Getting Technical

Pretty funny. I think Friday was the flatest day I have had all year. My entire portfolio changed by $25. At least it was up! Wathcing Tropical Storm Ernesto in the Caribbean. It has all the makings of trouble. It is sure to make the Oil & Gas stocks spike on Monday. My PTEN stock is in my IRA and I am tempted to sell it if it spikes sharply and then will buy it back post euphoria. We'll see, I am just toying with the idea.

I have the weekly graph below, not exactly a banner week as I pass my 6 month anniversary of my 1st MFI purchase. I hope the next 6 months are better.

I want to give props to Randy Harmelink on the Yahoo MFI board. He had a superb add-in that I downloaded (Re: Kudos to Randy). There are 2 that I found super useful. The first allows you to write a function in Excel that brings a stock value straight from Yahoo into a spreadsheet. No cutting and pasting, no macros, no queries. It is super cool and if you have a question he's willing to help. I know both of my faithful readers will not overwhelm him! The second formula allows you to get the historical price for a stock! Prett neat, huh? I used this formula to update my graphs. I didn't have the stock prices the Friday I was on vacation and was too lazy to look the 29 stocks up. But with Randy's formulas, it was a snap. So the graph now does not have the interpolated value from August 4th.

Now here is my weekly update as well on stocks and their prices. As you can see, I am down 6.5%.

Stock	Cost	Current	Gain
NCOG	$19.39	$27.05	39.5%
UST	$39.36	$52.71	36.8%
FTO	$28.76	$35.63	24.0%
MGLN	$38.34	$46.75	21.9%
PCU	$78.13	$89.95	21.2%
TRLG	$17.02	$18.98	11.5%
MTEX	$13.11	$13.74	5.4%
NSS	$45.89	$47.05	2.5%
PTEN	$27.74	$27.89	0.8%
ANF	$61.13	$61.38	0.7%
PNCL	$6.68	$6.68	0.0%
PGI	$7.71	$7.65	-0.8%
CHKE	$37.55	$36.09	-2.3%
TGIS	$10.34	$9.92	-2.9%
RAIL	$58.18	$55.91	-3.9%
MSTR	$94.36	$90.05	-4.6%
KG	$17.31	$16.45	-5.0%
FDG	$34.03	$30.73	-7.1%
ISNS	$13.17	$11.71	-11.1%
IVII	$10.93	$9.60	-12.2%
ELX	$17.85	$15.67	-12.2%
PACR	$32.53	$26.67	-17.1%
EZEN	$2.84	$2.30	-18.9%
TBL	$34.50	$26.99	-21.8%
ORCT	$11.83	$9.13	-22.8%
PONR	$32.97	$22.77	-30.9%
DLX	$26.36	$17.04	-32.9%
PTSC	$1.31	$0.86	-34.7%
OVTI	$27.79	$16.62	-40.2%
HW	$37.42	$21.84	-41.6%
Total Gain/Loss			-$18,714
Benchmark Gain/Loss			$1,279
Annual IRR			-16.9%
% Gain/Loss			-6.51%

Now the final technical part of this technical post. Yahoo has a new feature which they say allows you to bring in real stuff into blogs... I want to try it. Here goes! (hmm, better save 1st).