My Spiffy 50 vs Ed's Talking Stock

Ed's Talking Stock Match-Up

It is been a while since I compared my Spiffy 50 stocks that I picked December 3rd last year versus Ed McGonigal. Ed had his best month in September, largely because he was on the sidelines waiting to open a new brokerage account for (gasp) day-trading. I was stunned when I saw he was going that route as he is a highly emotional/volatile traders, who changes his view regularly. The other day he was saying we will be re-testing Dow 666. We'll see, but I'd be surprised if it got that bad.

Since he started October 5th (day-trading) he has really struggled. I do feel badly for him, but I also feel badly for people who read his blog and follow his advice... which is all over the place.

My spiffy 50 has definitely had its own warts. I had stocks such as CCME and EESC that are verging on worthless. But I am ahead by about 10 points. With a much lower trading cost as well.

stock	Initial	Shares	Current	Daily Change	Y-day	Current Value	Total Change
afam	35.17	56.87	18.46	1.21%	1,037	1,050	-47.51%
agx	8.43	237.25	10.21	-0.58%	2,436	2,422	21.12%
amed	28.49	70.20	13.19	6.80%	867	926	-53.70%
apol	35.35	56.58	43.53	1.97%	2,415	2,463	23.14%
azn	47.99	41.68	46.83	-0.83%	1,968	1,952	3.21%
cbst	21.20	94.34	37.51	1.27%	3,494	3,539	76.93%
ccme	15.87	126.02	0.15	0.00%	19	19	-99.05%
ceu	3.44	581.40	1.49	-5.10%	913	866	-56.69%
chke	19.81	100.96	13.75	0.81%	1,377	1,388	-27.56%
cmtl	30.70	65.15	31.95	1.01%	2,061	2,081	6.51%
cnxt	1.43	1,398.60	2.40	0.00%	3,357	3,357	67.83%
coco	4.24	471.70	1.95	5.98%	868	920	-54.01%
csgs	19.02	105.15	13.62	4.05%	1,376	1,432	-28.39%
dell	13.65	146.52	16.18	0.50%	2,359	2,371	18.53%
dlx	22.02	90.83	22.29	2.39%	1,977	2,025	4.63%
eesc.ob	1.90	1,052.63	0.60	0.00%	632	632	-68.42%
eme	28.02	71.38	22.23	0.36%	1,581	1,587	-20.66%
frx	32.24	62.03	32.25	-0.03%	2,001	2,001	0.03%
gme	21.15	94.56	24.92	1.38%	2,324	2,357	17.83%
hrb	13.37	149.59	14.71	2.08%	2,156	2,200	13.39%
idcc	34.71	57.62	52.08	6.55%	2,816	3,001	50.91%
ipxl	18.29	109.35	19.76	1.02%	2,139	2,161	8.04%
ksw	3.43	583.09	3.17	1.60%	1,819	1,848	-1.17%
lnc	25.12	79.62	16.34	1.87%	1,277	1,301	-34.36%
lo	81.74	24.47	117.53	-0.79%	2,899	2,876	48.56%
lps	31.13	64.25	15.17	0.46%	970	975	-49.34%
mail	6.84	292.40	4.98	4.84%	1,389	1,456	-27.19%
mpaa	11.68	171.23	9.03	6.24%	1,455	1,546	-22.69%
mrx	26.88	74.40	37.29	-0.75%	2,796	2,775	39.84%
msft	26.89	74.38	27.00	0.22%	2,004	2,008	2.19%
navg	50.17	39.86	44.04	-1.14%	1,776	1,756	-12.22%
nvmi	7.42	269.54	6.10	1.33%	1,623	1,644	-17.79%
osk	30.50	65.57	18.34	4.03%	1,156	1,203	-39.87%
ppd	65.17	30.69	66.50	0.00%	2,041	2,041	2.04%
prsc	17.48	114.42	11.20	4.97%	1,221	1,281	-35.93%
pwer	10.40	192.31	5.04	-0.20%	971	969	-51.54%
rtn	48.33	41.38	41.84	-0.57%	1,741	1,731	-9.98%
scei	6.76	295.86	1.16	-0.85%	346	343	-82.84%
sndk	48.00	41.67	44.46	-1.02%	1,872	1,853	-7.38%
GTAT	7.87	254.13	7.71	-4.70%	2,056	1,959	-2.03%
supg	2.60	769.23	1.85	-5.13%	1,500	1,423	-28.85%
ter	12.43	160.90	12.42	-0.88%	2,016	1,998	-0.08%
tnav	6.86	291.55	9.63	0.63%	2,790	2,808	40.38%
tndm	14.71	135.96	10.48	3.15%	1,381	1,425	-28.76%
tsra	19.93	100.35	13.64	0.15%	1,367	1,369	-31.56%
uis	24.27	82.41	18.04	2.38%	1,452	1,487	-25.67%
untd	6.86	291.55	5.65	2.36%	1,609	1,647	-13.27%
usb	24.76	80.78	23.88	-2.33%	1,975	1,929	-2.34%
veco	45.07	44.38	26.68	-2.70%	1,217	1,184	-40.80%
vr	29.59	67.59	25.73	0.23%	1,735	1,739	-9.77%
Totals			-	0.80%	86,628	87,321	-11.73%
Ed	starting 12/3/10						-20.82%