What a doll. My investment adviser is Mindylou - a tonkinese.
Working out a new system. My cat is less than magical, but never too old to learn new tricks. I write out a fund on paper, then crumple it & toss it to her. Either she chases it or watches it pass-by. Pretty simple.
Grabbed some EEE and PARD today. Many others I wanted, but funds are tight, and if I dont feed the cat (or the wife) I wont be purchasing anything
Happy New Year everybody.. Good luck with 2011!
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What a doll. My investment adviser is Mindylou - a tonkinese.
Ahh.. Siamese blend, so your cat is great with mathmatics
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
So I went ahead and shook things up. Being Army, and having 18 months left until my next life-move (which may be full time school), Im attempting to plan ahead.
With my current strategy in my individual account, many future buys i've been watching are slowly been drifting out of my price-range, forcing me to "shift-fire" since I am DCA'ing.My gut tells me some of you "active members" would be advised this is not a wise move. I enjoy feedback, so shoot away if you'd like. Im open to positive influences, and constructive criticism.
I've reached my (first tier) goal in my TSP, and have decided to stop contributions. These finances will be directed towards stocks instead, in order to more aggressively expedite building my base-goal there.
I've been given good advice here on finances before, sometimes took, and sometimes not. But the decision to stop contributions did not come lightly. I wanted to take a position in stocks before missing the predicted birch-boat. My individual account is more of a buy & hold strategy, and I have many that I would like to purchase for a wider exposure for when this economy rebounds. I've spent hours/days/weeks building my spreadsheet for future buys (currently monitoring 150+ individual stocks/EFT's) and have taken more of a backseat to monitoring index funds. My 2011 TSP strategy is consisting of mocking an active individual's IFT's on the tracker. Feels weak, dependant, and spineless, but until I've got a grasp on the indexes vs market changes, this will still allow me to keep my TSP active, and place me into funds I normally may not expose myself to. Hopefully this will help me develop my own TSP strategy.
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
Nate, I've live with 2 sealpoint Siamese, one each at different life stages. loved em both.
had a landlord once who trained his Siamese to retrieve items tossed and also trained it to "Flop" on its side when told to flop. He named cat flopper. much fun to watch.
I believe Mindylou is capable of doing anything she wants to. I believe, I believe. :toung:
"life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards" - soren kierkegaard
Nate,
It takes a lifetime to build a concrete base that will provide income no matter what the market conditions are at any moment in time. You are on the right track - and prices will elevate as the bull continues to stampede - you can't control destiny. The TSP will grow slower and allow you to acquire shares that become more important as time continues forward - I'd recommend staying your contributions. I've rarely bought a stock to make fast money - I just plan my strategy and let the market come to me. I had a $98K week last week in my oceanic account. I need to try and make the same amount again this week - high hopes. If I could do that to overcome the $26K needed to gain more buying power I would be looking at a $72K cash situation which because of margin would avail me to $144K buying power. And if that were to happen I'd spend every dime on wall flowers. It just takes time to achieve this level on the platground. I started my stock account with $1K way back in 1972 and I'm sure I've lost more money than I've made over the years - but I have no reason for complaints with this friendly bull market.
Nate,
I had to drop the hammer on you...
Between you, I, and BT we had to have an 'Investment Advisor Cat Blog'
So, I made one.
Kinda drunk.
Very happy.
This will be an awesome SuperBowl.
Dare you to put your Investment Cat in that Thread. Double Dare!!!
Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!
I appreciate the advice birch. The decision didnt come lightly. To avoid the long story, Ive been dealing with promotion issues, which would result in a pay increase. I recieved my SS tax break, and also a "time in rank/service" raise, but the promotion is more significant. I was relying on this to enable more investing power. It took alot of dicipline to get my stocks where they are in a short period of time, and wasnt confident it couldnt continue at that rate, as I wasnt "paying myself first". I felt at the time I needed to jump on stocks so as to not "miss the (birch) boat", and im glad I did. At the same time, 1 stock I purchased at $0.69, is now around $4, and is giving me less buying power when I will have more money to throw at it, or other funds. Like I said, Im not buying stocks for a quick buck, but more along the lines of awaiting economic capitalism to return to America....mainly, when we get out of this recession. My TSP is to never be touched until allowed (basically a low-risk "investment-cat in the bag"). I cant confidently say I have a better possibility to make more money in stocks than TSP (long-term say 5-10 years), but it appears that way, hence why I want to jump on it while I can.
Anyways Im in a new unit now that appears to be helping me straighten out my issues with top brass, so my promotion may be coming faster than (pecimistically) anticipated, so this decision may be reversed soon and infact, may even allow me to increase my TSP contributions.
- Hope for the best, plan for the worst, & Keeping my figers crossed!
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
So I was on Nasdaq dot com today looking at volume trading. It led me to updating my spreadsheet & noticing volume rises in oil sector stocks ive been watching (5 yr monthly). There are plenty others, but the ones im referring to - ROYL, BRN, BDCO, MXC, SD, KOG and EP.
Everyone would like a quick buck, but im a bit inexperienced in this area.
Is this a rocket ride about to begin or possibly short again soon? News driven (middle-east)? Drilling restrictions?
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
Sold USO....to me it appeared stagnant. Putting the money to better use elsewhere...probably in one of the mentioned below or? (gotta check with the cat)
Seems the Army didnt get the notice to cancel TSP contributions. No biggie, promotion $hould be coming $oon
Also....decided against getting an M4 for the moment. Grabbed a new Remington 870 .12Ga turkey gun. 24" barrel, all camo, and threw a Leupold scope on it. Also picked up an all camo Savage Arms 7mm Magnum with a (free) Bushnell scope.
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
Going in 100% S at COB today.
Due to work schedule (Wake up 0330, then 0630 PT) I put in to sell USO before markets opened yesterday. Grabbed some ROYL on my smartphone around 0800, and happy to see my money moving in a direction other than sideways. The phone thing was tricky....no auto-calculator on ING droid app to tell me how many shares I could afford. The two minutes while doing math ate up my buy in from $5.26 to $5.62. (yeah two minutes....in my truck, fumbling with phone while finding paper & pen etc)
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
Pulling out to the G fund today.
Thanks for this tip...Ive added WAC to my spreadsheet. Hopefully the bear will lower it more before I grab some.
I got out of my USO for some ROYL. Made a few bucks there and dumped it near its top. This money helped build my coal (EEE) position where it will stay.
S.E. Cupp has my vote!
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