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Sell IBM @ $189.42

Published on October 17, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

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 [...]

Stock Market Chaos, Debt Ceiling, Gold, What stocks do I buy?

Published on August 4, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

Ray, I’m curious… it sounds as if you are an active trader. How do you keep your transaction costs down? Also what about keeping track of everything for tax purposes (or is this all within a Roth)? Also, what are your net gains for being so aggressive, how do your gains or losses compare with [...]

Locked in some gains, holding the cash

Published on July 28, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

I covered the RIMM and sold my MNRO early this morning. I locked in 5-6% on both of those. My 401K rollover also completed today. All of above gives me some extra cash across the Rollover IRA, my Roth, and my trading account. After a quick chat this morning I decided to wait until after [...]

Recent Mistakes

Published on July 18, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

Hey, you already got to watch me make a mistake!  I pulled the combo of taking action based on a headline (incorrectly taking some GLD profits) during a busy day  at work AND moving that money into tech that we know over and over again is generally not a good thing until the fall.  If [...]

Sold 25% of my GLD for a 15% Gain

Published on July 13, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

I’m not going to pretend I know anything special, I’m just following along as far as my GLD strategy goes : “@JimCramer – Sell 25% of Gold, Hold Rest” I suppose another way to put that is that no one ever got hurt locking in a gain!  I started my gold position with a chunk [...]

Traded in some VFORX for Jim Cramer’s 5 year stocks

Published on July 1, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

I sold off around 15%  of the VFORX in my Rollover IRA and used the funds to pick up some of Cramer’s 5 year stocks : Buy IBM @ 171.76, MMM @ 95.01, HON @ 59.23, DD @ 53.83, and F @ 13.7999. Say what you will about the personality.  If you pay attention regularly [...]

The Lists for JF

Published on April 16, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

I was going to make a nicer page with images and four rectangles but then I figured that might lead people to assume the rectangles are equal values when they really are not.  Bullet lists it is!  JF asked for my current lists of stocks and other major investments.  This is generally how I look [...]

Sell VFORX, Buy FpS FFIV RHT MNRO OXPS

Published on January 31, 2011 By Raymond Popowich

With my 401K rollover in the works I had sold my VFORX in my Roth IRA last week since I’ll be loaded in it within my rollover IRA.  Lucky timing there since it was before the fuss over Egypt.  Looks like those bucks should have missed most of the decline.  Today I added to my [...]