Finally, stocks are on sale. So we have two categories open in the Portfolio Smackdown for the Cramer Featured stocks, namely, Brand-name blue chip and Secular soft goods. When Cramer talked about the ten categories to diversify across and mentioned the secular soft goods, he specifically mentioned Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) so I went through […]
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Mon, November 27 2006 » Blog » Comments Off on Stocks on sale: Add JNJ to Portfolio Smackdown
Jim said to sell Pepsi (PEP). Looks like we’re getting some turnover in the Portfolio Smackdown.
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Thu, October 12 2006 » Blog » 2 Comments
Jim, on his radio program last Friday, basically said he’s done with GM. So as of Monday morning at 10:30 we will put in our market order to sell our shares from the portfolio smackdown. What Blue Chip company would YOU recommend we buy to replace it?
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Sun, October 8 2006 » Blog » 1 Comment
Ben Stein, noted notariety, put together a portfolio of ETFs last October. How has it done in 2006? Read on…
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Mon, August 7 2006 » Blog » 2 Comments
On Tuesday’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer said to buy PFE not PPH… read on…
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Thu, August 3 2006 » Blog » 2 Comments
Swaps outs are CTRN and CHS and swap ins are JCP and PEP. Read a little more…
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Wed, August 2 2006 » Blog » Comments Off on Portfolio Plays Today
A not insignificant part of the Portfolio Smackdown is to gauge how a joe schmo like me would perform following Jim’s picks. Read on about why I’m selling CTRN now…
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Tue, August 1 2006 » Blog » Comments Off on I guess we gotta go from CTRN
What should we do with HAL? Read on…
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Fri, July 21 2006 » Blog » 1 Comment
Going to play the tax-loss shuffle today, selling some of the biggest losers to take the tax loss and rolling over the proceeds into similar stocks but hopefully riding them back up.
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Wed, May 31 2006 » Blog » Comments Off on Let’s do the tax-loss shuffle
That little Google News Action Alerts Plus trick tells me that Jim sent out an email 2 hours ago saying, “Understand this with UnitedHealth Group (UNH:NYSE): If I was back at my hedge fund and didn’t have any trading restrictions, I would no longer own this stock. … ” So just on the 19th of […]
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Wed, May 24 2006 » Blog » Comments Off on Holy cow, we gotta sell UNH
Time for some bottom fishing… Our open slot in the Cramer Portfolio is called the Company You Know. And we will fill it today with a Company that Jim Cramer himself closely identifies with: He was known as Dr. UNH Esq. You will see them show up in the table this evening. So we will […]
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Tue, May 23 2006 » Blog » Comments Off on Let’s fill the Company You Know slot