Two days away from the one year mark on this portfolio. Hoping for a return of $100k even on about $150k averaged invested amount during the year. Not a bad rate of return considering the massive dive in tech stocks this portfolio survived. I'm not sure really how to calculate the average invested amount. Out of pocket was up to just under $500k by October 1998; but then it has mostly been a portfolio played with profits taken so the average amount invested might well be more like $100k even. It is really a complex mathmatics question beyond my patience to answer. Anyway you look at it; it's been a good year of solid trades in mostly dogs. It took massive averaging down to pull it off; plus a cooperative market. Playing the tech dogs like this though yields similar returns year after year; a great method.
Consider that I had no more information than casual internet research using just Silicon Investor, chart eyeballing, a casual knowledge of the technologies of the various companies, Yahoo daily news blurbs, Briefings comments, and about 5 hours spend per week with the market watching and trades. If you consider how amateur and how little time was put into this; often not even watching the market for days at a time; it is really amazing. If I had spend a full time effort and traded this all with more TA and patience; it could have easily been 3 times the return.
Thu May 27 12:05am ET - U.S. Markets open in 9 hours 25 minutes. Symbol Last Trade Change Volume More Info Shrs Paid Gain Value
AFCI May 26 10 11/16 +1 1/8 +11.76% 1,964,400 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 1,000 7.03125 $3,656.25 $10,687.50
HTCH May 26 23 11/16 -1/8 -0.52% 216,500 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 500 20.125 $1,781.25 $11,843.75
PAIR May 26 12 13/16 +1 13/16 +16.48% 3,882,300 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 1,000 7.0625 $5,750.00 $12,812.50
SFAM May 26 13 1/16 +9/16 +4.50% 399,800 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 500 11.5 $781.25 $6,531.25
VNTV May 26 9 3/4 -5/8 -6.02% 333,600 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 1,000 6.1875 $3,562.50 $9,750.00
VRLK May 26 3 13/32 -3/32 -2.68% 35,700 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 3,000 5.00 -$4,781.25 $10,218.75
WSTL May 26 6 5/16 0 0.00% 582,300 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs
Profile , Research , Insider 500 6.375 -$31.25 $3,156.25
7 symbols
Totals(USD):
$10,718.75 Current Portfolio Profit
$54,281.25 Amount Currently Invested
Add:
$500 from LARS trade; $612.50 from VLSI trade; $1000.00 from PROX
trade;$1525.00 from ADCT trade; $0.00 ADPT; -$100.00 HLIT; $175.00 ORTL;
$1625.00 QWST; $2400 from AFCI; $712.50 from MRVC; -$31.25 from ADPT;
$100 from CREAF; $2000 from WDC; $450 from AMAT; $437.50 from VTEL;
$775.00 from SAWS; $1900.00 from WSTL; $562.20 from CUBE, $1150 from
PROX; -$1500.00 WSTL; -$2625.00 AWRE; $562.50 VST; $2100.00 AFCI;
$1062.50 JBL; $7500.00 PRLS; $4900.00 RMDY; $525.00 CUBE; $5562.50
AWRE; $87.50 CHKPF; $$1325.00 MRVC; $8437.50 AFCI; $7212.50 PAIR;
$9687.50 PRLS; $426.00 WSTL; -$6062.50 VRTL; $3937.50 VNTV; $112.50
ADCT; $112.50 VLSI; ; $12,012.50 RMDY; $3125.00 WSTL; $1500.00 AXNT;
-470.00 VRTL.
Equals $85,308.12 total profits taken since starting this portfolio May 22,1998.
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