First day of trading after venezuela's kidnapping of her president Maduro. CVX/SLB incating higher because they already have some presence in the country
Real Estate: I need to meet Yury for some remaining jobs, needing to be at Hudson to cleanup and make sure it is ready for the new tenant. I should go tonight!
My investment return in 2025 was unsatisfactory: single digits vs. almost 20% for spx and more for ndx.
Here are some of the key reasons:
1) Overtrading! - need to study my trading patterns and reduce mistakes.
2) bought at the high and sold at the low: When the vix index jumped 2 pts, I usually reduce exposure, but failed to increase exposure on the rebound. What was worse was: effectively my max exposure at the market peak and lowest exposure at the market bottom - worse timing!
bought CNQ because it came down 6% due to invasion of venezuela (over done). The co has a long history of increasing dvd and long reserve life.
added 200 shares of vitl at the support level. If it breaks, I need to unload these and more.
added small PBR, which only came in 1.5% on maduro.
