Two weeks later after the previous update on our portfolio and the news are not so good. From the very beginning we decided to go for a buy and hold approach. This is something very simillar to what a normal investor would do. After all, not everybody (including our doitinvest.com team, the authors of this blog) has enough time to watch the market and place the deals. And as the technical analyst Martin Pring mentioned in one his latest books, trading often can eat a lot of your profits due to the high percentage of commmissions you pay. In other words, most of your profit can go to the broker, not to your pocket.
Coming back to our Doitinvest US portfolio of shares, the matters are quite simple. After the rally we experienced two weeks ago (see our post on June 9th), the hopes that the recession was over did not materialize. Therefore, some of the big investors marked their profits and sold some of the shares. This of course puched the price down – actually it stopped the rally. Nevertherless, in hindsight it is alaways easy to manage an investing portfolio, but in practice we have to live with our decisions. Which we do.
Since the beginning of the portfolio, we are still at 18% gains, which is still a good gain. Only today our $1 million portfolio would have gained for us $10,000 (1%), which is quite impressive). Therefore, the market is on the rise:
| Ticker | Company name | Last price | Today’s change | Portfolio Shares | Current value | Today’s gain/loss | Total gain/loss |
| AAPL | Apple Inc | 136.22 | 2.21 / 1.65 % | 1000 | 136,220 | 2,210 | 27,530 |
| AEP | American Electric Power Co Inc | 28.54 | 0.29 / 1.03% | 1574 | 44,922 | 456 | 4,927 |
| APL | Atlas Pipeline Partners LP | 7.49 | 0.78 / 11.62% | 15000 | 112,350 | 11,700 | 44,100 |
| BA | Boeing Co | 41.32 | -2.55 / -5.81% | 1000 | 41,320 | -2,550 | 5,880 |
| BAC | Bank Of America Corporation | 12.35 | 0.12 / 0.98% | 8000 | 98,800 | 960 | 42,400 |
| CAT | Caterpillar Inc | 33.4 | 0.40 / 1.21% | 1100 | 36,740 | 440 | 4,851 |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems Inc | 18.61 | 0.04 / 0.22% | 1000 | 18,610 | 40 | 1,150 |
| CVX | Chevron Corp | 65.72 | -0.24 / -0.36% | 1000 | 65,720 | -240 | -2,580 |
| F | Ford Motor Co | 5.63 | 0.10 / 1.81% | 10000 | 56,300 | 1,000 | 28,900 |
| GE | General Electric Co | 11.7 | 0.10 / 0.86% | 1000 | 11,700 | 100 | 1,530 |
| GM | General Motors Corp | 1.11 | -0.03 / -2.63 % | 30000 | 33,300 | -900 | -24,600 |
| GOOG | Google Inc | 409.29 | 3.61 / 0.89 % | 300 | 122,787 | 1,083 | 16,560 |
| INTC | Intel Corporation | 16.1 | 0.29 / 1.83 % | 1000 | 16,100 | 290 | 1,070 |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | 55.46 | 0.45 / 0.82 % | 1000 | 55,460 | 450 | 2,420 |
| JPM | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 33.46 | -0.11 / -0.33 % | 2000 | 66,920 | -220 | 10,640 |
| LMT | Lockheed Martin Corp | 79.52 | -1.83 / -2.25 % | 1000 | 79,520 | -1,830 | 11,930 |
| MMM | 3M Co | 57.48 | 0.42 / 0.74 % | 1000 | 57,480 | 420 | 6,830 |
| MON | Monsanto Co | 76.16 | -3.14 / -3.96 % | 1000 | 76,160 | -3,140 | -5,580 |
| PG | The Procter & Gamble Co | 50.55 | 0.00 / 0.00 % | 1000 | 50,550 | 0 | 2,340 |
| DJIA | Dow Jones Industrial Average | 8,299.86 | -23.05 / -0.28 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nikkei | Japan NIKKEI AVERAGE INDEX(225) | 9,796.08 | 205.76 / 2.15 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals: | 1,180,958.96 | $10,269.46 | 131,157.62 |
So that is all folks for today…we’ll keep you posted.