On The Road Again

Been traveling a ton lately (mostly vacation).  Finally back to a Wi-Fi friendly-space in London.  I have to say I did see one of the coolest places I have ever seen.  I was in Edinburgh and they have an annual festival that is about the most energetic thing I have ever seen.  We walked down the Royal Mile and there were dozens upon dozens of street entertainers, and probably 100 venues with a wide variety of shows and acts.  They also had the Royal Tattoo, which we saw adjacent to Edinburgh castle.  If you are ever trying to decide what to do some August, I would highly recommend Scotland.

Interestingly, my portfolios did very, very well during my absence.

MFI Portfolio

8/15/12 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
DLB	$34.43	$33.04	$4.00	7.6%	24.4%
KFY	$13.98	$19.62	$0.00	40.3%	24.4%
MSFT	$30.19	$32.23	$0.69	9.0%	24.4%
NSU	$3.62	$3.34	$0.12	-4.3%	24.4%
UIS	$19.96	$25.45	$0.00	27.5%	24.4%
Totals				16.1%	24.4%
11/15/12 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
AAPL	$537.62	$489.57	$8.75	-7.3%	28.3%
ABC	$40.21	$58.14	$0.42	45.6%	28.3%
LPS	$23.89	$32.49	$0.30	37.3%	28.3%
VIAB	$49.12	$79.74	$0.83	64.0%	28.3%
WU	$12.77	$18.65	$0.38	49.0%	28.3%
Totals				37.7%	28.3%
2/1/13 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
AAPL	$450.60	$489.57	$8.75	10.6%	13.6%
GA	$6.10	$8.11	$0.42	39.9%	13.6%
STRZA	$16.06	$25.21	$0.00	57.0%	13.6%
CA	$25.07	$31.24	$0.50	26.6%	13.6%
NUS	$41.94	$88.81	$0.60	113.2%	13.6%
Totals				49.4%	13.6%
5/6/2013	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
KLIC	$11.40	$11.53	$0.00	1.1%	6.0%
CYOU	$29.24	$30.19	$0.00	3.2%	6.0%
RDA	$9.74	$11.03	$0.00	13.3%	6.0%
NVDA	$13.85	$14.42	$0.08	4.7%	6.0%
CF	$183.97	$190.03	$0.40	3.5%	6.0%
Totals				5.2%	6.0%
Category/Tranche	August	November	February	May	Total
Initial Investment	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	100,000
Percent Gain	16.1%	37.7%	49.4%	5.2%	27.1%
Current Balance	29,015	34,431	37,361	26,293	127,101
R3K Gain	24.4%	28.3%	13.6%	6.0%	18.1%
R3K Balance	31,098	32,075	28,401	26,501	118,076
Annualized IRR					45.5%

Tomorrow I am supposed to turn over my August 15th tranche from a year ago.  It may have to wait until next week when I get back home. Overall, the four tranches are up 27% and beating indices by almost 9 points.  Yesterday's spike in AAPL definitely helped!

Dividend Portfolio

Stock	Shares	Avg Cost	Current Price	Dividends Received	Pct Change	R3K Change	Diff
AAPL	213	495.23	489.57	1,692.31	0.5%	17.7%	-17.2%
AOD	18,816	3.95	4.06	2,125.45	5.6%	10.7%	-5.2%
BBEP	3,584	15.44	17.91	1,675.20	19.0%	3.9%	15.1%
CSCO	4,356	17.30	26.32	3,479.34	56.8%	27.7%	29.1%
CSQ	5,745	8.37	10.19	8,342.51	39.0%	43.7%	-4.7%
INTC	3,389	22.21	22.52	3,654.19	6.2%	23.9%	-17.7%
NSU	10,000	3.03	3.34	-	10.3%	1.5%	8.8%
O	569	19.92	42.07	8,178.12	183.2%	96.3%	86.9%
OIBAX	4,036	4.97	6.11	7,460.18	60.1%	98.1%	-38.0%
RIG	1,413	51.46	47.52	700.00	-6.7%	8.4%	-15.1%
SAI	3,000	14.84	15.95	-	7.5%	0.8%	6.7%
SBS	4,000	9.85	9.49	-	-3.7%	-0.9%	-2.8%
SLCA	3,018	20.29	23.01	375.00	14.0%	3.6%	10.4%
STO	2,211	22.97	21.56	3,024.82	-0.2%	25.4%	-25.6%
TC-PT	5,500	15.43	18.32	4,468.20	24.0%	8.9%	15.1%
TCRD	4,200	14.73	15.34	-	4.2%	4.3%	-0.1%
TGONF	2,500	10.38	10.57	-	1.8%	6.9%	-5.2%
Total Open				45,175	15.6%	16.3%	-0.7%
Closed					13.9%	10.0%	3.9%
Combined					14.3%	11.5%	2.8%
Annualized IRR Since 12/31/10					17.3%
2013 Gain					14.8%

Looking back at a post in early August, my open positions were trailing by 3.6 points.  That has been shaven to 0.7 points!

Discretionary

Stock	Gain	Cost	Price
GNW	80.2%	7.10	12.80
GTAT	69.3%	3.39	5.74
KLIC	3.4%	11.15	11.53
ACAS	2.9%	12.75	13.12
BAC-WTA	26.6%	5.10	6.45
HIG-WT	9.8%	20.70	22.74
Grand Total	41.7%

Something good must have happened with GTAT!  Now up 63%.  Then recall I made 25% on them earlier in 2013.

So overall, 2013 has been a very good year,  I am up over 24% and beating the R3K by 3.5 points. Sweet!

More later!