Portfolios
New Opportunities Portfolio rolls out
The new portfolio tracking information is now up on the Opportunities Portfolio page. The effective date of the new tracking is October 1, 2008 and the initial stock positions were entered at the Sept. 30 closing price. I was a little worried that re-starting the portfolio at that time would look opportunistic because the market [...]
Opportunities Portfolio end of quarter review
All I can say about the 3rd quarter performance of this site’s Opportunities Portfolio is that it was an opportunity to lose money. Only 3 of the 14 stocks had positive returns and a third of them decreased by 40% or worse. But first, a little background on this portfolio. My Opportunities Portfolio has been [...]
Income Portfolio quarterly results
Another calender quarter is behind us and it was one of the ugliest in my memory as far as stock investing goes. The market showed tremendous fluctuations with record daily gains and losses, but finished the quarter down significantly with the S&P500 down over 12% for the 3 months and the NASDAQ off almost 10%. [...]
Reduction in Financial Preferred ETF
As I am now actively managing this site’s Income Portfolio, I am trying to decide how much of the trading I want to share in posts. Right now I am leaning towards putting up a notice when I make a major position change or something similar. Today I decided to reduce the position in the [...]
Taking a risk with 20% yields
(SBLK: 2.87 0.00 0.00%) (AWP: 6.33 0.00 0.00%) During my recent stock research I have come across of a couple of investments that are paying dividends in the neighborhood of 20% per year. In normal times, stocks with these kind of yields are big fat warnings that something is wrong with the security and the [...]
