Tempted To Flip: UA, RAD

The rough ride continues, but there's no room for flipping at this point.  With UA down from Jim Cramer's recommended purchase price, WWE lower but holding and coughing out a dividend, and PLUG dragging its feet until quarterly results, there hasn't been that much room to trade out for RAD, which has been having a nice comeback since some disheartening losses (good thing to have sold at $8 though).  I wouldn't be surprised to see $8 again within the next year.

Apple's price is dazzling considering the buzz about Apple Pay, BABA is riding the coattails of the Pay hype, and... that's about it.  Lots of blood in the water today, with even FB and TWTR taking some gut punches due to WhatsApp's fractional return and sluggish user growth rates.

BRGOD, our only penny stock worth mentioning, had a nice 400% jump since its reverse 1000-1 split, meaning our 300 shares are now worth... half a tank of gas.  The uber-hopeful reports continue to come out, and it will nice to see a Bergio store materialize, but for the meantime it will be a long hold and I sure don't recommend repeating my experience.  We had a chance to make $115 into $450 months back and should have taken it.


Wish list:
RAD
BABA
AAPL

Glad we hadn't:

GTAT: Before AAPL's jilt, a low-10s stock soared, now at $1.  Ouch.
JCP: Go online or go home.
GRPN: Just lots of slow flopping downward.

WW Eeee, Face Booked, Underarm Charm

Hello all,

It's been a kind of bleak couple of weeks.  WWE took a recent hit but we're still holding, if only for international subscriptions to WWE, TWO is down a little (which is fine because it's a dividend stock anyway), and we traded out 9 shares of FB for 10 of UA.  Profitability continues to elude PLUG.

Coulda shoulda wouldas:

We would have liked to have held ISIS longer, traded FB for TWTR, and traded WWE for RAD, which has been on a nice upswing from the 4s and will probably reach 5+ soon.

For now we continue to hold, with our penny stocks dormant and/or worthless.  BRGO did a 1000-1 reverse split, making our 300,000 shares worth a cup of coffee, LQMT languishes in the teens, and nothing else - TGRO, PVSP, FLST - is worth even mentioning.  The strategy going into the new year will be holding onto corporate stocks long-term and selling what carnage we have left in pennies.

Hopefully there'll be some good news, but for now our missed profits are in Rite Aid, Isis Pharmaceuticals, and even Facebook.  With Lockheed Martin's fusion discovery, we hope to get in eventually.  Stay tuned.

Stock Portfolio Update, August 18: Stoppin' the Hoppin', Long Everything (FB, PLUG, BRGO, LQMT)

Lionel's Stock Portfolio: What's New?

It's been a precarious couple of months.  Holding in some positions has cost me momentum, but there are a few trades I'm glad I made.  Here's my wrapup of present and recent stocks:

FB: Long, long.  The money's coming in and I'm not budging, even in a personal catastrophe, until 90 a share.  18 shares.

PLUG: Also long.  The company finally turned a profit and I'm holding in expectation that companies like Wal-Mart will provide more business in the long run.  Plus, I bought my second batch at 9 a share.  Boo to that, especially in light of recent severe dips.  Still, bought around 4 in a second batch trading off a small RAD position. 130 shares.

LQMT: A sleeper.  Haven't bothered tracking it since dips under 30 cents. 600 shares.

FLST:  A fun curiosity last year.   The potential's still there but with revenue under six figures, I'm just holding. 500 shares.

PVSP: Supposed to be a penny stock hit.  ZZZ. 1K shares.

BRGO: With a brick and mortar location coming eventually (love the cautiously optimistic PR). 300K shares.

Don't regret selling: 

RAD While still a promising long-term stock to me, short-term events pushed things well down below 8.62.  If I ever get some extra investing money I may pick up again in the mid sixes before it slowly accumulates value again.

NENE The Cheap Investor's pick's supposed to be around $10 "soon".  Glad to have sold from around 2.50 before it started scumming at 1.80.  Nothing against his long-term track record, but a sour start investing in his recommendation.

Do regret selling:

ISIS Beautiful long-term stock and far down from a high of 62.66.  Even a jump to 40 could still turn a large-scale investor a decent profit.

TWO: Just a gorgeous dividend, 10%. I miss it.

Wishlist:

AAPL It split again! Its price is within range of the common man too.  Kicking myself for missing a buy-in opportunity at 92.

WWE Even with a rise to half its previous price of $31.98, I'd be happy buying in today.  The 4.10% dividend isn't bad either.

AWP: A quiet but nicely performing stock.  With automated dividend reinvestment in an account like
BuyandHold, 6.60% paid off 12 times really adds up.

Thanks for reading! What stocks are you watching lately? Feel free to leave a comment!

Daily Post #1: Train-Hopping: From DDD, FB to CNI

With apologies to Harold Lloyd.

I've come to see not just the value of stocks, but stock dividends and splits.  Pinching and scraping fractional shares of DDD together to shore up a 4-share position into six $40 shares, which ultimately became nine shares that climbed to over $75 each, has been one of the best portfolio moves I've made.

I'm thrilled with DDD's groundbreaking technology and stock performance, and pretty happy with FB's recent climb, but it's time for me to spin them off into a company that's about (or should I say aboot) as different as possible: CNI, Canadian National Railway.  Shareholders who own the stock by end of day tomorrow will receive an extra share for each one held by November 29th.  There is already one share of CNI in my portfolio, so I plan on having ten shares of CNI and 4.5 of DDD soon.

Intended portfolio as of Nov. 15:

CNI 5
DDD 4.5
TWO 6
FLST 500
LQMT 600

Without an unlimited-transaction account, transaction fees would have eaten me alive, so if you're thinking of doing the same with an equally small number of shares, I recommend not using a per-transaction company. 

Disclaimer: I do not advocate buying any of the above stocks; please buy at your own discretion.

If you like my advice, I'm gladly accepting tips.

Even $1 will help me grow my portfolio.  Comments are very welcome too!  Thanks for reading!