2009 Year in Review

Time to update everyone on how the year of 2009 treated the portfolio. Overall I was very happy with how everything went in my portfolio and how I've progressed as a trader and as an investor.

DOW up 1,651.66

S&P 500 up 211.85

Portfolio up $10,727.72

Top 3 high days (3/27 -12/31)

4/9 $4,769.18

4/13 $3,341.94

5/4 $2,744.90

Top 3 low days (3/27 - 12/31)

4/20 $4,868.94

5/11 $2,817.86

3/30 $2,607.27

All of 2009 is in the bag and I ended up positive for the year which is nice. I finished the year with $2,213.61 in cash and took out $7,000 throughout the year. I paid $257.32 net (after accounting from interest earned ($.09)) in margin interest and collected $715.51 in dividends this year.

Its hard to keep track off all my trades but I estimate that I made a total of 119 trades for the year or about 10 a month.

My goal for next year is to make $30,000 which means I need to make $2,500 a month or %625 a week or $125 a day