December 8, 2025
It’s a little before the stock market opens, and I have been looking around at things I want to buy. Shame on me, I wasn’t going to be buying anymore stocks for a while. Sometimes you just have to give…
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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.
December 6, 2025
It’s a Saturday, so the stock market is closed, and there isn’t any action on the stocks. There might be a little bit going on in the aftermarket trading but that is usually so little it amounts to nothing. However…
December 5, 2025
Today, I found a couple more stocks to add to my portfolio. Actually, I have been looking at these for quite a while but just didn’t pull the trigger. Today I decided to go for it. One stock I have…
Meta Platforms, Inc.
META $597.07 I held back from buying Meta for a long time, mostly because it was so expensive. But it went through a sudden dip a while ago and I figured I would take advantage. Who doesn’t get on Facebook…
WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION
WDC $149.47 This is another AI world purchase. I must have bought a hundred Western Digital hard drives over the years, and it is a brand that I have relied on forever. But I also know that all those servers…
NEWELL BRANDS INC.
NWL $3.25 I was looking for a cool stock to set my grandkids up with to try to get them excited about investing. I thought it would be cool for them to know that they own part of the company…
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY
HPE $24.52 With Super Micro seeming to lose favor in the computer world for Nvidia and other AI chips, there are only a few other companies that could be used as alternatives. One is Dell and the other is Hewlett…
HIMS & HERS HEALTH, INC.
HIMS $46.00 In an effort to be a part of the AI stuff without buying chip companies or all my other pieces of it, I found a place that is starting to use AI in their business. This is also…
Fidelity ZERO Total Market Index Fund
FZROX $23.98 This is the second part of my test of index funds. I was wondering if the total market fund would be more likely to go up or down, since it has more stocks in it. This fund has…
Fidelity ZERO Large Cap Index Fund
FNILX $24.80 I wanted to try my hand at getting into index funds. I found out that on the Fidelity Brokerage, you could get some index funds that had no expense ratio. That sounded like the right price to me!…