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Date updated:09-14-2009

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Affordablestock.com Sept 11,09 Update
Example: Using affordablestocks.com at $20 a month. Take his recommendations, some weeks they all hit the skids, because the DJI is down, so I hold off a day or week to buy. The next week 2 stocks almost double and a couple of last week’s losers gain ground. If in July you bought all his recommendations you could have made a profit of 44%. He says 60%. That’s 9,680 on 22,000 invested, which is good, done several different times this year and July picks if sold by 8-5-09. If you did the same in June your profit would be $11,000 by mid August if not sold yet. More if you sold the lemons. This company picks on a swing on the graph, but this year made a few good months and maybe more to come since most of the companies have to come up ! This is so much better than news letters that never make much!
This should be the best year since the Great Depression for stocks !

Since all stock picks are not winners right away, it’s best to pick all his picks and hold on to them for a while unless they drop over 11%. The 1st time I just sold them when they reached his target and sold when they went down 5% and I lost at least 5% of my investment. Now I hold on and gain up to 20% a week depending on DJI. If you could make 40% each month on your initial 22 or 23 stock picks a month at $1000 each, that’s over 900,000 a year. Or it you only have $5000 and put $220 in each stock that 40% could be $250,000 in a year. Sounds good anyway, but things like that are hard to impossible to achieve. At only $8 a trade I sometimes have over $400 a month of commission expense which could eat up 10% of my profit, something you have to consider.
He shows the highest gain of month as sell point and lowest point on buy day as buy point or close to it. No man or machine can find these points every month! It’s possible to take the average of all his 22 or 23 stock gains and average them together and subtract 20% for your possible gain. Some months he only shows 20% so – 20% you most likely will make little that month. You must watch the charts closely and guess on the ups and downs and hope the downs are not too down or just put a stock loss of 12% on the down ones. Some months you could out perform him, but is unlikely. His picks are fairly stable companies which I haven’t yet figured out. I don’t really think he really invest in all of his picks, because he most likely can’t make a living doing it. If someone is better than him let me know!
September 11, 2009 update
If you bought all his Stocks in March (Barrow Bottom)/held on to them, your Portfolio would be up 544 % if you sold the 10% losers LMC, Borl, lost and PLUG down 18%. Borl sold out June 26th, LMC lost
UFS up 5,400%, SFE up 2,306% well 20,000 would be worth $109,000 now. Wish I was there!
Problem here of course the big movers flexed over 10% at times

If you bought all his Stocks in April and held on to them, your Portfolio would be up 256 % only if you sold the 10% losers. Worst two EBHI to Ebhiq.pk and BWTR to bwtrq.pk down 90%, Mbrk down 20%.
This is a good example to sell the losers. If you put 2040 into the 2 you would have $200 left. Good news is Bwtrq.pk was up 21% today. ($40 commission) 19,000 would now be worth $48,500

If you bought all his Stocks in May and held on to them, your Portfolio would be up
82 % only if you sold the bad ones before / they lost 10% Worst one was GM or mtlqq.pk (pink sheets) down 39%, 7 bad ones. 4 lost over 10% and 3 lost 5% Buy the way DPOP gained 11% on Sept 11th , long wait here.

If you bought all his Stocks in June and held on to them, your Portfolio would be up 106 % only if you sold the bad ones before they closed down before they lost 10% Worst one was CORS down 39%, 7 bad ones that were down moderately.

If you bought all his Stocks in July and held on to them, your Portfolio would be up
66 % only if you sold the bad ones before they closed down before they lost 10% Worst one was RAMS down 5%, 4 bad ones

If you bought all his Stocks in August and held on to them, your Portfolio would be up 17 % only if you sold the bad ones before they closed down before they lost 10% Worst one was CRDC down 29%, 6 bad ones

If you bought all his Stocks in September and held on to them, your Portfolio would be up 7 % only if you sold the bad ones before they closed down before they lost 10% and the ones that fell for several days before buying. Worst one is DIGA down 9%, 2 down ¾ %

The Math: This is excellent, but this is only like it took 6 months for 555% increase at 20,000. June took 3 months etc Using my basic 1000 per stock, you would have had to invest 134,500 in 134 stocks. (some I add a few shares for a even 5 or 10 shares. $8 a trade or $16 in and out 37 would be around 2000 shares or twice the price in and out. Like 37x32=$1132 commission, 97x16=1552 total $2,736 commissions $134,500 invested went to $272,000 - $2736=Gain to $272,000-2736=$269,264 > Gain 269,264-134,500 = $131,764 profit in 6 months. A careful planer could have doubled that amount, but very few have that kind of money to play with. Careful planning I mean sell the ones only making 3-4 percent and put that money into the 15% + gainers as time goes by.
Get down to the average investor ! Invest $13,450 at $100 for each stock. Gain 26,926-13,450 = + less shares is 592 less in commissions. $13,768 profit.
This history is about the same all the way back to 2000, look them up yourself. I doubt if anyone will ever see this type of gains in there life time again. Everything hit the rocks in March. Now you can enter more per stock with all that money. The above month gains I just finished and an inserting this sentence now! I knew they were good, but not this good! I wonder if Jim Cramer can beat that! As you can see to make a profit, hang on to them and sell all that fall over 10%.
Off course affordable stocks really tell you nothing or little on how to hold or sell that is useful on making a profit. If you go on what they suggest or give the impression to sell at target I lost big time. This may be different when the DJI is going down.
My August is up 25%, but is useless until I sell. Minus my commissions of almost 4% I hope the big run ups are not slowing down!
Example: In other words if its up 25% for the next 2 months then all the 10% losers I’m always selling could be cutting maybe 15%. 25-14-7% on commissions = 4% gain in 3 months.
My norm should be 90-14% losers- 7 %com.= 69% gain in 3 months.
Remember I only put 20% into stock trading just incase a fast crash will destroy months of investing.
/or years 69% x 4 = 280% or total portfolio up 36% + 3% interest of rest of portfolio for entire year.
Best deal I should invest 30% with Jim Cramer picks and make 30%+ without all this mess or fuss. Only you can make your own decisions, If you are retired you must be conservative! I’ve doubled my money using Fidelity select mutual funds once in the year 1991, but that only happened once, and all other times in crashed in a day or so wiping out my years profits. Remember only you have the time to full with your money, not your Broker or advisor. A broker is only interested in selling stock. If you own IBM he will say sell it, If you don’t have it he will tell you to buy it. That’s their job or income. Learn the basic ropes and make some money, A broker will not get back to you if the stock is tanking right away unless he only has a few customers. ( He will have to have a e-mail or text logbook to sent all clients everything at once like junk mail.
Some possibilities in this years rebound, a person could go back and invest in the 150% increasers. That are rising the last 2 months. I went back 2 years and checked the peaks. Like top $32 now $2 so Lee =16x possible in a year. Instead of swing try hold and check news. Penny stocks are extremely risky so be careful at all times.
If you think this could be a good idea, remember stocks are unpredictable because human ideas differ according to better deals. If that sector is down that month, don’t expect much, or DJI goes down everything may go down, because that is what your suppose to think. Good investors buy when the stocks go low, if the fundamentals are good.
2yr March: UFS x2.5, SFE x1.2, STKL x3.6, RAS x2.7, OPK x1.6, WNC 6.25, BLC x3.75, KFN x3.55
1yr March: UFS x1.3, SFE x1.1, STKL x1.5, RAS x2.0, OPK x.4, WNC 3.95, BLC x1.5, KFN x1.77
2yr. APRIL: CHRT x5.55, CND x3.11, BLC x3.5, GST x3.5, GSS x1.42, CALP x2.66
1yr. APRIL: CHRT x1.88, CND x1.88, BLC x1.6, GST x2, GSS x0.97, CALP x1.66
2yr. MAY: DAN x2.33, DPTR x7.5, ARIA x2.48, STKL x4
1yr. MAY: DAN x1.16, DPTR x5.6, ARIA x1.25, STKL x1.75
2yr. JUNE: SNIC x2.37, SNMX x4.32, VG x5.33, KFN x5.71, PIR x3, UIS x3.33, FRZ x5.00, UFI x2.14
1yr. JUNE: SNIC x0.75, SNMX x1.35, VG x0.93, KFN x2.26, PIR x2, UIS x1.25, FRZ x1.33, UFI x1.96
2yr. JULY: LEE x16, HILL x2.57, AXL x5, BNVI x8.75, YRCW x13.3
1yr. JULY: LEE x2, HILL x1.31, AXL x1.4, BNVI x1.43, YRCW x5.2
2yr. AUGUST: CEP x11 / 1yr. AUGUST: CEP x3.42 Check the charts before you buy.

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