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[TheoPetro]

I just started investing april of this year and have already had some fun with IBM and CMG for my first 2 stock picks. Heres my current portfolio.

CSCO 54.97%
EMC 17.37%
SIRI 18.66%
CIG 8.99%

CSCO was a researched, planned buy and has done fairly well since I bought.

EMC was a gamble that hasn't paid off yet. I plan on holding it for a while and if it does something cool if it doesnt then no biggie.

SIRI im banking on the merger with XM.

CIG I like the dividends and I dont see this stock fluctuating much (even with a beta of 1.7).

This is mainly play $ so far because I figured I should start investing (im 3 days from 22). I figure I will be A LOT more conservative when it is real money (>50k) in the future.

 

[LS20]

heaviest holding on GXC, least on Sirius radio and Agilent. everything else almost even mix

-Agilent Tech
-AMD
-Dell (caught them low)
-Encana (i like energy..specially natural gas)
-GXC - China ETF ...monster gain
-Hecla Mining (natural resources... cheap buy-in and MONSTER gain)
-North American Palladium (see HL Hecla Mining above)
-Pfizer - needed to diversify away from energy and tech
-Sirius - caught them slumping... not much better but there sint much to lose
-Vanguard Pacific ETF
-Whole Foods - people love expensive overpriced gourmet food and i got them during the wild oats debacle.. big winner


im extremely green except for Pfizer and Amd which yo-yo steadily..

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: LS20
heaviest holding on GXC, least on Sirius radio and Agilent. everything else almost even mix

-Agilent Tech
-AMD
-Dell (caught them low)
-Encana (i like energy..specially natural gas)
-GXC - China ETF ...monster gain
-Hecla Mining (natural resources... cheap buy-in and MONSTER gain)
-North American Palladium (see HL Hecla Mining above)
-Pfizer - needed to diversify away from energy and tech
-Sirius - caught them slumping... not much better but there sint much to lose
-Vanguard Pacific ETF
-Whole Foods - people love expensive overpriced gourmet food and i got them during the wild oats debacle.. big winner


im extremely green except for Pfizer and Amd which yo-yo steadily..

Is this for retirement savings, or just some money you have set aside to try and do well by picking individual stocks?

I'm not sure I would feel comfortable entrusting my future retirement money to individual stock picks, but that's just me. I'd probably put it all in a few index funds and forget about it.

 

[alien42]

currently around 80% of my portfolio is in DPDW at an avg cost of .55 (260% gain). the rest is currently 16 random OTC and pink sheet stocks and i consider trading money.

now i wait for risk fearing hecklers...

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: Special K

Is this for retirement savings, or just some money you have set aside to try and do well by picking individual stocks?

I'm not sure I would feel comfortable entrusting my future retirement money to individual stock picks, but that's just me. I'd probably put it all in a few index funds and forget about it.

a bit of a playbox. (i have generalized funds in my 401k and the 3rd source is discount company stock acct). but as a whole theyre all at whims to the market so makes not much difference

none of these are weekly/monthly holdings, either. i think theyre generally stable and of course ill adjust with the market as-needed

 

[Goosemaster]

500,000 shares in Vandalay Industries.

reasoning: because my dad blew $90k in cash that we could've used for google:|

 

[TheoPetro]

bump for the afternoon crowd

 

[Canai]

Not 'real' stock, but on Virtual Stock Exchange. I'm too poor to be playing the real market just yet

I was up over 10% since March of this year until the market drop today. GS really hurt. Currently up 7%.


RTN %34.42
Raytheon Co
Last: 63.90 -0.74 -1.14%
3:43pm 11/07/2007

AMD 60.65%
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Last: 13.07 -0.36 -2.68%
3:43pm 11/07/2007

QI 25.98%
Qimonda Ag
Last: 9.30 -0.16 -1.69%
3:43pm 11/07/2007

AL 18.78%
Alcan Inc
Last: 100.92 -0.05 -0.05%
I should have bought more of these guys. I bought at $53 in March, they are closing over $100 now

GS 20.07%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Last: 216.14 -7.02 -3.15%

DNDN 6.58%
Dendreon Corp
Last: 7.00 -0.10 -1.41%


Edit: and the reasoning: Raytheon is a US defense contractor, with recently approved major projects. Dendreon is a biotech/pharmaceutical company working on cancer drugs. They had some promising stuff a few months ago, but have recently hit some snags. I may end up selling all their stocks soon. AMD is doing shitty right now, but with their new processors just over the horizon, hopefully they will pick up a bit. Qimonda was a random pickup, mainly because they are shipping GDDR5 to their partners before the standard is even finalized. My bet is that in a year or so, when GDDR5 starts coming into consumer range cards, Qimonda will have the fastest, best performing chips. Alcan was a great buy, nearly doubling in two quarters. And GS was almost an impulse buy, and they're really hurting me now, but I'm still ahead on them, and I think they will go back up. I hope.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Cash: 20%
Gold mini-bars: 20%
Silver mini-bars: 60%

Yeah I know, not really a 'portfolio', but it's my equivalent.

 

[IEC]

DPDW: 95%

That's the only one I need (up over 300% so far).

Edit: Rationale:

Booming sector
Oil is underlying commodity
Growing company
Very profitable
Some company execs are big guys
Technical analysis shows heavy accumulation and very bullish trends

 

[brxndxn]

AMD - It's been beaten down too hard. It has a miniscule market cap compared to Intel and Nvidia yet it has a market share justifying much higher cap. Also, when AMD had the speed lead, they still had no major OEM partners. Now, AMD has relationships with all the major OEMs and has established a sizeable market share. Even if AMD does not have the fastest speed overall, AMD's value-priced energy-efficient processors should still sell well. Intel continues to be behind in areas of research (hyper-transport, graphics) that require large amounts of R&D that Intel has yet to push.

TRID - The stock took a 40% drop in one day which told me was an insane overcorrection according to their forward PE ratio. They missed earnings by 2 cents! Goddamn.. I may buy more after the panic-selling today.


Also, I believe tech stocks is where the next wave of 'panic money' will be placed after China's stock market starts to falter. Meanwhile, other than the US, world markets have been doing very well which means that people like Chinese citizens will get used to a higher standard of living. So, the Chinese PC market is emerging. AMD should be positioned well for the emerging PC market in China.


IMO, Anandtech needs an investments forum category. Us nerds tend to own similar stocks. We should discuss more amongst ourselves.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Yes! another vote for an investments forum.

30% - BRCD - caught them low, second biggest next to Cisco, rumors of Cisco buying them out.
25% - EMC - Riding the Vmware IPO, who knows where it'll end up. Dell gave low blow w/ purchase of Equallogic
20% - EWH - ETF in Hong Kong, if only the chinese govt would let the mainlanders invest in HK

I am thinking of picking up a few shares in CSV and WFR, which has grown tremendously over the past year.

AMD crashed big time, have you seen their stock prices? China is going to crash so my money is in "green" company and I'm looking at Austria and telecom in spanish companies.

 

[TheoPetro]

an investing forum would be awesome. Maybe just a "finance" forum in general for real estate, stocks, bonds, savings, credit cards, w/e. I would post in there a lot