I sell at 100 because I don't need the money that badly. If you don't need neopoints for anything in particular, I'd definitely advocate a higher sell point, Kamil. I've stopped caring when a stock hits 60 nowadays
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A couple of good things I use for the stockmarket:
Greasemonkey Script - probably linked somewhere from
http://userscripts.org/users/22349 - the userscript site is down at the moment, fancy that. I'll rustle it up later when it's back up.
The script is good because it adds something to the left column with a list of stocks as your buy price, and links to buy those stocks. It also displays any stocks that are at or above your sell price.
Neodaq's Portfolio Manager -
http://www.neodaq.info/tools/portfolio/ - you can import your portfolio into it easily, and it gives you helpful summaries. Particularly useful if you use it early on as it can tell you your overall profit and such.
Here's what the porfolio manager spits out for me:
Portfolio Size: 851,504 Shares
Companies Owned: 40
Average Shares per Company: 21,287.6 shares
Total Value: 15,351,095 NP
Total Investments: 12,814,560 NP
Total Profits: 7,160,000 NP
Total Cashflow: -5,654,560 NP
April Profits: 0 NP
April Cashflow: -390,000 NP
April Growth: 26,000 Shares
2010 Profits: 5,699,000 NP
2010 Cashflow: 5,191,000 NP
2010 Growth: 34,000 Shares
The "total cashflow" (ie profit/loss) is misleading because I only started keeping track on this site in August 2009. However, total Profits works alright.
Definitions of terms:
Profits - Profit during this period (Gross Sales - Investment Sold) [i.e. profit I made on a particular sale]
Cashflow - Net cashflow this period (Gross Sales - Investment Bought) [i.e. profit I made during a particular month]
You can also configure it to email you when stocks go over your sell point, which I love - though I still keep an eye on it myself.
My month-by-month "cashflow" (profit) is as such:
2009
Sep -436,000
Oct -465,000
Nov -435,000
Dec 1,296,000
2010
Jan 2,130,000
Feb -390,000
Mar 3,871,000
Apr -390,000
As you can see, it's about 100k per week I spend on the place, offset by niiiice returns. You'd get returns more often if you sold at 60, but I'm still easily making a profit selling at 100.
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