March downside creates buying opportunities.
When everything looks so easy and everyone is making money so when you simply just need to buy something and wait, that's a time when the market sentiment flips and the market delivers a reminder that cycles still exist and nothing goes up forever. That's a time we are likely to fall to ground and start over again. Portfolio has been hit hard and I still expect some volatility during April although not as big as during last weeks. We may also start to see portfolio climbing back up slowly.
I took advantage of this downturn and increased $VALE (Vale SA-ADR) holding. I plan to have this company as a core holding of the portfolio among the top 5 assets. Vale has been stuck in a multiyear, almost two decade lasting downtrend going back to the start of GFC 2008. Since my initial investment at around 10$ per share it run up to almost 18$ rapidly and touched the multiyear trendline which can be seen on the shared picture and it timed perfectly at the start of the ISrael/USA-Iran war from when we saw a big decline in correlation with other markets.
There is still some downside risk but on the other hand huge gain potential and I am aiming to buy more shares in April.
Vale operates 100% from renewable sources and the plan was reached two years ahead of the planned 2025.
Vale has been repositioning itself from a traditional iron‑ore giant into a major supplier of copper and other energy transition metals which are expected to face structural deficits over the next decade. They aim to increase copper output from 321,000 tons to around 500,000 tons by 2028. I am a long term bull on copper. Copper demand is projected to rise for the next decade while the supply is shrinking year by year and will continue to do so if nothing changes in the discovery terms.
Vale, in my opinion is a great investment for the long term. The downtrend in the share price can be turned around - What I am looking at is a consolidation below the highlighted trendline for some months, breakout and confirmation of the breakout. They also pay interested dividend of 8.6% and so it helped me to slightly increase portfolio dividend yield.
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Not investment advice. The author may have financial interests in the mentioned instruments.
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