Mechanical Investing for February ‘05

Posted by Michael on January 31st, 2005 filed in Finances

All in all, a -2.9% loss for the month. Not bad considering the market’s performance so far this year.

Holding for another month:

Ticker Bought Now Return  
AAPL $52.69 $77.33 +46.8% Apple Computer. I sold a little of this to pay for my Lasik this month. :)
ALOY $7.71 $6.96 -9.7% Media and Marketing for Generation Y. The screen says to hold it, but I don’t know why after a 10% loss.
CMC $24.965 $28.45 +14.0% Commercial Metals Company. This stock split this month so I adjusted the purchase price.
LDG $25.58 $26.12 +2.1% Long Drug Stores Corp. Still holding, though it’s gone flat this month.
NAFC $28.34 $41.75 +47.3% Nash Finch Company. I’ve held this since August and it’s paid dividends twice on top of the great gains so far.
NVR $630.50 $791.01 +25.5% NVR Inc. Looking good still. :)
.ADQGH $3.10 $0.70 -77.4% ADSK (July 05 40), will sell in April. Hopefully it’ll be worth something by then. :(
.CAIFN $4.10 $0.65 -84.1% CAI (June 05 70), will sell in March. It’ll come back, won’t it? :(
.CQRFI $2.80 $0.10 -96.4% CREE (June 05 45), will sell in April. Unless the commission costs more than it’s worth. :(
.TXUGN $2.85 $3.90 +36.8.8% TXU Energy (July 05 70), will sell in March. Was a -22.8% loss last month, so it turned around dramatically.

Selling these:

Ticker Bought Sold Return  
AKS $9.46 $14.79 +56.3% AK Steel Holdings. Can’t be unhappy with that, now, can we?
CPRT $25.92 $22.80 -12.0% Copart, Inc, vehicle salvage. I suspected last month “this has something to do with tax changes and I won’t hold it long.” Looks like I shouldn’t have bought it at all. :(
IM $18.84 $18.32 -2.8% Ingram Micro. Had an 8% gain for a while but gave it all back.
PCCC $9.80 $8.04 -18.0% PC Connection, Inc. Ow! Ow! Ow! Make it stop!
THO $36.50 $34.49 -5.50% Thor Industries, recration vehicles. Yuck.
WLT $33.45 $34.01 +1.7% Walter Industries. Uncle Walter was growing too slow for me to keep him. :P
.BGUFF $3.70 $7.70 +108.1% BMHC (June 05 30). I like it when options double. :)
.SWNFJ $4.10 $5.10 +24.4% SWN (June 05 50). This was a double at one time, but still a good return for 3 months.

New stocks for this month:

Ticker Bought Sold Return  
BZH $146.19 $N/A N/A% Beazer Homes. Again. I keep buying and selling this one.
DXYN $17.94 $N/A N/A% Dixie Group, Inc. Did I buy the Dixie Chicks? Checking… checking… bah. It’s a carpet manufacturer.
PRXL $23.89 $N/A N/A% Parexel International. Never heard of them. They’re a biopharmaceutical services company. Like I need one of those.
RDA $16.09 $N/A N/A% Reader’s Digest Association. Y’all go buy some Reader’s Digests this month, y’hear?
RYL $63.18 $N/A N/A% The Ryland Group, yet another homebuilder.
TOL $76.90 $N/A N/A% Toll Brothers, Inc. Tollhouse cookies, maybe? I’ll go look them up… dang it, no chocolate for me. They make homes, too.

New options for this month:

Ticker Bought Sold Return
No new options until October.

Next trade will be February 28.

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One Response to “Mechanical Investing for February ‘05”

  1. Michael Says:
    January 31st, 2005 at 6:01 pm

    Oh goody. The CREE calls (.CQRFI) fell to a nickel today. That’s a loss of 98.2%. Oops.

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