Today I deleted some positions because of negative or lack of positive momentum. The stocks included Gravity Co (GRVY), Glowpoint (GLOW), Anworth Mortgage Assets (ANH), American Realty Investors (ARL), and Alliance Healthcare Services (AIQ).

ANH was formed to invest in mortgage assets,including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations, mortgage loans and other securities representing interests in, or obligations backed by, pools of mortgage loans which can be readily financed and short-term investments.

The view of optimists is that some sort of compromise can be reached, where the effects of policies to reduce outlays and increase tax revenues can be achieved in a balanced and gradual way to avoid jolting the economy into recession.