Saturday, August 27, 2016

Updates

I have quit providing links to updates published at SeekingAlpha.

I would suggest bookmarking this page:  South Gent's Instablogs | Seeking Alpha

As noted in a recent blog, I will be transitioning to publishing one blog per quarter:

Future Blogs Will Only Be On A Quarterly Basis - South Gent | Seeking Alpha

I will be leaving substantive comments to my most recent SA Instablog, including some references to portfolio changes.

The most recent Instablog is this one:   South Gent's Comment Blog # 8: REITs, Preferred Stocks And Bonds, Regional Banks, Healthcare & Biotechs, CEFs, Currencies And International Trading - South Gent | Seeking Alpha

This is a link to my last quarterly update: Update For Portfolio Positioning And Management 2016 4th Quarter - South Gent | Seeking Alpha

12/23/16  Short Term Bond Ladder - South Gent | Seeking Alpha

Friday, July 29, 2016

Update for Healthcare Basket Strategy as of 7-29-16-Growing Lottery Ticket Component

The easiest way to track what I am doing or saying is to become a follower at SeekingAlpha and to check the "track new comments" box at the end of each Instablog. 

I was somewhat taken back when I looked at the rankings for SA Instablog authors and noted several authors who are using the Instablog format to sell subscriptions.  Top Instablogs | Seeking Alpha (e.g. Superinvestor Bulletin's Instablogs | Seeking Alpha).  I receive zilch and I am not trying to sell myself or anything else.  

Several of these Instablog advertisements are scattered throughout the SA Instablog universe and provide no useful or meaningful information IMO. They are exactly what they appear to be: advertisements for a subscription service. 

Then there are those that could fill a Twitter message with a few more words. No one has ever accused me of such brevity.  Nothing informative about an investment can be put in a 140 word narrative but those Twitter Want-To-Be Instablogs are not likely to lose anyone's short, and growing shorter, attention span.  You Now Have a Shorter Attention Span Than a Goldfish | TIME And one of our presidential contenders will need to struggle mightily to achieve the attentions span of a goldfish.  




Update For Healthcare Basket Strategy As Of 7/29/16 - South Gent | Seeking Alpha

South Gent's Activity feed | Seeking Alpha

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Update for Equity REIT Basket Strategy as of 7/28/16

The easiest way to track what I am doing or saying is to become a follower at SeekingAlpha and to check the "track new comments" box at the end of each Instablog. 

I was somewhat taken back when I looked at the rankings for SA Instablog authors and noted several authors who are using the Instablog format to sell subscriptions.  Top Instablogs | Seeking Alpha (e.g. Superinvestor Bulletin's Instablogs | Seeking Alpha).  I receive zilch and I am not trying to sell myself or anything else.  

Several of these Instablog advertisements are scattered throughout the SA Instablog universe and provide no useful or meaningful information IMO. They are exactly what they appear to be: advertisements for a subscription service. 

Then there are those that could fill a Twitter message with a few more words. No one has ever accused me of such brevity.  Nothing informative about an investment can be put in a 140 word narrative but those Twitter Want-To-Be Instablogs are not likely to lose anyones short, and growing shorter, attention span.  I read several of them this evening for the first time


Link to 6856 SA Activities: South Gent's Activity feed | Seeking Alpha

Monday, April 11, 2016

New Link to SA Instablog

SeekingAlpha has done another makeover. 

The link to my Instablog has changed to South Gent's Social feed | Seeking Alpha

The only improvement IMO is that stock symbol links to prior discussions can now be found on that start page.  

I left a comment at the new start page which was turned into gibberish when I clicked the post button. For now, the only comment boxes that works properly are the ones found on the full version of each post.

The other changes are viewed negatively including the removal of the google search box that allowed me to search my own Instablog.

New comments are no longer listed at the top of the Instablog start page. It is only when the investor opens a single Instablog that the comments appear with the newest first.

Instead, the blog that received the last comment is now in first position, no matter when it was published, and the user has to scroll to the end to find whatever comment was made.