Mostly a push for me this week, other than Norfolk Southern today caused me some inflammation of the hemmorhoids.  They're hurting so bad I probably didn't spell it right.  Anyway, here is what I am holding at this point. 

GSB, ICO, NSC, HON, PG, NLY, HTS, CE, VWO, ILF, DO, QXM, DELL.

HTS and NLY have been good with the dividends.  Has had some nice runups in the price, however recently has lost more in price than the dividend is worth.  Maybe there is a feeling that the dividends/spreads are unsustainable.  Particularly HTS, which surprises me as I thought NLY would be the most volatile as their business model is quite confusing.  CE just can't seem to break out to the upside.  Not sure why.  Dell, I probably should have unloaded a couple of weeks ago.  Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda. 

VWO I like because of the emerging market status.  ILF is just more volatile than most ETF's. Not for the faint of hear.

Am also looking at AMX.  However, it is somewhat consumer discretionary and seems to have a disproportionate revenue in Mexico.  In my mind, it appears that Mexico, as a country, is a basket case right now.  Real hard for me to pull the trigger.

Been vacationing with no computer, sis said I needed to take a break and came home to a good week of gains.  My profits were up pretty good but there was some runs and I believe; profit taking.  Made good money though and oil, metals and biomeds were good for me. Of course I'm looking to continue for a upturn until March 2010. Back home. so I'll watch daily and continue to keep an eye on the dollar and this admin. with the belief that gold will hit 1200 before years end and oil is on a steady climb towards the 100.bbl range. This up and down so quickly action gets me a little upset at times, but as long as I'm making profit, I guess its alright. Seems some folks are buying for run ups them taking small profits to cover their losses from last year; without looking at the whole picture. I have friends who sell after a $0.10 profit , then complain when the up is 0.49 for the week and they missed the other 0.39 profit, it's nerves I guess.  Does anyone else think that the drop/give back at the end of the week was because of the unemployment numbers ??

See post #2 of this thread. 

Dumped CE this morning at the open because of the earnings report.  Nice jump.  Took my profits and ran.  Needed to because ILF is really struggling, losing another 2.5% today.  Also got rid of HTS.  Why it isn't doing better, I don't know.  Slow decline in price, but I expect it will keep its dividend.  Apparently not everyone agrees.  I suspect it's because the market is expecting the spreads of its business to shrink.  Took a small profit plus dividend.  Unfortunately overweighted on ILF compared to them.  So was not a pretty day for my portfolio.

dlst:

I am so sorry that you had to bail out. This time you did not bail out at the bottom though. By bailing out at 7:45 am PST, you probably saved yourself a few percentage points as the market continued to trend down until the bell so that wasn't the bottom.

Take care!

Will

Not bad, huh Darrell? I ALWAYS sell at the bottom. This time within 1 trading day of it, anyway–good enough. This is half the reason why I should not be playing this game.

I did manage to get back in today for about half the rally, so while I missed a fair chunk of gain, it could have been worse. I bought back into a couple at a price lower than where I sold.

I made back yesterday's losses plus a TAD, so thank you dist. I'm still optimistic for higher high thru the end of the year..any thoughts folks.

Sorry Will, I was speaking of yesterday and today only.

Friday: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh….

My losses at the moment are 5x what I gained yesterday.

 Let me join the group; Friday gave back to the market my gains from yhe week, good travel, good friends, good food, great Makers, Sat. great food, great Makers, lousy football, hot sunshine, bad mood and more Makers…..Sunday good food, bye to good friends, long trip home, good Malers,then checked account this morning and drank coffee, reread account and then emails, more coffee. This needs to be a better week on the market.