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Activities: Recent Stock Buys and Sells
Posted on 03. Dec, 2011 by TheFreeInvestor.
In past three months, as the market bounced around violently in lock step with the news from Europe, I bought / added to few of my positions and liquidated some of the residual holding where my investment thesis didn’t play out for years. The only new name in my portfolio is Mako Surgical (MAKO). The […]
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Technology Companies: The Widening Spectrum
Posted on 14. Nov, 2011 by TheFreeInvestor.
Technology companies have come a long way from the early fast-growers in 70s and 80s to a wide spectrum of companies with varying characteristics and across all the phases of business cycle. A case in point is the recent disclosure by Warren Buffett that Berkshire Hathaway bought a significant position in IBM (IBM) and a […]
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“Sprinkle Cupcake”: My Portfolio Strategy
Posted on 16. Oct, 2011 by TheFreeInvestor.
I have been thinking about a good way to describe my portfolio strategy. When you ask ten investors about their portfolio strategy, you will get ten different answers about value, growth, income, core, and core plus etc etc. Most of these terms mean different things to different people and way too obscure for a regular […]
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LMIJ #2: First Marblehead (FMD): Blinded by Macro
Posted on 18. Sep, 2011 by TheFreeInvestor.
This is my second post in the Lessons from My Investing Journey (LMIJ) series. Here is the link to the first post in the series. As promised in my first post, this is a story of one of my investment failures. Interesting Stock in a Unique Industry I started investing in First Marblehead (FMD) from early […]
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Activities: Recent Stock Buys
Posted on 24. Aug, 2011 by TheFreeInvestor.
I have been continuing to buy small positions as my favorite watchlist stocks get hammered in these volatile markets. I don’t know what will happen with these stocks in coming days or months. But, I am buying these stocks with the intention to hold it for a long time. So, I am going to measure […]
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