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I feel obligated to report recent re-alignments in my portfolio as I'm starting to feel the heebie geebies (sp) of year end, especially after today's rocky market. And I have been reluctant to post in a contrary fashion as I'm not one to make waves. Please don't get me wrong, though. These last 6 months or so have probably been the most dynamic and profitable months for me in almost 11 years of trading/investing. One thing is for sure....My full service broker loves me...and so does Uncle Sam!
The plan was simple and I believe I have realized enough of a fruition to call it quits for now. Without going into boring details, I've basically daytraded, scalped, and traded short-term positions (many at unreal % profits, relatively speaking), and used the proceeds to bolster core portfolio holdings, and make additional cash allocations to select DRIPS that I am involved in. In a couple cases, I added new issues to my core portfolio and those were discovered here on KIM's thread.
I'm extremely, and I can't stress this enough (so I'll use this handy bold feature)...EXTREMELY thankful to KIM for providing this civilized thread and her timely and insightful contributions. In addition, I want to single out kathyh, stan s., $Mogul, and If Only I'd Held, for their contributions, assistance, persistence, and patience (with me). A lot goes on in the background (via PM, phone, e-mail, etc), and sometimes you just have to give a big cyber-HUG to those posters who are willing to extend themselves thusly. For their efforts and everyone else's efforts I say THANK YOU!. You all have an awesome tool here at SI (well, when SI is up and running) and I can only hope that the cohesiveness that presently exists is carried out into the New Millennium, because my gosh, we have so many more opportunities to capitalize on going forward. I for one am looking forward to it!
Peace,
B--will be lurking and occasionally posting for a while |
