Selling!

I did a little selling this week...a little overdue.


Some were at a loss such as AGQ and EWZ, but profits were taken in SPY and XLF

I have to remind myself that not all trades work out and since the current market has not worked well for me lately I am content to be mostly on the sidelines for now.


I am left with RGR and GLD...interesting combination

I have enjoyed spending time on research for Dividend Payers, but nothing conclusive to report yet other than I will be selling BDX and DE to make room for some buys.

What did I see in my weekend review?
 The 10-yr Treasury yield is at 1.97.

IBD (Investor Business Daily): Uptrend Under Pressure

Copernicus Systems: is Short

Moneys Flows:  trending downward 

Currently my "Stocks for a Trade" now consists of:
(All gains or losses shown are the total since purchase)

RGR +6.57% 

ETF’s for a trade are:

GLD  -4.90%

What will I do?

Still spending available time working on Dividend Payers.

Lumbering along at 14K

The Dow has been lumbering along after touching 14K at the first of this month.

 

It’s hard to say that not much happened this week when Wal-Mart dropped 2% lower in triple volume. A Bloomberg story said Wal-Mart was seeing the weakest sales start for a month in seven years, thanks to the payroll tax increase. Hopefully this will be temporary…if is was truly a root cause

What did I see in my weekend review?

The 10-yr Treasury yield is at 2.00, just continuing its slow steady rise

IBD (Investor Business Daily): Confirmed Uptrend.  

Copernicus Systems: is Long

Moneys Flows:  slightly trending downward this week

Currently my "Stocks for a Trade" now consists of:
(All gains or losses shown are the total since purchase)
RGR +6.43%

ETF’s for a trade are:

XLF +6.67%

SPY +4.32%

GLD  -3.26%

EWZ -1.41% still on the block to sell, hoping for a little pop 
AGQ -10.62% Ouch!

What will I do?

Spend available time working on a review of my Dividend Payers, first looking at performance of existing holdings, next will check these against new stocks on the watch list.

Have a great week.

Apple

Apple is getting pressure to either invest some of the $137,000,000,000 cash they have (137 Billion Dollars) or give it back to the shareholders in some fashion.

It seems unlikely they can be pressured to do something they do not want to do, but perhaps this pressure will move something forward. They could buy another company…a very big company.

Something that might give them some valuable content, such as Disney or Time Warner might help.

They could buy their biggest salesman, AT&T.

They could buy one of their manufacturers in China (seems unlikely).

They could earnestly fund on-shoring with some serious US production capability.

Heck they could by Google.

But they don't have a track record for purchases unless its some knowledge they need.


They always seem to time their product roll-outs for maximum impact and this would seemingly defuse the attention on the cash hoard, especially if some new product consumed a portion of the cash.

Release of the Apple smart watch would be such an event, especially if it were actually a flexible on- the-wrist smart phone.

Hopefully we will hear some good news… a big surprise soon. If not a huge return of money to shareholders would be much appreciated by stockholders.


What did I see in my weekend review?
 The 10-yr Treasury yield is at 1.95

IBD (Investor Business Daily): Confirmed Uptrend.  

Copernicus Systems: is Long

Moneys Flows:  (unavailable as of this writing do to system problems)

Currently my "Stocks for a Trade" now consists of:
(All gains or losses shown are the total since purchase)
RGR +6.61%
SOHU Sold

ETF’s for a trade are:

XLF+6.19%

SPY+4.08%

GLD  -.81%

FXI  Sold
EEM  Sold.
EWZ -2.00% on the block to sell, hoping for a little pop to do so
AGQ -3.33%

What will I do?

I did a little clean up as noted above and I did test out a small initial position in the silver ETF, AGQ…not exactly off to a good start. FDN now looks interesting, but it’s time for me to wait

I hope you have a great week.

14009

The Dow did once again close above the 14,000 mark on Friday. It could be on a move to take out that all time high of 14,164 on October 9, 2007…no one knows, but the market has been kind…except for Apple.

What did I see in my weekend review?
 The 10-yr Treasury yield is at 2.01

IBD (Investor Business Daily): Confirmed Uptrend.  

Copernicus Systems: is Long

Moneys Flows:  All up and all positive, but still one divergence in portfolio price

Currently my "Stocks for a Trade" now consists of:
(All gains or losses shown are the total since purchase)
RGR +2.08%
SOHU +1.74% did not get the needed gain to sell this one, may hold for another week.

ETF’s for a trade are:

XLF +5.77%

SPY +3.72%

GLD  +.27%

FXI +1.12%
EEM  -.06%  still waiting to sell.
EWZ +.19%

What will I do?

I did not yet sell SOHU as planned, so I did not buy GSOL. At this point will just hold SOHU for another week to see what happens.

Likewise I did not yet sell EEM, but still plan on doing so, may yet pick up ILF, but likely that will be next week.

I will test out a small initial position in the silver ETF,  AGQ and I will sell EWZ and look for another upward momentum point to reenter

I hope you have a great week.