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Strategies & Market Trends : Market Gems:Stocks w/Strong Earnings and High Tech. Rank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: katy hohmann who wrote (80699)	1/26/2000 8:28:00 PM
From: Jenna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Mutual Funds..just started to respect them.. I think its because we've (swing/position traders) been ahead of the mutual funds for the last few years that they had to smarten up. My last mutual fund gave back 35% in 1 year in a bull market and it was pretty 'aggressive' for its time.. Now I think the mutual fund managers are just watching the increases in the stocks and not being entirely iliterate, they adopted some similar methods to filter rejects from winners. I am only following about 1/2 dozen and 2 are brand new and not even tested. I don't feel with my lack of experience in Mutual Funds, I can do more than just point out a particular one every once in a while..I usually start with the stock and go from there checking to see which mutual fund matched my own list. This year it was Van Kempen Aggressive Growth, so I took some of my trading profits and bought some last month.. Now I see its closed. The more the mutual fund has of my own picks the more 'compatible' it is for my investment style which is rather aggressive. My Israeli Mutual Fund did very well but then so did the few Israeli tech stocks I own.. My husband's portfolio did on average about 220% and that is because he wouldn't let me put in enough trailing stops or I would have had it at 400%. My trading portfolio did way better than his portfolio and it shouldn't have been that way.. But when you hold on to BGEN through thick and thin and won't part with stocks like ARTG when the time is right, there are consequences.