My Stock Track Portfolio

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well so I was happy. Then I bought NPC International Inc., just because I wanted more stocks and it sounded good. I bought Music Land stores because I play the guitar and I love music so I had to buy that stock. I already own Walt Disney stock in real life. My grandfather bought it for me for my 10th birthday. If it's good enough for him it's certainly good enough for me. K-Mart had changed their name to the Big-K about a week before I bought the stock. Maybe this would bring in some new clientele. I thought that just because Marlboro sold so many cigarettes that naturally the stock price would always do well. I don't know what I was thinking, because like you said there are always those non-smoker movements and laws being passed but I learned my lesson. My mother and girlfriend always buy shoes from Nine-West shoes, so I felt that they were doing something right. I bought Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. Because I thought I was buying stock in Newport Cigarettes, but ...

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even know what it was, so I was content with the money I made from it. And Music Land Store went up a little but I was in a selling mood so I got rid of that also.
My next sets of purchases were also made in groups of 1,000 shares. My uncle owns a 1969 36 foot Chris Craft fishing boat and if you know anything about boats, Chris Craft is the elite in fishing boats, so I bought a thousand shares. I was following IBM and it was down so I bought it to see if it would balance out. Micro Soft was also a little low so I bought it with the same reasoning in mind. The Intel that I had bought previously was down but I had a feeling it was going to go back up so I bought more. I made a typo ...

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