Archive for February, 2010

Stock Picks Update – February 2010

February 28th, 2010

It’s the end of the month; and it’s time to give update on our stock picks performance for 2010. Note that we invest our real money in these stocks, although it’s only a small amount of our overall portfolio.

  • ASIA: –19.80% YTD
  • CAGC: +78.89% YTD
  • ITC: +2.48% YTD
  • PEGA: +5.88% YTD

On average, our stock picks return year to date is 16.86%.

Meanwhile, the return of our benchmark indexes are:

  • S&P 500: –0.95% YTD
  • Nasdaq Composite Index: –1.36% YTD

Our stock picks are still beating the indexes up until today. Let’s see how March performance is going to look like.

Our CAPS Update – February 2010

February 28th, 2010

Motley Fool CAPS  for 1stmilliondollar

It’s the end of the month; and we’re going to give an update of our Motley Fools’s CAPS performance. For those who don’t know, we’re setting up a Motley Fool’s CAPS account to track our stock picks. It’s different from our stock picks for the contest because we can pick as many stocks as we can in CAPS (no limitation to 4 stocks).

Note that we don’t necessarily invest our real money in all of these stocks at this time. We do invest in some of them.

Ticker Stock Gain S&P 500 Gain
PEGA +4.14% +1.44%
CAGC +38.05% -3.48%
BIDU +12.05% -3.48%
ITC +6.12% -0.75%
EW +6.85% -1.01%
CTRP +3.35% -1.01%
ARD +1.57% +2.35%
ASIA +25.88% +3.38%
CHK +4.32% +7.11%
POT +17.61% +4.87%
DAR +13.84% +8.02%

How to Buy a Car and Not Get Screwed

February 28th, 2010

It’s Sunday and a time for “Just for Fun” section. Every week, we always write or link to a topic not related to finance or investment. As the name implies, it’s just for fun. :)

This week, we post a YouTube video from Rob Gruhl on tips and tricks buying a car. It’s quite old posting from Ignite Seattle 2007, but it’s still interesting to watch.

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