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Strategies & Market Trends : January Effect 2006 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Q. who wrote (68)1/31/2006 6:51:18 PM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 79
 
The Results for this year's portfolio ("unaudited, pro-forma"):

-All stocks are still trading.
-Low priced stocks had a worse performance on average
-Biotechs did better than any other group
-Those results are measured at the end of the trading day, Jan 31st pre-Google, of course. Tomorrow things might screw up a little.

As at end of today, the portfolio was up 11.15%, as compared to the RUT being up 8.90% (733.20 /673.22). This is not a significant outperformance.

Next year I will focus on buying fewer stocks, despite the 27-something portfolio had the pleasant effect of exhibiting a very small volatility. 

ADAT 4:00pm 2.26  1.93 +17.10% 
ARBX 4:00pm 6.56  7    -6.29% 
AXYX 3:59pm 0.88  0.82 +7.32% 
BCGI 4:00pm 1.10  1.09 +0.92% 
CABG 3:59pm 1.15  1.14 +0.88% 
CALL 4:00pm 4.88  5.08 -3.94% 
CNVX 4:00pm 1.66  1.37 +21.17% 
CVV  3:59pm 3.76  2.9  +29.66% 
ECGI 3:59pm 1.51  1.48 +2.03% 
ECR  4:00pm 2.22  2.26 -1.77% 
FVRL 3:59pm 5.85  4.00 +46.25% 
IDSA 3:59pm 4.11  3    +37.00% 
MAMA 3:59pm 2.97  2.25 +32.00%
MEDC 3:58pm 0.52  0.52 N/A 
MOVI 4:00pm 5.45  5.5  -0.91% 
NABI 4:00pm 3.77  3.34 +12.87% 
NEXM 3:59pm 1.05  0.78 +34.62% 
ODMO 3:59pm 1.439 1.41 +2.06% 
SCLN 4:00pm 2.28  2.31 -1.30% 
SMAN 3:52pm 1.35  1.4  -3.57% 
SMD  2:34pm 0.30  0.38 -21.05%  
SMRA 4:00pm 0.72  0.75 -4.00% 
SNSS 3:56pm 4.71  5    -5.80% 
SONT 3:59pm 0.80  0.44 +81.82% 
SQNM 4:00pm 0.699 0.70 -0.14% 
XCYT 3:59pm 0.79  0.6  +31.67% 
YAKC 3:59pm 3.20  3.09 +3.56%


So, the concentrated ~ Portfolio handily whipped me this year. I had the bad luck to buy some stock which would even fall in january. 10 Stocks had a negative january performance of on average, 4% which is unacceptable in a bull market. On the other hand, most biotechs did really well: Favrille (i got out over $6.40), SONT, XCYT - the aquisition story, CNVX (same), NEXM a very odd one (which I unfortunately sold at no gain).


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