The young ones did it.

I apologise for my lack of recent blogs but i have been ever so busy, however i have wanted to write this blog for a while and after a recent profit on the blackberry stock when other people said it would fail even more i feel compelled to write it.

You see it wont be the current generation who save the economic crisis but instead mine, while my generation sit back and watch whats happening we know that we are going to have to try and clear the problem up and solve what is wrong, as my parents generation make a hash of things and things get worse we have to be working on growing our minds to be able to solve problems that are caused by other people, that is why i would love to get this blog more popular so i can perhaps get a number of other young people involved yet that is just a dream.

The young ones did it and indeed we will.

recently my portfolio has grown and i have retaken my 10% profit and am now in the top 9.5% of users on the wall street stock survivor.

My long term buy Google has made little progress but i stand behind this and berkshire hathaway as steady climbers.

Blackberry continues to make rapid returns and i feel i am getting close to a sell out. 

Blackberry: back in black

I have changed blackberry's status in my portfolio from short term return to long term investment and the reason for that is simple, i believe blackberry are mainly back, there sales for this quarter are expected to be about the 1,000,000 mark and the Z10 has only been in the american market for a while, they are growing sales in the U.K and india plus they have secured a large order from Germany, surely the security of there phones will win over other govermounts also. 

If Blackberry get there act together and properly think about the course ahead i can see them maybe not being the leaders in the market but surely taking second or even if they were to secure third they would vastly improve, this is based on my opinion that the apple has fallen from the tree, Samsung will stay strong and huawei will continue to grow and the vast rate they have been. Maybe blackberry can even branch away from just the mobile market, and create a brand of computers and laptops, i believe for blackberry the possibilities are endless but one thing is sure, this company is worth more then $6.8 billion (making apple currently 58 times the worth of blackberry.)

The Apple fell on newton, why wouldn't it fall now.

Apple hit a new low today and i can see that many people would be considering taking a position in a stock at $419 when it was once more then $750, but really why? just because a stock was that price once doesn't mean it will be that again, there are companies (CISCO) that deserve to rise to there previous glory value much more then Apple, sure apple has had its moment of high but the industry is leaving it behind, soon there will be new companies taking over completely and there will be nothing apple can do. I've always stayed clear of apple and i will not be jumping on the stock while it plummets  as the title said "the apple fell on newtons head once why wouldn't it again" what goes up must come down and apple has had it's time up, there products don't compare against competitors spec wise and since the loss of Steve jobs apple have become more and more like the titanic on a collision course with an iceberg with no real leader to know what to do. 

the potential of facebook

I have always thought that Facebook is a seriously undervalued company and now i have a chance to say why:

Facebook has over 1 billion uses many uploading pictures and storing information about themselves, where else can other company's go to get that kind of information up to date to the MINUTE. What an amazing resource for companies to have, where do there potential target market go to work? what do they do? what do they like? The possibilities truly are endless. 

It appears to me though that companies do not make the most of the possibilities of Facebook but one day they will have to pay attention and realize that Facebook is an amazing opportunity for them to use.

Apple may be big fish, but there swimming in a bigger pond

Apple in my opinion have been far too over rated for far too long, not just stock price wise but also technology wise, Apple are on and offer the biggest company market capitalization wise but i doubt they have a true future, the sharks are coming for the phone industry with Samsung taking over and even blackberry and Nokia circling not to mention huawei coming forward to seize a market that was previously dominated by them and who can blame the consumer? Apple offers less then the other producers for a higher cost, the only ones still obsessive about iPhone's are those with magpie mentality, oooh shiny, ooh a fruit, but slowly consumers are becoming switched on and working out they can get a better product elsewhere.

Also the next big thing from apple is the apple watch that is not expected to be with us for another 3 years and in my opinion by then it will be overshadowed by the Google glass and Samsung bending screens, all seem to offer a better future for me.

I've never invested in Apple and i never will, i believe that there products are bad and one day consumers will realize this leaving them with just the iPod market.

I will go into this in more detail at some point but its sunday.

This week in trading (a little late)

This week i have altered my strategy slightly, i have began investing in long term gains rather then short term rushes. I already had a stock in my portfolio that i have had for a while and never been able to sell and now i believe i will just keep it there as the stock seems to slowly rise and i am happy to sit back and take the profits.

This is also the reason i retook a position in blackberry, not for the short term gains i was trading for before but more for long term, as i have said i see a high chance of this company succeeding in the future.

 recently i have also upped my risk not just retaking my position in blackberry but also adding Facebook, eBay, Google and Berkshire Hathaway to my portfolio all of which i'm excited about

this weeks why are you even in my portfolio goes to chipolotle Mexican grill, this stock has earnt me a large sum of money and is also the highest amount i have invested in a single stock yet i still don't quite know what this company does... this is stupid of me but i'm happy to keep it.

My one to watch of the week goes to Microsoft again, i really must take a position here 

this week my portfolio is up a total of 7.87% and my alpha is 0.9%

on a little note i'd like to thank everyone reading this or who has read my blog i'm nearly on 500... Thank you guys

confession: i broke

You are reading what i plan to be the first of two blogs today, this one is a slight confession from me in that i snapped and bought blackberry.

I'm afraid i just see this company as to undervalued to not be bought (even with an idiot CEO). Blackberry sales are growing at a phenomenal rate and it appears they are actually making headway to break back into the market. If this continues or not only time will tell but i seriously believe this company has a chance to be great again. 

Blackberry have not fallen so far behind in the tec market that they can not keep up any more as they have proved with the Z10, sales are rapidly increasing even though they were already above Nokia  yet Nokia's market capitalization is higher then Blackberry, this is one of the key reasons for my retaking of a position  how can a company with higher sales and a brighter future be worth less then a worse company?  Why do i believe that Blackberry have a brighter future? well it's simple they not only make there own hardware but they also make there own software meaning they retain all profits made rather then Nokia having to pay Microsoft for using  windows 8.

All this said though i believe that Blackberry still needs rejuvenating  such as replacing the CEO with someone who will be able to reshuffle the company and lead them to the heights i see can come.