Here’s my investometer for the end of January showing actual percent invested in equities.

My only purchase of note was in January was Catch The Wind. I continued to accumulate cash in our SMSF and am busy investigating opportunities. Nothing tickles my fancy at the moment.

I think you should be looking at buying LEAP Calls on some of them! Or bull spreads on a group of them.
Take MMM 2011 Calls. Picking one at random without calculating the best strategy:
50 – 70 call spread will cost around $5.50 with profit of $14.50, that’s almost a 1:3 risk reward for a return of SP to $10 less than the -2 line! MMM 25 Year Chart
Heck sell the $40 2011 Put and you’ll get a small credit and the entire upside for the risk of owning MMM at $39.
me …

Lynch said buy what you know. There was no company I knew better than SAP.

2009 was quite a year. I’m looking forward to future buying opportunities as good as that, though I imagine there’ll only be a couple of those in the rest of my investing life. As my investometer shows I acted opposite to my plan for the year. Weird that. Particularly when it is the second year in a row I’ve failed to follow through with what transpired to be an excellent plan. I would resolve to follow my plan for 2010 to the tee, that is if I had a plan. …

It’s that time of the year again. How did you investments perform in 2009?

While the Investometer chart shows large changes in both accounts this month the reality is I increased cash by 9% this month. As I commented the other day I’ve been selling down fairly to overvalued US stocks, notably FDX and II-VI, and buying undervalued Australian shares.

The growing account with regular cash flow is the SMSF I manage. Due to regular personal and employer contributions, the coming capital return from Biota and other dividends I’m happy maintaining a lower cash balance in the SMSF. If the market goes down I’ll have …

There’s a chance that I’m being revisionist, but I think Inch Worm that started me on my investing path. When I discovered that if I kept doubling I soon got to 1000 (1024 to be exact) and as that was one thousand, I therefore knew the entire doubling number series for all the numbers I knew, 500 trillion in 49 doubles.

The most important double to me was always the last one. That final iteration doubled all my previous doubles, no matter how long I had been doubling. Starting at 1 it takes nine doubles to get to 512, while the next iteration by itself would add 512 more. That always seemed phenomenal to me and it was that final double that I learnt to focus on and not the first double from 1 to 2.

Four trades this month, all in the US and all calls. One was called, Fedex delivered the cash on the Buffett / BNI inspired surge in transports. I’m glad to have the cash and FDX gone. FDX closed at $81.78, $0.28 above my sold total ($75+6.50).
AEO, MIDD and NUAN averaged a 4.6% cash gain for the six weeks and ended lower. If you’re both happy to hold and to sell a stock then calls are excellent dividend producing options. However, if you want to sell a company then sell it, …

Invested levels didn’t change this month, but four calls sold raised cash near the short term peak.
The FI Fund briefly returned to positive territory during October. It was good to pop into the green and lets hope we see more of that soon.

This morning I thought I’d check up on my version of reality. We all suffer from rosy retrospective from time to time, you know when you think the past was better than it was. If only my Latin teachers had taught useful phrases like “memoria praeteritorum bonorum” (the past is always recalled to be good), instead of all those damn conjugations I might have learnt something useful.
I went back through my account statements for the last year to check our percent invested each month. I’d previously checked some months and thought …