February 12, 2026
It’s another one of those Thursdays! You know it’s a bad day when you open Google Finance and your watchlist looks like this: Red Red Red! I kind of heard from my article feed that stocks were down, but when…
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February 7, 2026
Today is Saturday, or should I say THE Saturday after a CRAZY Friday? This last week was nuts. I thought I knew exactly what I was going to do, and sell a few stocks and buy a few others. I…
If you don’t like the market, wait a minute!
So yesterday I posted this in the strategy area: And today, what a change! Thursday there was panic in the streets over the dropping tech stocks, and I just said I am going to hold on and see what happens.…
Just when you make a plan
So I had started to work on a plan to reduce the number of stocks that I have and add to some positions and then the whole stock market goes crazy. Today is February 5th, 2026 and everything is dropping…
February 5,2026
Yesterday was a bad day for the Technology Sector. This is the results of the day for those stocks that I own which I consider to be my AI stocks. There is an awful lot of red in that list!…
A change in my thought process
Over this last weekend I did a lot of soul searching and trying to see if the way I was buying stocks was really working for me. Currently I own 58 stocks. That’s a lot and the problem is, some…
What I missed about ETFs
Silly me! I have recently bought into a few (8) ETFs in my portfolio. But I was laboring under a misimpression when I bought them. Because I am a beginner at this whole thing, I misunderstood the way that they…
January 27,2026
I am excited about UMC. It’s been 2 years of it being down by a dollar or more per share, and I just held on and now it has finally hit its stride. The new technology that they have now…
January 25, 2026
It’s been a few days, and it’s been interesting. I added 2 new stocks to my portfolio, one I consider to be speculative, and the other is something I have been wanting to buy for a long time and should…
January 20,2026
It’s the first day back after a 3-day closure of the market. Monday was Martin Luther King Day, so I was expecting things to drop. However the real story his more about the way that the president is calling for…