Stock activities - sell sell sell

Recently sold a lot of stocks, even some loooong time holdings (i.e. the tobbaco company). first, to rais cash to invest in real estate (will talk a bit later); second, not sure about where the mkt is heading to - but i am not a good timer. so mainly it is for the first reason... will reduce stock holdings futhur. probably don't have much money for stocks. only little cash left in IRA.

sold some LFC $70.80.
sold MO $18.55
sold some PM $50.75

Just bought one stock for IRA money - APOL at $59.90. have been watching it for a few months. this SEC probe hopefully won't affect it too much too long.

AAPL

sold some AAPL at 187.05

SKF

I just can't resist the temptation any more. i set the limit price and it was executed this afternoon.

bout skf at 44.90

DXD

Since the rally of the mkt has been a while, i have been more and more tempted to short it as a hedge. as a investment beginner, the index i pay the most attention to is of course DJIA. so today i started by buying DXD at 50.50. it has twice leverage so a little investment can have twice the power.

i am also thinking of SKF - it dropped almost 18% today - it is obviously more volatile given the sensitivity of the financial industry. let's start with the easy one and i will probably get into skf if the mkt continue to "recover".