As the month draws to a close, some thoughts.
- Some medium term planning for TRMD. Two more nibbles during the month, including one after results.
- As part of the TRMD planning, prepared to sell some of the earlier higher-priced TRMD shares.
- After building up FRO position over several month, started hedging my FRO bet by closing out higher cost shares.
- FRO announced results on 08/24. Results above-average, and a nice payout. But spot averages suggest rev and net income take a hit in Q3. Also, FRO have a lot of vessels going offline in H2 2023 (4 Suezmax in Q3 is not a bad thing)
- “Normal” result from FLNG. Still worth a nibble.
- Small gain with SB. Restarted position about 6% lower
- Exited NAT. Nice gain, Q2 results on 08/28
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08/31
The month comes to a close. Had forgotten I bumped up FLNG after results which meant FLNG overtook FRO the last week as top shipping holding. Month stacks up as
- FLNG 20.32%
- FRO 19.81%
- TRMD 16.31%
- CLCO 10.74%
- SBLK 9.25%
- NMM 6.79%
- GOGL 5.26%
Top 7 is 88.48 and the remaining is spread across 6 names
Harvested nice gains on INSW & NAT.
Similar harvest plans for FRO and TRMD, each with a slight caveat. With larger positions, the harvest plan on these two was mainly to reduce cost basis. FRO shares reached target, TRMD did not quite meet target price by ex-div. Spot avg reported to-date for Q3 suggest dividend adjusts lower in Q3, so the plan to trim is still on. Silly mind games perhaps. But SB did not seem to behaving right, so I harvested a small gain. Then, 10 days later jumped back in. Missed the dividend, but still a larger gain with the trade. I am now thinking that SB could be another trading fish candidate (like NAT)