Wah!

Wah! What a dreadful week for me and my MFI portfolio. It was so bad, I don't think I will post my weekly graph... yet. Down 1.3% today while benchmarks were flat. ISNS was down over 10% in a real head-scratcher. Yes, the markets just go nuts some time. I am sure I'll make it up over the next two weeks, but it is a wee bit frustrating. Wow, even BBSI was down 7.5%. I may have to buy some on Monday, that is ridiculous!

In other news, I sent a note to my buddy in California (a famous net personality). He has agreed to write Perl Script for me to pull 5 years of historical data from the Fidelity data bases for a universe of stocks. Once I have that, I can calculate historical ROICs and EYs and backtest the MF. Assuming it works, I can then use the data pulled to see if there are any leading indicators of better than average performance.

I do know it won't be quite perfect. I expect my data may have re-statements. I will also just be working with the universe of stocks today rather than what was there 5 years ago.

Randy in Yahoo Groups posted 2 great links to get data which feeds directly into an Excel spreadsheet:

http://ogres-crypt.com/php/fidelity-financials-all.php?sym=OPMR&per=a&wb=y
http://ogres-crypt.com/php/fidelity-financials-all.php?sym=OPMR&per=q&wb=y

http://ogres-crypt.com/php/advfn-financials-all.php?per=a&wb=y&sym=OPMR
http://ogres-crypt.com/php/advfn-financials-all.php?per=q&wb=y&sym=OPMR

Ok, time to watch my Mavericks!