Good day for me. Ford up 3.33% rocketing up to $13.34. It's taken a while, but I turned a profit with GE going up 3.4% today up to $17.04. Technicolor finally also turned a profit for me today shooting up 4.83% to $1.53.
I bought Technicolor at $1.47 predicting an up next morning and paid extra to buy it at that rate. The next morning it dropped to $1.40. Not a huge deal, but I'd be up a decent bit instead of just a few pennies. Timing and dumb luck sometimes are the biggest variables.
Oh well, I'm up 9.83% including fees which isn't really accurate because ING will deposit $50 in my account in a week or two which will offset my 3 trades. I still have high hopes for all of my stocks and don't plan on letting any of them go in the near future.
My next two buys will probably be Nokia and Motorola. I expect both to be profitable over the next 5 years, especially Motorola which is only $7. The only thing that scares me about both stocks is the stock's value going down consistently before the economy went to complete shit. Either way, I could see myself putting a $200 in either stock. I'm not ready to put a lot of money in the market yet but I feel this market is pretty forgiving because it's in a recovery state. Buying well known companies that are fairly healthy seems like a sure fire way to make a good long time investment.