I made no sales all month and collected no dividends, thus realized no gains. I had several opportunities where I was over the 90 percentile toward my sell price, but I held off. But I had several buying opportunities that I took advantage of during the month and the current unrealized gains are pretty good...although they were better at the start of last week. And I have several stocks that went ex-dividend in November or early December, so I will have something to show next month when the dividends are paid.
I'm also 54% invested at this time (based on October 31st available funds). I'm in the process of transferring a maturing IRA CD into the pool, so the funds for investing are growing.
At the end of the month, I'm invested in:
- Lockheed Martin Corp - Up 5.6%. Since this stock was down 5.9% at the end of October, this has had more than 10% swing. This goes ex-div on December 1st, and will represent a fairly decent dividend payment at the end of December.
- Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc - Up 4.1%
- Nokia - Up 1.1%
- Owens and Minor, Inc. - Down 4.4%. This one has been a bit of a roller coaster.
- Exelon Corp - Up 4.2% - Went ex-div in November.
- FPL Group, Inc - Up 6.7% - Went ex-div in November. This has been very close to the sell price several times. Hopefully there will be a little nudge to put it over the top in the next few days.
