{"id":25787,"date":"2014-04-29T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=25787"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:28:50","slug":"go-play-tennis-may-make-most-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=25787","title":{"rendered":"Go play tennis may make most sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">An amazing day yesterday &#8212; the one on the right. Up strongly, then down like a rocket, then up again in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SPTwoDays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25793\" alt=\"S&amp;PTwoDays\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SPTwoDays.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SPTwoDays.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SPTwoDays-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s oodles of talk that the market is in a &#8220;sector rotation.&#8221; Tech stocks are out of favor. The Dow 30 are in favor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s not that simple. Some tech stocks are out of favor, i.e. have fallen &#8212; e.g. TSLA, GOOG, OPEN, ADSK,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">But some are still up, e.g. AAPL, DTC, ATK, ORCL, MSFT, INTC, QCOM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Some of the financials are not doing well &#8211; BX, APO, AINV, KKR. But, NLY is holding in nicely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t have an easy answer. I am positive. And I can play tennis just so much &#8212; i.e. ignore the gyrations. My &#8220;strategy&#8221; tends to be:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\">+ A broad portfolio of everything from financials like LADR and NLY, to industrials like PPG, IP and HON to technology companies, I like &#8212; DTV, QCOM, ORCL to retailers like COST and HP. I also own MA and V, though they&#8217;ve done miserably lately. I feel positive about them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\">\u00a0+ A big holding in general index funds like the Vanguard VXF, VBR, and VTI to general ETFs, like IVV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\">+ I tend to sell when my <strong>8% Stop Loss Rule<\/strong> kicks in. But my timing can be awful. It can kick in at precisely the wrong time &#8212; just before the market is about to bounce &#8212; like yesterday early afternoon. See S&amp;P chart above. A better strategy might be to put a whole bunch of &#8220;buy&#8221; orders in at prices much below today&#8217;s market. Pick some up when they drop momentarily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\">+ I&#8217;m still looking into potential energy holdings. But this is a very new area for me. Getting my arms around it is not easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Nice tip for overseas readers. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can&#8217;t get Netflix if you live in Australia. Why? Something to do with copyright. But if you subscribe to <a title=\"UnblockUs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unblock-us.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>UnblockUs<\/strong>,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> ($4.99 a month), <\/span>you can. The site explains it:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong>How it Works<br \/>\nEvery computer or other Internet-enabled device has an address. It&#8217;s made up of numbers, like a street address. Our solution is brilliantly simple. We give you an address where the content you want is available. It&#8217;s like moving your computer or other device without actually moving it.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">My Australian friends tell me <em>UnblockUs<\/em> works like a charm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I couldn&#8217;t resist this: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From yesterday&#8217;s New York Post, which I read in my barber shop. The divorce settlement was the Post&#8217;s cover story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SildaGets7million.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25788\" alt=\"SildaGets$7million\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SildaGets7million.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SildaGets7million.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SildaGets7million-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Remember, he was the New York State Attorney General who became governor and then got caught spending taxpayer money on hookers. He<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">I love the two photos. She&#8217;s ecstatic with the money. He&#8217;s annoyed with himself. Of course, the pictures were from someone&#8217;s archive and have nothing to do with the divorce. He actually did great work as attorney-general. Spitzer is 55. She is a delight. I&#8217;ve met her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">You can read the New York Post&#8217;s story <a title=\"Silda gets big divorce settlement\" href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2014\/04\/28\/silda-spitzer-scores-millions-in-divorce-deal\/?_ga=1.215287774.894115747.1396247574\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Will I live to 90?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAfter two visits and exhaustive lab tests, the doc said I was doing &#8216;fairly well&#8217; for my age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">I asked\u00a0 &#8216;Will I live to be 90?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">He asked, &#8216;Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer, wine or hard liquor?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">&#8216;Oh no,&#8217; I replied. &#8216;I&#8217;m not doing drugs, either!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Then he asked, &#8216;Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">&#8216;I said, &#8216;Not much&#8230; my former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">&#8216;Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, boating, sailing, hiking, or bicycling?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">&#8216;No, I don&#8217;t,&#8217; I said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">He asked, &#8216;Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lots of sex?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">&#8216;No,&#8217; I said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">He looked at me and said, &#8216;Then, why do you even care?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\" alt=\"HarryNewton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarry Newton who dropped by an optometrist to get his glasses fixed. One nose pad had broken off. While there, I tried on a pair of new Swissflex frames. They were super light and super comfortable. Only $329 for the frames. Another $120 for the lenses. When I got home, I googled them. They were $217 online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Amazing markups in that business. Zenni Optical is still the way to go.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n  ga('create', 'UA-45200733-1', 'technologyinvestor.com');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing day yesterday &#8212; the one on the right. 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