Quick weekend update. I’m continuing to lock in my gains and generate extra cash. I sold my AAPL after it started to come down after earnings for a nice overall gain over the last couple years. I picked up lots of Apple in the mid 100′s (more than doubled!), low 200′s, low 300′s, around $390 [...]

I sold my KMP this morning after yesterdays nice jump up on the El Paso news. I picked up an average 20% gain + some healthy dividends. The original shares were up around 50%. I’ll buy back into KMP in the 68′s or lower as it comes back down. This one is in my Roth [...]

I sold my IBM this morning (before earnings) at $189.42 locking in a 10% gain. There were several motivations for me to sell IBM for now including : IBM picked up a 10% gain while other stocks I picked at the same time (and most of the rest of the market) is down 10-20% over [...]

I closed out the SWKS last week and only got a couple percent gain out of it. I’m back off the margin and have some cash in my trading account. Last week I used some cash in my trading account to average down my Alcoa (AA) to $13.42. Earnings come out after hours today. Today [...]