So what has been going on? I definitely rode the wave from up out of the recession. I had, emphasize had, a lot of oil holdings and I noticed that oil was the hot topic in a lot of stock market conversations. So against my better judgement, I held onto the 'paper gains' and slowly noticed the price of oil declining and refusing to sell my holdings. Well in short, I unloaded a lot of my holdings watching texas crude fall to $45. Anyway lesson learned, I have reallocated my sold holdings to other investments.

Hello, I'm back. Wow the Dow at 18,000, who would have thought that this would have happened a few years ago after it bottomed out at near 6,000. Here is a good link to dividend paying stocks: http://www.dividend.com/dividend-stocks/high-dividend-yield-stocks/

The Stock Market is in Dangerous Territory

Yep, that is my opinion. The markets have rallied nearly 14% since my last post.

U.S. Dollar Index Topped Out

The U.S. Dollar appears overbought, will the stock market rally and the bond market sell off?

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/US/M

http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/usdollar-index/

* as of 7/5/10, the U.S. Dollar index is at 84.552; the index topped out at 88.834 on 6/4/10

May and June, not so good

Well, the months of May and June haven't been so good. I have neither bought nor sold any securities during that time frame. I made some disaster investments in a couple of companies that are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy at the height of the stock market pull-back. The rest of my investments have lost double digits, but I still like the prices of where they are at.

Maybe in hindsight the major stock indexes of the world have had such as huge run-up from March 2009 that a pull-back was inevitable. The stocks markets were on fire earlier this year and maybe I should have has a clue. Maybe I should have bought some portfolio insurance. The rest of this summer should be interesting.