Miraculous Streak : Jasa Kita brings in TEN Rounds on the day I attend the 10th shareholder meeting [of #38 Nestlé], a decade after the last attendance !!! {30th Apr 25}

  Today, I best the joint nine physical annual general meeting attendances of '23 & '24 with a first-time-in-a-decade showing at Nestlé 's 41st such meeting while reaching the 118th decade mark to wrap up the month of April, thanks to a deliciously coincidental decade of servings by #6 Jasa Kita !

Miraculous Streak : PeterLabs Gifts a Trio of Records !!! {29th Apr 25}

    This bags fifty-seven full months in my miraculous marathon, with the Tokyo stockmarket closed  for Showa Day.
 

Miraculous Streak : Daiwa 大和証券グループ brings me to 88🎌🎌🎌🎌 since July 2017 !!!! {28th Apr '25}

  Japan's 2nd largest broker thus becomes the fourth 🎌 securities outfit to pay me after Maruhachi 丸八証券 in '21, Okasan 岡三証券 in '23 & the fabled Nomura 野村ホールディングス in '23-'24:

  
 I finally nab my 88th🎌 scalp heading into the 8th Anniversary of my involvement there, the 48th winner of '25 reaching the 1,178th link in the continuous train of trading gain !!!

Miraculous Streak : #46 PeterLabs Scores a Duo for SUCCESSive Day #1177 !!! {25th Apr 25}

 

Miraculous Streak : Affin Bank is Scalped within 3 weeks for another Record!! {24th Apr 25}

The maiden score waiting time for East M'sia's smallish Affin Bank is cut down by over 95% from 6 years & 2 months down to 3 weeks with a premature re-entry at $2.70 averaged down to just below $2.59 on much better-timed  138% bigger purchase in the thick of the tariff-ied global market selloff early this month, allowing a resale of 60% of that fresh re-purchase at $2.77 for coffee monie$. The combined score advances to a fresh record of 1,223 points!!!
 

Miraculous Streak : PeterLabs Saves Successive Day #1175 most Synchronistically!!! {23rd Apr 25}

  A chance mention by a friend at a shareholder meeting sees the #73 of '24 become the #46 of '25 to prolong the life of the precious unbreakable run to an unprecedented 1,221 points, on a day when Japan disappoints due to an unwillingness to part with the largest listing there barely a fortnight after a most coveted purchase!!!

  A most synchronistic, unexpectedly well-timed partial exit since it's only been Day 7 since the stock's move past my re-entry in early '24 after a decade's absence before that !

Miraculous Streak : Nestlé Comes Through 4X in '25, but only ONCE from 2015-2024 ! {22nd Apr '25}

 

Miraculous Streak : Katsuragawa 桂川電機 makes it yet another FIRST EVER🎌🎌🎌🎌 in Consecutive Days !!!! {21st Apr '25}

 A very tepid sale price for a very illiquid equity, on a very down day in Tokyo! Still, about ¥1,635 is earned net of both commissions, or about $50 at the current rates, the combined tally reaching 1,218 points, ten higher than the old high watermark at the end of last year !  FOUR 🎌🎌🎌🎌 in a row bests Friday's unprecedented triple!!!

 

The LONGEST streaks in my Stockmarket Odyssey thus far...

 

All four have remarkably survived bear markets that have been more frequent since the peak in 2014 & endured through subsequent climaxes in 2018, 2020 & 2024.

The cumulative total of the Top 3 & the Top 4 add up to 1,739 & 1,823 days respectively, equivalent to 7.10 & 7.44 typical years' worth of market days or 4.76/5.0 calendar years!

Miraculous Streak : An Unprecedented🎌🎌🎌 in Consecutive Days, with 4/5 Bought for December dividends Divested ! {18th Apr '25}

   As forecast, beer giant Kirin Holdings キリンホールディングス is sold 15 weeks after entry 2 days before the last dividend went ex-, the 4th in 🎌 after YKT,  Shiseido 資生堂 & Mabuchi  マブチ all exited with capital gains after buyers paid them without dividend rights from December, racking up gross % gains of +21.2% [Dec 30], +7.3% [Feb 20] & +4.8% [Feb 26] respectively . The beverages stalwart's stock is released with a gain of 5.2% after receipt of the ¥2,672 dividend recently: 

    Almost all the coffees & teas I have bought from the company have been thus belatedly sponsored  by these net gains, which ranks it just behind Mabuchi in terms of net gains. Also, 13th on the all-time list thus far, Shinto 新東 has re-entered my possession at a 2.3% discount to the purchase price last year & 28.3% cheaper than my exit level  for winner #16 on 10th Feb this year, nine weeks before the once-a-year dividend goes ex-, thus dangling the prospect of earning a second payout from the company!

  Also, big kahuna🎌 listing Toyota トヨタ is sporting a 5% paper gain four days after my maiden entry, while Ono Pharmaceutical 小野薬品, very wisely retained for its beautifully bullish rebounding chart patterns, is showing a 7,7% gain on paper to complete a hat3rick of paper gainers with Katsuragawa Electric 桂川電機 , a 19.3% capital appreciator, awaiting a likely final exit next week!  The 3 Japanese 🗾🎌 winners in as many successive days is also unprecedented in my 30+ year odyssey in stockmarkets, while a torrid pace of 17 scorers from the islands brings the 8-year tally to 87!!! 

Miraculous Streak : 🎌After 2 years,🎌 AIDA アイダ delivers again & bows OUT Triumphantly ! {17th Apr '25}

  Hard to believe how much I once lusted for this stock...almost committing to it in Dec '18 but missing out a mouth-watering price of  ¥676 around Christmas seven years ago due to timidity. A partial redemption of that failure was realized with a maiden entry at ¥799.7 at around the same timeframe 3 years ago...a stake which was 2/3 sold on Apr 15th '23 for consecutive day #686 & today, AIDA Engineering アイダ エンジニアリング reprises its role as marathon extender to continuous day #1,171 with a sale at ¥882 to bid a fond さようなら at three ticks below its intraday peak, 485 successive market days on [ the former record was 462 in a row from 2017-2018] .

   Total dividends & capital gains are almost on par with each other, the 16th 🎌 win this year out of 86 in total  & also the 2🎌nd score in as many days! Recent entry Kirin キリン appears to be the frontrunner to take the miraculous marathon baton tomorrow!  

  

  I listened to Giuseppe Verdi's seminal Grand March from the famous opera of the same name as the pride of victory lifted my vibratory frequency! 

Incredible Streak : Tokai Senko 東海染工 delivers TWICE & EXITs for Good! {16th Apr '25}

  The 🎌 flag flies high today to preserve my incredible run of success to the 117th decade mark with #11 Tokai Senko 東海染工 closing 3% below my exit price just 2 ticks below the intraday high as Ono Pharmaceutical 小野薬品工業 , belatedly discovered to be hanging to a thin thread of paper gain post-commissions & dividend, relinquished that evanescent hold on black ink to slip 0.23% at the close, and beverages giant Kirin Holdings キリン replaces it in the paper profit category by 2:30pm Tokyo time.

  The marathon's continuation in the face of global market gyrating paroxysms continues to astound me with its miraculousness and I feel extremely privileged to be co-creating this magical dance with the Universe!  

Incredible Streak : Jasa Kita brings in NINE rounds in '25 ! {15th Apr '25}

 

This is after two sell queues in Japan for Aida アイダ & Tokai Senko 東海染工 failed to be executed at the close of Tokyo trading.

Incredible Streak : Toyota トヨタ is finally Bought & Nestlé Earns a Hattrick in '25, after just ONE helping in '15 ! {14th Apr '25}

   The 113-year-old food giant & #38/ '25 is sold down to the last thirteen shares after going as high as 164 at its lowest point , earning 3/4 of the dividend that the stake sold would bring if held on to past the fifteenth.

    Japanese car giant Toyota トヨタ was one of the 3 Tokyo equities queued for today & only it was finally purchased at an 11% discount to the original price queued for last month that was missed by just two ticks, or ¥1!  ¥26,200 was saved in the process, even after including the after-tax dividend quantum that would have been earned!

Incredible Streak : Nestlé Comes Through Twice in '25, out of just 3 times in the last Decade ! {11th Apr '25}

  Counterintuitively, the stock of the local listed subsidiary of the Swiss food giant rose in the face of renewed global market selloffs today, breaching $80 in the opposite direction from its plunge through that round number mark on Mar 4th as it suffered a panic sell-off exacerbated by short-selling, down to a nadir of $61.80 sixteen days later.

  Fortunately, my last minute averaging down at $62.24 on that fateful low point Thursday rewarded with a solo continuation on a too-early sale for a rare contra gain the next day while simultaneously pulling down my average to $76.80397 including commissions. Today, a 2nd helping from that act of bravery with a 60% sale of odd lots just below $79.60 allows me to beat a quarter-long record of 1,208 points at end '24 by one point & raises my cash holdings to almost $138,000, providing some stretching & breathing room in the face of  tariff-ied markets!

Incredible Streak : 6-Consecutive-Year Scorer Petronas Dagangan delivers a 50-minute Day Trade {10th Apr '25}

   The $1,022.50 dividend earner has additionally scored capital gains consecutively from 2020 till this year inclusive and notches a win today with a quick in-and-out for coffee money, no thanks to a connection problem on my trading platform between 9:35 till 9:50 am that directly compelled me to lower the sell order on an instinctive $18.30 buy at the open from $18.88 to $18.64. If I had left it there, it would have been executed anyway, on hindsight!

 

  No matter, the important point is that Petronas Dagangan , the ninth winner this year,[ & #62 of 20, #24 of '21, #115 of '22, #51 of '23 & #80 of '24] contributes twin rounds to the record streak, standing now at 1,166 days continuously...truly a miracle in the face of all the market paroxysms lately!

Incredible Streak : Kluang Rubber saves the Marathon for the First time since 2022 {9th Apr '25}

   The 42nd scorer of '25 thus brings the combined streak tally to within ONE point of the highest ever 1,208 points at the end of last year!

 

 

Incredible Streak : The Record Marathon Accumulates $294,880.63 in Earnings since its Inception 55 months ago !!! {8th Apr '25}

  Today, Jasa Kita is pared down an 8th time to my last 1,300 shares, bringing the record combined tally to within 3 days of being equaled, while the tally of earnings since the current run began on 29th July 2020 approaches the $300,000 mark, which handily offsets any paper losses on current long-term holdings.

Despite the market meltdown in April, somehow the miracle hangs on to dear Life with uncountable synchronicities that has brought it this far !

  Frontrunning candidates to prolong the " 9th wonder of the World " include possible rebound plays on Nike ,Alibaba , KL Kepong ,Walt Disney , Intel & perhaps Occidental Petroleum .
 

Top to Bottom Corrections in selected 🎌 Equities in the CoronaCrash of '20 [&'90] compared to the Drops up till today & strong Supports !

Toyota -28.1% [-26.4%] S = 2,183 '24; 1,750-65 '15-'22

-34.4% 11.10.89-22.3.90 +35.8% in 3m

T.Tsusho -49.4% [-24.6%] S = 1,887 '21; 1,635 '18

-44.7% 11.10.89-5.4.90 +44.0% in 2m

Ichikoh -59.2% fr high 4 mths ago [-25.3%] S = 292 '11 ; 201 '01,16

-34.4% 5.10.89-6.4.90 +48.7% in 3m

TOTO -39.5% [-18.8%] S = 2,660 '07; 2,939-3050 '16-'20 

-40.6% 24.10.89-2.4.90 +25.8% in 2m

Kintetsu -39.5% [-18.6%] S = 2,720 '12; 2,350 '11

-43.4% 1.12.89-2.4.90 +19.6% in 2m

Kinki Sharyo -48.4% [-23.6%] S = 1,233 '22; 1,030 '01

-41.1% 14.12.89-6.4.90 +31.9% in 2m

Nomura -37.3% [-37.7%] S = 650 '21&'23 ; 555 '18

-48.4% 7.12.89-22.3.90 +30.8% in 2m

Astellas -29.2% [-18.3%] S = 1,256 '00; 1,130 '07

-32.5% 25.1.90-22.3.90 +26.7% in 1m

Taiyo Y -38.2% [-34.3%] S = 1,593 '10; 1,470 '19

-32.1% 28.1.90-5.4.90 +50% in 2m                    

MinebeaM -46.1% [-30.6%] S = 1,600 '19; 1,430 '18

-29.1% 1.12.89-5.4.90 +19.5% in 2m

Murata -33.5% [-34.0%] S = 1,534 '20; 1,435 '19

-20% 26.1.90-26.3.90 +32.9% in 1m

Ibiden -40.0% [-43.3%] S = 2,860 '20 ; 2,501 '97

-26.4% 15.3.90-5.4.90 +71.7% in 2m

Shin-Etsu -37.2% [-18.6%] S = 2,838 '22; 2,635 '18 *

-29.2% 6.1.90-22.3.90 +31.6% in 3m

Nidec -42.5% [-36.2%] S = 1,602 '16; 1,423 '06

-21.2% 15.3.90-27.4.90 +105.9% in 3m

Omron -35.8% [-30.2%] S = 3,450 '00; 2,743 '16

-35.2% 4.1.90-22.3.90 +27.4% in 4m

Softbank -55.6% [-47.4%] S = 4,660 '13 - 5,350 '22

*TD 9 count or more on monthly chart

Incredible Streak : Jasa Kita is relied on for a Septet of Rounds As Markets Worldwide CRASH !!! {7th Apr '25}

  Honestly one of the most sobering days in my 31-year-long odyssey in the stockmarkets, with panic selling to a degree reminiscent of 2008 in the wake of the Lehman shock. Markets are discounting the huge earnings revisions in the face of stunning new tariffs imposed by the US, while the degree of selldown is being exacerbated by widespread margin calls among the wealthy, the ordinary & the predatory hedge funds.

  Surprising then that #6 Jasa Kita is sold one tick up from Friday's close to reach 1,163 days consecutively....itself a miracle!!! Also, seven hundred  successive record highs since the previous longest run [ 2017-2018 ] was overhauled in 3Q 2022!

To console myself, I did a back-of-envelope calculation of the paper 'losses' avoided by my most recent Japanese stock sales and together, including Nomura, which finally erased the 'paper profit forgone' by tumbling today, amount to almost M$14,080, excluding commissions save for Econach & Nomura !  Not included in this figure is the first paring of Tobishima & also Mochida Pharma, Kodama [which rose 32% higher after a pause, but is now M$1,226 cheaper! ]& Ogura Clutch. Nothing much can be done in this kind of vicious circle of selling begetting more selling except to count one's blessings that one has such a long-enduring streak & has narrowly avoided major bloopers, for example, almost buying Toyota for ¥2,723 [currently ¥2,266.5], thus avoiding M$1,362.68 in losses, minus the recent dividend, amounting to just under M$100 ! Additionally, in HK, Johnson Electric is down by HK$1,590 from my exit point even though it vaulted up unexpectedly by nearly 27% subsequent to that sale!

I also consider myself very lucky for ultimately passing on many stocks that I had been eyeing for March dividends: Nidec ,ANA ,Shindengen ,Astellas ,Shin-Etsu ,Olympus ,Kikkoman ,Nichidai , Sakurajima , Daiun and many others.

  

Daiwa Securities Purchased just 0.2 yen above the Aug 5th '24 Black Monday low

                                                        

                                                                                                     

   The intra-day low of ¥845.1 will likely be renewed on Monday with the Dow industrials dropping more than 2,200 points Friday, despite my maiden entry being -22% on its 2025 high & -37% down from its 52-week peak, on a prospective 5.1% yield. 

 Discounting from its ¥103.9 peak EPS in 2006 suggests a fair value of  ¥980.5 while a similar comparison with its 2021 EPS produces a fair value of just over ¥840.5. Using the 2000 peak EPS, which is 90% of the latest EPS of ¥84.9 and extrapolating from its Aug 2000 low & its Mar 2001 lows gives us a fair value range of  ¥777.5 to ¥976.5. Six months after it announced a big loss of  (¥98) per share, the stock bottomed at ¥411 and it double-bottomed at around ¥430 five months later in Apr '03, a month before disclosing a much improved (¥4.7) per share for FY '03. The stock rebounded swiftly to a high of ¥995 in Oct '03 and after a -36% drop within 2 months, rebounded back to double-bottomed at around ¥933 exactly a year after the secondary bottom of 2003. After completing a consolidation 'triple bottom' of around ¥640 in Dec '03, Oct '04 & Apr '05, the price discounted the surges in EPS from ¥31.7 to ¥37.5 & beyond ¥100 in 2006 before dropping to ¥67.9 in 2007 & halving to ¥33.7 in '08 before turning red again [ (¥63.2) ] in 2009. Despite '06's peak EPS falling 35% the next year, the stock managed to best its May '06 peak of ¥1,672 by 1 tick in end Feb '07! I aim to sell on such a rebound within the year, or at least a resurgence similar to the 47% rally from its Jan '08 low of  ¥809 to ¥1,187 in June that year. Comparable nadir EPS are (¥62.5) in 1997, (¥43.2) in 1998, (¥32.4) in 1992 &  (¥23.5) in 1995.

Incredible Streak : The 'other' local Jeweler 💍 Sparkles & Takes Charge 💎 of the Streak to attain 1,162 days in a row ! {4th Apr '25}

    Down to my last bits on whatever remains of the handful of profitable stocks, Tomei Consolidated is selected to perpetuate the cherished marathon through the global equities markets' worst day since March 2020 in the year the legend began & re-wrote the old record in July 2022, after two rounds as #54 in 2024. This is the 3rd jeweler to score & contribute to the run after Poh Kong & Tsutsumi 🎌.

   Today, I also put bets down that the current selloff is close to bottoming by buying long-stalked  Daiwa Securities, hoping that it will become my 4th 🎌 securities stock to earn a trading gain, after Maruhachi , Okasan and of course, Nomura !  1,203 in the combined score means it's sandwiched between 26th & 27th Dec '24 as the 4th highest score to date!

 

 

Incredible Streak : Jasa Kita Delivers 6X while Quality Concrete surprisingly exits at a HIGH to breach 1,200 Points ! {3rd Apr '25}

    Markets crashing frighteningly are met with a strange calm within me & two jewelry stocks that are still sitting on paper gains were the front-runners to prolong the record run. However, I got greedy & waited to see if Poh Kong & Tomei  could go beyond $1.09 & $1.84 respectively as they seemed to track the buoyant price of Gold early on. However, they couldn't sustain gains as markets continued to tank & began to drag down the yellow metal itself eventually.        

    Thus, #6 [ & the 77th winner in '24] Jasa Kita had to step in a sixth time with a reluctant partial disposal at 28c less than twenty minutes from the close. However, unbeknownst to me, the random sell order for my last remaining hundred shares in Quality Concrete had been done before noon [ sold at $1.22 after re-entry at 91c last year] due to my day-long outing with relatives and so I finally attain forty winners in '25 on the back of a +34% gross gain, bringing the combined score to 1,201 points, tying with X'mas Eve '24 as 5th best score up to this point in my investing odyssey !

Incredible Streak : A local Jeweler 💎 Sparkles 💍 With a Hattrick ! {2nd Apr '25}

  My prediction of a 78% probable drop in the local index due to the net 300+ point drop in the oldest US equity index over the two day nuisance local holiday was surprisingly proven wrong as the local index rallied +0.85% at the close, though losers handily crushed gainers with a 637-288 margin as recent winners KL Kepong and Nestlé M'sia, both dropped, the former by 1.4% and the latter by 2.2% while other less recent contributors to the enduring record, CIMB , Tenaga Nasional , Petronas Dagangan and CelcomDigi featured in the Top 20 Gainers' list.

  The abovementioned forecast caused me to dispose of just under half my remaining stake in Poh Kong💍, which, as the 13th scalp of '25, corralled the 1,119th & 1,155th links in the unbroken chain of gain dating back to 2020, at the $1.04 open, which proved to be the day's low. Another lot was sold at $1.06 a bit later to ameliorate the bad timing but the undervalued gold-related stock closed up nearly 4% at $1.07 on the tailwind of the yellow metal's stellar over-long-weekend jumped to fresh all-time highs. This intermittent contributor thus secures 116 decades in the ongoing miracle!

    

    The intention set in the morning for a synchronistic day ahead was somewhat fulfilled by the Japanese market going nowhere after several days of weakness after the widespread 28th Mar ex-dividend date as seller dominated action in Tokyo, sending many stocks to 52-week lows & others, like barely-missed-buying at ¥ 2,723 on 13th Mar bellweather stock Toyota tumbled into technical support zones from after last years Black Monday meltdown in August. After lunch, I also fortuitously picked up some money from the floor of a kopitiam that shaved 6% of my frugal food bill for the day! Every cent helps in this crumbly economic environment! Also, for many years now, picking up carelessly-abandoned money has portended windfalls in the stockmarkets !!!

 

   Hence, the combined score leapfrogs over 19th Dec's 1,197 points to become the 7th highest score thus far at 1,199, level with 20th Dec' 24 !!!