NullSmurf
Das Bruce
I'm up 88% on GSS and 40% on CAL. Told you airlines would take off!
Now would be a REAL good time to get back into LVLT.
I was thinking more in terms of losing 20% of its value following weak earnings reporting. I think it will bounce back in short order from this downside. Looks like we hit the buy point this morning.
Thanks Chenman!Sorry if this is unwanted advice, but I think you guys should look more at the bank stocks. Money Center names and brokers have made their run, but the Regional Banks on the large cap side look poised to beneift from an improving economy in 2010, albeit a jobless one. Bank stocks historically tend to outperfrom on the upside when coming out of a recession. Taking a look at the employment data and housing trends, it is likely that NBER 9 to 12 months down the line will say the recession bottomed in April/May 2009. Typically, bank stocks don't retest the troughs. They may go down, but will likely remain at least 20% above their trough levels. Regional banks still have to contend with Commerical credit issues which don't impact the Money Center Banks as much, but most of the Regionals are still trading below book value, but tangible book value as well. The easy money of course is the trade back to BV. It seems as though you guys are looking at higher beta names...I think on that front KEY, STI even FITB would be good regional bets. BAC looks good towards the mid 20s. There are other nice financial plays but the share prices may be higher than reasonable for your portfolio size.
I hope everyone has been watching the first stock we purchased! We bought 100 shares @ 3.41 a share back in Nov. '07. Bought another 100 @ 1.40 a share in Aug. '08. Then averaged down again with an 800 share puchase @ .13 in Jan '09. That put us at .585 per share, with 1000 shares in the LEAF FUND. It's currently @ .5654! We are currently before todays open only a smidge over 6.5% down. I think the Grateful Dead wrote a song about this one! The verse? "What a loooooong strange trip it's been" I can see SIRI going above $1. SIRI could single handedly bring us back to the original $40 per share. Which would put us in position to buy a couple of cigars for each of the 75 shares of LEAF FUND stock!
MAYBE?
Well it could happen ya know!