Playing the Stock Market. A Beginner's Journey

This blog will detail My Journey into the Stock Market and track the growth of my Investments. My goal is short term profits on the ups and downs of selected stocks. Buying in the valleys and selling in the peaks. My Journey begins November 5th, 2004 with cash deposits into two online trading accounts. Follow along and watch it grow! Feel free to post any comments you like! Tips, hunches, and Profit stories welcomed!

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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

12/8 Wednesday - Easy come, easy go

It happened again!
I decide to buy more SIRI and the stock takes a dive again! Only this time I held on to them and lost plenty, though still above my initial total investment.

SIRI dropped 23.45% (dn $2.11/Share) today taking most of my gains away.

Today I tanked against the averages.

Details tomorrow.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

12/7 Tuesday

Had a great Day today!

My transfered funds cleared this morning and I was able to purchase an additional lot of 290 shares of SIRI, whick had very nice growth today.

Here's How I did;

IES - dn 2.24% to $3.92
PACT - dn .57 % to $12.22
SIRI #1 - up 11.42% to $9.014
SIRI #2 - up 3.92% to $9.014 (purchased @ $8.67/Share)
ARGFX - dn .78% to $51.92

Against other averages;

DJIA - dn 1.01%
NAS - dn 1.7%
S&P - dn 1.11%
Me - up 2.35%

I've been doing great beating the Averages!

Excluding todays increased investment funds, My Investments were up 20.75% to date. Thats 20.75% growth on my Investments in 30 Days.

Including Today's additional Investment funds, My total Investments are up 15.69%

Go Sirius!
I bet it surpasses the $10.00 mark before week's end.

Peace!

12/6 Monday

Hello, Happy Monday!

SIRI is still going strong. And more good news, factory installs available in Toyota, Lexus, and Scion Vehicles starting in Feb 05. I'm looking forward to more gains tomorrow. I'm trying to buy shares but that damn eTrade hasn't cleared the bank transfer I made Friday! Hopefully it will show in the morning.

Here's how I did today;

IES - dn 2.2% to $4.01
SIRI - up 7.68% to $8.13
PACT - up 2.03 % to $12.29
ARGFX - dn .55% to $52.33

Against other averages;

DJIA - dn .43%
NAS - up .15%
S&P - dn .08%
Me - up 1.74%

Investments are now up 17.25% to date.

Have a great Week!

Friday, December 03, 2004

I'm Back! Friday 12/3

Hope everyone had a nice Holiday.
I've been out of town. Here's how I've been doing...

I took a rest after my last post and spent the week regreting selling those lots of SIRI as they started to climb again. So, on 11/30, after my trades cleared, I decided to Invest again in SIRI and bought 300 shares. I also bought 25 shares of PACT.

Here's how I did Today (And since purchase);

IES - up 14.53% to $4.10 (up 42.86% since purchase)
SIRI - up 3.99% to $7.55 (up 16.33% since purchase)
PACT - up 21.67 % to $12.045 (up 1.22% since purchase)
ARGFX - dn .06% to $52.62 (dn .45% since purchase)

Against other averages;
DJIA - up .07%
NAS - up .20%
S&P - up .07%
Me - up 10.03% Woo Hoo!


My Investments are now up 14.71% to date.

Very nice change from my last post two weeks ago. I gained over 14% in those two weeks.

IES is up on news of a sale of one of its businesses. Its been going great.
PACT did real nice Today. It had been going down on me.
SIRI is still growing strong. I should have held on to my first lots of this.
ARGFX is lagging bad. What happened to those high averages? I have almost 1/2 of my assets in this one and I'm not happy with its performance. I'm thinking about eating that withdrawl fee to get out and move it to stocks. My stock account is up 27.35% to date while ARGFX Fund is down .45%.

Lets hope next week is just as nice!

Have a great Weekend!