“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” - John Maynard Keynes ​​The Portfolio Performance The portfolio is UP +6.17% Our benchmark, the S&P 500 closed UP +2.26% What's Happening in the Market is Important For over a year, Wall Street has been turning up their collective noses at new investors who seemingly buy anything and run the price of the stock up to the moon. This momentum trading is viewed as reckless and having no basis in fundamentals.

“Free advice may not be worth what you paid for it” - Clay Baker ​​The Portfolio Performance The portfolio is UP +7.37% Our benchmark, the S&P 500 closed UP +2.16% Adding to ORCL, AMRN, HRTX, GBTC These four equities are below our cost basis so when you read this I will have taken a larger position as detailed below. ORCL BUY 239 shares @ $60.38 AMRN BUY 2000 shares @ $6.54 HRTX BUY 325 shares @ $17.92 GBTC BUY 300 shares @ $34.70 "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a

“Free advice may not be worth what you paid for it” - Clay Baker ​​The Portfolio Performance The portfolio is UP +6.0% Our benchmark, the S&P 500 closed UP +0.39% Adding to IPOD, ORCL, ARKG, HRTX, GBTC With a broad market decline today I'm taking another nibble on several of our holdings, but being cautious so that we can continue to buy at lower prices if the market declines further. I will be publishing my complete list of limit orders in a separate post. IPOD BUY 1000 shar

“Free advice may not be worth what you paid for it” - Clay Baker ​​The Portfolio Performance The portfolio is UP +6.52% Our benchmark, the S&P 500 closed UP +1.45% Adding to AMD & Oracle Sorry I didn't have time to update the quotes in this post, my truck got side swiped so I'm a bit rushed. Both AMD and Oracle have declined below our cost so I want to take another bite to firm up our position. There's no significant news driving these stocks down, I see these as valuation

“Free advice may not be worth what you paid for it” - Clay Baker ​​The Portfolio Performance The portfolio is UP +4.00% Our benchmark, the S&P 500 closed DOWN -1.70% First Buys I made my first buys of the year today. Because I was taking 50% positions I did not use limit orders, I bought at the current market prices. I'm holding a lot of cash that will be deployed carefully over the next several months. If a major decline occurs I may deploy it faster. Mister market appea

“Free advice may not be worth what you paid for it” - Clay Baker ​​The Portfolio Performance The portfolio closed the year UP +47.10% Our benchmark, the S&P 500 closed UP +16.26% Spread The News Another year has come and gone and it's time to announce the new portfolio. One bit of business before we look at the new names. The cost of maintaining this site has increased, but if the number of people subscribing increases I can justify the overall cost. If the subscriber base