I try to do several things at the same time on this blog: review stocks of interest, share with a trading portfolio, and discuss portfolio management strategies that I actually employ. Additionally, to determine if the picks I discuss are any good, I have been trying to review these selections and find out how they would have turned out if I had indeed purchased shares. I do occasionally purchase shares in the stocks I discuss and I try to let you know when and if I own shares when I discuss equities. However, most stocks I discuss I do not have any shares in them, I just feel they are worth attention and become my "vocabulary" of investing. In the last few months, I have started going back to the beginning of this website, which had its birth back in May, 2003, almost four years ago! I am trying to write these stocks up in order, reviewing any "pick" that is still traded....