Personal Finances – June 2010
It was a rough month for my stock portfolio. All five of my holdings saw a drop in share price, although the only one to take a drastic hit were my shares of BP. I foolishly added a position in BP a week or so after the spill when the share price had dropped to [...]
When Machines Run Our Money
Earlier today, the stock market took a crazy tumble losing nearly 1,000 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at one point only to rebound back to losing just under 350 points. The rumored cause of the giant dip was a typo made by a stock trader entering a “15B,” meaning billion for the number [...]
Fantasy Portfolio – February 5, 2010
The stock market has been taking big hits over the last couple of weeks, totaling 6.6% over the last month. Luckily, I took my gains in most of my stocks at the beginning of the year and haven’t seen as big of a loss as I could have. Most of the declines were caused be [...]
Fantasy Portfolio – January 15, 2010
My portfolio this week didn’t take a hit as you may have thought since last week I had over 6% gains and only showing almost 1.5% gains. The portfolio value doesn’t take into consideration that I increased my overall position including cash in my account. I haven’t been able to actually see my cash position [...]
Fantasy Portfolio – January 8, 2010
What a great start to the year for the stock market! The S&P 500 was up over 2.5% and gained every day last week. My fantasy portfolio more than doubled the gains seen by the S&P 500, but the markets are very overbought right now as the technical analysis shows, so a pullback might be [...]
