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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Festival of Stocks – October 22, 2007

Filed under: Miscellaneous — Tags: — Jorge @ 7:56 pm

It’s time… for a new Festival of Stocks! This edition was made possible by you, the readers and writers! Without further ado, here are this week’s submissions, in no random order…

General Stock Market Investing

Investing Strategies

  • Dr. Barry Burns presents What Keeps You From Trading Success? posted at Top Dog Trading, saying, “Here’s what REALLY keeps people from making money in trading – directly from the source!”
  • Allen Taylor presents Doubling Stocks With A Small Bankroll posted at Investing World Today, saying, “Successful traders know that you should never risk more than a small fraction, like maybe 5%, of your bankroll at any given time. When I say risk only 5% Im not suggesting you only spend 5% of your bankroll on shares, but rather that, for a losing trade, you exit the trade when your loss would only represent 5% of your bankroll.”
  • Leon Gettler presents Six strategies for risky innovations posted at Sox First, saying, “The rule of thumb with risky investment is that it cuts both ways. The present new opportunities for big gains but there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial innovations, from derivatives to sub-prime mortgages. Here are six strategies for dealing with it.”

IPO’s and You

Brokers and Financial Advisors

Financial Responsibility and Retirement

Foreign Markets

Say What?

This concludes the October 22nd edition of Festival of Stocks. Thanks again to everyone reading these festivals and those writers that submit these great articles.

Have a great article you’d like to share? Submit your blog article to the next edition of Festival of Stocks using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Festival of Stocks

Filed under: Miscellaneous — Tags: — Jorge @ 7:40 am

Next week we’ll be hosting the Festival of Stocks started by George at Fat Pitch Financials! This festival is a blog carnival designed to highlight posts on the stock market by fellow bloggers. If you have any writings regarding ETFs, REITs, specific stocks, stock analysis, or any other related topics to the stock market, go ahead and submit your article.

This week’s festival is being hosted by Todd Sullivan of ValuePlays. Check it out and once you’re finished submit your articles for next week’s festival right here.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Portfolio Progress – Week of October 14, 2007

Filed under: Equities, Portfolio Progress — Tags: , , , , , , , — Jorge @ 1:41 pm

It’s been an extremely long week trust me. 18 hours inside a car over a 72 hour period is not fun.

In any event, here’s a quick recap of the week’s events!

  • 10/9: The market began reaching all time highs. The NASDAQ reached a 6.75 year new high while the Dow Jones and S&P hit new absolute highs.
  • 10/11: The market began hitting new highs in the morning. Around the 14:00 EST sell block, a report was released stating Baidu (BIDU) may only meet, not exceed, expectations for this coming earnings report. That sent all of tech into a selling frenzy erasing gains within 15 minutes. The reaction appeared to stabilize toward the end of the trading day but the damage was done.

This week has quite a bit of the Dow Jones reporting coupled with options expiration week. From what I’ve learned in the past, I don’t think I’ll be investing any new funds this coming week since action is usually pinned at certain strike prices.

I’ve made an important decision regarding my portfolio. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve done well with options trading and as a result will focus more on options than common stock with my portfolio. So far the results have been promising but it could have been luck more than anything else. We’ll see what happens when the market begins to stabilize instead of lineally rise.

Although I’m focusing more on options plays, I’ve still found a need to diversify out of the tech sector. In addition to my favorite calls with EMC Corp. (EMC), I’ve included calls from Bank of America (BAC) and Ford (F). I tried to game the Alcoa (AA) earnings last week but that ended up as a wash so those options will most likely expire worthless. The same goes for the Micron Technology (MU) calls.

Yes, that percentage on my return is correct. To date, I have made a 183% return on my deposited investment. Granted, it’s not a complex calculation on ROI, but it helps set the tone for what I’ve accomplished so far. The margin in my account has helped boost some of my earnings which shows how margin can be useful if used properly.

Next week is going to be heavy on earnings. Remember that implied volatility on calls/puts for a single strike price will increase and decrease on those expectations. Play it safe!

Starting today, I’ll be taking submissions for the Twenty Something Finances blog carnival. This is the first time I’ll be hosting a blog carnival so I’d really appreciate it if you all could submit an article and show everyone that not all twenty something adults are as reckless with our paychecks as some think! We can discuss the blog carnival later this week! Good luck!

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