During my absence of blogging here, a result of the collapse of JStock, I did something I rarely do: Double-dipped on a Bargain Basement buy and went to free stock twice, leaving me with 100 shares that cost me nothing more than a little time.
First in July, buying 75 shares at $3.09 and selling 35 shares in less than a month. I bought again in September at $3.14 and sold 40 yesterday.
Now, fingers crossed that it keeps growing. It’s happened before, but so has the opposite. In true Cheap and Lazy fashion, I couldn’t tell you which has happened the most, or whether this approach has been profitable, let alone broke past the S&P 500 fund approach. Maybe one day I will calculate that, though if I have the free time to do so, the answer will be clear, if only at a rough order.