Month End Summary - July 2008
I’m glad to be done with July. I finished the month with a realized gain of $595.96, but have a pile of paper losses waiting for a rebound or to be realized when I close my positions. On paper, I lost $4,434.45, but the bright side of that is that I was down around $7,000 briefly. I’m heading in the right direction again, finally. I’m still doing better than all the major indexes for the past year except for the S&P Midcap 400. I have a lot of time value that is available to deteriorate and expect a good August.
My current account value according to Quicken is $95,973.14.14 and according to TD Ameritrade is $96,348.21. I’m planning to skip making a deposit in August since I sent in double my normal deposit in July. I did that for no other reason than I wanted to hit $100,000 by my July 6th birthday. I came within $500 and […]
Original post by Alex Fotopoulos