Juniper Networks (JNPR)

Buy. The JNPR buy was well timed. The stock had been trading in a triangle formation for about a month, then broke out. I waited a couple of days to be sure that the break-out was real, then bought.

Sell. The first week of June was not kind of technology stocks in general. JNPR ended the week with a big loss (as did many other Nasdaq stocks) and followed up with another loss of Monday. Although Tuesday was an up-day, it was meager by comparison with Friday's loss, and I decided to lock in a some very nice profits.

It was very tempting to hold on — the force of greed is very powerful indeed — but with technology stocks rather unsettled by announcements from Texas Instruments and Motorola, it didn't feel like a good time to take a chance, especially since I'd done so well already.