Think Positive – Part II

7/31/2014

My patience and positivity seem to pay off. After availing the stock rights offered by Manila Mining Corporation (MA) on June 16, almost 20% was added to my MA shares of stock. It was only one fifth (1/5) of my total MA shares but it made a huge impact on my portfolio because I bought the stock rights at a much lower price. From almost 10% paper loss, it went down to less than 2% when the additional shares officially showed up on my portfolio on July 1.

As what I’ve shared on my previous article Think Positive – Part I, MA has been down since May. And I got used to it. Sabi ko nga sa sarili ko, manhid na ko. But two months after seeing the consistent double digit loss percentage, for the very first time, MA showed up with an amazing 8.51% gain!

And seeing positive 23% day change the second day after I got my stock rights for MA was absolutely phenomenal. I could feel my ears clapping in joy and excitement. (OA lang 🙂 )

MA has been green since then until the last few trading days of July when it slowly moved down again. Today is the 31^st of July and as I write this, I took a peek at my portfolio and saw MA showing red numbers again. 🙁

Could it be that it’s ghost month? (I’ll tell you more about this on my next post.)

This is how stock market works. Just like the roller coaster, sometimes it’s high sometimes it’s low. You try to follow the ‘buy low sell high’ strategy but it doesn’t always happen that way. Sometimes you have to hold on to it, pause for a little while and come back later. Truly, patience is the key. And I’m staying positive on MA.