2006 YTD increase on investments: 22.7%, including 401K on see $5,000 return on my stock investments, hopefully within 1 year. on 43 Things

meliflower

see $5,000 return on my stock investments, hopefully within 1 year. (read all 4 entries…)

2006 YTD increase on investments: 22.7%, including 401K 3 years ago

I’m pretty satisfied; I’ll mark this off as done and put my next financial goal up.

Jan 02, 2007, 10:07AM PST | 8 cheers

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~hopped~

Nice

job on your investments! My 401k is doing well also, but I haven’t looked at it too recently. I have a summary in my mail from last week regarding my investments. Maybe I should open it and find out.

Btw, you helped me accomplish one goal – you’re my 1,000th cheer. Thanks.

Jan 02, 2007, 10:11AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

meliflower

Wow THANKS for the 1,000th cheer!

And….I have a horrible little confession.

I go online everyday at 3:15p PST, 6:15EST, long after trading is closed for the day….

And I look up my investments to see at what $$$ they closed for the day…
I key that into this elaborate spreadsheet that I have that automatically spits out my profits/loss for the day, YTD, and running from the purchase date of each investment. It also gives me my full portfolio +/- for all of those periods. I’m just a barrel of laughs, let me tell you…guys love it when start droning on about financial stuff.

I go to my 401K website every other week and check in to see how my investments are doing there too.

;0) Oh, well…that’s just me…

Jan 04, 2007, 07:12PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

~hopped~

That's much more

than I do. I just follow my progress with my statements I receive every month. You are so orderly!

I have some decent investments and some flat-liners that never go anywhere. But at least they don’t plummet.

Caterpillar (CAT), Fuel Sys Solutions (FSYS), and Fuel Tech (FTEK) are generally pretty good climbers for me. Millennium Cell (MCEL), and Spacehab (SPAB) are my flat-liners. I should probably dump them because in 3 years they’ve never done anything for me. Remember? I’m the optimist…

And my bad advice investment – Young Innovations (YDNT). I invested in this one because someone told me that they’ve made $15,000 in just a couple years time with this one. Not! Hasn’t done squat for me.

Jan 06, 2007, 09:46AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

meliflower