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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 1157845" data-attributes="member: 4886">Re: UPS/Teamster 401k...Prudential to a Dreyfus self managed account...+22.86% for 20&nbsp;Actually I spend a lot less. Usually each day I check finance.yahoo.com for my portfolio. I have it set up to show today&#039;s increase both in dollars and % (by stock), as well as the overall (since I purchased) increase (% and dollars). This takes all of 5 minutes (max). I average one transaction per week. (excluding DRIP transactions or Dividend deposits).&nbsp; Most of the transactions are when I put in a limit sell\purchase request. Usually on a weekend I&#039;ll check out some google stories and look at various stock\mutual fund screeners to look at some potential stocks.&nbsp; I have another portfolio on finance.yahoo.com for potential stocks.&nbsp; This activity usually takes about an hour or two to do.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then quarterly I go through entire portfolio and increase\decrease my holdings in companies.&nbsp; This does take closer to 6-8 hours each quarter that I do on a weekend. Not sure about the others, but whether it&#039;s an hour or 5 hours a day. I&#039;ve seen a lot of people do a lot more wasteful things with their time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 1157845, member: 4886"] [b]Re: UPS/Teamster 401k...Prudential to a Dreyfus self managed account...+22.86% for 20[/b] Actually I spend a lot less. Usually each day I check finance.yahoo.com for my portfolio. I have it set up to show today's increase both in dollars and % (by stock), as well as the overall (since I purchased) increase (% and dollars). This takes all of 5 minutes (max). I average one transaction per week. (excluding DRIP transactions or Dividend deposits). Most of the transactions are when I put in a limit sell\purchase request. Usually on a weekend I'll check out some google stories and look at various stock\mutual fund screeners to look at some potential stocks. I have another portfolio on finance.yahoo.com for potential stocks. This activity usually takes about an hour or two to do. Then quarterly I go through entire portfolio and increase\decrease my holdings in companies. This does take closer to 6-8 hours each quarter that I do on a weekend. Not sure about the others, but whether it's an hour or 5 hours a day. I've seen a lot of people do a lot more wasteful things with their time. [/QUOTE]

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