2012-37-NYAN-statement
NYANCAT FINANCIAL: YOUR FRIEND FOR LIFE
Nyancat Financial Weekly Letter to Shareholders
Sunday September 16th, 2012
also available at:
http://www.tsukino.ca/cpa/nyan/nyancat-statements/2012-37-nyan-statement/First please allow me to apologize for not releasing a letter to shareholders last week. There is a story behind this, and it's a good one, and I felt it should be told all at once. I believe NYAN shareholders will appreciate the reasons for my silece when they read this letter.
Week 36:
NYAN paid 0.57% (0.005 per share on NAV of .88)
NYAN.A paid 1.00%
NYAN.B paid 2.00%
NYAN.C paid 1.35% (0.005 per share on a NAV of 0.37).
Week 37:
NYAN paid 0.47% (0.00364442 on NAV of 0.78)
NYAN.A paid 1.00%
NYAN.B paid 2.00%
NYAN.C paid 1.76% (0.00411237 per share on a NAV of 0.233).
First a quick note. CPA and NYAN. CPA and NYAN are separate companies. CPA insures NYAN.A and insures that even if NYAN.B and C go to zero, NYAN.A. will always be worth 1 bitcoin and will always pay out 0.01 a share. That is the connection between the companies. CPA holds ~1100 shares of NYAN. That's it. They are not related in any other way and transactions are kept separate. People who say that I am intertwining my companies or using them to support or prop each other up are stupid trolls. I will release my CSV for NYAN publicly if I have to. These people, these trolls, are sickeningly stupid. And some of them are probably sockpuppets. I had to ask myself, why was every troll attacking CPA last week someone new with less than 50 posts? Big clue people, big clue. I don't mind answering honest questions. But trolls can go to hell.
Ok so here is the situation.
The Good.
1. We sold out 4,000 shares of ASICMINER at about a 10% profit
2. We reduced our exposure in OBSI.HRPT and will be reducing risk in NYAN.C slowly by increasing holdings of high-yield miners at bulk purchase rates.
3. NYAN.A will have continuous and considerable obverflow starting next month because it's #1 holding (BMF) just passed a motion to double dividends.
4. We sold off all our BDT several weeks ago. Because I knew, I just knew. I don't always know, but I knew this time.
5. NYAN.A is worth 1 bitcoin per share, long and strong.
6. I donated 4,000 of my own personal CPA shares to NYAN.B as a signal to investors that I am here for you and I will not stand for bullshit in these markets, NYAN is the best, end of story. If I make NYAN the best, then I will make it all back and more when NYAN gets bigger and I make more money for running it. I thank you for your patience and your trust here.
The Bad.
1. Some of the profit from ASICMINER had already been realized as capital appreciation, so NYAN.B has a small net loss (which was covered by NYAN.C, so don't worry).
2. There is a massive liquidity crunch these days because Matthew and Pirate.
3. NYAB.B lost further money because DMC is down.
4. NYAN.B is worth .95 per share --> but don't worry, this is an accounting convention. It still pays 0.02 per share each week. We will likely make back the .05 this week and if not NYAN.A will overflow. And if not we'll take the assets from NYAN.C. Don't worry just yet.
The Ugly.
1. I have heard some asset issuers have recieved death threats because investors lost money in their funds. Get a grip pepole, that is not cool. If you cannot handle losing money investing on your own put it with a competent fund manager. And do not invest more than 10% of your money in one security.
2. Matthew defaulted. It's a pity he had to throw his reputation away like that and even worse that he will take down DCOA with him, and bitcoin magazine, etc.
3. Now that the Zeek news is out it is blatantly obvious pirate has no money. I marked all PPTs to zero and will be dumping them if possible for spare change.
4. NYAN.C is worth 0.233 per share.
So ok basically what is my plan to fix all this? For one, yes I do a lot of trading but ultimately if you have chosen to invest in a high risk security like NYAN, there is not much I can do to stop any particular other company from defaulting. If you cannot handle this level of risk I strongly suggest you invest into NYAN.A or NYAN.B. I have reccomended a balanced approach from day one. This is reflected in the number of shares NYAN holds: 817 A, 299 B, 143 C. I know many of you invest in exactly the opposite way; 800 C, and 100 A. This is bound to loose you money. High risk securities should occupy only 10 or 15% of your portfolio. A wise investment strategy will invest a majority of it's assets into highly liquid, safe securities like mining, or insured issues like nyan.a.
Again, I have said from day one in these letters, don't go balls to the wall in NYAN.C. For those of you who did not listen, I am sorry. For those of you who did listen, now is a great time to buy more NYAN.C. Please see "A NEW HOPE" below.
So for now, we will just try to get through this shitty time where literally every week 1 or 2 major companies, lenders or services blow up. Then with careful asset management and good trading skills, we can slowly raise the value of NYAN.C. On my end, i'm working hard trading here. We made 25 bitcoins trading OBSI.HRPT during the confidence crisis last week when Obsi announced he would have bad news (i.e. he had been threatened by one of his investors). Further, NYAN.A has 1200 BMF and BMF recently passed a motion which will double it's dividends to almost 4% a week (in other words, to protect your income after the block reward cut in december, withot loss of NAV). So I am working hard on that not just for BMF and CPA investors but for NYAN as well. I have also scaled back on the dividends for NYAN and NYAN.C to around 0.5%-1% per week, and I will beusing the overflow to try and repair NYAN.C.
A NEW HOPE (Management Guidance for Week 38)
JRO is out of the picture.
Pirate is out of the picture.
Weak hand lenders like hashking are gone.
Personal loans as an asset class have been discredited.
Non-transparrent securities that don't tell you what they invest in have essentially been outlawed on GLBSE.
The need for insurance has been stated very clearly. So hopefully CPA will get more business. If CPA returns to .1 NYAN.B and C will benefit greatly.
BMF has passed a motion to purchase asics which will save the life of everyone invested in NYAN and BMF in the future (and double investor's rate of return in the short term).
It's indeed a brand new day. CPA and NYAN has stood the test of fire by surviving the Pirate Panic and not folding under pressure from Matthew. going forward I have bought 70 shares of FPGAMINING at around .60 for NYAN.C, and 50 more for NYAN.A Why? because it's a high-yield miner and I want to lower the risk profile for NYAN.C from "BANANNA-F******-INSANE" to "A SHOT OF WHISKEY" or maybe "FLIRTING IN A DANCE CLUB". I know that many of you were waiting until we completely wrote pirate off to invest in NYAN.C, but let's be honest. if OBSI.HRPT folds, NYAN.C will dissapear. It's one thing to be BANNANA-F-INSANE and another to be "Sensibly High Risk". I choose the latter. We need to diversify and not be just an OBSI.HRPT passthru. That's not high risk, it's just being naieve. I think everyone can see that now, hindsight is 20/20.... Remember this is not so much a managed fund; NYAN.C just invests in whatever pays the most (as per the contract). I think it's time to reign that in just a little and invest in whatever pays the most -- given the restriction that the things we invest in need to be a little bit more transparrent and above-board. So no more "personal loans" (although we'll hold what we have) and we will accumulate more securities like GVMT-BOT and high yield miners like FPGAMINING And TYGRR.BOND-A, JTME, OBSI.1MHS, and so forth. The nature of high risk may also change. ASICMINER would be considered a high risk security in my opinion because if they are not first or experience "hiccups" the opportunity cost in hindsight will become too great to bear. For example.
And now, for those of you have read this far....
I would like to present usagi's rules for NOT losing money investing in bitcoin. Please, please, please, consider what I have to say very carefully.
---> Usagi's 10 commandments for investing on your own in the Bitcoin Stock Market <---
---> Examine every stock in your portfolio, and every stock you feel like investing and ask yourself the following questions: <---
1. Has it paid regular dividends at least six times or has it been in operation longer than six months?
YES: BUY
NO: SELL
2. Does it charge more than 10% in management fees, have more than 20% in growth or maintenance fees, or does it take growth or management fees out of money allotted to dividends?
YES: SELL
NO: BUY
3. Does this security pay more than 1% a week (and is NOT a FPGA or ASIC miner?)
Yes: SELL
No: BUY
4. Does this security tell you what it invests in or what it's business model is?
Yes: BUY
No: SELL
5. Is it a personal loan or high risk passthru, or is it provided on a "best-efforts" basis?
Yes: SELL
No: BUY
6. If it is a fund, has the fund manager failed to beat the market? (I.E. for a mining fund, have they lost more than 60% over the past 3 months?)
YES: SELL
NO: BUY
7. For mining companies or bonds, is it a fixed-rate mhash per share?
YES: SELL
NO: BUY
8. Do you have more than 10% of your money in any one company?
YES: SELL
NO: BUY
9. Did you buy it because the price went UP or DOWN recently?
YES: DO SOME RESEARCH INTO THE COMPANY FIRST
NO: THEN YOU MUST HAVE DONE SOME RESEARCH ALREADY AND ARE CONFIDENT IN YOUR OWN DECISION
10. Is the asset issuer ID verified on the GLBSE?
YES: BUY
NO: SELL
The most important thing you need as a private investor is CONVICTION. Conviction does not come from watching prices go up and down for a long time. Conviction comes from doing research, asking questions to the asset issuer, and doing the math. There is also obviously a place for skill and experience to come through and push and help you succeed here. Investing isn't easy. So there is one more question, the bonus question.
BONUS. Did I invest without doing honest research into what I am investing in?
YES: GIVE YOUR MONEY TO A COMPETENT FUND MANAGER LIKE USAGI
NO: GOOD WORK, KEEP IT UP!
There is no shame in investing with someone who has a proven track record of success. The chances you will beat someone who does money management for a living are slim to none. At least invest 10% of your money with a manager and practice trading with 10% of your money before going all in. See who comes out ahead after 2 or 3 months. Try it!Fund managers do charge money this is true but if the service they provide was worthless no one would invest. Or, if a better fund manager came along he would get bigger and everyone would go to him and the bad funds would go out of business.
Ok. I would like to state that I am on IRC a lot and I love to chat, if you want to talk about NYAN please find me on IRC or e-mail me at
[email protected]. I will answer all your questions about NYAN.
Just ask. Thanks!