[expat_panama]

Groupon. Any thoughts on that?

Having a really hard time finding good things about GRPN, performance has been poor lately and the IBD checkup rates it over all 59 out of 100.  Sure, it could always soar tomorrow but it's not giving us any good signals today.

 fwiw, the top leaders in the online sales group are BABA, MELI, STMP, AND VIPS.  

Just realized that my biggest holding is a Vangard index fund VFINX--tho if I had it to do over again I'd avoid the loads by just buying SPY --the exchange traded fund that's equal. 

[Aquamarine]

Both of those mutual funds are expensive. As you pointed out SPY and your Vanguard fund have some of the same holdings VFINX and Apple seems to be the best performer, maybe I should just buy some Apple stock (again) although it's also expensive. That's one thing I liked about Groupon, it's cheap.

Thanks for the info on the online sales groups, I'll research it. Probably need to own one of them just need to figure out which one is going to be the new "Wal Mart".

[Labyrinthos]

Just realized that my biggest holding is a Vangard index fund VFINX--tho if I had it to do over again I'd avoid the loads by just buying SPY --the exchange traded fund that's equal.

VFINX is a no-load fund as are all Vanguard funds.