By Mike on Sep 27, 2009 in Life and what it throws you | 0 Comments
I’ve been pretty busy this week so I haven’t made any posts. But I wanted to give a quick update on a few things going on, so I will just touch on them all quickly.
I took some photos for an upcoming article. I think people will enjoy this one.
Thanks to the advice from livingoffdividends.com, [...]
By Mike on Sep 13, 2009 in Finance and Stocks | 5 Comments
In talking to my father the other day, he mentioned he had a large CD that was about to mature, and wanted to build a portfolio of stocks to beat the interest rate he was getting. There are two nice things about this portfolio.
We get to start from scratch with a clean slate and [...]
By Mike on Jul 23, 2009 in Finance and Stocks | 0 Comments
I was reminded this morning, that when I went thru last week’s update on my stock holdings, that I left out one of the purchases that I had the most confidence in working out over the long run. Ford! I bought shares of Ford back on June 11th for a little bit [...]
By Mike on Jul 20, 2009 in Finance and Stocks | 1 Comment
I’m not obligated by the SEC to declare what my holdings are, but I do enjoy doing it from time to time, just to track publicly how I am doing. I freely admit my losers when I have them, and try and state my winners ahead of time, so that I am on the [...]