Not sure if people reading this have ever seen "Once". A great song is Falling Slowly, which won the Oscar for best original song several years ago. I have not seen the movie, but I really like the musical. Here is a youtube clip of the song:
Sadly, I am not talking about love - I am talking about MFI. And recently, it too is falling, albeit not that slowly. Check out my 4 most recent tranches of my tracking portfolios:
| 11/25/2016 | -1.0% | 5.9% |
| 12/30/2016 | -3.1% | 4.5% |
| 1/27/2017 | -2.6% | 2.1% |
| 2/24/2017 | -3.4% | -1.1% |
The second column is how the 50 stocks are faring and the third column is how the benchmark has done. The keen-eyed reader will note that the four most recent tranches for MFI are all negative. And they are all losing (fairly badly) to the benchmark.
It is a struggle. Perhaps some wine and listening to my You Tube video will help?
I know I am feeling a lot better about being up 2.6% (between my two MFI approaches) so far in 2017. That makes me almost giddy. Here are the 50 stocks from 12/31/16:
| Stock | Initial Price | End Price | Percent Change | Mkt Cap |
| LFVN | 8.15 | 4.89 | -40.0% | 115 |
| DHX | 6.25 | 4.18 | -33.2% | 313 |
| AGTC | 9.35 | 6.65 | -28.9% | 169 |
| FPRX | 50.11 | 36.14 | -27.9% | 1,425 |
| ICON | 9.34 | 6.91 | -26.0% | 525 |
| CXRX | 2.12 | 1.58 | -25.7% | 108 |
| IRMD | 11.10 | 8.37 | -24.6% | 119 |
| AWRE | 6.10 | 4.74 | -22.4% | 138 |
| BPT | 22.95 | 17.95 | -21.8% | 508 |
| SSNI | 13.31 | 10.55 | -20.7% | 691 |
| SCMP | 13.55 | 10.78 | -20.5% | 621 |
| BBSI | 63.85 | 52.20 | -18.2% | 464 |
| PBI | 14.98 | 12.40 | -17.2% | 2,820 |
| SYNT | 19.79 | 16.73 | -15.5% | 1,664 |
| AGX | 70.55 | 63.38 | -10.2% | 1,078 |
| IDCC | 91.04 | 84.40 | -7.3% | 3,132 |
| VEC | 23.85 | 22.15 | -7.1% | 256 |
| ESRX | 68.79 | 64.13 | -6.8% | 43,302 |
| USNA | 61.20 | 57.55 | -6.0% | 1,490 |
| UIS | 14.95 | 14.15 | -5.4% | 749 |
| GILD | 71.06 | 67.79 | -4.6% | 94,668 |
| TRNC | 13.87 | 13.28 | -4.3% | 505 |
| GME | 24.88 | 23.91 | -3.9% | 2,592 |
| UTHR | 143.43 | 140.01 | -2.4% | 6,520 |
| PDLI | 2.12 | 2.09 | -1.4% | 351 |
| NSR | 33.40 | 33.03 | -1.1% | 1,823 |
| SWHC | 21.08 | 21.08 | 0.0% | 1,186 |
| DLX | 71.33 | 71.34 | 0.0% | 3,479 |
| CA | 31.52 | 32.00 | 1.5% | 13,126 |
| RGR | 52.26 | 53.15 | 1.7% | 1,000 |
| HRB | 22.77 | 23.28 | 2.2% | 4,862 |
| AVID | 4.40 | 4.51 | 2.5% | 179 |
| MSGN | 21.50 | 22.33 | 3.8% | 1,614 |
| MPAA | 26.92 | 27.96 | 3.9% | 532 |
| MCFT | 14.58 | 15.17 | 4.0% | 272 |
| MCK | 140.19 | 146.45 | 4.5% | 31,742 |
| MBUU | 19.08 | 20.69 | 8.4% | 338 |
| AMCX | 52.34 | 57.56 | 10.0% | 3,702 |
| RPXC | 10.80 | 11.98 | 10.9% | 531 |
| TDC | 27.17 | 30.20 | 11.2% | 3,524 |
| NHTC | 24.47 | 27.44 | 12.1% | 280 |
| GHC | 510.69 | 578.15 | 13.2% | 2,874 |
| CSCO | 29.96 | 34.10 | 13.8% | 151,825 |
| ACHI | 2.25 | 2.57 | 14.2% | 240 |
| MYGN | 16.67 | 19.06 | 14.3% | 1,140 |
| HPQ | 14.73 | 17.21 | 16.9% | 25,406 |
| TGNA | 21.27 | 25.27 | 18.8% | 4,586 |
| VIAB | 34.94 | 42.41 | 21.4% | 13,928 |
| AAPL | 115.32 | 141.12 | 22.4% | 618,035 |
| MDCA | 6.55 | 8.90 | 35.9% | 345 |
You'll note that 11 of the 12 worst stocks (top of the list) are all under $1b market cap and the one that isn't is a bio tech. Coincidence? I think not.
I am not going to tell you how to pick your stocks. But I highly advise you study some of the backtesting I do (a bunch in mid December 2016).
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment