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Ted & Press I'm glad you made up. Now go have some doughnuts and coffee. Ted's buying.
I actually expect that these wild up & down swings in the market are here to stay for a bit until either the bulls or bears wear out. Folks seem to be se…
Maybe it's just me but I don't feel the need for, nor do I want, a fund company deciding what is SRI or ESG compliant. I like to believe that I am capable enough to do that on my own.
I am contemplating converting/exchanging some of my traditional IRA holdings to a Roth IRA account for similar reasons. Pay the lower taxes now and then none forever more (at least until politicians get their hands on it). I'm considering it now bec…
Oops. sorry for the typo, I meant MKC (McCormick) rather than MCK (McKesson). McKesson is interesting but the dividend is too low for my interests at this time and at fair value it would be even lower. I'll let the institutions, indexes and ETF's ha…
Make that three, no stop-loss orders for me as well. I do have a few additional wild buy orders in, IBM, LEG, MCK and PG. These represent just stodgy old companies that just continue to do what they do and hand the profits back to their shareholders…
That'll do it but I'm guessing his day job isn't hurting his bottom line. Now I wonder if Mick Jagger was also in on it. Pretty astute financial guy from what I've heard.
Scott - At Fidelity I had a wild-ass limit order placed at $87 on the off chance a day like Monday presented itself. It actually went down to $86. Very, very surprised that it filled. Didn't want to let go of GILD but I did so to dismiss my margin b…
Well so far my sells/trades of last week have worked out fairly well. While APPL, GILD, BX and OKS are all within a buck of my sell price my buys of CELG (up $40), PAA (up$2.10) and KKR (even) are bearable. Still holding on to my cash from APPL but …
Could be wrong again but I sold APPL, GILD, BX and OKS as I think that I will be able to buy them back shortly at lower prices. Mostly just preserving what profits I do have in these. We'll see.
Bought PG, PM and added to SO and CHSCL at the open. NGLS was compelling but opted for HQL and THQ additions.
Edited to add that VTR is still in the running for purchase. Trouble is that I'm somewhat overloaded on energy and REIT's but hey, they ca…
hawk - don't let that VNR dividend yield seduce you (I'll tell your wife). That sexy dividend depends on the price of the commodity the company is finding, producing and selling. The company may survive and come back but until the industry/sector se…
Maurice is right, I'm looking for the best cash back rewards card I can find. Also I was hoping to swap one Amex card for another but I have no idea on my credit rating would be affected or if a swap was even possible.
To be honest I only had the A…
Costco appears to accept only one brand of "credit card" at a time for payment along with cash, check (if you have a Costco membership), their own cash cards and debit cards. Beginning March/April 2016 that credit card will be Visa and Amex will be …
Thanks everyone. Like any other account theres much to consider. @msf - good to know on the foreign transaction fee. I hadn't considered that, However, when traveling out of country I've found few merchants willing to accept the Amex card while all …
Sorry Ted but 2% beats 1.5% even with the new math. However, I suppose I could pair that with the Amex card for places that don't accept Amex but I already have a Fidelity Visa card which pays 1.5%. One disadvantage however is that I have to accumul…
Well Buffett seems to prefer stuff he can hold forever but Tepper, not so much. I think both would say that they have convictions in their 'buys' which is why they are willing to roll with the hit when the collective market goes briefly against them…
I pretty much agree with Hank. Most likely we're a jumble of different ages each with our own unique goals and investing circumstances. I'm mostly sitting on my hands unless Mr. Price hands me a more than decent sale price on some pretty good compan…
Directly from the Grandeur Peak website:
http://www.grandeurpeakglobal.com/documents/pdfs/grandeurpeakglobal-pr-20140905.pdf
As of September 30, 2014 GPROX is hard closed to shareholders holding through third parties. As Art noted you can add if ho…
It would surely be nice to hear a clear, enlightened, civil discussion of the things that matter going into the election process. I haven't a clue where that utopia is anymore however. I couldn't wait for the last election to be over and this one wi…
