Quick look at Start of Year

Here are a few quick snapshots of how my portfolio is doing. I am loving the transition to the mechanical approach, not only because it is doing well, but since I have more stocks, a blow-up like TSRA today doesn't kill me. Also, I am less tempted to micro-manage, which generally doesn't work well for me.

KHD was up another 8% today as the market seems to like their plan. PVSW was oddly up 10% as they "narrowed" their guidance (Pervasive Software Updates Guidance for the December Quarter). And BKE was up nicely as they had a solid December (The Buckle, Inc. Reports December 2009 Net Sales).

Here is my inception to date graph. Even without the 2 point error I found at year-end, I would still be above breakeven. I can't even begin to explain how good it feels to be in the black.


Then here is a little table I pulled together that shows inception to date by year-end and annual gains/losses. Note these may not always match the indices as they reflect when I invested the dollars.

MFI Annual Performance
	ITD	Annual
2006	10.74%	10.74%
2007	-6.57%	-15.63%
2008	-41.60%	-37.50%
2009	0.71%	72.47%
2010	4.71%	3.97%
IWV Annual Performance
	ITD	Annual
2006	11.23%	11.23%
2007	4.65%	-5.91%
2008	-30.54%	-33.63%
2009	-13.95%	23.87%
2010	-11.80%	2.50%

Then here is how my mechanical stocks have fared that are in my portfolio:

Still Own	1
		Values
Symbol	Date	Bought	Price	Pct Gain	IWV Gain	Diff
AGX	10/22/2009	$12.31	$14.43	17.2%	4.6%	12.6%
AMED	9/8/2009	$35.86	$50.55	41.0%	11.2%	29.7%
BIOC	7/30/2009	$3.70	$4.30	16.2%	16.6%	-0.4%
BKE	8/17/2009	$26.66	$32.34	28.8%	16.6%	12.2%
BR	7/30/2009	$16.53	$22.54	38.1%	16.6%	21.5%
CBI	7/30/2009	$13.62	$22.52	65.3%	16.6%	48.8%
CBPO	12/4/2009	$9.15	$12.80	39.9%	3.5%	36.4%
CEU	8/26/2009	$5.40	$7.15	32.4%	11.0%	21.4%
CMFO	10/30/2009	$4.30	$8.34	94.0%	10.8%	83.1%
CYTK	12/21/2009	$2.59	$3.12	20.5%	2.2%	18.2%
ESI	11/3/2009	$93.61	$102.47	9.5%	9.7%	-0.3%
FRX	6/9/2009	$23.10	$31.37	35.8%	22.4%	13.4%
GIGM	7/27/2009	$5.02	$3.32	-33.9%	17.0%	-50.9%
GTLS	8/27/2009	$19.50	$19.64	0.7%	11.0%	-10.2%
HCKT	5/7/2009	$2.30	$2.67	16.1%	28.1%	-11.9%
IDCC	11/17/2009	$23.62	$26.63	12.7%	3.2%	9.6%
JCOM	9/30/2009	$23.00	$20.39	-11.3%	7.9%	-19.3%
JTX	6/29/2009	$5.55	$4.93	-11.1%	24.6%	-35.7%
	6/30/2009	$5.41	$4.93	-8.8%	25.3%	-34.2%
PFE	6/9/2009	$14.13	$18.53	33.4%	22.4%	11.0%
PRIM	9/30/2009	$7.30	$7.73	6.2%	7.9%	-1.7%
PVSW	8/18/2009	$4.96	$5.24	5.6%	15.5%	-9.8%
QKLS	11/20/2009	$5.75	$6.83	18.8%	5.1%	13.7%
RGR	10/30/2009	$10.59	$10.47	-0.2%	10.8%	-11.0%
RTN	7/27/2009	$45.61	$51.35	13.9%	17.0%	-3.1%
SHE	1/5/2010	$5.31	$6.19	16.6%	0.5%	16.0%
UTA	5/29/2009	$7.90	$10.91	38.1%	25.5%	12.6%
WTW	9/21/2009	$26.00	$29.38	14.3%	6.6%	7.7%
Average Open				19.6%	13.2%	6.4%
Still Own	0
		Values
Symbol	Date	Bought	Sold	Pct Gain	IWV Gain	Diff
AHCI	1/5/2009	$1.11	$1.73	55.9%	0.2%	55.7%
CKSW	1/5/2009	$1.99	$5.52	177.4%	26.7%	######
DBTK	3/16/2009	$6.70	$7.05	5.2%	14.7%	-9.5%
DELL	2/23/2009	$8.55	$9.52	11.3%	6.5%	4.9%
	2/27/2009	$8.66	$9.52	10.0%	7.4%	2.5%
FRX	6/9/2009	$23.10	$29.08	25.9%	11.1%	14.8%
GME	6/22/2009	$22.64	$25.76	13.8%	24.5%	-10.7%
	6/23/2009	$20.63	$22.65	9.8%	16.5%	-6.7%
PFE	6/5/2009	$14.46	$16.27	13.6%	11.2%	2.4%
RST	5/7/2009	$29.72	$27.00	-9.2%	0.2%	-9.3%
	5/8/2010	$28.78	$27.00	-6.2%	0.2%	-6.4%
SEPR	8/17/2009	$17.86	$23.09	29.3%	1.4%	27.9%
SOLR	2/23/2009	$4.70	$8.09	72.1%	6.5%	65.7%
UTA	6/23/2009	$8.37	$10.90	30.2%	2.7%	27.5%
VM	6/5/2009	$4.38	$5.18	18.3%	4.5%	13.8%
	6/23/2009	$3.11	$4.33	39.2%	2.7%	36.5%
	6/6/2009	$4.23	$5.18	22.5%	4.5%	18.0%
Average Closed				30.5%	8.3%	22.2%
Open and Closed				23.8%	11.4%	12.4%

Finally, here is my current holdings:

Stock	Gain/Loss
WILC	192%
CMFO	94%
KHD	67%
CBI	65%
UEPS	58%
QXM	42%
AMED	41%
CBPO	40%
UTA	38%
BR	38%
FRX	36%
PFE	33%
CEU	32%
LIWA	32%
BKE	29%
ENDP	23%
CYTK	20%
QKLS	19%
AGX	17%
SHE	17%
BIOC	16%
HCKT	16%
WTW	14%
RTN	14%
IDCC	13%
ESI	9%
CF	8%
PRIM	6%
PVSW	6%
GTLS	1%
KSW	0%
RGR	0%
JTX	-10%
WH	-11%
JCOM	-11%
QCOR	-12%
TSRA	-16%
GIGM	-34%
CHCG	-41%