January 2011 Performance Presentation

From 2011, The Stock Trading Advisor (TSTA) will come up with a month performance presentation for our readers. This presentation should give everyone a clearer picture of our stock performance comparing to major indices on a month-to-month basis. There is expected discrepancies in the initial stage mainly due to counters which were held before I started blogging, and a little confusion to the gains as I marked to market all prices.



TSTA is up only 1.80% for the month of January 2011, mainly due to the untimely announcement of Steve Job's medical leave. We underperformed comparing to S&P500 which was up 2.27%. Asia market didn't do too well last month with Singapore's FTSE-ST down 0.98% and Hang Seng up merely 1.35%.

Portfolio

• Apple Inc (AAPL) up 0.51%
• Las Vegas Sands (LVS) up 1.04%
• Citigroup (C) up 1.02%
• Genting SP down 7.76%

We've closed 2 positions in the month of January : Ezra Holdings with a profit of 1.31% and SJM Holdings with a profit of 9.09%.

January Transactions

We've added positions to AAPL at an average price of $345 and LVS at an average price of $44.90 within the last month. TSTA has now the biggest exposure to both AAPL and LVS, with both these counters making approximately 80% of our current portfolio.

*Note : Calculation was based on SGD/USD exchange rate of 1.275 and SGD/HKD exchange rate of 0.1637