Your current position?

[Nyden]

It's been a while since we've had a thread asking about current portfolios, or gains, or losses - and I thought I would start one up.

Just a poll as to what your current position is - whether you only trade, or have begun dipping in, or are still sitting on the sidelines with cash-lined pockets.

Me? Well, I'm entirely cashed up. Was dipping in the other day ... guess I got scared away by that lacklustre Monday - go figure, now we've had spectacular gains on BHP, ANZ as well :

With analysts speaking of the AUD at 47c, and interest rates tipped to fall drastically - I am starting to question as to whether or not I should have at least some long term exposure here!

 

[chops_a_must]

I have 2 bottom drawers, plus all my free carried shares.

But am pretty much only trading at this stage.

 

[korrupt_1]

50% trading

20% in long term holding (of that 20%, im in the red an avg of 40%)

30% cash

 

[sinner]

24% in the market (right now long RMS, RMSOC and IHK), 66% in cash (will be splitting this 30/70 JPY/AUD soon) and 10% physical gold/silver.

 

[Bushman]

10% despair;
20% naked fear;
20% casual indifference;
10% schadenfreude (esp Albanese, his arrogance, and his 'fat' pay check - honourable mention to AFG, Macquarie and Wall Street);
10% optimism;
20% pure, dumb top of the bull 'China is decoupling, oil is running out, carbon trading is upon us' HOPE;
10% hubris (off course).

Grand sum of my position - I am manic depressant market participant like everyone else out there! Go, go volatility.

 

[Sean K]

Sold all manged funds in Jan and all stocks I could a few months ago.

Been intraday trading, now started to buy some fundamentally interesting stocks that I think are oversold, but ready to sell at the drop of a hat.

Once in a life time buying opportunity here or in the short term, if you have any cash left.

 

[chops_a_must]

10% despair;
20% naked fear;
20% casual indifference;
10% schadenfreude (esp Albanese, his arrogance, and his 'fat' pay check - honourable mention to AFG, Macquarie and Wall Street);
10% optimism;
20% pure, dumb top of the bull 'China is decoupling, oil is running out, carbon trading is upon us' HOPE;
10% hubris (off course).

Grand sum of my position - I am manic depressant market participant like everyone else out there! Go, go volatility.

Bahahahahaha...

Once in a life time buying opportunity here or in the short term, if you have any cash left.

Low/ no debt defensive and staple dividend paying stocks only, if you can find them Kennas.

Sideways charts are good buying IMO.

 

[Indie]

Zero debt.

Sold all shares in December. Sold property in March.

100% cash now.

10% AUD, 30% USD, 60% YEN.

Doubt I'll consider stocks again for a while. Though I would short Aussie financials if I could. Always get antsy about gold now and then, but happy to leave that be for a while longer.

 

[Nyden]

Zero debt.

Sold all shares in December. Sold property in March.

100% cash now.

10% AUD, 30% USD, 60% YEN.

Doubt I'll consider stocks again for a while. Though I would short Aussie financials if I could. Always get antsy about gold now and then, but happy to leave that be for a while longer.

Wow indie, you have 90% of your money in foreign currency? I don't think I could stomach the wild swings! I admire your courage though, certainly wish I had it

 

[Johno]

Im about 80% in and for the long term - around 5 years. Ive staggered it in in lots of 25%. Though I will prompltly sell anything that starts looking shakey and replace it with somthing else. Ive already got rid of Suncorp and Rio thank god, becauase i was having trouble sleeping.

All up I am about 10% down so I am very happy with it. Ive chosen to buy BHP, Wesfarmer, Woodside and AMP. Considering I bought one of these when the All Ords was at 4750 (big mistake), im not doing too bad.

Of note, im totally new to buying shares and this is my first time.

 

[Indie]

Wow indie, you have 90% of your money in foreign currency? I don't think I could stomach the wild swings! I admire your courage though, certainly wish I had it

Yeah, I guess I saw it as a once in a lifetime opportunity, and you only live once.

Just couldn't stomach sitting there and watching my AUD get clobbered all the way from US .96 and Yen 100+ to where it is today. I have a long term outlook that I'm betting on: AUD sub 50 yen. Though I have moved in and out of positions to take profit from time to time and continue to do so. I found AUD is very closely correlated to stock markets movements atm due to global deleveraging. Anyway, it's less stressful now that I feel I have a decent buffer. All in all I am up over 50% this year which is a lot better than I ever did at stocks or RE in one year. And I'm all in, which is nice when it comes off

 

[outback]

50% cash
50% bottom drawer type stuff.

Trigger finger is getting itchy though.

 

[Grinder]

Still have a handful of stocks I picked up years ago that have been steadily losing value since I first got em and now a penny dreadful that I got assigned on. So its swing trading, gamma & reverse gamma scalping for me now.

 

[CAB SAV]

Current Position- Aircraft Crash Position. Day trade

 

[mazzatelli1000]

trading options - only 20% of portfolio
slowly buying in some stocks
a few swing trades

 

[cutz]

Fully invested in long term stocks and i've started adding over the past few weeks, trading options to ease the pain.

 

[skunkmonkey]

Thought it was another correction and held all, in 100%. Now down around 70% and falling. Unlikely to sell anything and I've stopped watching the markets other than the morning report on TV with the DoW close. The shakes have stopped and now I just feel a numb sense of loss.

 

[adobee]

I am down about 40% (paper wise) from where I was nine months ago however I am now fully invested..

60% of my money is tied up in my own business..
40% is mixed between AGO & FMG..
Any spare income is used to purchase AGO, MAE & CVN..

 

[Smurf1976]

I have accumulated a number of long term holdings (which I plan to keep for 5+ years, quite likely a decade or even longer) and one of my rules is not to trade or otherwise try and beat the market with those stocks. I'm there to collect the dividends and what I expect to be substantial long term capital growth. So I'm still holding those stocks and haven't lost the slightest bit of sleep over them.

But my super is in 100% cash and has been all year. I'll put it back into shares at some point but not yet.

 

[M34N]

Went from 20% in to 100% last week (luckily into a few that went up well, namely BHP and NCM), but now only holding just under 50%, pulled half out of NCM yesterday and half of BHP this morning. Think it's safe tonight thanks to US markets being closed but will look to sell out at the sign of any major weakness.

Kind of unsure where the market will head now, looks like it could go either way. So waiting for the next signal before I sell out. Will not re-buy even if markets go higher, feel that 50% in at the moment is enough and already got some solid profits locked in from those gains this week. No need to risk more.