I’ve sold off some more shares to raise a bit of cash for the current environment, looking to add to some favored stocks and generally to reduce some exposure to a few of the riskier names in my portfolio. I have now sold off my entire holdings in Winthrop Realty Trust (FUR), largely because I […]

Well, I had a large irritation in my personal portfolio today — a margin call because my broker messed up some options transactions, but there’s no reason for you to care about that. What you might care about is that I promised to let you know what happens in my portfolio … so today, I […]

This one came in recently from Stansberry and Associates, it’s an ad for the S&A Penny Letter from Dan Ferris, who also does the Extreme Value letter. This newsletter focuses on what they call “Penny Stocks,” though personally I think they’ve got a pretty liberal definition of that term. They say they are looking for […]