Portfolio Update

Hello and welcome to my first portfolio update. It has been a good month for my stocks and I hope it is just the beginning. I chose all these companies based on their future prospects so the stories might not fully develop for a couple of years. I put links on all the stocks in the "Stocks are Risky" post so you can check them out on Yahoo finance if you wish. The original amount invested was  $5419.02 The last update was on 6/11/13 and the total was $5382.73 -$36.29 or -.66%. The only change was I sold 100 shares of MVIS and bought 100 shares of CIM, a real estate investment trust that pays a 12.3% dividend. The total at the close of trading on Tuesday 7/16/13 was $6247.31 up $828.29 or 15.2%. Not bad for an amateur. I am taking a much needed vacation tomorrow to my wife's parents farm in Door County, Wisconsin. Time to rest up and prepare for the rest of 2013. When I return I am going to get the wheels turning on Smalltime's scrap yard. I want to start buying plastic bottles, glass bottles and aluminum cans only.