MOT purchase

I purchased a 8% of my account holding in MOT. The strike price was 6.989.

ATVI purchase

I purchased a 16% share of my acount holding in ATVI. The strike price was 10.98.

TTWO purchase

I purchased a 4.3% of my account holding in TTWO. The strike price was 9.89.

MTZ purchase

I purchased a 4.2% of my account in MTZ. The strike price was 12.88.

PHM purchase

I purchased a 7% share of my account in PHM. The strike price was 10.81.

kbh purchase

I purchased an 8% share of my account today in KBH. The strike price was 16.759.

I think housing will make a comeback in the next year. This is a long term purchase.

DRIV purchase

I purchased a 20% share of my account in DRIV today. The strike price was 24.97.

AMZN purchase

I've been wanting to hold AMZN (Amazon.com) for the past year. I almost bought a bunch at 50 back in November and probably should have since it really recovered well. I like what they are doing with EC2 (Cloud Computing) and think this is going to be huge. They are very well managed and I like their leadership so I fell like my money is safe. I made a 5% of my account purchase and may buy some more. The strike price was 76.32 and I'll put a stop in at 67.20.

MON purchase

I purchased a 5% of my account holding of MON today. I've been looking at it for the last few weeks. May buy another 5% in the next few weeks. It executed at 79.70. I'll put in a stop at 70.50.

USG purchase

I've been looking at the market and finally decided to put half my account back in. I've been looking at USG since it hit 5 and bought a small 2.4% holding that executed at 8.65.

I'll put in a stop at 4.90.

SDS purchase

I purchased a 4.5% share of my account in SDS. This is a stock that tracks the S&P500. If the S&P500 goes down, SDS goes up, if S&P goes up SDS goes down. So you can see that I'm betting the S&P doesn't hold the gaines over the last week. I almost bought it on Friday, but waited until this morning. I bought it at 81.93 when DJIA was sitting around 7500. I'll probably sell it if the DJIA hits 6500 again.

The announcement that the governement is finally stoping the bailout at GM and Crysler is my reason. The auto companies have been mismanaged for a long time and it's finally coming to the end of the road and this will have a negative impact on the economy overall for the next few months at least.

ATVI purchase

I made a 4% purchase of ATVI today. I didn't want to be totally out of ATVI right now and when I saw it ranging around 9.70 again I decided to buy. I'm going to start collecting it again after I sold it at 10.14 and 11.86 last year. The purchase price was 9.718.

IBM buy

I've continued to watch IBM and wanted to get back in before it crosses back over my stop price. I bought at 4.5% share, then bought another one a few hours later so now I have about 8% of my account in IBM at $83.75 and $83.58. The cost average is 83.67.

DOW bond purchase

I purchased a DOW chemical bond (DOW09A) based on a broker recommendation. It's a 5% of my account purchase. It earns 8.55% and will be paid out on 10/1/09. It doesn't seem like DOW Chemical is in danger of going under so probably a little better than my cash accounts at this point.

IBM purchase

I made a 4.5% purchase of IBM this morning. I almost did this yesterday, but decided to wait. The strike price was 84.57. I think they are in a strong position moving forward and after selling GLD and SLV yesterday I don't want all my money in cash. I also put a stop in at 75.75.

A (agilent) purchase

Probably doesn't look like the best week to dip my toes back into the market? DJIA down 381 (4.62%) and sitting at 7888.88 the lowest I've seen in a while.

That said I did make a small 2.5% purchase of A (Agilent) based on a recommendation. The strike price was 18.51 and I put in a stop at 17.50. I'll look at selling around 21.30.

It closed today at 18.26 down 1.3% from where I purchased it. Not as bad as the general market as I think I purchased after most of the "action".

PWRD purchase

We purchased PWRD this morning.

I made a 5.5% purchase at 15.21. The stop was put in at 14.05 and I'll look at it again when it goes over 17.

ABB Purchase

It has been a long time since I've made any trades. Just letting my money sit in cash and gold. The change of brokers makes it really hard to create a table of my holdings and I'll try and work something out at some point.

My broker has a charting system and wants me to try some stocks with a 10% stop and sell after a 15% or so gain.

We made a 2% purchase of ABB at 12.16.

The stop at price 11. Sell when it's over 14.

AMD purchase

I bought a 2.8% of my total account purchase of AMD just now. I'm still holding a 2% interest that I purchased at 13.69. The new brokerage system I moved my account to sucks so I can't see what the actual price was but I think it was around 2.43 (2.63 is the official number). I did this based on this article AMD Shanghais the Server Market. It's too bad they really flubbed the Barcellona release since I think they are a good and very innovative company. I invested because they had that new chip coming out and I didn't expect them to miss it so badly. This new release shows that they still have game and can take on Intel.

USG purchase

I made another USG purchase this morning. It is a building materials (mostly wall board) stock that I have been holding for the past six or so months looking for the bottom of the housing market. I just bought some more about a month ago. I think Warren Buffet was also getting in at around that time. It has gone down more (-9.6%) since then, but I'm looking at it as a really long term buy and trying to hit the bottom with consecutive purchases to bring my cost average down as it continues to drop. With the flooding in the mid-west I'm betting there will be a lot of wall board purchased in the next six months so I'm buying more and may do another purchase in a week depending on what the stock does in the next few days.

This was a 2.2% (of my account) purchase of USG, and puts my complete USG holdings at 5.5% of my account. Before this purchase it was down around 15% and now it is down around 11%. Think long term...

I also really like the 5 year chart.

My account has continued to fluctuate. It opened yesterday at +8.2% for the year and is sitting today at +10% for the year. There was a big drop in FNM and FMC and I'm continuing to look at it. GE dropped a bunch more and I'm really glad I sold it when I did. Wouldn't go near it right now. I got the papers for the Activision/Blizzard deal and voted for the merger last night. I rarely proxy vote so this is one I'm really excited about.