Sunday, 5 April 2015

Home Sweet Home


Home Sweet Home, Berlin, Germany

Today I travel back to Berlin again! It will be great to come back home and to eat some food that my stomach will accept and to be able to drink water from the tap again. My overall experience in India this time was mixed. It is never fun to have problems with the stomach and it influence everything. Indians are as always as helpful, friendly and curious as they have been the last couple of times also.

Each time I visit I am amazed at how much of their lives are conducted over their mobile phone or maybe better put... I am amazed at how old I have become since I hardly use my mobile phone at all. I do not even have internet on it which I must admit raises some eyebrows also in Germany.

Mobile phone online shopping seems to be extremely big here which of course means that online shops needs highly specialised sites for the mobile users to profit the easiest as well as having the best possible visiting experience for them. It is a big market in India today, a big market in China today and it will be a large market in Africa. Why dig down tons of copper when you can put up some mobile stations here and there?

Even though the Metro has now been running in Delhi for several years and it is often very full the traffic on the streets are still very high. I would have thought that the more they have built out the Metro, which they seem to do each year, the less traffic one would see on the streets. Maybe the Tuktuk and the Riksha drivers have still not given up which leads to the same blockage of the roads as before.

Jaipur was an interesting experience but it was also the start of let us call it a bad wind! After this I got very furious and will remain as such until I step into the airplane heading for home.

To be away is nice but to be home is better! I look forward to a relaxing day at home today and tomorrow since it is a day off I will keep resting. Let us see if I manage to push out an article.

Saturday, 4 April 2015

Stock bought April 2015: RWE


RWE, a German energy company

By the look of it I will in the end own every energy company in Europe to satisfy by power demand. This time I decided to step in as a shareholder in the second largest energy company in Germany, RWE, since it follows my concept of buying into DAX companies that make heavy share price drops.

In these situations I directly step in with the full monthly investment amount. I therefore bought 85 shares in RWE at a total cost (including fees) of 2045 € so 24.06 € per share.

To find out more about RWE please take a look at analysis of RWE 2014.

If you want to see my current Stock Portfolio then click on the link but the portfolio will not be fully updated until the end of the month.

Friday, 3 April 2015

Stocks of Interest: April 2015


Stocks of Interest, April, 2015

The only open position that I have now which could be of interest to fill would be my ETF Austria but I assume that there is no stress due to two reasons. One the Austrian government recently allowed a bank to go bankrupt and secondly because the oil price seems to remain low for longer then what I had thought. The largest part of the ETF is a bank and the second largest is an oil company so I think I can wait a little.

Thursday, 2 April 2015

Summary of March 2015


Summary, March, 2015

The first half of the semester is now done and I have finished the two exams. one of the exams were 5 points and the other one was 10 points. As of yet I have only received the result back from the 10 points exam and I made it so that is a relief. As I mentioned in my previous report I seemed to be out of my study habit but during those last couple of weeks I seemed to regain it and I became more efficient again. I will be very surprised if I did not manage the 5 points exam also.

I had a talk to the study counsellor and I then found out that what I am doing now is actually not needed. I already have far too many academic points for doing what I now do. I need to finish 60 points in business economy and then I will have my bachelor in business economy. So what I do now I will count as a practise to get back in the student life. I directly signed up for 45 points next semester so I hope that I can have this finished in Spring 2016.

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

German inside trading: March 2015


Inside trading, Germany, March, 2015

March has been a month mixed of excitement as well as fear which has lead to big daily fluctuations. The managers are of course no different than the market which means they have been very active during March. Too active for my liking by the initial look of it!

For the previous report please click on German inside trading: February 2015.

The dealings were: