Archive for: January 2012

This S&P 500 ($SPX) chart shows the past three months of daily prices after the index finished the week at 1,277.81 on Friday, January 6, 2012.
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My little DSX position has been inching off the ground some in the past few days and that tempted me into letting it run a little longer to see if it might actually have legs again and recover closer to …

Before I woke up to see the futures looking so strong this morning I thought we had a decent chance of starting the year a few percentage points lower.  This set me up to come into the year a little …

My 2011 stock picks were pretty vanilla and the results were too, except for EET which sunk me the most.  (See the results of our 2011 Stock Picking Competition at the bottom of this post.)  My 2012 ETF and stock …

December was a pretty good month for me and allowed me to salvage a mediocre year.  I’m actually not upset with my 2011 performance considering I made a couple of stupid trades that cost me big and I still ended …