DOW 10,000 Buy Low & Sell High… and this is high.

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Hi Toolbox Fans,

I had a good chuckle the other day when our beloved Jim Cramer came out with his new book “Getting back to even” which was written by “Jim” and his hair-brained nephew Cliff Mason.

If either one of them had a lick of sense they would be telling you what PCA software tells you… Buy Low & Sell High!

That is it.. the whole game. Diversify across industries, indices and commodities and let the market do what it wants. That is the ticket for long-term success.

If the idea was to buy low and sell high, then this is high. Just look at the P/E on the S&P 500 and you’ll know what I mean.

So far it is working out pretty well for the ETF portfolio and the market is still way down from when we started.

Here is the selling I got today as the Dow hit 10,000.

Indices…

Sell 20 SPY at 109.31 for a total of 2,186.20

Sell 23 QQQQ at 43.16 for a total of 992.68

Sell 18 IWM at 62.34 for a total of 1,122.12

Sell 17 DIA at 100.023 for a total of 1,703.91

Sectors…

Holding on GDX

Sell 15 SMH at 26.57 for a total of 398.55

Sell 12 XLE at 57.96 for a total of 695.52

Sell 21 XLF at 15.73 for a total of 330.00

Commodities…

Holding on GLD and SLV

The total portfolio is now up 3.9% and the market is still down about 20% or so from our entry point. We keep taking these sell orders in case the market cannot sustain these levels, which I suspect it cannot.

I wanted to load up the cash side so that if we get another strong pull-back we will have some cash to take advantage of the bargains.

The portfolio is now up over 18,000 dollars and that is a good feeling after what we’ve been through.

Now that the market has “recovered” our boy Cramer wants to tell you how to get back to even… I want to tell you how to get ahead.

Here is a look at the overall model portfolio…

Here is a look at the buy and sell prices we are waiting on for more trading in the model portfolio.

Below you will see the “cash reserve” and “equity” portion of each holding in the model portfolio. Green is equity value, orange is cash reserve.

As you can see most holdings are more than 50% invested and we’ll use any more upside to unload some more of that. Should the market go down from here…we’ll wait out the buy prices before getting more shares.

If you have not seen the PCA software and you are a long term investor… check it out.

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