Thread: alevin's account talk

Alevy what's it all about? You can't make any money in a money fund or savings account - even though stocks are reducing their dividend payouts - not all are doing so - income is available and will grow.

No offense !!

I would say her underlying characteristics are exceptionally strong!

She is incredibly smart, very well planned out, does her homework and has somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 x the knowledge I do when considering the wide variety of financial sources she is very in touch with.

She is totally independent - and has no need of anyone to cramp her style - or try to persuade her in a direction she has not already chosen to take.

Putting everything together - I'd say she is right on target. Overwhelming odds are - she will not miss out on a substantially better entry point in the near future (especially 1 - 2 months).

So I'd say - let this one do her thing - cause she's one of the best.

LOL. guys, guys. Settle down, I'm all right, altho it's "Alevie", not "Alevy" . My mom had 2 boys before me but they didn't make it, so I could've been the middle or youngest, instead of being the oldest as I am now. Always wondered what it would've been like to have 2 older brothers and not just a younger one (who I love and respect to pieces, btw). Starting to feel like I've got the oldest bro lookin' over my shoulder these days. No fistfights defending kid sister, please Steady, I can handle Birchie taking me to task on some topics, I'm still up on the year in TSP, even if I have dropped from #7 to #50 at the moment. Those who follow a strategy are better off than those with no plan, and those who can change strategy when circumstances warrant, are even better off. That's how I'm looking at things.

Learning to play in brokerage account-high risk marketwise, low-risk capitalwise; leave the TSP to accumulate capital while I'm learning something besides index investing. I like learning by doing, but some things I can't learn at all just sticking with TSP. I'll have to let Birch know when I finally plunk down on the first couple divvy stocks. that should ease his big-brother concern when I do.

Playtime over at ETFtalk. Bought my first 2 divvy stocks, ATN and BP, one faring better than the other this morning. Value stocks, moderate risk. Oldest brother will be proud.

Originally Posted by alevin

Oldest brother will be proud.

http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showpost.p...&postcount=861

Oh Alevie - there is no way possible I could ever be more proud of anyone. You have such an amazingly wonderful heart and your life reflects a LOVE that very few have genuinely known. Your LOVE has a depth and richness that can only come from one Source and that Source is what binds us so closely together. This is why I love you so deeply, why I am so overwhelmed with your sensitivity - your heartfelt desire to extend your life - and all that you deeply and truely represent.

My wonderful Sister - and my only Sister ever - it is not a few investments in any stocks that would make me so proud of you; it is the underlying 'INTELLIGENCE' by which your investments are driven. You are so incredibly smart, so strong, and independent - so these are but mere reflections of something far greater.

This is my last message to you - my dear wonderful amazing friend. Please know that I have been called into another world - and this is one I have to leave. I must - and I have no choice - because to stay would discredit everything. I included a link in hopes you can understand the bigger picture. All is well with me and life is wonderful and even more amazing events are at the doorway. So I am only here to say good bye as I find the need and with you that time has come.

Always (and forever) be true to yourself - and the world will see I have the GREATEST SISTER ever. Please extend my heartfelt love to your Parents - and hopefully someday Sis will know the depth of my love and concern for her and find the same Source that gives a Lasting Hope and the most Amazing Peace.

Your Loving Brother,

Steady

Well, it's been raining here, typical spring on and off weather, hard to finish putting in the garden or finish getting the yard mowed, so I'm back to looking at things here.. .after missing the start of the rally, I decided to wait for the big wave-the one that brings us all the way back on "safe" ground on shore-if that's the one that's in development now. I doubt it so am waiting for confirmation.

Marty Chenard offered some charts and analysis today that fit with waiting for the big one, not based on the 13x34 or 20x50 week MAs, either, but consistent with them timingeidr, from past history. We're not there yet, kids, long ways to go still. I'll keep playing around with my commod ETFs and single stocks while I wait for the big one before making any big moves back into stock funds in TSP. The ETFs and stocks are "chump change" relatively speaking so been giving myself permission to learn brokerage process by risking small amounts in the market for now. Not doing too badly, not too hot, not too cold, just right (goldilocks reference-waiting for the bears to come back home, don't want to get caught napping).

http://www.stocktiming.com/Wednesday...rketUpdate.htm

Just checkin' in to say Hi all. A number of other interesting charts and graphs in the same article where I found this today.



http://www.financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm

I've been reading about how recessions end (or is it markets recover?) when nobody is willing to buy stocks anymore. Period. I've been sceptical that the market emotional cycle really ever got to that point, but I'm starting to become a believer after reading this tonight....from one of my favorite sites: http://www.decisionpoint.com/TAC/NEWMAN.html

For kicks, we did a Google search for "most heavily shorted stocks" and amongst the results found a list of ten stocks from 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/dl3huf). Several of the group are now extinct but the ones still extant are typically so incredibly over owned even today that we can only wonder how anyone can trust the stock market. Take Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) and Molex Corp. (MOLX) for instance, each of which have at least 60% more stock owned by large block owners than the companies have issued. These are not small fly-by-night companies; CAKE has sales of $1.6 billion and MOLX has sales of $3.2 billion.

But we went another step further and then searched for “highest percentage of float short” and came up with equally disturbing results, pulling in a Bespoke Research study from September 28, 2008. We only checked ten of the 25 listed stocks, enough to further fortify our determination that the markets are broken. For each, large block owners alone accounted for well over 100% of the total of authorized share issuance.The companies included Web MD (WBMD), Sears Holding (SHLD), Cree Inc. (CREE) and Mylan Labs (MYL). Five companies had large block owners of more than DOUBLE the authorized shares issued. The five included Lennar (LEN), Martin Marietta (MLM), Big Lots Ohio (BIG), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) and Panera Bread (PNRA). All have revenues well in excess of $1 billion. The worst offense to shareholders was PNRA, which has 29.5 million shares outstanding but somehow has large block owners of 69.5 million shares.

We do not make this stuff up. The short sale mechanics of the U.S. stock market are horribly broken. Investors are well advised not to trust anything they hear and only half of what they see.Most unfortunately, the agency responsible for keeping track of stock ownership is fighting to do away with paper certificates, the only way one can currently certify ownership without any doubt as to legitimacy. Given the statistics we have presented in past months, a brokerage account entry proves nothing. Blue Nile (NILE) has 14.5 million shares authorized to trade, yet 38.2 million shares reside in brokerage accounts.


Transfer Agent Lori Livingston was so alarmed about the DTCC’s moves towards paperless “ownership” that she wrote the SEC to question their operations, pleading that “it has become more and more difficult to determine who owns the shares, who is trading them and if the trading is proper.” You can read her letter at http://tinyurl.com/dbtlsh. The DTC has termed the move to paperless ownership “dematerialization.” For all intents and purposes, this is a perfect description of what is to come and amply defines a sad future for investors.

My apologies in advance if the colors make things harder to read, but it was already hard to read without the colors. There would be lynchings if people knew who to lynch. O-M-G!!!!!!! and I was just starting to enjoy buying single stocks too.

The despicable bastards, we should all ask for hardship withdraws and bankrupt TSP HELL with the taxes

Actually Schiffpal, I'm thinking of loaning TSP$ to myself before interest rates skyrocket-enough to pay for critical major home maintenance needed before the end of 2010.

On a totally other note-wow, tonight I did something I never did before-went door to door, rounding up write-in candidates for 4 vacant local rural fire district positions. elections are tomorrow, opened my ballot tonight and discovered none of the 4 people who have served as district reps for 30 years or more-were on the ballot! Nobody filed! 4-years with no tax district representation for contracts with the city fire department? 4-years with no legal point of contact for the CPA who handles the fire district taxes and contract negotiations? Yeeeow!

Problem was that I couldn't remember the names of the senior citizens who were always on the ballot all these years-they live somewhere down the road from me, never actually met them, talked to a couple of them on the phone a couple years ago only. Anyway, I did the walk and talk with neighbors my age and a couple older ones, got 2 others to consent to put their names as write-ins on the ballot alongside mine, and got several other nearby neighbors to say they'd write our names in on the ballot too, so we'd have a legally functioning fire district at least.

Small towns, even so, neighbors don't all know each other, even in a local neighborhood. Church members stick to fellow church members, old-timers talk to oldtimers, people do limited talking over the fence with immediate neighbors-sometimes. So tonight, I talked to a number of people in the neighborhood I knew of secondhand before, but now am acquainted with firsthand slightly. there must be some good come out of it for our neighborhood, I'm not in the running for personal jollies so I hope it makes a dif for the neighborhood. Talk about kicking into high gear tonight when I discovered the crisis in front of us all. Didn't even come home til 830 or so and quit yacking up the nearby neighbors about the need to vote and vote for the slate of write-in candidates, their nearby neighbors, to keep our fire protection situation semifunctional legally.

No idea whether a handful of write-in votes is sufficient to take care of the ballot deficiency or not, but at least we're making the effort given the limited amount of time to address the situation. Geez, Wednesday should tell the tale on our fire district saga-its been evolving and not in a positive way for the past several years already, we're such a small weird tax base situation.

Gold star, Allie, I'm so proud of you! So many people do nothing about their political situation except to b***h after the elections are all over. But you spent precious time to try to proactively correct a bad situation beforehand in a positive way.

{standing up and clapping hands} Brava! Brava!

Lady