There's No Business Like Shoo Business

Ok, guess I'll start with the weekly graph. As you can see, my MFI portfolio (magenta) was running in parallel with the Russell 3000 benchmark for the past several weeks. But, this was not a good week, and I fell about $3,000 back. That benchmark is a tough and gritty competitor. For those of you not wanting to "risk" MFI, I highly recommend dollar cost averaging in one or two diversified ETFs.

All together now:

There's no business like "shoo" business If you tell me it's so Traveling through the country is so thrilling Standing out in front on opening nights Smiling as you watch the benches filling And see your billing up there in lights

Who out there knows where that song is from? Hint, I can hear Ethel Merman singing it.

Sadly, my newest stock didn't exactly get off to a roaring start. I bought SHOO when it was down 7% (32.35), but it proceded to drop further.

Oh well, I do plan to be in this for a year. Not much to talk about regarding my portfolio today. Up a very average 0.44%.

Here is how my portfolio stands, down about 1% to the benchmark.

Current Portfolio
Stock	Purchase Date	Cost	Current	Gain
PNCL	05/04/06	$6.68	$17.65	164.2%
UST	02/24/06	$39.36	$56.00	48.0%
TGIS	05/01/06	$10.34	$14.34	41.1%
ANF	03/02/06	$61.13	$79.90	31.6%
MSTR	02/24/06	$94.36	$121.86	29.1%
VPHM	09/11/06	$11.79	$15.00	27.2%
ASEI	10/05/06	$45.85	$56.26	22.7%
CHKE	05/16/06	$37.55	$43.28	20.4%
PGI	04/07/06	$7.71	$9.13	18.4%
MTEX	05/22/06	$13.11	$15.13	17.2%
BBSI	09/06/06	$19.56	$22.72	16.5%
DLX	04/03/06	$26.41	$27.98	9.4%
BLDR	09/18/06	$15.91	$17.34	9.0%
ISNS	07/07/06	$13.17	$14.31	8.6%
MGLN	02/24/06	$38.34	$40.55	5.8%
ELX	02/24/06	$17.85	$18.50	3.6%
TRLG	06/13/06	$17.02	$17.38	2.1%
KG	05/31/06	$17.31	$17.50	1.1%
PONR	05/09/06	$30.48	$29.55	-3.1%
SHOO	01/17/07	$32.36	$30.94	-4.4%
FTO	05/15/06	$28.76	$27.12	-5.3%
PACR	03/17/06	$32.53	$29.30	-8.1%
RAIL	05/26/06	$58.18	$52.93	-8.9%
PTEN	02/27/06	$26.72	$23.61	-11.0%
TBL	03/15/06	$34.50	$29.64	-14.1%
ORCT	06/02/06	$11.83	$9.83	-16.9%
EZEN.OB	06/19/06	$2.84	$2.12	-25.2%
FDG	05/31/06	$34.03	$21.54	-29.6%
HW	02/24/06	$33.04	$23.21	-29.8%
Gain/Loss Open Positions ($):				$24,965
Gain/Loss Open Positions (%):				7.5%
Gain/Loss Closed Positions ($):				$9,435
Gain/Loss Closed Positions (%):				18.2%
Total Gain/Loss ($):				$34,400
Benchmark Gain/Loss ($):				$37,550
Annual IRR:				15.5%
Total Gain/Loss (%):				10.4%