. But now, I don't know if I can ever reach my 50 000$ by the end of the year. If it happen I am loosing too much because of my current investments, well, I could tell myself that I least, I have try... But the situation is not so bad as I can easily live without the money I had invest and all those were supposed to be for retirement anyway so I guess I will be able to catch up later on, but only if I don't get rid of the investment.

There's some overtime available at my day full-time job and it's the place where I should be right now, but I like do to other things than just working for money sometimes. I am kind in one of those strange mood as the weather isn't really nice and I had been reading one of those book, its call In the country of last things of Paul Auster is this is the kind of things you want to read when your loosing all your money in the stock market lol. I am kind of surprised; I can understand what it's all about. My English reading is improving.

Ups and downs

I didn't blog here since a long time. I am having problem with my laptop, which just doesn't want to go under the Wireless anymore and I am pretty upset about the whole situation, as I will probably have to pay a technician for this, since I am no longer living close to my brother, which could had take care of the job. I don't really need the Wireless, but its just I like to surf in cafe and now I cannot do anything.

And just to make things worst, I am loosing money like crazy with my investments. I just don't know what is going on, but its hurting my portfolio! I do not plan to sale anything, as always, I just keep everything but I would like to have the chance to make some money from my stocks and other. Like I was planning maybe to pay off a trip to New York or Toronto, or maybe both, since I never visited and I didn't travel for quite a time. But know, I don't think I will be able to do anything at all and it could happen I lost everything.

Two people get fired at my full-time day-time job. For once of them, I truly understand the reasons why he got fired and I was quite surprised he didn't get fire any time sooner. For the second one, it was actually the person I was having difficulties with, the one with VIH, she got fired too. But for her, I was quite surprised, as she was really good and her productivity has very high. And another person left, I don't know what happen to him. Anyway, things are pretty change.

I got a big emotional break down because of that job, not because of people I know get fired, but because I had set a fix work schedule with them and they didn't respect it. The problem was resolve at the end, but the night before it get resolve, I start crying in the middle of night and I try to calm myself as I need to wake up early at 6h45AM the next morning. I was desperate no to be able to combine my part-time job with my full-time job. But know its resolve. But I keep asking myself am I next on the people-to-be-soon fired? I take it one day at a time. I am always trying to do the best I can at work, even if its a low paying job. So we will see at the end what happen but I will be very sad if I get fired too. It's just an idea that is stock in my mind...

Just to make things worst, my part-time day job is cutting on in my hours, and not only for me, for a couple of others to. At least my weekend job is still ok for now. With all 3 jobs combines, I make almost 800$ weekly after taxes. And I just want it to continue like this. Everything was going on so well, and now, it's kind of going so-so and I am kind on getting a bit depressed by looking at my overall situation at work and at my investments.

I now have 100 Timminco stocks

I purchase other Timminco stocks this week. This time, I purchased them online, it was very easy to proceed, and it only cost be something like 27$. I purchase those stocks at 23.70$, which I believe was a good price for.

For the rest, the market is not super great at this time. I just can’t wait to make some big bucks from my Sprott Asset Management funds. So far, so good, since I am still working at my 3 jobs and I still making almost 800$ weekly. I am just looking to purchase more and more stocks and my next purchase could be Bank of Nova Scotia, but I will need at least 5 000$.

I don’t know too much on buying stocks, but I think the minimum per transaction is 100 stocks and Scotia stocks being not cheap, I might need at least 5 000$ before I can purchase them. I would like to purchase stocks that provide dividends. I was planning maybe to sell a couple of my non RBC mutual funds to purchase stocks.

Cleaning my banking account

I had most than 7 000$ in regular savings in my banking account. But the money is no longer there... I recently invest in stocks and mutul funds of Sprott Asset Management. It might be my last investments I will make for a while, since I don't have too much left in my banking account, barely enough to cover my expenses for next month. Anyway, I am pretty please with everything, except the service I receive from TD Waterhouse. I am getting a bit closer to my 50 000$. But it require so much work, I wonder if I ever could reach my goal.

I might be able to purchase other stocks by the end of August. For incoming project, there some investment I would like get rid off, but I don't want to lost the initial investment, so I am waiting.... but how long will I have to wait? Another one will be to have my credit check. And the last one to look around for stocks, for my next buy in August.

Another mutual fund....

I call TD yesterday to see if there was any fees related to the purchased of some units of the Sprott Canadian Equity Fund (SPR001) and there's none. I was told that for some funds TD charges fees and for other, they don't. Which I really don't understand, because I believe they get a compensation on a way or another from the company where individuals like myself purchase funds. I know how it works.

I don't really follow what I write on this blog. I first taught about the iShares, now stocks, and now back to mutual funds, when I just told myself I will not purchase mutual funds ever again... Anyway, that Sprott Canadian Equity Fund is a mine of gold and I would like to invest in it, even if the management fees are high (2.5%). And they also request that we keep the investment for 6 months, minimum investment is of 5 000$, which I currently have in my Waterhouse account. If not hold for 6 months, there's a penalty. But in case of need, I could always pick in my non RRSP mutual funds I have everywhere else. Because it's really investment all over the place. Like if I was willing to try anything kind of investment for money. This is the case. And it's really only for money.

But so far so good, as I stick to my 3 jobs to make near 800$ per week after taxes. I get kind of tease at one of the job. But I don't really care, as I never really care about what was going at my different work places. At one of my job, some idiots keep talking to me in English, while I am French and speak a some kind of broken English. Anyway, I don't pay too much attention, I reply in French. I don't care for anything else than the money I can make from different jobs. I am so not such difficult that everything is going very smoothly. And I am pretty good, as it been going on for a while now and money is coming like crazy, I just have to look at my expenses carefully.

After this investment (5 000$ in the Sprott Canadian Equity Fund, non RRSP), I won't be able to make any more investments for a while maybe, as I need to save 7 000$ for my RRSP of January 2008. And it will be good if I could pay off those stupid loan debts.

I feel lost in the finance world and stocks are tricky. Sprott Canadia Equity Fund appears to be a good solution. It's been well ranked by MorningStar even if the fund doesn't appear in the Analyst pick. Maybe because of its high fee. And it's also a bit volatile, but I am looking for a long-term investment. So now, I only have a phone call to place to make myself super rich with the Sprott Canadian Equity Fund. It is soooooo simple.

Making my first bucks from stocks

If it wasn't because I am working, I might spend the whole day in front a computer, looking for my SII stocks.... In date of yesterday, I made 75$ from those Sprott stocks. It just now I am realizing how much I can make if I can just be lucky for once in my life.

I also have an eye on Rogers stocks, the B ones. I just put another 1 000$. I also would like to invest in Sprott Canadian Equity mutual fund. It's just too bad I didn't find about this fund earlier. There's like too much I want to invest into and I just have too little money. I also have to thing about my RRSP.

Stocks are a lot of fun. Regarding Rogers stocks, I believe they are a good investment. I learn that the dividend will go up to 1$ per share in 2008, from what I read in their financial statement. I had been looking into them for a while, and they are a buy for a short term period, as previously, Rogers share went up to 52$.... And now the price is 40$ and something...

I purchased my first stocks yesterday

I just purchased my first stocks yesterday. I purchased 500 stocks of Sprott Inc. (TSX: SII) at 9.74$ each. I believe I made a good investment and I plan to keep those stocks for a while. I am too curious too see after one year how much will be the dividend and also the return. I prefer to invest in stocks that cost less than buying stocks of major banks which could cost me as much as 50$ per stock.

I was quite surprised to learn about Sprott and when I discover their mutual funds, I was even more surprised that those funds don't appear in the analyst pick of MorningStar. I read the article of the Globe and Mail that I find on Sprott Web site and from what I understand; their way of investing might be too different than others. That's why I never new about them before I saw that magazine at the Chapters. And I learn about it just at the right time, when I was desperately looking for stocks to invest in.

I just hope I made a real good investment. But only time will tell.

Some good news

I had a couple of things done I wanted to do during those last days. I had opened a banking account with RBC. That account is free for me since I had opened a credit card (that I never used and don’t plan ever to use by the way lol) + mutual funds with them. I just went to the RBC site earlier, and I can see my investments. I can also sell my investments at any time. Which is great, because I can wait to get ride of the RBC O'Shaughnessy International Equity Fund. Other than that, I plan to keep the other mutual funds I had with them.

I understand I should probably get ride of them and sale them all, but I prefer to keep them as I feel I don’t have that much money to invest in stocks and if something would had to happen to my stocks whatever the reason could be, I wouldn’t like to be out of money. But I might no more invest in mutual funds.

Regarding my account at TD Waterhouse, I decide to keep the account and use it, even for the reason exposed in the previous post, I really wanted to close it. The thing is that I investigated. If I decide to close the account TD Waterhouse staff will have access to my information for a period of 1 or 2 years. After what, my account will go into their archives for 7 years. After 7 years, but only after 7 years, everything disappears. This is the difficult part for me. That’s the only reason why I will keep the account. And another reason is that since I subscribed to eService, I won’t get any fees for being inactive. So I decide to keep the account. I won’t do what that poor Lisa O’Toole tell me to do (I suggest to read the previous post to understand). I know I shouldn’t complain, but investments are the only thing in my life I have totally the control on, and I want to keep it that way. I don’t want idiot to tell to send my SIN and another ID via the mail. Which I find totally stupid, knowing I had presented those items once I open the account. Anyway, I understand. And no one else seem to understand, especially TD Waterhouse agent, I have to tell. And I have a lot to tell. I won’t put my trust in them to get some advices on how to invest my money. Because I worth more than that.

I had good news this last Friday; I got a call from the place where I used to work on Saturday and Sunday. It’s seemed like they now have work for me… And I now will have 3 jobs. It’s really too bad it’s coming back now, especially during summer time. But I don’t care that much, the only thing I care about, as usual, is the money. I expect to earn 761$ after taxes weekly. This is very good. So this weekend was my last off weekend. I went to the movie and I did a bit of shopping and it was all, after doing the usual.

I also put an extra 4 000$ in the TD Waterhouse account. So now I have 9 000$ to purchase stocks. And I am kind of lost at this point. So iShares or stocks, I am kind of desperate. The best option should be stocks I believe, and maybe I should stick on the ones of Derek Foster book, even if after what happen at TD Waterhouse, I really begin to hate the man. The thing is he explain that he start with a TD Waterhouse account and the eServices, without suggesting his readers to do the same. At some point, the guy has responsibilities toward his readers, even if his books start with a disclaimer. And especially knowing his books are bestsellers. I just hope he is saying right.

Budgeting budgeting budgeting

I am getting sloppy with my expenses! It’s been 2 months in a row that my expenses reach more than 1 400$! What’s going on with me!!?

I took a lot of my expenses for the month of May so far…… and it’s not looking good at all:

Various expenses put on credit card: 674.77$
Rent: 520$
Student loan: 165$
Metro pass: 67$
TOTAL: 1 426.77$

I know I could easily save around 360.85$ in those expenses. I just need to be more vigilant about eating out and I need to slow down on coffee. At some point, I buy 2 coffees per day, one for the morning, and the other one before I hit my full-time shift.

It’s a good thing that I don’t have a phone, cellular, Internet and cable bills to pay, it will just ruined by budget. For the Internet, I am quite lucky, I get thought it the Wireless, and instead of a phone, I have a little pager. Its working fine for me, as I purchase a 20$ card to place calls. One of those cards last for about 3 months.

This week is the last week of May and I promise myself not too spend a penny more that what I have spend so far. It won’t be that difficult, knowing I had about 100$ in cash. A part of the money will go to my metro pass.

About my TD Waterhouse account

When I first open my account at TD Waterhouse, I invest 4 000$ in it. I invest an extra 2 000$ not so long ago, for a total of 6 000$. I was planning to invest an extra 2 000$, so it will make a final 8 000$. But now, I do not know and I don’t know which direction I should take. And it’s all because of a stupid letter I receive from TD Waterhouse.

I also have that 7 000$ to invest for my RRSP, so starting next month, I will begin to save for that RRSP. I just hope to be able to save enough money to follow all my plans. I am getting better with my cold and since I was off this morning, I slept in and later on I try to do some search in those iShares I am so interested in. I had an eyes on the iShares for quite some times now, but I could never invest in them, since the only way to purchase them is with a brokerage account, which I now have, but I do not know anymore if I should stick with TD Waterhouse.

TD Waterhouse or not, I plan to purchase 8 000$ in iShares:

2 500$ in iShares CDN LargeCap 60 Index
2 500$ in iShares CDN Materials Sector Index
3 000$ in iShares CDN Energy Sector Index

Each transaction will cost me 29$ each, if I stay with TD, for a total of 87$ (and does taxes applied??). There’s still a lot I don’t know about my TD Waterhouse account, like will those fees will be bill to me or will they send a somewhat invoice. I have been giving a brochure, but it doesn’t worth nothing, it’s not like a step by step guide and there’s nothing there that can help me.

The only reason why I get a TD Waterhouse account is because Derek Foster has one. At least it’s what he said in his book. And than I kept wondering if TD had paid him to be there in is book…. Anyway, so far, I don’t have many great things to say about TD Waterhouse. A big plus for me is that there is no fees related to inactivation, like if no investments are made for a long period of time, I won’t get any fees because I register to the eService. This is perfect for me because all the investments I made are for a long term basis. I begin to invest in 2005 and since that time, I never pick money in one of my mutual funds or other.

But I cannot say I do recommend TD Waterhouse because their customer service is really disgusting. A clear example of that: whenever you call to have information regarding your account, they don’t ask for security question. For a call I made, the last one actually, I call, and ask question to the customer representative about a letter I receive. I provide my account number and my name, and than I begin to discuss about my issue. Than, I was shock that the representative begin to answers to my question, without asking any security question. Than I told him, you’re giving me information on my account without asking any security question to confirm my identity? He told me that no transaction was aloud, so for him, it was ok to answers my question, check my profile without asking any security question. What a loser. What if one of the letter they send me get lost over the mail, someone else get it, open the precious letter, than, another person than myself has access to my account number and my name. After what that person can call TD Waterhouse, and ask question regarding my account……

If you have taught of TD Waterhouse for your brokerage account, beware. I am thinking of switching to someplace else. I was told that there were no fees for closing the account. So bet what I am doing to do?

The reason of my call was simple, I receive a letter from TD Waterhouse telling me they wanted to confirm my social insurance number and also, they were in need of a piece of identity. They were asking me to send via mail my social insurance number and a piece of ID. I was very upset, since I had presented those pieces when I first open the account. It doesn’t make any sense for me to send my valuable social insurance number to some of the biggest losers of the world via the mail, knowing it can be lost.

And that letter was sign at the name of their Vice President, Lisa O’Toole. I couldn’t believe a Vice President was asking me to send my social insurance number and my piece of ID, which was a birth certificate, by mail to them. I find it so unprofessional. And I am not even talking about the service I receive at the TD Waterhouse located in the Eaton Centre of Montreal. Because no one wants to really know about it.

At this point, I don’t know if it will be better if I close everything, knowing TD Waterhouse agents do not care about giving information to the right person and their Vice President Lisa O’Toole doesn’t care if my ID will get lost in the mail or not.

I hate TD Waterhouse.