I have opened a new position of STEC yesterday:
08/20/2009 Bought 3 STEC @ 34.7894
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I have opened a new position of STEC yesterday:
08/20/2009 Bought 3 STEC @ 34.7894
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Today 19 shares of MDRX were sold @ $14.8 and 3 shares of GMCR were sold @ $58.46 when both stop loss orders were activated.
Looks like the market is entering a correction phase.
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New stock picks this week:
Fuqi International Inc (FUQI)
Existing & new holdings:
Symbol | Qty | Last | Gain($) | Gain(%) |
FUQI | 3 | 27.40 | -4.80 | -5.52 |
GMCR | 3 | 63.37 | -19.89 | -9.47 |
MDRX | 19 | 15.80 | 2.29 | 0.77 |
V | 7 | 67.80 | 24.85 | 5.53 |
Contribution this week: $0
Starting account value = $1,704.52
Account value = $1,657.89 (without margin)
Buying power = $610.78
[tag]Portfolio Gain/loss[/tag] this week = -2.74%
[tag]Portfolio[/tag] Gain/Loss for AUGUST 2009 = -2.28%
Portfolio Gain/loss for 2009 = -24.98%
[tag]Annual Return[/tag] (CAGR): -36.33%
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On Tuesday I have bought 3 shares of Fuqi International Inc. (FUQI). The total risk of this trade will be 3.80% of the portfolio. I set the stop loss at $21.94 which is 24.32% of this trade.
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Last 30 days [tag]performance[/tag] (top 5):
Basic Materials | +30.05% |
Financials | +28.61% |
Industrials | +22.62% |
Consumer Services | +17.06% |
Technology | +14.75% |
(Data retrieved from [tag]financial[/tag] websites such as [tag]MarketWatch[/tag], [tag]MSN Money[/tag], [tag]Yahoo Finance[/tag], and others)
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New stock picks this week:
No new positions this week
Existing & new holdings:
Symbol | Qty | Last | Gain($) | Gain(%) |
GMCR | 3 | 69.70 | -0.90 | -0.43 |
MDRX | 19 | 16.50 | 15.59 | 5.23 |
V | 7 | 69.17 | 34.44 | 7.66 |
Contribution this week: $0
Starting account value = $1,696.52
Account value = $1,704.52 (without margin)
Buying power = $697.73
[tag]Portfolio Gain/loss[/tag] this week = 0.47%
[tag]Portfolio[/tag] Gain/Loss for AUGUST 2009 = 0.47%
Portfolio Gain/loss for 2009 = -22.87%
[tag]Annual Return[/tag] (CAGR): -35.20%
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The recession, we are going through, started officially in October 2007. My personal opinion is that it actually started a lot sooner, circa at the beginning of 2007, but that is not the point I want to write about. Recently our economic data are showing some improvement and it seems that we are at the beginning of a recovery. Of course there are careers and branches out there which are still waiting for its improvement process to begin, such as new construction in residential and small commercial industry is still very slow, while housing itself is indicating some improvements.
If the recession started at the end of 2007, it is 17 months since then. Even though many say that this recession is different, it actually is not. When you take a look at the entire history of recessions, you will see, that all are same as the previous. Some are longer and deeper, some are shorter and shallower. But all are exact same and there fore we may expect similar progress during this recession too.
Of course, investors shall be cautious when investing or moving money back into stocks, but there is no doubt we are already marching out of the recession. A few weeks ago I talked to a friend of mine in some party and we discussed the stock market, economic issues and someone joined us with strong words of explanation why there is no end of this recession yet and the worst is in front of us. I was looking at that person with my mouth widely open asking myself a question how somebody can be so skeptical.
Today I have read an article “Why are company insiders selling?” and in the first three paragraphs you can read that the insiders are selling because the bear is still out there and the stock market may fall again. Well it may fall and it will. It has been growing since March 09 until June 12 and then it corrected. The correction was as by books. Since then, it is growing again in a sharp pace so it is obvious that one day it will correct again, but talking about a bear out there?
I remember William O’Neil talking in his book How To Make [tag]Money[/tag] In [tag]Stocks[/tag] when public and commentators are too excited of a bull market it typically indicates its end and vice versa when they suffer from hysteria of a bear market it typically indicates its end as well.
Why I think that this is all hysteria about which O’Neil is writing? Our company decided recently to switch our 401k provider and the new one provided us with the following data:
Peak | Through | Duration (months) | S&P 500 Cumulative Price Decline |
Price Gain 12 Months Later |
05/29/1946 | 05/19/1947 | 12 | -28% | 19% |
02/02/1953 | 09/14/1953 | 7 | -14% | 38% |
07/15/1957 | 10/22/1957 | 3 | -21% | 31% |
12/12/1961 | 06/26/1962 | 6 | -28% | 33% |
02/09/1966 | 10/07/1966 | 8 | -22% | 33% |
11/29/1968 | 05/26/1970 | 18 | -36% | 44% |
01/11/1973 | 10/03/1974 | 21 | -28% | 38% |
06/30/1975 | 09/16/1975 | 3 | -14% | 28% |
12/31/1976 | 03/06/1978 | 14 | -19% | 13% |
09/11/1978 | 11/14/1978 | 2 | -14% | 12% |
02/13/1980 | 03/27/1980 | 1 | -17% | 37% |
11/28/1980 | 08/12/1982 | 21 | -27% | 58% |
10/10/1983 | 07/24/1984 | 9 | -14% | 30% |
08/25/1987 | 12/04/1987 | 4 | -34% | 26% |
07/16/1990 | 10/11/1990 | 3 | -20% | 34% |
07/17/1998 | 08/31/1998 | 1 | -19% | 40% |
03/24/2000 | 10/09/2002 | 30 | -47% | 36% |
Median | 7 | -21% | 33% | |
10/09/2007 | 03/31/2009 | 17 | -47% |
NOTE: Dates are shown in US format: MM/DD/YYYY
Source: Zephyr; LPL Financial
As you can see in the table above, recent crisis is same as the previous ones, so there is no need for panicking and hysteria as you may see in news these days. From the history we may expect another bear market in about two to three years (in worst case).
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If you were considering investing some money besides your 401(k) plan to boost your savings and making more money for your retirement, you are maybe asking a question right now: how to do it with a small amount of money. In this post I am going to show you how I did it and what strategy I consider the best when investing small money. Later in this post I will also tell you why it is a good idea having another investing account besides your 401k, where you can invest on your own and why you should invest in your 401k only as much as to get your employer match and save the rest elsewhere. I will tell you why I decided to invest small portion of my contributions to 401k just to receive my employer’s match and the rest goes to my ROTH IRA and Investing-trading Account (this blog is a journal of my investing account only, but I am thinking to show my ROTH IRA account either on this blog or start another one).
If you do not have a lump sum of money available for investing in your own new account, you have only one way to go: invest a small amount of money every month. What strategy and what investment vehicles you should chose to start with? This is the most important question ever. You need a strategy, which will save you money on fees and commissions and which will help you to boost your savings, while still be as cheap as possible.
I tried several approaches before I came up with a strategy, which will be the most effective. Originally in my previous post I advocated to start saving in your savings account and after you save some substantial amount of money, transfer them to your new investing account. This approach didn’t prove to be the most effective to me.
I searched through the internet trying to find some feasible strategy and I have found a lot of great ideas and advice from aggressive growth trading, growth investing up to income investing. However, all of the strategies I found had something in common: all expected you to have an account with at least 10,000 of dollars or more and some income strategies even expected you to have 100,000 of dollars or more!
I also found some articles advising investing with small amount of 100 dollars a month. However, all advice I read about this investing approach revealed itself to be extremely expensive for a small investor like you or me.
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Last 30 days [tag]performance[/tag] (top 5):
Basic Materials | +13.90% |
Financials | +9.99% |
Industrials | +9.51% |
Technology | +9.38% |
Consumer Goods | +8.56% |
(Data retrieved from [tag]financial[/tag] websites such as [tag]MarketWatch[/tag], [tag]MSN Money[/tag], [tag]Yahoo Finance[/tag], and others)
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New stock picks this week:
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc (GMCR)
Existing & new holdings:
Symbol | Qty | Last | Gain($) | Gain(%) |
GMCR | 3 | 70.44 | 1.32 | 0.63 |
MDRX | 19 | 17.23 | 29.46 | 9.89 |
V | 7 | 65.46 | 8.47 | 1.88 |
Contribution this week: $0
Starting account value = $1,692.93
Account value = $1,696.52 (without margin)
Buying power = $699.61
[tag]Portfolio Gain/loss[/tag] this week = 0.21%
[tag]Portfolio[/tag] Gain/Loss for JULY 2009 = 2.38%
Portfolio Gain/loss for 2009 = -23.23%
[tag]Annual Return[/tag] (CAGR): -35.73%
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