Day: October 3, 2005

Much improved over last month, much improved. Nothing to complain about. 🙂

I know the market goes up and down – makes me seasick sometimes. But I’m in it for the long haul. So if I lose money occasionally, I still think the market over the next 20 years is the place to be.

• Last 4 weeks: +7.4%
• Last 3 months: +4.5%
• Year to date: +1.9% (Dow is -2.2% ytd)
• Last 12 months:+3.4%

Holding for another month:

Ticker	Bought	Now	Months	Return
CMCO	$19.02	$24.53	1	+29.0%	Columbus McKinnon Corp.
FDG	$38.7833s	$42.04	1	+8.4%	Fording Canadian Coal Trust
FTO	$32.79	$45.65	1	+39.2%	Frontier Corporation
KELYA	$29.73	$30.67	2	+3.2%	Kelly Services Inc.
MRO	$59.58	$68.96	1	+15.7%	Marathon Oil Corp
RT	$19.89	$21.31	2	+7.1%	Ryerson Tull Inc.

Selling these:

Ticker	Bought	Sold	Months	Return
ALO	$25.10	$24.54	1	-2.3%	Alpharma
APA	$70.02	$56.36	1	-19.5%	Apache Corp.
BR	$68.54	$82.51	1	+20.4%	Burlington Resources Inc.
KG	$14.84	$15.39	1	+3.7%	King Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
MCK	$45.66	$47.71	2	+4.5%	McKesson Corp.
XTO	$37.53	$46.02	1	+22.6%	XTO Energy Incorporated

New stocks for this month:

Ticker	Bought	Sold	Months	Return
KR	$20.55	$N/A	0	N/A%	The Kroger Company.
KSE	$36.78	$N/A	0	N/A%	Keyspan Corporation
LMS	$18.60	$N/A	0	N/A%	The Lamson & Sessions Co.
LSS	$56.25	$N/A	0	N/A%	Lone Star Technologies
NFX	$50.03	$N/A	0	N/A%	Newfield Exploration Co.
WM	$38.54	$N/A	0	N/A%	Washington Mutual

New options for this month:

Ticker	Bought	Sold	Months	Return
.SWNCQ	$7.70	$N/A	0	N/A%	SWN Mar 2006 85.00 Call, will sell 1st week of January 2006. Wanna know how volatile options are? It’s already up 40% since I bought it this morning.

I would have bought another option (.LSIDS) but apparently when I switched my IRA to another broker I lost the ability to buy calls. 😦

The next trade will be October 31st when I’ll do the November trades a day early.