About three weeks ago I posted about Linn Energy (LINE), an oil and natural gas play that I was holding. Since I last wrote about Enerplus, the story hasn’t been so rosy with the company. Firstly, LINE reported very disappointing fourth quarter earnings. The stock dropped over 5% on the earnings report alone. To add…

I was planning on discussing some of my other stock holdings today, but RF Micro Devices (symbol RFMD) has been on such a roll lately that I feel like I should address it.  I went into some detail about the merger between RF Micro Devices and TriQuint Semiconductor a couple of days ago, so I…

Today was not a good day for the stock market. At one point today, the Dow was down about 250 points before it bounced back a bit and closed down 153 for the day. On a day where the Dow was down about 1%, would I be upset if my portfolio was down about 1%…

There’s an old adage when is comes to investment: “buy low and sell high.” It seems simple enough, and if it is done repeatedly and consistently it can produce a fortune. The problem is that is it really hard to do. It’s not difficult to do in terms of logistics. It’s not like the “sell”…