Share Portfolio Profits Up, Up, Up

PUBLISHED: Jan 08 2013 @ 09:38 | Comments (0) | More info about Clem Chambers

It is faintly silly, in a good way, for the specimen portfolio I’m building in my Premium Newsletter to be up 15% in a month, but it is kind of satisfying. You simply can’t expect to make money from the get go on a new portfolio so it is amusing to see it happening after only 3 share picks of the 30+ to come.

If any of my readers did buy into these three shares with £1000 in each they would be up over £400 as I write on 8/1/2013.

This is not the sort of performance anyone can turn in to order or at that rate over the long term – even Bernie Madoff only promised 1% a month – but readers of my free blog who looked at the portfolio I started a year or so back will see they would have made a huge return if they’d bought that.

Interestingly that portfolio was not a smooth ride; while it didn’t make much in the way of losses at any point, the thumping profits came after about 6 months of treading water.

This illustrates that successful investing is a game of patience.

Postscript. The portfolio profit has fallen back to “only” 13% as I finish my edit of this post, which underlines why a portfolio of 30+ stocks is the way to go rather than holding a small clutch of shares. Whatever they tell you about concentrating your investments, don’t listen… that’s for gamblers. Investors diversify.

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