Today is the day to sell!

At last! I've been wanting to take some profits for the last few days but needed to wait until today because I bought some stock on November 16 when the S&P 500 got down to 1178 and I always wait at least one month to change direction to avoid any excessive trading problems, and because its just a good idea. At the moment the S&P 500 is 1240 (after hours update: it closed at 1242.87), nearly the highest number for the year. Time to take profits. But as I never do anything sudden, I am only moving 1% (as always) of my total portfolio out of stocks and into stable value. Because stocks have been climbing so much in the last 2 or 3 months, this still leaves me slightly over 90% in stocks. This means that if stocks go up even more, I still stand to profit (and will sell some more) and if stocks go down considerably, I've got a cash reserve to use for more buying.

Year-to-date return: 15.6%

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