Prayer for Patience
I received this via email, original author unknown, but it’s a powerful prayer:
Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.
Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.
Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.
Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.
Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.
Mechanical Investing for April 2007
Stock trading day again, and even with the whipsaws up and down, I’m still positive this month and beating the market. Yay!
- Last 4 weeks: +0.9%
- Last 3 months: +3.8%
- Last 12 months: +1.7%
- Year to date: +3.6% (Dow is -.47% ytd from 12,463)
- Annualized Return: +73.2% (This number looks really, really fish, but it’s what Moneycentral.msn.com is reporting)
Holding for another month:
| Ticker | Bought | Now | Months | Return | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKS | $16.49 | $23.27 | 4 | +41.1% | AK Steel Holding Corp. From the Peg_Minimalist screen, but now also on RSPeg2. I sold off about 30% of it because it’s grown so much. |
| ATI | $102.14 | $107.41 | 2 | +5.2% | Allegheny Technologies Inc. From the Peg_Minimalist screen. |
| AVT | $36.40 | $37.50 | 1 | +3.0% | Avnet Inc. From the RSPeg2 screen, but now also on TRPPE, H52EgPS, and Peg_Minimalist. |
| FEIC | $34.38 | $36.02 | 1 | +4.7% | FEI Co. Kewl, nanobots! From the RSPeg2 screen. |
| IM | $20.20 | $19.67 | 1 | -2.6% | Ingram Micro. From the H52EgPS screen. |
| MCY | $53.85 | $53.45 | 5 | -0.7% | Mercury General Corp. From the LPE_YLD screen. That’s a long time to hold a stock that ain’t doin’ nothin’. |
| PFE | $26.10 | $25.51 | 2 | -2.2% | Pfizer Inc. From the LPE_YLD screen. |
Selling these:
| Ticker | Bought | Sold | Months | Return | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANAD | $12.97 | $12.51 | 1 | -3.5% | Anadigics, Inc. From the Screamers screen. |
| BW | $47.70 | $48.07 | 1 | +0.8% | Brush Engineered Materials. From the Screamers screen. |
| DRS | $54.34 | $52.65 | 1 | -3.1% | DRS Technologies. From the TREPPE screen. |
| JAS | $24.53 | $26.40 | 3 | +7.6% | Jo-Ann Stores. Was from the Screamers screen, then on H52EgPS, now gone. Poof. |
| UNH | $53.02 | $56.72 | 1 | +7.0% | Unitedhealth Group, Inc. From the TREPPE screen. |
New stocks for this month:
| Ticker | Bought | Sold | Months | Return | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIG | $32.20 | $N/A | 0 | N/A% | Big Lots! From the Screamers screen. |
| JSDA | $21.64 | $N/A | 0 | N/A% | Jones Soda Company. Organic drinks and something called WhoopAss energy drink. If I had known that I would have skipped this one, oops. From the Screamers screen. |
| PCU | $70.90 | $N/A | 0 | N/A% | Southern Copper Corp, which of course is abbreviated “PCU.” From the TREPPE screen. |
| RS | $46.37 | $N/A | 0 | N/A% | Reliance Steel and Aluminum Co. From the TREPPE screen. |
| RYI | $39.39 | $N/A | 0 | N/A% | Ryerson Inc returns, from the H52EgPS screen. |
6/3 Options:
| Ticker | Bought | Sold | Months | Return | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No more options until October. |
The next trade will be April 30.
Danger! Danger! Danger!
Chemical Accident. Floods. Earthquakes. Epidemics. Volcano eruption! And that’s just today.
The Havaria Information Service’s Alertmap shows you were all today’s disasters are, a full description, and a Google Earth Map so you can zoom in close for details.
