Archive for: November 2007

Today is an important day to remember this, a gain or loss is not realized until you exit your position.  I’m taking a beating today - down 3%, but only on paper.  Out of the 17 positions I have open right …

On Sunday, after reading most of Barron’s, I put in a few limit orders to sell naked puts on some of the stocks I liked from this latest edition.  My order on DWA hit on Monday morning bounced up from …

I thought this was cool.  Last night I went back for the past six quarters (it’s counting up through yesterday, 11/6, as this quarter) in Quicken and charted my average annualized return per quarter. The quarter ending 9/06 is when I first …

I’m too out of it today to make any trades, unless any of my limit orders hit.  My interview went well this morning and I’m waiting for a call back this afternoon from the President to find out the next …

Today’s option trade detail is at the bottom of this post, but thought this was cool enough to share first.  Check out the x-rays from my neck below.  You can see the screws and metal plate from my neck surgery (ACD) in …

Continuing my weekly series of charting a major index, I returned to chart the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) at the bottom of this post. I charted the past six months of daily price action.  Here’s what I notice from the daily six month chart …

Kopin Tan wrote about Ralph Lauren (RL) on page M7 in Barron’s October 29th issue.  This is one of the few articles they also have availble for free online too.  As of his …

This post is somewhat of a continuation of an earlier post on patience. 

Every weekend I chart one of the major indices (QQQQ, DJIA, S&P 500) and post about it to give myself an idea of where I think …

October was another good month for me in the markets as I maintained my 35% return over the past 12 months.  On top of the quite nice gains I had, my wife and I cut expenses at our house tremendously.   Almost everything we …