SML6: No Fear

This was a remarkable week in the world of virtual stock trading. Here are my results:

Aetna: +1.96 to 84.32
Barnes & Noble: +1.06 to 40.45
Motorola: +0.27 to 18.54
Safeway: +0.74to 23.22
Lockheed Martin: -2.05 to 62.50

Lockheed Martin is going to drive me nuts. How can a major defense contractor be losing ground at a time like this? Anyway, here's the overall performance report:

Aetna: +4.57 (+5.73%)
Barnes & Noble: +2.26 (+5.92%)
Motorola: +0.80 (+4.51%)
Safeway: +0.79 (+3.51%)
Lockheed Martin: -2.56 (-3.93%)

Overall Value: $103,124.05 (+3.13)
S&P 500 Index: 1211.86 (+1.32%)

I'm still doing better than the market, at least on paper, which is nice.

What I found most remarkable about this past week's numbers was that even with the despicable and inhuman events that took place in London last week, the market went up. There's no nose dive like there was after 9/11; the S&P 500 was up over 17 points from a week ago. And it's not just here. From what I've read, markets are strong all over the world.

I find this particularly gratifying. It's as if the world's investors have said to the terrorists, "You may think you can bomb our cities with impunity, but there's no way we're going to let you b@st@rds keep us from living our lives."

Good.