Start Of Long Weekend

Happy Independence Day Eve!

Kind of nice having the 4th of July on a Friday.  Home a little bit early for the long weekend.  Actually we have very little planned; just a BBQ and thinking about a weekend day-trip to the shore. I am "shore" we'll be the only ones thinking about that.

Tomorrow we have Arthur coming up the coast.  I am just expecting some rain and 20 to 30 mph winds.  Then the weekend is supposed to be "mahvelous".

First 26 Weeks

I have started a new chart showing gains/losses by week.  It is pretty interesting (I think).  I suppose if I had some get-up-and-go, I would superimpose R3K on the chart.

Overall Cumulative % Gain First 26 Weeks

So as you can see, at the 1/2 mark I am up 16.7%, that is slightly better than 2x the R3K. You can see that the past 7 weeks, it has pretty much been straight up. Once again proving the adage "sell in May and stay away" is pretty much worthless.

All My Open Holdings

Here is a table showing all more open holdings and how they have done.  GTAT is actually much better, but I bought (with multiplier) 7,000 shares in 2014 and then later I sold 7,000 shares. But for tax reasons, I sold the LT gain shares, purchased at 3.39. So you can really view the 14,000 shares as all at 3.39.

Stock	Avg Cost	Current Price	Dividends	Gain per Share	Pct Gain	Pct of Portfolio
GTAT	8.64	19.55	-	10.91	126.3%	10.3%
GNW	9.16	17.62	-	8.46	92.4%	7.3%
KLIC	11.43	14.49	-	3.06	26.7%	4.9%
AOD	8.03	8.99	0.71	1.67	20.8%	4.8%
BBEP	16.74	22.27	1.53	7.06	42.2%	4.8%
RPXC	16.36	18.12	-	1.76	10.7%	3.9%
ATVI	17.39	22.67	0.20	5.48	31.5%	3.4%
GPS	40.55	42.00	-	1.45	3.6%	3.2%
NTC	12.01	12.43	0.28	0.70	5.8%	3.2%
CSQ	8.69	11.98	1.90	5.18	59.6%	3.1%
TPVG	15.54	16.20	0.38	1.04	6.7%	3.1%
FSC	9.57	9.95	0.28	0.67	7.0%	3.1%
RIOM	1.97	2.29	-	0.32	16.1%	3.0%
TGONF	10.27	10.05	0.34	0.12	1.1%	2.6%
AVG	18.32	20.16	-	1.84	10.0%	2.5%
TLM	10.66	10.52	-	(0.14)	-1.3%	2.4%
SNDK	70.20	106.76	0.23	36.79	52.4%	2.3%
DAL	38.09	38.60	-	0.51	1.3%	2.2%
SYNA	48.01	92.68	-	44.67	93.0%	2.2%
BAC-WTA	5.73	7.14	-	1.41	24.6%	2.2%
AGX	15.60	36.77	0.75	21.92	140.5%	2.0%
NADL	9.62	10.65	0.23	1.27	13.2%	2.0%
TSL	11.13	12.51	-	1.39	12.4%	1.9%
TIME	22.89	24.48	-	1.59	6.9%	1.8%
KLAC	61.35	74.62	0.90	14.17	23.1%	1.8%
IDTI	15.32	15.56	-	0.24	1.6%	1.8%
HIG-WT	21.24	28.28	-	7.04	33.2%	1.8%
GA	8.96	11.88	0.23	3.15	35.1%	1.6%
WNR	39.80	39.79	0.52	0.50	1.3%	1.5%
CSCO	22.79	25.19	0.19	2.60	11.4%	1.2%
NSR	25.82	27.04	-	1.22	4.7%	1.2%
RCII	28.78	29.03	0.23	0.48	1.7%	1.1%
CA	29.54	29.36	0.25	0.07	0.2%	1.1%
CF	187.26	245.42	3.00	61.16	32.7%	1.1%
FLR	66.06	78.99	0.53	13.46	20.4%	1.0%
O	20.92	44.23	15.64	38.94	186.1%	1.0%
OIBAX	5.01	6.19	1.97	3.16	63.1%	1.0%
EDV	101.20	101.31	0.88	0.98	1.0%	0.5%

You can see that GTAT and GNW continue to be out-sized holdings.

Kids College Funds

Every year since 2009 I have bought one or two tranches of stocks for my kids college funds (my son is just one year away!).  I have really tried to buy stocks I am totally comfortable holding as I do not want college funds to be a trading vehicle. So I have tried to pick the SBI (single best idea) for them.  People say "Buy and Hold is dead", but my kids college funds say differently:

2009 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
ACE	32.86	105.15	8.29	245%
CB	35.37	92.85	7.93	185%
VR	21.92	38.85	7.18	110%
Total				180%
2010 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
ACE	47.61	105.15	7.05	136%
CB	49.20	92.85	6.53	102%
VR	26.25	38.85	6.38	72%
Total				103%
2011 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
ACE	62.09	105.15	5.42	78%
CB	58.15	92.85	5.05	68%
VR	30.52	38.85	5.50	45%
Total				64%
1/12 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
GNW	6.66	17.62	-	165%
LNC	19.72	53.28	1.12	176%
Total				170%
10/12 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
GNW	5.35	17.62	-	229%
VR	35.79	38.85	3.75	19%
Total				124%
1/13 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
GNW	8.12	17.62	-	117%
LNC	27.50	53.28	0.68	96%
Total				107%
10/13 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
IBM	181.51	188.53	3.00	6%
CSCO	22.91	25.19	0.36	12%
Total				9%
2014 Tranche	Start	Current	Dividend	Gain
MET	53.46	57.22	0.63	8%
LNC	47.66	53.28	-	12%
Total				10%

Man Vs Food

Finally, in closing, let me show the table that compares my MFI index year by year with the Russell 3000:

	Annual		Inception to Date
Year	Russell	MFI	Russell ITD	MFI ITD
2006	11.40%	15.03%	11.40%	15.03%
2007	4.09%	-6.69%	15.96%	7.34%
2008	-37.05%	-37.97%	-27.00%	-33.42%
2009	32.51%	45.18%	-3.27%	-3.34%
2010	18.38%	22.77%	14.50%	18.67%
2011	-0.56%	-10.47%	13.87%	6.25%
2012	16.43%	9.70%	32.57%	16.56%
2013	33.01%	51.70%	76.34%	76.82%
2014	8.12%	7.36%	90.65%	89.82%

As you can see, it is a virtual dead heat. More to follow!