My Mechanical Update

As my ten faithful readers know, I have been tracking mechanical portfolios for the past 2 + years that select stocks when they are new to the MFI screens in the past 12 months. So far, this approach has really worked well. I then started migrating my own portfolio to this approach, though it is a bit difficult to fully implement in reality. I now have about 65% of my portfolio invested this way, and it has done very well for me as well, with my average open/closed stock beating the benchmark by more than 6.5 points. Here are my past and current holdings and how they've fared (note - I am glad I bailed out of JTX, it has dropped from my $2.20 sale price to $1.56):

Still Own	1
		Values
Symbol	Date	Bought	Price	Pct Gain	IWV Gain	Pct Diff
AGX	10/22/09	$12.31	$11.80	-4.2%	10.3%	-14.5%
AMED	9/8/09	$35.86	$60.52	68.8%	17.4%	51.4%
BIOC	7/30/09	$3.70	$5.03	35.9%	23.0%	12.9%
BKE	8/17/09	$26.66	$38.32	52.0%	23.0%	29.0%
BR	7/30/09	$16.53	$22.57	39.1%	23.0%	16.0%
CBI	7/30/09	$13.62	$24.31	78.5%	23.0%	55.5%
CBPO	12/4/09	$9.15	$11.40	24.6%	9.2%	15.4%
CEU	8/26/09	$5.40	$5.40	0.0%	17.2%	-17.2%
CMFO	10/30/09	$4.30	$6.16	43.3%	16.9%	26.3%
CYTK	12/21/09	$2.59	$3.30	27.4%	7.9%	19.5%
DNB	3/8/2010	$69.93	$76.31	9.1%	4.9%	4.2%
ESI	11/3/09	$93.61	$114.06	21.8%	15.8%	6.0%
FRX	6/9/09	$23.10	$27.80	20.3%	29.2%	-8.8%
GIGM	7/27/09	$5.02	$3.07	-38.8%	23.5%	-62.4%
GTLS	8/27/09	$19.50	$24.44	25.3%	17.1%	8.2%
GXDX	1/29/2010	$31.69	$38.31	20.9%	10.3%	10.6%
HCKT	5/7/09	$2.30	$2.98	29.6%	35.2%	-5.5%
IDCC	11/17/09	$23.62	$29.35	24.3%	8.9%	15.4%
JCOM	9/30/09	$23.00	$24.44	6.3%	13.9%	-7.6%
ODSY	3/1/2010	$17.72	$19.01	7.3%	7.9%	-0.6%
PFE	6/9/09	$14.13	$16.80	22.4%	29.2%	-6.7%
PRIM	9/30/09	$7.30	$8.31	14.5%	13.9%	0.6%
PRSC	3/12/2010	$14.35	$17.15	19.5%	3.6%	15.9%
PVSW	8/18/09	$4.96	$5.13	3.4%	21.8%	-18.4%
QKLS	11/20/09	$5.75	$6.02	4.7%	10.9%	-6.2%
RAI	1/20/2010	$53.55	$53.84	2.2%	4.9%	-2.7%
RGR	10/30/09	$10.59	$13.91	32.3%	16.9%	15.3%
RTN	7/27/09	$45.61	$58.32	30.0%	23.5%	6.5%
SHE	1/5/10	$5.31	$8.25	55.4%	6.1%	49.3%
TNDM	2/27/2010	$15.31	$16.81	9.8%	10.2%	-0.4%
TRMS	1/14/2010	$2.46	$2.47	0.4%	4.9%	-4.5%
UIS	2/5/2010	$34.07	$36.60	7.4%	14.1%	-6.6%
	3/1/2010	$35.22	$36.60	3.9%	7.9%	-4.0%
UTA	5/29/09	$7.90	$9.27	17.3%	32.4%	-15.1%
WTW	9/21/09	$26.00	$27.56	8.0%	12.5%	-4.5%
Average Open				20.7%	15.7%	4.9%
Still Own	0
		Values
Symbol	Date	Bought	Sold	Pct Gain	IWV Gain	Pct Diff
AHCI	1/5/09	$1.11	$1.73	55.9%	0.2%	55.7%
CKSW	1/5/09	$1.99	$5.52	177.4%	23.3%	154.1%
DBTK	3/16/09	$6.70	$7.05	5.2%	14.7%	-9.5%
DELL	2/23/09	$8.55	$9.52	11.3%	6.5%	4.9%
	2/27/09	$8.66	$9.52	10.0%	7.4%	2.5%
FRX	6/9/09	$23.10	$29.08	25.9%	11.1%	14.8%
GME	6/22/09	$22.64	$25.76	13.8%	24.5%	-10.7%
	6/23/09	$20.63	$22.65	9.8%	16.5%	-6.7%
JTX	6/29/09	$5.55	$2.20	-60.3%	26.3%	-86.6%
	6/30/09	$5.41	$2.20	-59.3%	27.0%	-86.3%
PFE	6/5/09	$14.46	$16.27	13.6%	11.2%	2.4%
RST	5/7/09	$29.72	$27.00	-9.2%	0.2%	-9.3%
	5/8/10	$28.78	$27.00	-6.2%	-22.8%	16.6%
SEPR	8/17/09	$17.86	$23.09	29.3%	1.4%	27.9%
SOLR	2/23/09	$4.70	$8.09	72.1%	6.5%	65.7%
UTA	6/23/09	$8.37	$10.90	30.2%	2.7%	27.5%
VM	6/5/09	$4.38	$5.18	18.3%	4.5%	13.8%
	6/23/09	$3.11	$4.33	39.2%	2.7%	36.5%
	6/6/09	$4.23	$5.18	22.5%	4.5%	18.0%
Average Closed				21.0%	8.9%	12.2%
Open and Closed				20.4%	13.7%	6.7%