this one is from @ken doggy. i'm just starting a portfolio.ter to buy one position at a time or small amounts of all five at once? absolutely the latter because one of the things i've learned when you're just starting, i mean, it just happens to be the luck of the draw here. almost everyone i know just started immediately first stock they bought went down very big. this is an insurance plan against that happening to you. so no, i don't want you buying all at once. buy in stages all five. okay. here's -- this one's from @motor rat. how do you determine target prices for your action alerts.com portfolio? that's my charitable trust. we talk constantly about it. what steph likes to do and i like to do try to figure out where we think the stock would be really too expensive, either on peg ratio or price to earnings mobile base is that we're afraid we're going to start giving things back. if the fundamentals improve then we can revise our price target up. we give that to people who subscribe because we want to give them a sense of why we would take