October 30th 2009 Tracking Portfolio

My October 30th 2009 Tracking Portfolio hit its anniversary yesterday. It was a winner beating the benchmark 22.7% to 18.3%. As a reminder, my tracking portfolios consist of the top 50 stocks over 100m from the screen.

Stock	Percent Change	52 week low	Mkt Cap
MIPS	272%	3.53	178
QCOR	170%	3.33	290
DIVX	95%	N/A	157
IPHS	95%	17.35	412
CNU	72%	2.57	156
ttt	67%	6.60	277
USMO	67%	9.84	246
PRM	60%	2.40	111
SOLR	57%	4.51	752
PPD	52%	30.68	433
DLX	52%	12.57	729
RGR	51%	9.70	203
VGR	42%	13.50	1,014
CBI	34%	16.64	1,863
EXBD	32%	19.58	819
TPC	32%	15.56	857
WTW	30%	24.39	2,041
VM	30%	N/A	269
JCOM	29%	18.79	900
IILG	29%	10.76	629
ITWO	25%	N/A	347
KBR	25%	17.28	3,283
GHM	20%	13.09	140
GTLS	18%	13.85	563
DRC	16%	27.42	2,429
LO	16%	70.24	12,513
PRGX	16%	3.60	119
INT	12%	22.19	1,507
FLR	10%	39.77	7,989
EME	9%	22.06	1,555
BR	9%	18.51	2,899
FIX	7%	9.51	418
CHKE	6%	15.68	167
RTN	5%	42.65	17,342
PRIM	4%	5.62	238
CEU	-4%	-	114
TSRA	-11%	14.96	1,091
EPAX	-11%	10.18	239
JEC	-12%	33.70	5,240
FWLT	-16%	20.33	3,539
UNTD	-18%	4.75	670
BBND	-20%	2.60	245
CSKI	-23%	6.25	198
ESI	-29%	50.00	3,338
UEPS	-30%	10.72	953
AGX	-31%	2.95	167
AMED	-36%	22.82	1,111
UTA	-52%	3.25	160
GIGM	-58%	1.71	217
JTX	-80%	0.75	141

Here is a listing of all the monthly tracking portfolios:

Date	Total	IWV
1/6/2006	16.0%	10.9%
2/17/2006	21.2%	14.6%
3/29/2006	13.0%	9.6%
4/7/2006	10.3%	12.1%
5/12/2006	20.4%	18.6%
5/31/2006	29.2%	23.3%
6/30/2006	22.4%	20.0%
7/31/2006	19.7%	17.3%
8/31/2006	13.0%	13.3%
9/28/2006	12.7%	14.6%
10/27/2006	10.3%	12.0%
11/29/2006	-0.3%	4.8%
12/28/2006	-6.9%	3.4%
1/26/2007	-10.2%	-6.6%
2/27/2007	-3.7%	-1.0%
3/26/2007	-9.8%	-5.5%
4/27/2007	-10.9%	-5.0%
5/29/2007	-11.5%	-6.3%
7/3/2007	-30.0%	-15.6%
7/30/2007	-19.9%	-11.5%
8/30/2007	-12.5%	-8.7%
9/27/2007	-19.0%	-18.2%
11/2/2007	-40.4%	-34.3%
11/28/2007	-40.1%	-38.3%
12/28/2007	-36.3%	-40.0%
1/25/2008	-36.4%	-35.9%
2/26/2008	-51.7%	-41.5%
3/24/2008	-40.9%	-36.8%
4/25/2008	-25.6%	-31.0%
5/28/2008	-22.2%	-33.6%
7/2/2008	-11.7%	-25.3%
7/29/2008	-10.5%	-20.9%
8/29/2008	-13.8%	-17.9%
9/26/2008	-4.3%	-10.0%
10/31/2008	18.7%	13.9%
11/26/2008	50.9%	27.7%
12/26/2008	48.9%	32.3%
1/23/2009	59.3%	36.4%
2/27/2009	92.8%	55.6%
3/27/2009	85.8%	48.1%
4/24/2009	69.7%	45.8%
5/29/2009	31.8%	22.8%
6/29/2009	21.3%	24.0%
7/29/2009	19.5%	15.9%
8/28/2009	7.4%	8.8%
9/25/2009	12.6%	12.4%
10/30/2009	22.7%	18.3%
11/27/2009	19.8%	12.4%
12/31/2009	9.9%	8.8%
1/22/2010	9.9%	10.9%
2/26/2010	6.6%	9.4%
3/25/2010	-1.7%	3.1%
4/23/2010	-5.4%	-1.9%
5/28/2010	8.7%	9.1%
6/29/2010	14.2%	14.7%
7/29/2010	6.8%	8.5%
9/2/2010	12.0%	9.3%
9/24/2010	3.7%	3.7%
Grand Total	5.8%	3.1%
Closed	5.5%	2.0%
Open	7.7%	8.0%
std	32.5%	24.8%

Here is where a $100,000 invested evenly over first 12 months would have you (standard = this approach, new = only picking stocks new to the screen in past 12 months, dividend = picking stocks with greater than 2.5% yield and index = Russell 3000)

Standard	New	Dividend	Index
110,596	108,752	196,081	102,476

Finally, it is 50/50 now. Of the 58 portfolios listed above, MFI has won (or is leading) 29 and the Russell 3000 has won 29. That is an improvement on when I last looked, suggesting MFI is recently gaining ground!