Here's the first end of month report. Started buying OCT 14th so I only had two weeks to lose money. 
I started a spreadsheet but may ask to use one of Eric's. I'm not trying to make this complicated but would like to track it. I do want to have some rules, but they are a little loose until I refine them. I am going to stick with $2500 new money every month. I spent $3096.29 in OCT and that was after I kicked CVS out of the port. Down $51.35 total. The port can borrow up to $2500. I want the flexibility to buy when the market dips, and get it back to right when the market runs and I shouldn't be forcing purchases. Mostly no market timing though. Once the port is full I'll add to something. Definitely adding some tech in November and that money is available Monday. Probably 12-15 stock goal in the near term. If I decide a stock isn't a legit 5% revenue grower for minimum three years it will be evicted. I have limit orders in on GOOGL and MSFT. We'll see, I don't intend to chase high fliers, and I'll have to fight the urge to average losers down a rat hole. Formatting is bad so I'm just listing stocks and total shares. . First number is shares. Last is gain/loss. I put too much effort into trying to catch bottoms for just a couple shares. In the future I'll just enter a few limit orders early in the month and adjust it a few times throughout the month if they don't fill.
APD AIR PRODUCTS 2 -10.02
AMT AMERICAN TOWER 1 -0.35
AVGO BROADCOM 1 -10.37
CAT CATERPILLAR 2 -6.44
LLY ELI LILLY 3 -0.12
MA MASTER CARD 2 -0.72
UNP UNION PACIFIC 3 -21.43
VSTO VISTA OUTDOORS 5 -1.90
COST 3096.29 RETURN -51.35
The $2500/mo is harvested from my option selling scam. In two years I'll have $60K of my own money in this port. That should pay for my new retirement truck and then some. With any luck I'll make the market hit that goal sooner.
I started a spreadsheet but may ask to use one of Eric's. I'm not trying to make this complicated but would like to track it. I do want to have some rules, but they are a little loose until I refine them. I am going to stick with $2500 new money every month. I spent $3096.29 in OCT and that was after I kicked CVS out of the port. Down $51.35 total. The port can borrow up to $2500. I want the flexibility to buy when the market dips, and get it back to right when the market runs and I shouldn't be forcing purchases. Mostly no market timing though. Once the port is full I'll add to something. Definitely adding some tech in November and that money is available Monday. Probably 12-15 stock goal in the near term. If I decide a stock isn't a legit 5% revenue grower for minimum three years it will be evicted. I have limit orders in on GOOGL and MSFT. We'll see, I don't intend to chase high fliers, and I'll have to fight the urge to average losers down a rat hole. Formatting is bad so I'm just listing stocks and total shares. . First number is shares. Last is gain/loss. I put too much effort into trying to catch bottoms for just a couple shares. In the future I'll just enter a few limit orders early in the month and adjust it a few times throughout the month if they don't fill. APD AIR PRODUCTS 2 -10.02
AMT AMERICAN TOWER 1 -0.35
AVGO BROADCOM 1 -10.37
CAT CATERPILLAR 2 -6.44
LLY ELI LILLY 3 -0.12
MA MASTER CARD 2 -0.72
UNP UNION PACIFIC 3 -21.43
VSTO VISTA OUTDOORS 5 -1.90
COST 3096.29 RETURN -51.35
The $2500/mo is harvested from my option selling scam. In two years I'll have $60K of my own money in this port. That should pay for my new retirement truck and then some. With any luck I'll make the market hit that goal sooner.