Latest Positions – a broadly diversified portfolio

Here’s a list of my latest positions in approximate notional order from largest to smallest. In the never-ending quest to provide the best service I can to you guys (and to help keep my own sanity), I’ve broken the list down even further into refined categories.

I give each stock a current rating from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this position now!” and 10 being “Sell the farm, I’ve found a perfect investment” (there will never be a 10 rating, because there is no such thing as a perfect investment, of course). Anyway, here’s the list:

Longs –

• Forever assets and other permanent holdings –
  • Media and other private investment/business holdings (9+ because betting on yourself and running a biz is always a best bet)
  • Real estate, including land and the ranch I live on in NM (7)
  • Physical silver bullion & coins (9)
  • Physical gold bullion & coins (9)
  • BitCoin (6)

• Primary stock exposure portfolio
  • Facebook (7)
  • Intel (8)
  • Apple (7)
  • Amazon (7)
  • Sandisk (8)
  • First Solar (7)
  • Ciena (7)
  • Juniper (7)
  • Google (7)
  • Lindsay (8)
  • Calgone (8)
  • FutureFuel (7)
  • Nvidia (7)
• Stock baskets and short-term flips
  • Long-term social basket
    • Zynga (8)
    • LinkedIn (6)
  • Long-term 3-D printing basket
    • XONE (7)
    • SSYS (7)
    • DDD (6)
    • Autodesk (6)
  • Short-term metal ETF flips
    • GDX (7)
    • SLV (8)
    • GLD (7)
  • Earnings flips
    • PMCS (8)
    • SIMO (7)

Shorts –

• Welfare bank basket
  • MS (8)
  • GS (8)
  • JPM (8)
  • LPS (9)
• Samsung/South Korea basket
  • EWY (7)
• Bet on interest rates rising
  • IEF (8)
• Other shorts
  • Outerwall (7)
  • Apollo (7)
  • Dollar Tree (7)
  • IBM (8)