My $10000 Dollars

Current YTD Performance: +$1565

Holy CRAP.  My life has been pretty damn super crazy this past few weeks.  Never ending bombs of deadlines, ever changing direction, and never ending adhoc analysis @ work haunted me for days forcing me to work 60+ hrs a week.  If that wasn’t enough, my ever exciting personal life kept me away from this keyboard for days.  I must say though, life is pretty good.

I shall see tomorrow if my life continues to get better with the investment decision I made today on Master Card (MA) and Visa (V).  I will explain more later… (more…)

Current YTD Performance: -$1538

The Dow Jones gained over 150 points today based on additional decline in the oil price topped with stronger U.S. Dollars. On top of that, Alcoa (AA), kicking off the start of Q2 earning reports this month topped the analyst expectations after close today. AWESOME NEWS! I’m pretty confident that the stocks will rally once again tomorrow at least for a short while.

As I look at the damaged market, I have been researching some stocks that could potentially be a big time bargain buy if you aim for a long-term gain: (more…)

Current YTD Performance: -$2163

That was a great 4th of July weekend. Lots of food, new people, new restaurants, new everything. I just love San Francisco. Anyway, here’s the part II of the bio-tech stocks featured in Gene Marcial’s 7 Commandments of Stock Investing that you should consider investing in: (more…)

Current YTD Retuen: -$1623

Biotechnology stocks are typically intimidated by investors due to its nature of vulnerability around the drugs the companies produce. With the exception of well known behemoth companies like Amgen (AMGN) and Genentech (DNA) , many biotech companies can plummet in value if one of their main drugs fail to go through. Having worked for a pharmaceutical company before (McNeil - one of Johnson and Johnson’s companies), I know how tough it can be to get a drug approved by FDA, not to mention the risk of side effects harming the company’s reputation (e.g. Merck (MRK) and its drug Vioxx back in 2004). (more…)

Current YTD Performance: -$1093

I signed up to a cool site called Covestor where you can link your brokerage account and track your performance real time. Other members have access to everyone’s profile and his/her portfolio. The site also ranks the users by performance, so you can easily see who’s doing well and who’s doing not. The best part is, you can track their portfolio real time so you can follow these successful investors and potentially make money w/ them. (more…)

Current YTD Performance: -$1880

Most of you already know what inflation is and some of the contributing factors behind it. Since I was once clueless as to what inflation truly was, I figured I’d write about it and its impact in today’s world.

What is it :
A concept in which your currency’s buying power decreases and results in value of your money declining as a result in the increase of the cost of general goods such as oil, food, and service. $1 today is worth much less than $1 in 5 yrs. (more…)

Current YTD Return: $-1863

DAMN…I’ve been super busy..working 14 hr days for the last few days…had absolutely no energy to do sh*t…and if that wasn’t a beating enough my stocks got jabbed and jabbed and knocked out all the way down to -$2300 in YTD performance. I had great Italian at a great restaurant with 3 girls last night…a dream come true. Yet I never really enjoyed the food. All I kept thinking was “man my ass just ‘lost’ $3300 this month from my positive $1300 YTD return. I should be eating Taco Bell right now.”

Anyway, here are some of the supposedly hot IPOs (Initial Public Offering) that’s coming up. If they do as well as Visa (V) did, you’re looking at a hefty return. Visa (V) IPOed back in March at around $55 and now it’s been hovering around $83 per share. (more…)

Current YTD Return: $-1192

I recently found out that Honda (HMC) debuts its first hydrogen-powered car in South Carolina in the next few months. Named the FCX Clarity, its hydrogen and electricity powered car will be three times as more efficient as the standard gas-powered vehicles. And the price? Not too shabby. Only $600/mo for a three year lease. Shit I’d pay that to save anything on gas which is above $5 now in California. (more…)

Current YTD Return: -$1068
Oil hit a new record high AGAIN at $139 today before it dropped down a bit. Analysts say it will go up to $150 by this coming Monday. Despite the fact that OPEC will be pumping out more gas than now, the rate cannot keep up with the rate in which the demand is going up. (more…)

Current YTD Return: -$1160

Since I never really explained my thought processes on why I own the three stocks I own now, I figured I’d explain them on this post. After all, this is an investing blog right? Many of you think I’m a dumbass for owning three stocks that correlate heavily on the oil price, which keeps hitting all time high weekly. You may be right, but here are the reasons why I bought them at the price I did: (more…)