February 24, 2026
Big Snow in Northeast I shoveled 20 inches of snow yesterday. I don’t feel much pain today, but I suspect my body hasn’t caught up to it yet. With the storm coming in on Sunday, (our usual shopping day), we…
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Michael is not an advisor or analyst. He is just a beginner at all this stock stuff. He just doesn't have anyone to share his excitement about all the stuff he is learning so he is putting all this information here.
February 16, 2026
Presidents Day. The Stock Market is closed. Tomorrow will be horrible, I think. Usually after a 3 day weekend the next day is just a jumble of people trying to get stuff done. A lot of that is selling and…
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…
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…