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It is finally here, the last investing report of the year before it makes the move over to the new blog this January. The year was great with many ups and many downs as well and that is the way it is when you invest. It is very hard to make money when the market won’t make its mind and what is a guy to do but to roll with the punches and that is exactly what I am doing. The year is almost over and hopefully we’ll end the year with a big bang in the meantime lets check them numbers.

403-B

Started               $782.08

My Contribution   $  50.00

Up/Down           -$  13.39

Balance               $818.69 Rate of return 33.5% 

DCP

Started                $553.93

My Contribution    $  17.12

Up/Down           +$ 10.99           

Balance                $582.04 Rate of return 2.6%

Total                    $1,400.73

Down                   $   2.40

We are in the final stretch, 2007 will soon be in the history books and 2008 will make its appearance and I am hoping that it will be a good year. The bouncing market doesn’t seem to make its mind up. Does it want to go up?, something which I think we all want or does it want to go down?, a thought none of us want to entertain. Lets check and see if the ball bounced our way.

403-B

Started               $709.26

My Contribution   $  50.00

Up/Down          +$  22.82

Balance               $782.08 Rate of return 35.8% 

DCP

Started                $552.04

My Contribution    $   0.00

Up/Down           +$  1.89           

Balance                $553.93 Rate of return 0.6%

Total                    $1,336.01

Up                       $ 24.71

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The market is up the market is down, whatever happened  to up, up and up I will never know. This I do know, November is almost over. What does that have to do with investing?, absolutely nothing at all. Time to check and see if the numbers look good, bad or just plain ugly like they did in the last report. If the math does not add up please be sure to let me know, mistakes do happen.

403-B

Started               $679.17

My Contribution   $  50.00

Up/Down          +$  19.91

Balance               $709.26 Rate of return 31.5% 

DCP

Started                $539.50

My Contribution    $  17.58

Up/Down           +$  5.04           

Balance                $552.04 Rate of return 0.2%

Total                    $1,261.30

Up                       $ 24.95

November is here and will be over as fast as it came. But before that happens it’s time for the first investing report of the month. Things were going ok but took an unexpected turn for the worst last week. The market took a pounding and so did I. Take a look at them numbers and you’ll see what I mean. 

403-B

Started               $661.65

My Contribution   $  50.00

Up/Down           -$  32.48

Balance               $679.17 Rate of return 35.5% 

DCP

Started                 $573.24

My Contribution     $   0.00

Up/Down             -$ 33.74            

Balance                $539.50 Rate of return 1.2%

Total                    $1,218.67

Down                   $ 66.22

It is time for the third and last investing report of October. The changes I made are beginning to pay off and that is exactly what I was looking for. Something funny happened to my account, no one millions dollars did not magically appear in my account, but it seems that the $16.84 taken out of my paycheck was invested in the old investments I used to have before the change was made. I really should check how that happened because I have no idea whatsoever. In the meantime lets check those numbers.

403-B

Started               $584.86

My Contribution   $  50.00

Up/Down           +$  26.79

Balance               $661.65 Rate of return 42.5% 

DCP

Started                 $544.99

My Contribution     $  16.84

Up/Down            +$ 11.41            

Balance                $573.24 Rate of return 7.5%

Total                    $1,234.89

Up                       $ 38.20