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Stock Picks Update – March 2010

March 31st, 2010

It’s another end of the month. It’s time for an update of our stock picks for 2010. For those who don’t know, we participate in Canadian bloggers stock picks competition. Each participant has to choose 4 stocks in equal amount of dollars. We are not allowed to change our picks for the duration of 2010.

Here are the return of our stock picks year to date:

  • ASIA: –13.04%
  • CAGC: +77.89%
  • ITC: +5.59%
  • PEGA: +8.82%
  • Average return: +19.82%

For comparison, here are the return of popular benchmark, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.

  • S&P 500: +4.87%
  • Nasdaq 100: +5.68%

PS: You can follow the performance of our stock picks live on this page; and the live result of the competition on this page. Alternatively, you can click the links at the top of the page.

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%

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