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[whopper]

My portfolio
AAPL: Apple: no need to discuss-IPODs are doing great, Zune's proven to be a disaster

TXRH: Texas Roadhouse: expected to dramatically increase # of stores. The Fool.com rates it a top stock. I reccomend though to watch it, and only buy on weakness. This stock has a habit of fluctuating quite a bit but never really breaking any ground until the quarterly earnings report, where it skyrockets to a new high and a higher fluctuating range.
Bottom line: watch it, buy it at a low, sell it after earning's report, then repeat the cycle

SIRI: pure speculative stock. Yeah I know its a dangerous one. It though will have positive cash flow in just a few weeks. I think it'll go up quite a bit when it does. Bottom line: pure speculation, don't invest in this one unless you're willing to take a risk and watch the market often.

SAI: Military intelligence. Hasn't lost money in years and just gone public. Fundamentals are strong, and it'll have its first earnings report this Tuesday afternoon. I'm thinking the report will be exceed expectations by far and the stock will skyrocket.

stocks I'm considering
SNY: Sanofi: will release Accomplia sometime this year-which prevent impulse eating. We Americans are fatties (pardon me, but cough cough, yes we are). We need this med. It'll be like prozac and viagra when it comes out and the company will skyrocket. Problem is the company is also having a lot of problems with their current meds, and they're facing an FDA probe in their med Ketek.
Bottom line: Accomplia will be a win, but the company's got problems with Ketek & Plavix. Need to see where it goes with those 2 meds before I consider buying.

ESLR: make solar technology stuff. California is planning on going big time solar which may be a boon to ESLR. Still researching.

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[ttac]

Still holding 70k of dovp.pk at 33c...
bro is holding 90-100k of cpnlq.pk from 0.30, as well as 230k of dovp from 0.233

ttac

 

[etf]

too many to list, but i'll throw some out:
MO: Altria. Nice dividend, pretty much the greatest performing stock of the last 50 years.
WFC: Wells Fargo. Instead of trying to grab every customer, like BAC, they try to get all the business from the customers they have (increasing "wallet-share"). Also a local company. BAC also sold out and moved to north carolina.
HDB: HDFC bank. I consider this the Wells Fargo of India.
MT: p/e was around 5 when I picked it up - largest steel maker on earth, and added $20B to ceo Lakshmi Mittal's wealth in 2005. Plus, I've always wanted to be a steel tycoon.
CVX: i've also wanted to be an oil tycoon. also a local company. bought it about a month ago.

enough for now.

 

[etf]

ok, one more that is pissing me off of late: C, citigroup. I have a relatively large position, and for the last 2 years it's pretty much stayed around 50, so i've been making money selling covered calls every month. except that last week it decided to go up 3%, and is continuing today. my short option position is getting increasingly expensive to cover, and i'm just considering having the shares be called away and buy back at 50 or so. hopefully it tones down before friday.

 

[roo]

Well, I'll chime in with my items/guesses, to see how well things go:

ERTS: (Electronic Arts).
In on:
Jul 14, 2006 [$45.32]
Dec 20, 2006 [$52.46]
Jan 18, 2007 (today) [$50.53]
Spiked significantly after last earnings release in the fall near $60, people since have forgotten / not paid attention, as in my opinion now trading at a bargain at $50. It was a holiday season of video games and consoles, the industry is on fire. Next earning release start of Feb. Analysts review seem to concur heavy on buy. I guess that will go again to $55-60 range mid Feb so have progressively loaded up heavy. If not, I'll just wait till the next quarter. As long as there isn't some sort of 1984 Atari & et al video game meltdown, I think things will go well there.

CSCO: (Cisco)
In on Jan 11, 2007 [$28.75]
Currently down a 3 day drain of near 9% drop, based on no other reason that a series of analyst opinions. ??? Oh well, more for me, I'll probably accumulate some more as hits bottom of a valley. Shift to HDTV, VOIP, video on Internet and cell phones means gotta upgrade all the backbone achitecture, as well as a growth dribble from consumer Linksys wireless division especially as Wireless-N becomes popular.

TSX:CGS.A (CanWest Global)
In on Jan 11, 2007 [$10.59] (unfortuately the markets closed minutes after my order went through so and then there was a trading freeze so didn't get to buy till next day, missing a ~10% pop, oh well)
Bit of a pop thus far as move to seal the deal to take over Alliance Atlantis which has some good Canadian specialty cable channels and Alliance Atlantis owns 50% of the CSI drama series (which Goldman Sachs will get). Probably a bit left of a pop when the CRTC [Canadian Regulatory agency] approves it, which hopefully they will (if don't then looking at a pretty rough drop).

SNE (Sony)
In on Nov 17, 2006 [$40.94]
Playstation 3. PS3 about to go to Europe. Bundling a next-gen DVD player makes things more affordable/tempting over the long=term. Price of unit will drop. Impressive library of PS2 titles which are PS3 playable. No one is going to remember 2006's Sony battery recalls in the long term.

TSX:TD (Toronto Dominion)
In on Jan 17, 2007 [$69.34]
My token conservative widows-and-orphans stock. P/E ratio behind the other big Canadian banks (it is currently the #3 bank). Has TD Ameritrade which is performing well. Generally though it is just a good banking/finances service company to be a customer of.

TSE:IMX (Imax)
In on:
Mar 23, 2006 [$11.75]
Aug 18, 2006 [$6.39]
My token mentioned before high risk stock. Bad news there. Had accumulated more after its first nosedive, but then fell off its second cliff in mid Nov. Was a nice gainer though for the brave people who picked it up in the $3's. I guess it will likely get back to $7 eventually but when or how rough of a ride to then, don't know so will just keep what I have and probably won't accumulate any more. However, if there is a class-action suit as a result of the accounting mischief that led to the first major drop, can use that I guess to offset some of that loss.

TSX:RCI.A (Roger's)
In on Oct 26, 2006 at [split adjusted $34.50, price before 2:1 split was $69]
As mentioned before on this forum, Canadian cable/media/wireless/internet company that continues its run as service demand continues to climb. Similar to good growth of the rest of cable in Canada.

TSX:THI (Tim Horton's)
In on Mar 24, 2006 [$35.09]
Punted the majority of it on Mar 27, 2006 [$32.17] and used the money for better performing stocks. Was a better value in summer 2006 [$27 range], as now back up to around $36.50, but still not sorry that punted most of it.
Quick service restaurant that consistently comes up with good numbers quarter after quarter. Good battle against Starbucks since in different streams--Starbucks=Expensive market. Tims=Cheap market.

ADBE: (Adobe)
In on Aug 22, 2006 [$33.25]
As mentioned before on this forum, it is up to around $40 this week. I think there will be a bit extra pop after results come back from the Photoshop CS3, and suites with the Macromedia Flash/Dreamweaver combo with the new Photoshop come out. However, most of that I think is already priced into the stock already.

Past holdings:

RedHat (RHT) In at Nov 29, 2006 [$17.11], out on Jan 3, 2007 [$22.75] (This had to do with unjustified investor panic at Oracle offering RedHat support. Interestingly the same is going on today with Sun offering cheaper support for Solaris, giving a RHT share price hit, but I am not interested in buying RHT yet unless it dips further down.

Lionsgate (LGF) In at Mar 22, 2006 and Apr 13, 2006, out on Nov 17, 2006 (I don't have exact numbers of gain because was bought on TSX in Cdn funds and sold on NYSE since they stopped trading on TSX and switched all TSX to NYSE but think was about 10% gain or so). I can't believe they (apparently) killed Jigsaw in Saw III. What a waste. Punted them the weeks after Saw III. Stock hasn't done much since Nov 17, think its down a bit.

Mastercard (MA) In on Aug 16, 2006 [$54.74] out on Sep 22, 2006 [$66.35] and Sep 26, 2006 [$64.20]. Bit unfortunate there as it is now trading north of $105 or so, but was the one that had already had good gains and was looking pretty volatile and had to free up some money for some things that came up and MA got the axe among then-current holdings.

Ford (F) In on Apr 13, 2006 [$7.38], out on Sep 14, 2006 [$9.06]. If I recall, shares fell off a cliff shortly after Sep 14 after some more bad news.

Apple (AAPL) In on Jan 8, 2007 [$85.98], out on Jan 10, 2007 [$94.75]. iPhone related price movement there. That company's price is too emotionally--based for me to want to keep it so punted it after 2 days. I see today it has eased down again to $89.07. I don't guess any big giant upspikes until they actually start selling iPhones.

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If I was going to pick the best one out of the lot my my own holdings for near term worthwhile growth, I would guess ERTS. But that is my 2 cents. I am neither a stock advisor nor analyst, nor even in the finance field at all.

Best wishes,
roo

 

[mshheaddoc]

My stocks:

CBH - Commerce Bancorp, Inc - one of the fastest growing banks in the nation and not doing such a shabby job, except the huge loss yesterday since they are under investigation again (fincky market I tell ya!). Which the investigation is another bull**** investigation, but hey, that's what happens when you are the brains behind the machine. Not worried though, this has been a nice stock the past few years, I just wish I had more money to invest in it ...

T - AT&T - family gift, not doing too shabby, it was a college graduation gift and has done quite well the past few years ...

SNY - Sanofi-Aventis breakeven still at this one, but I tend to expect this with the slow down from accomplia. Solid company (for the most part - generics are hurting all the pharm companies) with pretty good market cap ...

I don't daytrade and usually hold stocks for the long-term ... portfolio will grow when I actually get money which won't be for a while ... or I decide to bail out of what I have, which isn't likely.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

How weird is this...I actually own everyone of the stocks listed...plus many more.

 

[etf]

How weird is this...I actually own everyone of the stocks listed...plus many more.

if you mean every stock listed on this page, then you've got an over-diversification problem, unless you've got a $5M portfolio.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

if you mean every stock listed on this page, then you've got an over-diversification problem, unless you've got a $5M portfolio.

Perhaps you've heard of an index fund. I don't believe in overdiversification.

 

[etf]

Perhaps you've heard of an index fund. I don't believe in overdiversification.

oh, it was a joke. toucher. however, i doubt the index fund(s) you own contain canadian stocks such as TD, unless you've got a canadian index fund or something.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

oh, it was a joke. toucher. however, i doubt the index fund(s) you own contain canadian stocks such as TD, unless you've got a canadian index fund or something.

You're actually right, I don't hold Canada! I own stocks in 30+ countries, but not Canada. Perhaps soon given the recent push toward Total-world ex-U.S. indexes. Lol.

 

[roo]

Well, I'll chime in with an update.

Current holdings:

ADBE: (Adobe)
In on Aug 22, 2006 [$33.25]
As mentioned before on this forum. Still waiting on results come back from the Photoshop CS3, and suites with the Macromedia Flash/Dreamweaver combo with the new Photoshop come out. However, most of that I think is already priced into the stock already at $40+.

NYSE: DWA (Dreamworks Animation)
In on Feb 8, 2007 [$27.74]
Shrek 3 coming up this spring will likely be a cash-cow. Some of that is already priced into the stock. I expect at least 500million income in just worldwide boxoffice alone even before the licensed items.

TSX:TD (Toronto Dominion)
In on Jan 17, 2007 [$69.34]
My token conservative widows-and-orphans stock. It is currently the #3 bank. P/E ratio behind the other big Canadian banks . Has TD Ameritrade which is performing well. Generally though it is just a good banking/finances service company to be a customer of. So far behaving like a widows-and-orphans stock, not much gain, pretty resilient to market losses, their earnings I believe are pending shortly which may give a small rise.

TSE:IMX (Imax)
In on:
Mar 23, 2006 [$11.75]
Aug 18, 2006 [$6.39]
My token mentioned before high risk stock. I accumulated more of the stock after its first nosedive, but then fell off its second cliff in mid Nov. Was a nice gainer though for the brave people who picked it up in the $3's, as it is resuming a slow ascent and now trading at around $5.25, as the Hollywood IMAX releases continue to make money. I think the film '300' will look pretty crisp on an IMAX. I guess it will likely get back to $7 eventually but when or how rough of a ride to then, don't know so will just keep what I have and probably won't accumulate any more. However, if there is a class-action suit as a result of the accounting mischief that led to the first major drop, can use that I guess to offset some of that loss.

TSX:THI (Tim Horton's)
In on Mar 24, 2006 [$35.09]
Punted the majority of it on Mar 27, 2006 [$32.17] and used the money for better performing stocks. Was a better value in summer 2006 [$27 range], as now back up to around $36.25, but still not sorry that punted most of it.
Quick service restaurant that consistently comes up with good numbers quarter after quarter. Good battle against Starbucks since in different streams--Starbucks=Expensive market. Tims=Cheap market.

TSX:SXR (Uranium One)
In on Feb 16, 2007 (today) [$16.31]
Merged with UrAsia to be the number two uranium producer. Price catalyst of nuclear power for the subset of countries that want to meet Kyoto emission targets by switching to nuclear power. Has had strong gains in recent months, I think there will be some more. Mineral/resources are getting out of the realm of my expertise though.

Past holdings:

TSX:RCI.A (Roger's)
In on Oct 26, 2006 at [a split adjusted] $34.50
Out on Feb 16, 2007 (today) at $44.10
As mentioned before on this forum, Canadian cable/media/wireless/internet company that continues its run as service demand continues to climb. Similar to good growth of the rest of cable in Canada.

NSYE:RG (Roger's)
In on Feb 8, 2007 at $31.32
Out on Feb 16, 2007 (today) at $34.57
See above. I had some money kicking around in the US trading account and thought there was no other better buy than Canadian Rogers, so worked out well for around 10% in the 8 days it was held.

ERTS: (Electronic Arts).
In on:
Jul 14, 2006 [$45.32]
Dec 20, 2006 [$52.46]
Jan 18, 2007 [$50.53] (large position for me)
Out on Feb 2, 2007 [$53.28]
Video game market leader, three new consoles underway. Had its first quarter with the new consoles.

SNE (Sony)
In on Nov 17, 2006 [$40.94]
Out on Jan 22, 2007 [$46.19]
Playstation 3. PS3 about to go to Europe. Bundling a next-gen DVD player makes things more affordable/tempting over the long=term. Price of unit will drop. Impressive library of PS2 titles which are PS3 playable. No one is going to remember 2006's Sony battery recalls in the long term. Looking back, I feel I sold a bit premature there, as now trading north of $52, likely as a result of news that they are winning both the flat-screen battle and because of PS3, Blu-Ray is winning the next gen dvd format war currently. Oh well.

TSX:CGS.A (CanWest Global)
In on Jan 11, 2007 [$10.59]
Out on Jan 22, 2007 [$11.57]
As a result of the deal to take over Alliance Atlantis which has some good Canadian specialty cable channels like HGTV, and Alliance Atlantis owns 50% of the CSI drama series (which Goldman Sachs will get). Raised ~10% then plateaued. I got tired of waiting for the approval to be given the green light, so the money was freed up for better performers.

CSCO: (Cisco)
In on Jan 11, 2007 [$28.75]
In on Feb 5, 2007 [$27.48] (very large position for me)
Out on Feb 7, 2007 [$28.45]
Strong quarter from shift to HDTV, VOIP, video on Internet and cell phones means gotta upgrade all the backbone achitecture, as well as a growth dribble from consumer Linksys wireless division especially as Wireless-N becomes popular.

RedHat (RHT)
In at Nov 29, 2006 [$17.11]
Out on Jan 3, 2007 [$22.75]
This had to do with unjustified investor panic at Oracle offering RedHat support. Interestingly the same is going on today with Sun offering cheaper support for Solaris, giving a RHT share price hit, but I am not interested in buying RHT yet unless it dips further down.

Lionsgate (LGF)
In at Mar 22, 2006 and Apr 13, 2006
Out on Nov 17, 2006 (I don't have exact numbers of gain because was bought on TSX in Cdn funds and sold on NYSE since they stopped trading on TSX and switched all TSX to NYSE but think was about 10% gain or so).
I can't believe they (apparently) killed Jigsaw in Saw III. What a waste. Punted them the weeks after Saw III. Stock hasn't done much since Nov 17, think its down a bit.

Mastercard (MA)
In on Aug 16, 2006 [$54.74]
Out on Sep 22, 2006 [$66.35] and Sep 26, 2006 [$64.20]
Bit unfortunate there as it is now trading much higher, but was the one that had already had good gains and was looking pretty volatile and had to free up some money for some things that came up and MA got the axe among then-current holdings. As a footnote, they went as high as $118, then a sharp crash as people cashed out.

Apple (AAPL)
In on Jan 8, 2007 [$85.98]
Out on Jan 10, 2007 [$94.75]
iPhone related price movement there. That company's price is too emotionally--based for me to want to keep it so punted it after 2 days. I don't guess any big giant upspikes until they actually start selling iPhones. I think they are getting investigated again about the back-dating so am not real interested right now, maybe later in the spring.

Ford (F)
In on Apr 13, 2006 [$7.38]
Out on Sep 14, 2006 [$9.06].
If I recall, shares fell off a cliff shortly after Sep 14 after some more bad news.

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Well thats it. But that is my 2 cents. I am neither a stock advisor nor analyst, nor even in the finance field at all. If anyone else has some ideas to share, I am still looking for some interesting items for short term (weeks to ~3 months) gain.

Best wishes,
roo

 

[etf]

MT is up 65% in the 5 or so months i've owned it, and it seems to be going up 1% every day. I'm starting to get worried...

 

[proman]

I won't go through all my trades. Started investing late 1999/early 2000. Current holdings:
Regular account:
AMR American Airlines
avg buy: 9.532 1st buy: 2001 current: 38.97 gain 308.8% % of portfolio: 56
DSCO Discovery Labs
avg buy: 2.15 1st buy: 11/06 current: 2.44 gain 13.3% % of portfolio: 7.4
F Ford
avg buy: 8.56 1st buy: 11/06 current: 8.53 % gain -0.4% % of portfolio: 10.4
SLNM Salon
avg buy: 30.8 1st buy: 8/00 current: 1.60 gain -94.7% % of portfolio: 0.3

Roth:
JDSU JDS Uniphase
avg buy: 13.436 1st buy: 3/05 current: 16.77 gain: 24.9% % of portfolio: 7.1
MSFT Microsoft
avg buy: 26.77 1st buy: 9/03 current: 28.74 gain: 21.7% % of portfolio: 7.9
NLS Nautilus
avg buy: 16.545 1st buy: 2/06 current 18.04 gain: 10.9% % of portfolio: 5.4

Total annual return since inception: 15.6%, year to date 18%

 

[etf]

I won't go through all my trades. Started investing late 1999/early 2000. Current holdings:
Regular account:
AMR American Airlines
avg buy: 9.532 1st buy: 2001 current: 38.97 gain 308.8% % of portfolio: 56
DSCO Discovery Labs
avg buy: 2.15 1st buy: 11/06 current: 2.44 gain 13.3% % of portfolio: 7.4
F Ford
avg buy: 8.56 1st buy: 11/06 current: 8.53 % gain -0.4% % of portfolio: 10.4
SLNM Salon
avg buy: 30.8 1st buy: 8/00 current: 1.60 gain -94.7% % of portfolio: 0.3

Roth:
JDSU JDS Uniphase
avg buy: 13.436 1st buy: 3/05 current: 16.77 gain: 24.9% % of portfolio: 7.1
MSFT Microsoft
avg buy: 26.77 1st buy: 9/03 current: 28.74 gain: 21.7% % of portfolio: 7.9
NLS Nautilus
avg buy: 16.545 1st buy: 2/06 current 18.04 gain: 10.9% % of portfolio: 5.4

Total annual return since inception: 15.6%, year to date 18%

wow, pretty gutsy to have half your portfolio in an airline, but who knows, maybe that goldman/BA takeover thing isn't all talk...

 

[proman]

It's also the source of my gastritis I'm sure. But, it wasn't such a large portion when I bought it. Just outperformed everything else and I didn't sell on the way up. I think the BA vapor offer of 48-52 a share is too low. The airlines are just now hitting the cash flow positive spot in the cycle. I'll probably sell when they start buying new planes.

 

[hossofadoc]

INTC in at 17.38
YHOO in at 25.37
GXP in at 31.94
CTBI in at 21.07
SAI in at 17.58
BIG in at 14.55

Stocks of interest...
YUM-expanding in China and last time I checked...Americans still love to eat.
HAL
dalrq.pk-This is my high risk stock.