Hah. I almost wrote "Mach 1 update." Investing at the speed of sound...
Overall I'm down about $40 for the month of February, which is a bit of a miracle considering how I lost more than $300 in one day last month. But my Roth closed strong today, with over a $200 gain.
Blackboard (BBBB) is up a good, solid 43% from where I bought in. I bitched about it being down around $26 this time last month; it's now above $28. It got above $29 IIRC shortly after Jim Cramer recommended it. My Cummins (CMI) is up strongly -- nearly 10% in February alone.
My Halliburton (HAL), which was up a good 17% in January, is now back down to just above where I bought in. Total (TOT) was down a good 11%, putting me underwater again. Conoco Philips (COP) is also down a few bucks. Clearly not a good month for oil. But these are long-term holdings. If I had some free cash, I might buy more of at least COP and maybe TOT to average down.
The rest isn't so exciting. Got a couple more percentage points in Legg Mason (LM), Franklin Resources (BEN), and the iShares Latin America ETF (ILF). Lost a bit in Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) and Paccar (PCAR) and am underwater on both. I hope the Paccar will start showing some action like Corning (GLW) and Cummins (CMI) have. I'll hold everything for now and revisit this again next month. If I had cash I'd consider picking up some more PCAR.
Overall, about what you'd expect from a month in the market -- some up, some down; some days with big gains, some days with big losses. Average them out and you get a relatively static picture. Compared to the market as a whole, I'm down about 0.3% while the market (as measured by the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ETF, VT) is up about 0.07%.
Onward to the next month, then...
Posted by kindall at March 1, 2006 02:57 PM