By: Kenneth Schortgen Jr. On April 17, the U.S. Mint reported a record 63500 ounces of gold being sold to the public in one day, despite central banks driving down the paper spot price by over 9% in the past week. This record one day sale brings total Mint sales for April to 140000 ounces, Continue reading →
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Archive for 2013
Trade adjustment – Gold (GLD) addition #2
I am posting this trade a few days later than when I actually opened it. If you want to see my trades earlier, you can do so on my Facebook page, where I typically post my trade at the same time when it happens. Yesterday I added a few shares of GLD into my portfolio Continue reading →
Gold Sank Faster Than Titanic. Are You Panicking?
Today’s trading was fascinating. My account was red and full of blood as never before. A true blood in the streets. A massacre. It was not only Gold which sank deeper than on Friday on a lot larger volume than on Friday, but the entire market followed. If you follow my Facebook fan page, I Continue reading →
My inspiration in the last week #17
This week I would like to present the following interesting web sites and links. I often browse the internet to find ideas about investing, trading stocks, options, investing opportunities and strategies. I like to read about investors and what their investing/trading approach to create income you can live on is. A Financial Snapshot of Continue reading →
My Accounts Caught The Benchmark Up And Keep UP
I am satisfied with my recovery efforts. All my accounts are up to pre-options loss trading and on top of that they caught up the pace with the benchmarks S&P 500 and DJIA. I monitor my accounts performance on weekly basis and you can see my Weekly Monitor on top of the page. Lest few Continue reading →
How Do You Evaluate Dividend Payout Ratio?
Today I came across a post from a fellow blogger MMD and his article on his blog “Using the Dividend Payout Ratio to Help Evaluate Stocks“. The author is writing about looking at the payout ratio of dividend paying stocks and evaluating their ability to sustain their dividends or even their financial strength and profitability Continue reading →
Trade Adjustment – Corning Inc (GLW) put selling addition
Corning Inc seems to be performing well. The outlook Morningstar presents hasn’t changed and they still estimate the value at $15 a share. My own calculation indicates 17 a share with 28% safety margin and annual expected return at 25%. The PEG value of 0.9708 is below the Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components industry median Continue reading →
Be A Banker To Yourself – My Way Of Infinite Banking Account
Once I wrote about an Infinite Banking strategy in my “Be a banker to yourself” article. It was a brief review of this strategy. Today I would like to show you how I use this strategy but without a whole life policy behind the “Infinite Banking”. What Is Infinite Banking? If you do not want Continue reading →
My inspiration in the last week #16
This week I would like to present the following interesting web sites and links. I often browse the internet to find ideas about investing, trading stocks, options, investing opportunities and strategies. I like to read about investors and what their investing/trading approach to create income you can live on is. A comparison of tax Continue reading →
My Investments 1Q 2013 results
This 1st Q 2013 statement is my first publicly presented results and it will be a bit longer than the reports I will be posting in the next quarters. When I was thinking about how I wanted to share with you my results I was considering providing monthly reviews. Later, I decided to use quarterly Continue reading →
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