http://stocktradingmemo.com Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:51:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://stocktradingmemo.com/stock-trades/sh http://stocktradingmemo.com/stock-trades/sh#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:40:34 +0000 Robert http://stocktradingmemo.com/?p=57 Today I sold my position in the iShares 1-3 year Treasury bond fund (Ticker symbol SHY). I bought in back in January and held it for about 11 months as it slowly edged higher. It pays a monthly dividend. But it looks like bond prices have peaked and will probably continue to fall. Time to get out… actually I should have sold back in November.

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