Before I get into my monthly update on my IRA investments, I want to welcome all the readers from Get Rich Slowly on which I had a guest column about “Opening Your First Brokerage Account.”  I hope you enjoy this site, and please subscribe to the RSS feed if you do.

This will be my last IRA update in this form. As I move to a new investment tracking method, I hope to share with my readers even more information regarding my investment performance. I will still provide a monthly update of IRA positions but within the context of my overall performance.

I’m down for the year and down even more since my last update. All my holding have performed terribly along with the overall market.  Individually amongst my stocks there’s not a single winner.  The only thing that has prevented me from sinking even further is that I already sold some of my holdings last year and am relatively cash heavy.  I remain bearish on the overall market over the next year, and have not done as a good a job in protecting my IRA account as well as I have my 401k or Brokerage accounts. That said I think over the course of the next year there will be some great buying opportunities for quality stocks that will be unfairly beaten up by “Mr. Market”. I just need to figure out which stocks those are…