{"id":129,"date":"2007-02-02T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-02-02T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T14:45:13","slug":"good-news-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/2007\/02\/02\/good-news-for-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the month of January, the Moose Pond portfolio is up 3.6% (in comparison with 1.4% for the S&amp;P 500).&nbsp; We may be back on track.&nbsp; As of today, Feb 2, the portfolio return is up 4.5%, compared with 1.95% for the S&amp;P 500.&nbsp; That is good news!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This month we sold UTStarcom (UTSI) for a loss of $717 and Investors Financial (IFIN) for gain $199.&nbsp; We are 6.8% in cash.&nbsp;  We will be using some of that cash to round out our holdings of Walgreens (WAG) and will park the rest in the Vanguard Total Market Index (VTI).  <\/p>\n<p>Getty Images really took off this month, up 15%.&nbsp; They did better than the analysts expected.&nbsp; We are back in the black for that stock.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>We have two stocks that have doubled since we bought them.&nbsp; Lowes (LOW), one of our first stocks, is up 248% for an annualized return of 22.4%.&nbsp; Factset Research Service (FDS) is up 123% for an annualized return of 32.3%.&nbsp;  We need a few more stocks like them.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the entire portfolio at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manifestinvesting.com\/dashboard\/40\">Manifest Investing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the month of January, the Moose Pond portfolio is up 3.6% (in comparison with 1.4% for the S&amp;P 500).&nbsp; We may be back on track.&nbsp; As of today, Feb 2, the portfolio return is up 4.5%, compared with 1.95% for the S&amp;P 500.&nbsp; That is good news!&nbsp; This month we sold UTStarcom (UTSI) for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}