I Just Bought My First New Stock in 8 Months, and This Is It

I'd like to think all investors are picky to some degree, otherwise we'd simply throw a dart at a newspaper and buy whatever it lands on. But some of us are pickier than others -- and I certainly would lump myself in that crowd. Since September, when I bought my first shares of Intercept Pharmaceuticals, I hadn't added a new stock to my portfolio.

Sure, I added to some existing positions since then, but nothing had caught my eye enough to pull the trigger and click the buy button on my brokerage account... until this past Monday.