J.C.’s Money Blog

Yesterday I sold 40 shares of SPY @ 135.27. I am considering putting in an offer on car that costs a bit more than $6,000, so I need the cash to cover that and ongoing expenses. I really hate the feeling of lower my equity positions, but I knew going to this road wouldn’t be [...]

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Once again, I thought SPY couldn’t drop any lower, so I bought 12 more shares to pretty much spend the rest of my cash in my brokerage account. Now I have 112 shares of SPY, and I got the last 12 shares at $133.35 per share on March 3rd. Since then the price has dropped [...]

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I bought some more of my favorite index fund today, since the market was slipping. I am now the proud owner of 33 shiny new shares of SPY, bringing my holdings to an even lot of 100 shares.
My purchase price was  $135.25, and the price continues to drop. Oh well.
SPY has about a 2% yield, [...]

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The market took a big dip yesterday, so I put in a market order for another 7 shares of SPY. Got in at $134.20, and the market has been going down since. Oh well. I still think the I’m in at a good price.
This brings my holdings in SPY to 67 shares.
Earlier, I wrote about [...]

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“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
- Warren Buffet
I just put in a market order for some more shares of SPDRs(SPY). The price tanked another 2% yesterday and has pretty much wiped out all of 2007’s gains.
With this I get a little chunk [...]

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