ADD TO LOSING GE POSITION

I thought that the GE quarter was ugly and the earnings did appear to be juiced by 1.38 billion in tax benefits. Yahoo! Finance  However, I took some solace in management's expression of a current intent to maintain the dividend.  So, I went ahead an averaged down by buying 50 shares at around $12.3 a few minutes ago.  At that price, the dividend yield is about 10%.   I am using part of the proceeds from selling 100 Kraft yesterday to purchase 50 GE and I have about $2,000 to deploy from that transaction. I recognized that it will be impossible for me to call the bottom in GE.  My thinking now is that the last two buys will look good in three to five years, provided GE holds the dividend steady, and starts along a path of earnings growth by 2011 coupled with a raise in the dividend starting in 2011.  So, this kind of buy has to be given a lot of leeway, and I am not going to use a stop loss on it.  I am reinvesting the dividends also.  I basically took to heart the lecture that I gave myself this morning about a buy of Schlumberger now provided you had strong hands, a long term perspective and a willingness to withstand more potential unfavorable news.   The price of GE stock this morning was at January 1996 levels. 

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