Stock Investment Blog

Sometimes stocks act irrationally, weird and the opposite way than one would expect. Sometimes the whole market does that as well. Especially these days. I am closely watching my holdings as everybody should do and I am also watching Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), since the price drops Read the rest of this entry »

This morning trading turned the market into correction again. I will be buying mutual funds only, but no individual stocks or ETFs. It seems the market is looking for direction. S&P500 is maybe entering into sideways trading. Let’s see what will happen next week.
This is Read the rest of this entry »

My weekly review of my portfolios during the last week. You can review my Trading account, which is my aggressive portfolio where I buy individual stocks, my ROTH IRA retirement account which is my dividend investing portfolio (to which I am focusing the most right now) and my Lending Read the rest of this entry »

Recently we saw Visa (V) being beaten down and staying under a significant pressure as investors were trying to determine the impact of regulation act on the company. In my opinion, these expectations were too pessimistic and although CEO claimed in his press release couple months Read the rest of this entry »

Marsico Capital Management was among the biggest sellers in the second quarter of Visa Inc., the world’s largest payments network, and Vanguard Group Inc. added to its holdings, as the stock posted its steepest decline in almost two years.
Marsico liquidated its remaining 10.4 million Read the rest of this entry »

Some time ago when the entire market was going down I was thinking how else I could boost my savings to create wealth faster than just by saving 0 a month. I was thinking whether to take a second job or not, or how to increase the money I can invest. This is [...]This is a post Read the rest of this entry »

The market opened lower today and is under pressure slipping back into correction. As I expected, the earnings wasn’t very good so far: bank revenues lag, Google disappoints, and Consumer Sentiment falls from previous 76 to 66 points and that drags the market down. As of this Read the rest of this entry »

Trading ended with a huge loss today:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Downbeat consumer sentiment data and weak revenues from GE and two big banks slammed stocks on Friday, driving major indexes down more than 2.5 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average (DJI:^DJI) slid 261.41 points, or 2.52 Read the rest of this entry »

If not because of the hype and rumour that iPhone 4 is about to be recalled, thanks to the Consumer Reports’ review that it could not recommend the Apple’s gadget due to antenna issues, the stock would have skyrocket judging from the 146.75 points (or 1.44%) and 43.67 points (or Read the rest of this entry »

Trading Account:
New stock picks this week:
Stocks bought or added to portfolio this week:
none
Stocks dropped from portfolio this week:
none
Stocks watched this week:
none

Existing & new holdings:

Symbol
Qty
Last
Gain($)
Gain(%)
Stop
ATR
Risk tostop (%)

V
20
71.45 
-93.19
-6.12
67.28
2.3500
-11.60

Contribution Read the rest of this entry »