End of Month Summary - August 2008
August was a??good month for me.?? I finished with a realized gain of $578.95 and a paper gain of just $0.50 shy of $3,000.?? A lot of that paper gain is making up from some of the paper loss I had in July and didn’t take (luckily).?? I’ve been riding this month out slowly with less trades than usual due to my fear of what’s coming and trying to focus on work more as I promised myself??in July’s??End of the Month Summary.
I’ve worked my account back up to $99,113.19 according to Quicken??and $98,876.38 according the TD Ameritrade.?? I’ve always been puzzled why Quicken and AMTD don’t always match and figured it out recently.?? Quicken’s quote updates aren’t always from the end of the day.?? As long as it’s within a few hundred dollars I don’t sweat it.?? If the two are off by more than that and I manually update […]
Original post by Alex Fotopoulos