{"id":12363,"date":"2012-03-28T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2012-03-28T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:27:46","slug":"apple-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=12363","title":{"rendered":"Apple and others. And golf."},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple has accounted for virtually all the gains in my portfolio in recent months. My mortgage REITs\u00a0 have produced handsome dividends, but have lost between 1% and 5%. On balance, they’re still ahead. But nothing like Apple. HD is also doing well. Ditto for my short on RadioShack.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Apple keeps rising. What more can I say? I even bought a few more yesterday.<\/p>\n

VectorVest’s portfolio — the one of the ten fast-growing stocks which I’ve highlighted twice in recent days — is down1.5%, but should bounce back.<\/p>\n

Useful reading:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ Knowing Cost, the Customer Sets the Price.<\/strong> Haggling works. The New York Times has a piece. Click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

+ Five top price compare apps. <\/strong>Figure which place is cheapest. Click here.<\/a>
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+ All about 4G from Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. <\/strong>My view: the only decent, fast wireless network is Verizon’s 4G\/LTE network — if you can get it. Click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

+ 14 awesome gadgets for under $100. <\/strong>Click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

+ The 15 iPad apps you must download. <\/strong>Click here.<\/a>
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Coachella Valley, California\u00a0 is retirement land. <\/span><\/strong>It’s small place with 140 golf courses and homes scattered around each of them. Some houses are multi-million dollar jobs. Many are under $200,000. If you like golf and want to play it daily, except in the summer when you should visit the grandchildren elsewhere, the Coachella Valley is for you. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve met people who retired out here, having sold their businesses for millions. I’ve met working stiffs who retired happily on $500,000 and are living on $1,500 a month from their half million and their social security payments. Everyone seems happy.
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Typically well-maintained golf course. View from the coffee shop:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Homes and view. You can see the mountains\u00a0 from virtually everywhere in the Valley:<\/span><\/p>\n

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No matter your physical condition, you can always play golf. These things are ubiquitous and mostly mandatory. I don’t know of a golf course that lets you walk.
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If you’re wondering about taking up golf, you must\u00a0 watch Robin Williams’ hilarious take. Click here.<\/strong><\/a>
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Favorite recent New Yorker cartoons.<\/span>
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Harry Newton who wishes to formally thank Time Warner for scheduling “maintenance” as I was writing this column early this morning.\u00a0 I had to switch over to Verizon’s painfully slow 3G network — since 4G\/LTe is not available in this nice part of California. This sucks.
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Apple has accounted for virtually all the gains in my portfolio in recent months. My mortgage REITs\u00a0 have produced handsome dividends, but have lost between 1% and 5%. On balance, they’re still ahead. But nothing like Apple. HD is also doing well. Ditto for my short on RadioShack. Meanwhile Apple keeps rising. What more can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}