Barbara:###OFF-TOPIC###
<<<<Here's my question for you: do you have a strategy for selling when you have significant profits in a stock.>>>
Strategy???? Hmmmmm.Well no.
I have specific goals/hopes in mind before buying any stock
other than Dell. I bought the folllowing primarily because of a
future stock split,qntm,wdc,itw,nb,bac,cpq,bcom, and therefore
planned to sell soon after.(and usually did that).
I bought the following because of a good steady appreciation,
and kept them a long time bac,nb,phg,hd,noc,amd,intc,msft,glw,txn.
I had no need nor plan to sell them no matter how much profit, but returns did not match dell's so sold all but msft,txn, to put money in Dell,cpq,spaz.
I also sold some Dell once,year ago, never again.., except the calls that come due and upon which tax occurs.
Jabil is a unique problem stock for me,3d time around.
I have a minimal investment, still up 8% after today.Might give
it up in disgust, buy a dell call or oil stock.
Have owned stocks for 48 yrs, did not trade often,no computer, no internet,no change in Dow level for 8 years,(he,he), big retail broker fees. In a flat Dow I made 22% yr, of which the broker got 11%.
Usually owned utilities, WECO,(now WEN), psd, bsg), paid
around 12% interest. Or CD's when 9% and up.
So you see I have little (no)experience in day-trading, just
specific goals( so I can figure what went wrong, if it did)
Nothing I see can match Dell long term....
Sig
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