CAN NOT IGNORE SPIKES IN PRICE OF REIT CUMULATIVE PREFERRED ISSUES: SOLD CUZPRA

The entire sub-category of preferred stocks is not a desirable asset class for me due to their junior status in the priority ladder and lack of a maturity date, except for the Trust Preferred issues. I have now traded for the 4th time in less than 10 months a position in CUZPRA after it spiked almost 20% today to over 16 with my cumulative profit now about double my last cost basis.  The market order was filled at 16.10.  The buy was made on 12/30 at 11.5. Buy of CUZPRA

I view these cumulative preferred issues much differently than investment grade senior bonds.  I have no intention of selling JZE, for example, even though the position was recently bought at $12.5 and was last traded today, before posting these comments, at 22.94.   Maybe I am wrong about my approach to preferred stocks.    I feel in my gut that, if I just keep moving around, buying and selling them, making myself a moving target, I am less likely to be smashed by one of those canon balls similar to the ones used at the Battle of Franklin in November 1864, attended by my great, great grandfather, who then had no shoes, not far from HQ.

I have not decided what to do with PGN, possibly I may put 30 or 40 in one of the IRAs before the close today. 

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