Well the deal for the Greece debt was approved today so I expect the market to be up tomorrow..
With Europe getting its shit together the only thing I feel that could derail the market heavily in the next few months is if Israel is stupid enough to bomb Iran nuclean facilities... Unlikely but nothing is past Israel leaders...

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Market is up as expected.
Gaming stocks are actually not performing that well however today especially Nintendo which is down over 2%. ( EA and TWWO are down a litttle too)

I haven't joined the simulation league,
Between managing my real stock portfollio and actually working I do not have the extra time to manage one more portfollio during my working days...

Apple now have a market cap of $475 bn, and there will be a dividend announced in the not too distant future...

ALL of my stocks are dropping :(((

welll my real portofllio is up about 0.5% so far today ( the two gaming stocks I own are howvere both slightly down).

@Ail. You participating is already more than I could ask for. ;)

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As for my choice of stock placement for today (at 2EST), I purchased about 3k of Apple, 3k of Nintendo, and 3k of Take Two. I'm gonna buy 1k of Zynga too.

My results so far (2:50 EST)

I should have probabyl waited for the end of the day to buy Apple and TTWO. My purchases were made because I expected a lift tomorrow, not today. So, next time I'll wait. ;)

Don't worry too much about your timing, market timing is something that is impossible to achieve on a constant basis ( that is why I keep chuckling when I see the numbers of people that try to to day trading, their odds in the long run are about the same as those of people spending their money in Vegas).
Most of my investments are long terms ( in the tax sense, more than 1 year) and I only keep 10% or so of my portfollio to play short terms ( and even then it means I might buy a stock and sell it one month later, it doesn't mean I will buy and sell on back to back days).

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