Rod's Account Talk

[vectorman]

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Rod wrote:

Be careful out there... the "hook" has been baited...

Hi Rod, I go with the window dressing theory someone mentioned last week. I heard this morning that with the SP500 is still somewhat down for the year.Brokers will be releasing quarter reports within the next 2-3weeks and they don't want them to be too negative.:?

 

[mlk_man]

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Hey Rod, good luck on your deployment!!! Let us know how things are going once in awhile. Want me to watch your money till you get back?

Take care,

M_M

 

[Rod]

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Gosh Mike, I'm tempted to take you up on that!

Anways, I'm still "breathing", butstill deployed until January. I'm not going to have a very good year since I'm deployed for half of it and do not have the time to keep an eye on the markets from day to day- if you only knew how cRaZy it gets...

I'm still 100 (G) andtrying to decide whether or not I may need to conservatively spread that across the board. I'm very wary of doing so since I may not hear of a "market crash" until 2 days after the fact.

So, all in all it's not going to be a very productive year for me. Hopefully 2006 will yield a better crop.

God Bless:^

 

[mlk_man]

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Glad to hear you're still "breathing"! Since you can't make regular adjustments to your TSP, you might think about waiting until about mid-Oct.

4 of the last 5 years, 2000 being the exception, the market has had a late year rally starting in Oct.

Good luck to you!

M_M

 

[Rod]

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Hello all:^ First move in quite some time. Hopefully I'm not a day late!

Effective Tuesday:

40 C

40 S

20 I

God Bless

 

[Rod]

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I believe I will be holding where I'm at since we are now into the best quarter of the year, historically speaking... especially since "Black Friday" is right around the corner and already causing consumer hype as you may already know with the product "leaks" from Wal-Mart. I'm sure those "leaks" were all part of their marketing strategy. Hey, more $$$ in our pockets too!!!:dude:

God Bless:^

 

[Rod]

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Still sticking it out unless I get good enough reason to do so otherwise:

40 C

40 S

20 I

God Bless:^

 

[Rod]

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FYI for those interested, my tracking sheet has me @

+4.70

for the year so far.

Hopefully I'll be able to add a few more %.

God Bless:^

 

[Rod]

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Alright, I don't desireto get greedy then get "burned". But, I am keepingthe 20% in (I) since ittends to bepositivewhen U.S. markets are closed.

If today pulls back, hopefully it will be very littleand the bottom falls out next week to give all of us a great buying opportunity!

Effective Friday, 25 Nov:

80 G

20 I

God Bless:^

BTW, my YTD is now at +5.88%

 

[Rod]

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Updated YTD Tracker:

 

[Rod]

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Updated YTD Tracker:

Merry Christmas!

 

[Rod]

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Updated YTD tracker:

Blessed Christmas!:^

 

[Rod]

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Updated YTD Tracker:

BlessedChristmas!

 

[Rod]

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I've done pretty decent since Oct, gaining nearly 7%. I don't want to be greedy and ruin a good thing. Heck, I may actually be 100 (G) by year's end because I don't want to get burned again like I did last January. A lot of us experienced that pain and do not want to start off the first week of theNew Year nearly -3% again!

I mean, it's very tempting to jump into stocks for next week and I may very well miss an additional 3% gain by year's end. But if I can end the year above 7.5%, I'll be satisfied with that.

God Bless and have a blessed Christmas!:^

 

[Spaf]

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Rod,

If you have made your goal, GREAT!

Greed is not a good thing!

Have a Merry Christmas! Spaf

 

[Rod]

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I didn't really have a "goal" per se since this year has been so hectic with PCS'ing and deploying. But I did set a goal of 8% for 2006. Perhaps I should reach a lilttle further, though!

Have a Blessed Christmas!

 

[Rod]

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I took a minuscule hit in (I) with yesterday's sell-off. But may very well gain that back today. I'm not going to venture a guess on what the market is going to do next. I'll continue to sit on the side-lines (80 G)until I see at least 2 more days of solid losses. Then I may consider "buying in".

God Bless:^

 

[Rod]

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I definitely made up that mini-loss in (I) and then some. I'm thinking that if (I) see's some pretty good pull back I may actually buy-in more there than the USsince it has been really kick'n some butt lately. But still... cautiously entering the New Year.

God Bless:^

 

[Rod]

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Well, I ended the year at +7.44%. It could've been worse. So, I'm quite satisfied.

BTW, here were the ending indexes from last year for you to compare with 2005's:

DJIA: 10,783.01

NAZ: 2,175.44

S&P: 1,211.92



I'll be going into 2006 at:

80 G

20 I

God Bless... and hopefully 2006 will be uneventful!:^

 

[Rod]

I'm getting ready to re-deploy back to the states, so I'm not making any knee-jerk reactions to this seemingly continual rally because once I jump in, it will cease to exist.

It's pretty tough trying to determine/make moves when you are 11 hours ahead of EST and asleep by 10:00am EST. So, I'll just continue to hold:

80 G

20 I

Because what goes up, must come down.

God Bless