Friday, August 17, 2007

Whew

Not sure if it is over, but today was a relief. Yes my MFI was stomped again by the Russell 3000, but it felt good to be solidly in the black. And my overall portfolio was very good. Cramer mentioned that he thinks the market will go even higher as so many people were short before the Fed announcement that they will take some time to unwind their positions. I wonder if some people were totally whip-sawed by the whole thing.

I am a whole 0.8% up and am well behind the indices... however, I am still a believer in MFI. We'll see how things look a year from now, I have trailed the indices before. I guess I don't have much else to say. My commodity stocks took a huge hit this week as fears that global growth would slow. So for history, my graph and individual stock performance are listed below. I sincerely hope this is the low water mark for both.


Then here is my list of current holdings:

Current Portfolio
Stock Purchase Date Cost Current Gain
TGB 4/16/2007 $2.64 $3.86 46.2%
ASEI 10/5/2006 $45.85 $63.88 39.8%
BBSI 9/6/2006 $19.56 $24.70 27.4%
VALU 5/29/2007 $44.01 $51.16 16.9%
FDG 3/8/2007 $25.45 $28.62 14.8%
LRCX 7/3/2007 $47.51 $54.12 13.9%
THO 3/26/2007 $40.30 $43.70 8.6%
CHKE 7/17/2007 $36.70 $39.08 6.5%
TCK 8/16/2007 $36.50 $38.77 6.2%
KSW 5/10/2007 $6.48 $6.81 5.2%
DGX 3/17/2007 $52.11 $54.12 4.2%
FTO 1/10/2007 $35.16 $36.19 3.1%
KSWS 7/27/2007 $23.94 $24.64 2.9%
VSNT 7/27/2007 $19.52 $19.54 0.1%
HGG 8/3/2007 $13.48 $13.45 -0.2%
JTX 4/9/2007 $28.70 $28.16 -1.5%
RAIL 2/16/2007 $45.54 $43.86 -3.5%
UNTD 5/1/2007 $14.51 $13.66 -4.9%
WSTG 5/15/2007 $14.98 $13.88 -5.7%
WNR 7/27/2007 $53.64 $49.93 -6.9%
PNCL 2/9/2007 $17.07 $15.68 -8.1%
NXG 12/20/2006 $3.04 $2.72 -10.5%
TGIS 11/30/2006 $9.18 $8.01 -11.7%
CHCG.OB 6/5/2007 $6.10 $5.35 -12.3%
WPCS 6/18/2007 $11.89 $9.80 -17.6%
AEO 7/10/2007 $28.42 $22.23 -21.4%
UG 6/13/2007 $12.09 $9.30 -23.0%
VPHM 9/11/2006 $12.11 $8.96 -26.0%
PACR 1/3/2007 $28.26 $20.13 -27.7%
NOOF 4/27/2007 $8.59 $5.99 -28.8%
GVHR 4/3/2007 $19.17 $12.42 -34.3%
USHS 6/25/2007 $11.22 $7.35 -34.5%
HW 12/27/2006 $24.00 $15.14 -36.9%
IVAC 11/23/2006 $23.52 $14.68 -37.6%
EGY 12/13/2006 $6.42 $3.84 -40.2%










Gain/Loss Open Positions ($): ($37,722)
Gain/Loss Open Positions (%): -6.2%
Gain/Loss Closed Positions ($): $41,502
Gain/Loss Closed Positions (%): 9.2%
Total Gain/Loss ($): $3,781
Benchmark Gain/Loss ($): $39,336
Annual IRR: 0.8%
Total Gain/Loss (%): 0.7%

1 comment:

jb said...

I feel your pain! Please make it stop! When I make a quick MSExcel chart for my gain/loss, it looks nearly identical to yours. Fortunately for me, I don't have as much at stake as you so the scale is much less. The last few weeks have been brutal.

31-Jul-07 IRR = 8.5% from start
Russell 2500 = 7.2%

17-Aug-07 IRR = -2.8% from start
Russel 2500 = 6.0%

YTD IRR = -5.3%
Russel 2500 = 1.1%

My start date for initial purchases was 02-Feb-06. I make my picks randomly from the top 50 over $50 million. I compare my returns to the Russell 2500 because it is composed of small to mid-cap stocks, which is mainly what I hold in my MFI account.

This is not too good so far, but what can you do but grin and bear it? I plan stay the course for the next few years?

Keep up the good work on your blog.
cheers,
j