SOLD 1/2 JWF ON SPIKE/ Buy of 50 NADX at $1.27

I do not know when this picture of me was taken.  I believe it was the 10th grade. I like the hair. I am going back to my senior high school photo as my profile picture since it captures my inner look and I have a lot of hair, two good reasons.  Besides it was just taken a few years ago anyway, well okay more than a couple.  

I decided late today to jettison 50 shares of JWF, which was the first lot bought, at $13.09 after it jumped almost 30%.  These shares were just bought at $10.51 and I will keep the lowest cost basis shares purchased in the low 9 area made shortly after the first purchase. Stocks for the Long Run?/End to Irrational Exuberance for Now/CRAMER & Obama/Buy of 50 JWF in IRA This kind of trading is simply a risk reduction technique that I have been using since the implosion of Lehman Brothers.  The shares were sold in an IRA so there is no tax consequences and my use of FIFO accounting is therefore not an issue. I look at it as reducing my exposure to the remaining shares by around $100 after the round-trip commissions which in effect reduces my cost (not on a tax basis but in my mind's eye in the IRA) to close to $7 per share for the shares that I will keep. Buys of JWF KSA DIS and NYX/SOLD Entire Position in TFI/ Just a Day of Ignoring My Own Rules The ex date is 3/13.      

I added 50 shares of National Dentex (NADX) at $1.27 in an IRA.  I am very critical of the management of this company but it does have some recovery potential if its debt does not cause an implosion.  I put it in a different account from the last purchase which is well under water.

 Ponzi Schemes Galore/BMY, AVY, VZ, SYK, SLG/ GE review by Moody's/ Stop Making Acquisitions NADX/ADD 50 MSFT/Sold Delek

Voters Deserve the Outcome: BAC, C and W/More on NADX/more adds to small cap monitor list

Buy of 50 National Dentex (NADX)

My reasoning for putting it in another account is that it frees me from the burden of FIFO accounting in the event I want to sell at a profit the last shares bought and keep the higher cost first shares bought.  The other shares are in a taxable account. 

I am hoping for a good up day tomorrow on heavy volume.   

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