Contents

1. Real Money Portfolio
2. Current Checklist/Rules
3. Current Holdings
   1. IRA ETF Blocks
   2. IRA Stock Trades
   3. Stocks
   4. Options
   5. Strategies
4. Acquire List
5. Recent History

View Past Trades I have removed from this page for space...

Real Money Portfolio

These are trades we have running, real and paper trades.  This is not recommendation or advice, it is documentation of what we are doing.

We strongly recommend against trying to emulate any of these investments yourself.  We make discretionary decisions during the day and they don't get documented here until well after the fact - so you simply cannot even try to duplicate our trades.  Make your own decisions...

Current Checklist/Rules

Each trade we are running has a strategy associated with it.  Not all are the same strategy or rules.  In the current market we are leaning towards strategies that sell premium, with some longer term strategies to benefit from market recovery; some of those use options and some stocks or ETF investments.

Current Holdings

Part of our rules is to have a 'bad' investment - emotional, buy and hold, penny stock...  Space Dev was our stock which was all 3 of these...  We bought 1000 shares at $1.2 when the X-Prize competition was publicized.  After winning the X-Prize the stock spiked up to $2.5, then drifted down to trade on a range from $0.4 ot $0.6 - until it was taken private.

Since SPDV was taken private we have identified Markel (MKL) as our new token with a small position.  It is anything but a penny stock:  We bought 16 shares at around $290 per share.  This company is touted by Motley Fool as the next Berkshire Hathaway - so in 30 years we will have millions of dollars in Markel...  ;)

IRA ETF Blocks

We allocate 8 blocks of all 4 IRA accounts for ETF investments.  Since these are placed into all 4 IRA accounts the position sizes are cumulatively large which is why we use ETF instead of single stock investments for these.  Currently we are actually all-in with these positions, all of which are considered intermediate to long term, accumulated in the recent bottoming process:

PBW is a green energy play, this will be long term, but it's one of the better investments so far (2009/02/11)

UWM, XME, XES are targeted for the fastest moving parts of the market at the time.  These were entered at support or with a fakeout that triggered entry.  It would probably have been better to just take the stop in hindsight, but it was only expected to roll back to the new year's lows.  Once below there we decided to ride due to volatility unless the Nov 21 lows are broken.

IRA Stock Trades

These are the current holdings.  While I have removed the number of shares/contracts, the weighted average is based on purchase price, number of shares, and days held.  The idea behind this is to weight the results against large short-term gains or small investments, and toward investments longer held.  Remember that gains are only real when a security is sold...  If you don't think the percentages work out, check your math and consider commissions and how many shares I may have purchased.  Again, I have purchased the security - what you buy and how much is up to you...

I want to point out here that SPDV is a purely emotional investment. I cannot recommend it as a potentially good investment.

Stocks

I want to point out here that SPDV is a purely emotional investment.  I cannot recommend it as a potentially good investment.

Also important is industry allocation...

Options

Option Industry Allocation...

Strategies

Acquire List

These are stocks we have reviewed and will select from for acquisition when funds are available and a buying opportunity presents itself...  Their main characteristic from the Close Watch list is a fairly consistent growth without sudden moves and long plateaus...  They are ordered by decreasing gains over the last 6 months:

Recent History

The summary figures at the bottom are weighted by the actual shares purchased and reflect the gain over the total invested portfolio.  These represent the actual gains/losses of recent investments.