March 9, 2010
Good Morning:
Portfolio Management System, U.S February Job Losses
Portfolio Management System
In two e-mail's last week I announced the introduction
of a three tiered Portfolio Management System to StockResearchPortal.com including
(1) My Investment Portfolio, (2) My Trading Portfolio, and (3) My Watched Stocks.
These three distinct portfolios all work in the same way.
Once you have created 'Transaction tables' for any one of these three Portfolios,
three tables immediately are created for that Portfolio, being - for your Investment
Portfolio for example - (1) a Portfolio Summary table, (2) a Portfolio Liquidity
table, and (3) a Portfolio News table. The Portfolio Summary
table is updated continuously throughout each trading day on an 'up to 25 minute
delayed' basis. In order to show the various columns in the Portfolio
Summary table I have created the following hypothetical portfolio.
Features of the Portfolio Summary table include:
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by clicking on a company name (gold
font and underlined) you will be taken directly to that Company's data page.
That page opens in a new window, enabling you to return to your Portfolio
Summary page simply by closing that new window;
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your Portfolio Summary table can be
sorted by Sub-Industry, enabling you to 'group' all your similar investments.
Simply click on the 'Sub-Industry' heading to sort the table;
·
you are able to set a 'Price Alert'
for each stock you own by using the 'Price Alert' entry system shown immediately
below the table. Currently the 'Alerted Price' turns to white
font in a gold 'box' when the market price equals or exceeds the Price Alert you
have set for a stock; and,
·
the table, updated during each trading
day (see above) automatically calculates your gain/loss on each stock both on that
trading day and on a cumulative basis. Gains are shown in 'blue
font', losses are shown in 'gold font'.
U.S. February Job Losses
An article Friday titled 'Stocks jump after better-than-expected jobs report'
reported U.S. employers cut 36,000 jobs in February, 14,000 less than the economist
forecast as polled by Thomson Reuters. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.7
% against a forecast of 9.8%. This is a marked improvement from
job losses experienced in recent months, which on its face is encouraging.
However, not only do U.S. job losses have to reverse and become positive
- and do so 'in spades' - or the unemployment rate will not improve significantly.
I don't believe the U.S. economic climate will enjoy serious recovery or
recovery at all unless the unemployment rate drops significantly from where it now
sits. As an investor who continuously watches the equity markets
I believe that while in the near term (or at any particular point in time) Wall
Street may dominate Main Street, but in the long term Main Street must dominate
Wall Street.
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at
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Best Regards,
Ian R. Campbell
President
StockResearchPortal.com
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