| Yep, checked on the stock baskets at e-trade, and they do not charge anything for buying or adding a stock, but they do charge $9.95 if you drop a stock.....so, best not to have 50+ stocks, as you could have to pay $10 a pop if you want to go in and lose 10 stocks from a basket....seems to be great for lesser number of stocks that wont need alot of day to day trading or altering, so I am going to try and come up with maybe 3 baskets, with maybe 7 - 10 stocks in each basket. Now the problem is going to be to decide which 30 or so stocks to pick....10 per basket...they wont let you buy qqq or other index stocks...only individual stocks, so I can't take care of all my tech needs buy putting qqq into a basket...going to have to pick individual stocks....Man, this is going to be tough as there are alot more then 30 stocks I like...gotta have cost, csco, dell, qcom, intc, msft, orcl, sebl, sbux, emc, brcd, bud, ge, hd hdi, kkd, mo, aaii, pg, wmt, gps, low, via.b, amzn, aol, yhoo, ebay, fnm, ibm, lly, mrk, vz, vrts, beas, jcom, jnpr, ntap, and actually about 20 more I want, such as F, bud, cvs, erts, G, BBBY and quite a few more.....gotta figure a way to pare this down to a reasonable level, and asiggn %'s to each....anybody see any dogs on the list they wouldn't touch? Anything you think is a "must have", not on my list...anybody that has the time, feel free to play around and make some baskets with the above stocks, and or add or subtract stocks you want. My goal is to get a small piece of a fair amount of solid companies that will do well long term, with not alot of "altering" that needs done....wish there was way to pare it down to about 15 or 20 stocks, but how do you choose which to leave out. Tempted to put it all in PG, GE, MSFT, WMT, COST, KKD, HD, HDI, DELL, QCOM and maybe a few others...all solid companies, but then I have to leave out alot of stocks I like and want....damn this is tough, but I do agree, I need to pare it down so I dont have 40+ stocks, which will basically keep me treading water as some goes up and some goes down...better to pare it down, and try and pick long term winners......decisions, decisions.......plus, with such a nice rally, I am hesitant to buy now since we are at upper resistance levels about everywhere, and hesitant to not buy now and miss more of the rally if we bust thru resistance and make higher highs....Probably better going to vegas and hitting the blackjack tables <ggg> |
