The purpose of this blog is to track 20 common stocks for a full year. The idea is to beat the S & P 500 like a mutual fund without the very high churn rate. These stocks will be held in a portfolio until next December 31.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

One week down...

Our buy list is up 1.76% to the S &P 500 1.58....
It is important to remember with the stock market that
it is not the joy of receiving, but the absolute pain of giving back
that matters most.
The buy list shows a gain of $179K (I think there is an error in my spreadsheet.)
A smart person might sell all now and relax on a beach for the rest of the year.
or sell $179K of securities and lock in a profit....
The problem is that the only people who can time the market are inside traders and they can only do it for a couple of trades.  The rest of us have to suffer with the unknown.