Personal Finances – October 2009
I didn’t have much success at either investing money or putting some away this month. There were two birthdays in September that raised my credit card bill a bit higher than normal, I renewed my subscription to Xbox Live, and I bought Halo 3: ODST. I might be buying an LCD TV soon, because the [...]
Personal Finances – September 2009
I’ve decided to bring back my personal finances posts mainly for my own use to keep track of my finances better, but also for my readers to see my progress in getting out of the rat race. It could be beneficial to somebody else, so I think it would be appropriate to share as long [...]
Fantasy Portfolio – June 26
Well, we rode the Dow Jones all the way up to 8,800 before taking a nice drop in the past couple of weeks to get another entry point. I’ve taken advantage of this not only in my fantasy portfolio, but also in my real portfolio. My fantasy portfolio positions that I bought this past week [...]
Fantasy Portfolio – June 5
This week, I decided to take some gains from AAPL’s big rally and also from PEP coming through with some huge gains. It is difficult for me to judge whether I want to take some gains when a stock I bought has a run of 10% or 20% because of all the volatility in the [...]
Fantasy Portfolio – May 29
This week, I decided to make a couple of changes to my fantasy portfolio. I sold my full position of PFE based on Jim Cramer’s bearishness on the stock. Basically, big name pharmaceutical companies aren’t moving a whole lot and Cramer sees changes from Obama going negatively for those stocks. I wanted to get into [...]