Besides the usual “buy low, sell high” strategy of investing in the market, some investors attempt to buy stocks “on dividends.” It is nothing complicated, just spend a few minutes to identify stocks about to issue dividends and then sell it shortly after the ex-dividend date. Ideally, you should make the sale at a profit to your original investment.

You've heard pitches on Apple (NYSE: AAPL) and Corning (NYSE: GLW), now lets continue on with the information technology sector. There are many places to invest around the sector. I am finding increasingly that the big boys like IBM, Microsoft & Google are providing more risk than reward. As investors, we want as high upside potential as possible when matched with low downside risk.

Despite recent turmoil in the IT sector for 2008, I contend that this is now where you want to be. Reasoning here follows that the financial sector is struggling to keep its bad news buried, the housing market is shambles and even retailers are struggling to sustain growth.

The portfolio is at All-Time Highs up 92% since starting. DBC is up 170% and DBA is up a modest 17%and DBP down 4%.

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I great day for commodity etfs and the portfolio has recovered its overall losses and Is near all time highs.

I sold DBP DBE and SDS but held on the DBC and DBA

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