I’m too old for new instincts. 
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
You should (re-?) read some Charles Bukowski … 
…
Notes of a Dirty Old Man is the book you’re looking for.
I’ve blurred it in the hope that I won’t get reported and that the kids today won’t ban me from the forum …
If that does not work out, it was nice meeting y’all …
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For my momentum strategy I bought me some Oil States today. The good old Donegal had to leave with a loss of 2.38%, live is hard. You don’t perform, you have to leave, sorry!
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Dividend Strategy: Caterpillar paid a nice market dividend yesterday. Came in handy because I did take out some spending money earlier. Still a bit of debt left, but almost nothing.
Go CAT, go!
Addendum: the carry premium is now at 10.55% this year. (dividends + market dividends - tax - debt interest) / value. That is cash flow baby! I don’t spend that much, the rest is re-invested.
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And the stock market October has finished, here my report.
Momentum Strategy:
Unfortunately could not hold the 28% XIRR. Holdings:
Positions:
Margin multiplier: 129%
Performance: YTD 20.69%, XIRR since 2020 27.47%
And my dividend strategy:
Portfolio: Finviz
Dividends: KMB,MRK,MO,HST,ONL,O and CSCO
Market dividend: CAT
Carry premium: 10.57%
Margin multiplier: 100.74%
Performance YTD: 15.02%, XIRR since 2014: 10.82%, since 2020: 13.6%
Positions:
Sectors:
Dividends:
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And the journey to oil continues. For my momentum strategy I bought me some Nabors Industries (NBR) today. Every analyst says there will be overproduction next year and prices will fall. But my captain makes me buy more oil stocks. Maybe the situation is already priced in.
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Are you buying oil explorers, integrated or service companies?
Probably all of the above. Whatever has to be done…
Has been a long time that I did go that high on a sector, last time it was housing I think. I don’t do sector diversification in the momentum strategy.
At the moment I hold CVI (+57%), OIS (-8%), PBF (+19%), NBR(new) and VIST(+942%) in the momentum strategy. Two refiners, two explorers and one service company. From experience I think there will be more. No risk, no fun.
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And on it goes with my momentum strategy. Are Oil stocks the next railways?
Had to sell Seneca foods way too early for my taste. A little gain of almost 20% in 8 months helps a little for the departing pain.
And all that just to buy yet another oil stock: Borr Drilling. I know Captain, you like those, but are those not really just doomed? OK, I do what you tell me like always.
(even in Brazil)
This is the first time in my life I experience a live testimony of someone having sold their soul for wealth.
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To myself, as I made the rules when my brain was a little younger than now. I am the sole and only owner of my soul and I am sorry for making that much money without the f..n devil.
But then I think I lost my iron shirt…
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And yet another market dividend in my dividend strategy from Cummins.
With the cash and a bit more I bought more of APAM, CNA, JNJ, LMT, MRK, O, T and VTRS.
The carry premium rises to a new record this year: 11.95%. That is cash flow!
Thanks Cummins.
Dividend strategy: KVUE did not fulfill my cash flow requirements, so I had to sell it even before the merger. With part of the money I bought more Dupont.
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I’m curious how Du Pont will fare in your mechanical strategy. Looking at FASTgraphs Du Pont’s current valuation was almost always the top valuation for the company (except for a short stretch in mid 2009 to mid 2010).
So my FASTgraphs lens would tell me not to buy right now. But your mechanical strategy tells you to buy. Hence my curiosity how this will turn out.
Mostly unrelated: I once spent a year in a high school in the US (in the late 80s) and also took French as a class. The French teacher one day came into class explaining that one of her friends had incorporated a company named Du Pont, but was sued by the real Du Pont company for using its name. So the French teacher’s friend just renamed his company to De La Pont …
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How will the company where Bob Marley worked and that inspired
ever fail?
My probably not so strict cash flow rules were adhered in the last quarter and last year. The position was smaller than 4%. So yes, it was a buy!
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ChatGPT: “that’s an urban legend”
Gemini: “Yes, the famous reggae musician Bob Marley did briefly work at DuPont in Delaware.”
Grok: “In 1965, at age 20, after marrying Rita Anderson and moving to the United States to live with his mother Cedella Booker in Delaware, Bob Marley took a series of factory jobs to support himself. One of those jobs was as a forklift operator and general laborer at a DuPont chemical plant in Wilmington, Delaware.”
Now waiting for the OpenAI IPO so I can short the stock.
I hope your other investment thesis based on cash flows will hold up just as well …
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And on I go to be an oil sheik with yet another one. When will it stop? Bought myself some Helmerich & Payne today for my momentum strategy.
Momentum strategy: sold some of the world’s biggest mechanics school, UTI, after 24 months. Welcome to the 3rd year with me, UnTrained Idiots. Momentum fades away, probably they won’t make it to the 4th year. Actually at plus 95%.
And here comes the November report:
Momentum strategy runs very nice.
Portfolio:
Margin multiplicator: 134.6%
Performance: YTD 21.62%, XIRR since 2020 27.25%
Wheel of fortune:
And the dividend strategy:
Portfolio: finviz
Dividends: T,GIS,ABBV,O,CAT,APAM
Sold: KVUE
Partially sold (market dividend): CMI
Bought additional positions: APAM,CNA,JNJ,LMT,MRK,O,T,VTRS,DD
Carry premium: 11.56% (yeah, that is cash flow baby…)
Margin multiplier: 100.29% (almost no debt).
Performance: YTD 18.77%, XIRR since 2014 11.05%, since 2020 13.99%
And the wheels of fortune:
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Congrats.
Love that big fat MO dividend pizza slice! Almost wished I was not as strict with my (dividend) position sizing when I see such a juicy slice … and it’s still not really expensive!
OTOH my strict (dividend) position sizing has saved me from losing a significant part of my cash flow produced by some other companies when they decided to cut their dividend.
Still … seems like it’s currently unfathomable that Altria will ever cut theirs. Their earnings growth is even more steady than Johnson & Johnson.
If I was really rich I’d probably back up my truck to load up on some more Altria. If the bet goes south, so what (since I’m really rich). As I have to manage risk, my pile of Altria is already (almost) full. It’s mostly always full, but as the overall pie starts growing little slices of adding more MO occasionally open up.
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