A Very Bad Year

2008 is finally over, and it's been a very bad year for my investments.  At the closing bell today, my portfolio looks like this:

And over the course of the year ...

Not much to celebrate on this New Year's Eve, but reason enough for drinks aplenty.

While I'm disappointed, I'm not entirely morose: there are good years and bad years, and this has been one of the worst in recent memory.  

Weekly Summary

It's just two weeks until the end of a very bad year, and here's where things stand:


In the next couple of weeks, I'll be selling off some of these dogs to take capital losses - not that I don't have losses aplenty in my main portfolio, but when deciding which stocks to keep and which to sell, most of these have little prospect for improvement.

Weekly Summary

Virtually nothing has changed ...



.... not much to say.

Weekly Summary

I've not updated my blog in the past couple of weeks - partly because I was traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday, partly because it's been a horrific bloodbath that I'd rather not watch:


Things are still stinking, and there's not much hope that will change. Within the next few weeks, I'll start dumping the biggest losers to take a tax write-off - and I expect others will do the same, driving the market further down than it already is.