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Bought 30 shares of Accenture (ACN) at $312.33 yesterday' That's a $70+ discount from just a month ago.

You're not alone. I'm down $24,000 for the month. :mad:

All of my bonds were in the toilet yesterday. Every one of them! Stocks were mixed, but mostly red.... down $7,138.89 for the week. :mad:

Sold off all my Oracle yesterday for a nice $4,100 profit. :cool:

I landed two fish in my IRA boat last week.... McCormick (MKC) and Snowflake (SNOW). Right now, my account is in dog paddle mode and is rather stagnant. I'm still above my balance threshold, but I'm not seeing any upward movement. Gains on one side of my stock/bond ladder are typically offset by...

5th gear is 1.52:1, 7th is 1:1, and 8th-10th are all overdrive.

The new 3.50-inch blower pulley has been installed and the boost gauge is now topping 13 lbs. of boost. I'm going to need to put the Michelin Man on speed dial because flooring the truck at 50 MPH will spin the tires.... on concrete and in 70 degree air. One of these days, I'm going to have to...

I just ordered a 3.50-inch blower pulley from Whipple. This will add another 50 horsepower to the truck and should push the total up over 800.

High inflation is causing instability in the stock market, and the high interest rates are suppressing the bond markets. The end result of Bidenomics.

Back in the early 2000s, I worked for SBC/AT&T as a senior project manager and for four straight years, instead of giving managers end-of-year performance bonuses, we were given stock options that were good for 10 years. I retired from AT&T in 2009 and at that point, the options weren't worth...

I had my broker liquidate three holdings for me today. Unfortunately, two were at a loss. SalesForce (CRM), Kraft Heinz (KHC), and Molson Coors (TAP) are gone. KHC and TAP have been underperforming and dragging my portfolio down for over a year, so it was time to dump 'em. I made a really nice...

When I left AT&T 14 years ago, I took my pension in a lump sum and combined it with my 401K, rolling both into a traditional IRA. So long as you don't spend any of it along the way, it won't count as income and there are no taxes to pay.

I own 76 shares of Apple and I'm up 52% on mine as of today.

Bad day for me yesterday. My IRA was down over $7,100 in just 24 hours. :mad:

I own 100 shares of Alphabet (GOOGL) and it is by far my top performing stock. I'm up 233.54% in that one.

We have a sightseeing trip planned for April and we're going to fly into Panama City first, for a 2-day visit. It takes about four hours to fly from Houston to Panama City. I'm not really all that interested in Panama City as a permanent place to live because it's just too big for me (2 million...

This is one of the other reasons why my wife and I are considering a move to Panama. International health insurance for two is $600 for four months' worth of coverage ($75.00 each per month). We're currently paying $1,320.40 to cover us for four months here. The total cost of living there is...

Well, I decided to quit cutting bait and went fishing instead. I sold off all of my Harley Davidson (HOG) and Scotts Miracle Grow (SMG) stock this morning. Took a loss on both, but I'm tired of seeing those two holdings flounder month after month for well over a year. I'll put the cash on the...

On the bright side, in 2023, we took out $37,516.00 from our IRA and added it to our social security income. Despite this, our account balance is still $7,762.57 more than it was at this time last year. Counting the withdrawals, that would translate to roughly 6.3% growth. That's within the...

I didn't do quite as good, but I was up $4,827 on Friday. Still down $9,000 since my post-Christmas high on 12/27/23. :censored:

Well, I guess the Santa Claus rally is over. My account is down over $8,100 in the last week and has been solidly red for the last three days. Yesterday, my stocks and bonds were both taking a dump. I think I had like five holdings that were in the green. :mad:

But I thought Biden said he had inflation under control? [sarcasm: off]

My broker called me today and suggested I dump my last 50 shares of Boeing (BA). I’ve lost over 9% on this stock since the 737 door issue, but the stock was up over $3 a share and I still had a positive position. Sold it all and turned it into cash. I'll either buy back in once Boeing hits...

I own 50 shares of Boeing at $227.20 per share. Despite the 9% drop, I'm still up 11.13%.

Nope. No Blackrock, mutual funds, municipal bonds,...etc. Based on my calculations, my IRA earned about a 10.2% ROI after broker fees. Not as good as the Trump years, but better than the market average. I was getting 12-16% ROIs from 2017-2020.