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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

You win some, you lose some

A friend did some research after reading my post; Dead Money Comes To Life.  He pointed out that shares of Organic Resource Management (ORI) have traded well above my selling price of $2.04 since the day I bailed.  Well, he's right.  After holding for four years I took the very first opportunity to get out with my shirt, and all of my money.  I sold on December 3.

Since then Organic Resource shares have traded as high as $2.70.  That was a single transaction on December 13.  Otherwise  they've been in the $2.01 to $2.25 range on very low volume.  Many days only 200 shares change hands and it's not uncommon for there to be zero volume with this stock.  Liquidity?  Not so much!

No, I don't feel even a little bad about picking up my marbles on this one.  The proceeds from the sale of my Organic Resource shares was re-invested four days later in Cisco Systems (CSCO).  I took money out of stock in a tiny company with a market cap of $9.9 Million and put it into a huge tech company with a market cap of $116.4 Billion.

By the way, I bought Cisco at $19.55.  It's $21.00 this morning.  Organic Resource shares haven't traded since early Tuesday morning.  Over twenty-four hours and zero volume.

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