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PIR & SIRI & Great Results from GOD (a brief timeline of 2005-2010)

Well, let it be known and I mean KNOWN that I am truly considering doing some serious investing now. AND that I want to give a short timeline of the last year’s investments and what GOD has done for us from 2004-2010 while we have been planting the Tapestry and working bi-vocationally.

QUICK TIMELINE:

1 – Lori and I decided NOT to buy a house in 2004 & 2005 because I sensed that the market was being inflated by speculation and that debt was creating bubbled prices. I actually began telling all my friends NOT TO BUY. (The Realtor at the time told me that we would regret not buying the house that ended up later being worth 1/2 what it was selling for that day! I told her GOD could do anything! We left that Realtor and walked away.)
2 – We totally got all of our invested money out of the market and went to cash in 2007 with all Lori and my investments. I just had a gut feeling and I had no peace to move in the market from my prayer times.
3 – We then sat on our cash until Fall 2008 after the market crashed and I began to pick up hammered down stock.
4 – We closed on a house for a 41% rebate on the price! And moved in January 9-10. (Our Realtor said we couldn’t get one that cheap, yet she was faithful through our insane bids.
5 – We went all in to the market on March 9-11 because I had a sense GOD was leading me.
6 – I picked up SIRI the night before they were to go bankrupt at ~.08 a share.
7 – I picked up PIR when it went down to ~.11 a share.
8 – I have been selling to cover my investments and making huge profits and have been reinvesting in strong, safe, companies. I set the triggers and when they hit my target prices, I sell and reinvest. I have simply prayed and moved slowly.

Due to this, Lori and I have now invested 10’s of thousands into others this year, we have helped people with debt, we have invested in ministries and non-profit work, we have given to invest in startup companies of people we mentor in order to give them a start and teach them how to become socially responsible.

And the kicker is that no matter how much we give, the LORD outgives US! We keep coming back in awe. Those thousands of shares of PIR for .11 are now worth 7.10 today!

You can check out my earlier posts here where I was sharing my steps. Just research from 2008-2009. You can see that I really did do what I am saying here. The blog time-stamped it all.

Folks, ONLY GOD does this! I am just a simple, obedient guy. And I love helping others with wise moves and tough accounting and discipleship. And this has truly given me a catch up for my retirement that I was behind on due to ministry in the church AND funds to help the world.

So, side-note, don’t contact me with your project unless you have already started it, you have it running and you are working hard on it yourself. THEN, if you have stuff to prove what you’re doing, I might be inclined to do some micro-lending (with much prayer and discipleship) and see where it takes you!

I will fill everyone in later on some of the successes we are seeing in our projects worldwide.

Just a praise today!
Blessings!
pd

PIR Stock Quote | Pier 1 Imports, Inc. Research

Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE:PIR)

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Investing & Finance Predictions for the New Year… 2010

As I have been reading articles about the new possibilities of an Apple Tablet and what it could mean to the world, the changes in global finance and the growth we possibly will see in the economy and the advances in everything from breakthrough ideas for 2010 in business to medicine to science or even the way people deal with house buying through emotions this past year and for the year to come, I came across this article at Motley Fool and wanted to pass it along as well.

Well, we are off on another crazy year. I hope it is better than last year. I mean, if it is much better, then, my more than 2000% gains from 2009 are going to be a drop in the bucket!

Of course, to join me this year in the celebration, you are going to have to have nerves of steel and faith like a rock!

Have a great 2010!
pd

The Motley Fool’s 2009 Year in Review and Predictions for 2010

Tip your hat to mark the passing of 2009 —
even if the market now and then would lose its mind.

The Dow’s finishing the year aloft by — phew — 20%;
Perhaps, at last, the doomsayers and naysayers are spent.

Obama moved to D.C., and the country kept him busy.
His health-care bill drove legislators right into a tizzy.

2009 exposed a pile of putrid Ponzi schemes,
Preying on unfortunates with get-rich-quickly dreams.

Periodic public panic? Thank the market, or swine flu,
Not to mention pink slips issued at Sprint (NYSE: S), Boeing (NYSE: BA), and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO).

Bank execs repaid the TARP to keep their parachutes gold.
And like that mineral’s rising price, their paychecks stayed bankrolled.

An irate ex went after David Letterman for cash,
But Tiger Woods lost even more in one unlucky crash.

For its gas-guzzling line of cars, GM had no defense.
So Uncle Sam gave $50 billion — how does that make sense?

We gave out cash for clunkers, and for anything with wheels;
Low interest rates gave homebuyers a slew of housing steals.

The Yankees won the series; Avatar’s a big success;
and hefty gains left Sirius (Nasdaq: SIRI) and Ford (NYSE: F) investors blessed.

Now, as we draw the curtain on the best of 2-K-9,
let’s hope 2010 becomes the market’s year to shine.

A look back at 2009:

* What Was Your Worst Investment Mistake in 2009?
* The Hottest New Products and Trends of 2009
* 2009: The Year That Ruined Retail
* The Financial Lessons of 2009
* Will 2009’s Hottest Stocks Be 2010’s?
* 2009: A Year in Streaming
* Hey! Who’s Flying This Thing? (The 2009 Boxed Set)
* 2009 Biotech Cheers and Jeers
* 2009 Cheers and Jeers for Pharma
* 2009: The Year Pharma Learned to Love Itself
* The Biggest No-Brainer Buys of 2009 (and 2010?)
* Where the Big Bucks Were in 2009
* 2009: The Year Borrowers Got a Clue
* The Past Decade in 50 Headlines
* 3 People Who Spoke Up in 2009
* The Decade’s 10 Biggest Bankruptcies
* The Worst Footnote of the Year
* 2009: The Year in Tech
* 2009: One Long, Baffling Spit-Take

Predictions for 2010:

* The Best Stocks for 2010
* Roundtable: The Biggest Investing Danger in 2010
* 3 Stocks to Avoid in 2010
* 5 Stocks That Should Beat the Market
* The Global Industrial Outlook for 2010
* 3 Predictions for 2010
* 5 More Predictions for 2010
* What Will Be the Best Stock for 2010?
* Get Ready for a Bumpy 2010
* The 10 Best Stocks for 2010
* Which Company Is Destined to Fail in 2010?
* 7 IPOs I Would Love to See in 2010
* The Key to Investing Better in 2010
* The Top Profit Opportunity of 2010
* What’s the Best Tech Stock for 2010?
* Don’t Ignore These Winners in 2010
* Cash In on Alcohol Deals in 2010
* Where to Gamble in 2010
* Expect More of This in 2010
* Avoid This Sector in 2010
* The Best Bargain for 2010?
* Why the 2010s Will Be a Great Decade
* Where’s Potash Headed in 2010?
* 2010 FDA Decisions to Watch

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Getting Serious About Sirius!

All of a sudden, the one stock I was warned NOT TO BUY is becoming a possible choice for the rebound. Well, I am so VERY glad that I didn’t listen to the critics and I actually bought SIRI the night before they were saved from bankruptcy for just pennies a share, because right now, I am already sitting on top of an almost 600% gain. I bought hundreds of dollars worth that now is thousands of dollars worth.

However, hear me in this. I have not been stupid. I have already sold some and reinvested my original funds. This is now fun for growth.

So, I don’t know just how high this stock will go, but if the guys below at Breaking Views, Fortune and CNN are correct, which they just might be, then the price tag of $0.45 might be a real steal.

Just check it out. Read on…

pd

breakingviews: Sirius XM – The best play on an auto rebound – Jun. 30, 2009

U.S. car sales are in a ridiculous funk. Even with a strong June, the current annualized rate of about 10 million vehicles isn’t enough to compensate for scrapped cars and population growth. Yet the best investment play on an American recovery may not be a car or parts maker. Curiously, it may be Sirius XM Radio, which operates the radio in the dashboard.

This is partly a process of elimination. Two of Detroit’s Big Three — Chrysler and General Motors (GMGMQ) — are in bankruptcy. Ford Motor (F, Fortune 500) is, of course, an option. But some 40% of Ford’s sales come outside the U.S., so it’s not a pure play on the domestic market. True, there are parts companies uniquely focused on the U.S. market. But given the serious margin pressures they face from bankrupt carmakers and rivals they look like very risky investments.

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Pops and Drops: Why One Day Matters

I may be crazy and some think I am, but I am STILL investing all the way through this thing. I actually only started investing in September after things began to crash and have been investing carefully since.

This article shares some of the reasons I have been and continue to do so.

Read on…

pd

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As the market hovers at levels not seen in 12 years, throwing in the towel is more tempting than ever. But be forewarned: Pulling up stakes at this point only positions your portfolio for a longer, harder slog along the road to recovery.

Recouping losses requires selling into bear-market rallies and — more important — having skin in the game to profit from that eventual, elusive bull sitting somewhere over the horizon. After all, the great majority of gains in a bull market tend to come on the horns, not the tail. Missing just a dozen or so of the best days can prolong you portfolio’s losses for many years to come.

A bull market may be hard to imagine right now, but as Fidelity points out it can be very costly to miss the beginnings of one when it does happen. Researchers at the mutual fund company found that within six months of a new bull market more than a quarter of the gains have already been booked, while more than 40% of the gains come within the first year. Standard & Poor’s has found that investors on average recoup 80% of their bear market losses within the first year of the next bull.

Complicating matters is that the big returns in a bear market usually come down to a couple handfuls of trading days. Just try timing that.

To get an idea of how front-loaded bull markets are, consider this analysis by Pinnacle Group, a wealth manager in Midlothian, Va.: If you remained fully invested in the S&P 500 for the 20 years between 1987 and 2007, your average annual return came to nearly 12%. However, if you missed just the 10 best days during that span, your return fell to about 9%. Miss the 30 best days in 20 years? Your average annual return came in at less than 6%.

In other words, missing a trading months’ worth of rallies over 20 years lopped about six percentage points off the annual average return. The upshot? The fully invested saw $10,000 grow into $93,000, while those missing the 30 best days got $28,000 for their trouble.

Now get this: Pinnacle notes that investors who did nothing at the bottom of the market during the Great Depression watched their portfolios take more than four years to be made whole. On the other hand, those who plowed another $10,000 into stocks on June 1, 1932, recovered all their losses in just three months.

No one can time the market and this one looks to be range-bound, if we’re lucky, for some time. At the same time the market can pick up at the seemingly unlikeliest times. Joe Clark, managing director of Financial Enhancement Group, a financial planner in Anderson, Ind., has reduced his exposure to equities recently, but that doesn’t mean he pretends to have a crystal ball.

“The market rallied in March of 2003 with very little good news,” Clark said in a Tuesday email. “Things seemed [like] they couldn’t get any worse — similar to today. It was strange but a great time to be in the market. Markets rally at very ugly times in the news cycle and when little happiness seems to exist anywhere.”

That’s why it remains imperative that investors stick to a disciplined system like the one suggested by SmartMoney’s own James B. Stewart, who has long advocated a strategy of buying into declines and selling into rallies. That doesn’t mean you have to pounce on every movement on the way up or down, only that if you don’t participate now, it will take you that much longer to be made whole later.

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