Mad Money Machine

by Paul Douglas Boyer

MMM-060: Turning It Around

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We completely skipped spring and went straight into summer here in Northern Virginia.

Here are the Year to Date returns for a Do-It-Yourself portfolio as of 25 April 2007

Style Name Ticker Total_Value % Gain
LC VANGUARD LG-CAP ETF VV $ 12,751.55 6.3%
LCV VANGUARD VALUE ETF VTV $ 12,706.09 5.9%
SCV VANGUARD SM-CAP VAL VBR $ 21,221.33 6.1%
mC ISHARES RUSSELL MICR IWC $ 20,791.23 4.0%
REIT VANGUARD SF REIT ETF VNQ $ 5,270.38 5.4%
IV ISHARES MSCI VLU IDX EFV $ 6,471.19 7.9%
IS WISDOMTREE INTL SC DLS $ 13,685.15 14.0%
EM VANGRD EMRG MKT ETF VWO $ 14,274.97 9.8%
TOTAL as of 25 April 2007 close $107,171.89 7.2%

Cramer’s Stocks of the Year as of 25 April 2007:

Name Ticker Shrs Buy_Price LatestPrice % Gain Total_Value
Value (buy 1/4/07)
ALTRIA GROUP MO 127.13 $ 87.40 $ 69.89 7.0% $ 8,885.07
Kraft Foods Inc. KFT 89.60 $ – $ 33.51 $ 3,002.37
Halliburton Company HAL 371.98 $ 29.87 $ 32.00 7.1% $ 11,903.43
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. GS 55.49 $ 199.57 $ 226.00 12.9% $ 12,541.76
Growth (buy 1/5/07)
Apple Inc. AAPL 129.55 $ 85.77 $ 99.58 16.1% $ 12,900.13
Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO 390.69 $ 28.44 $ 27.14 -4.6% $ 10,603.22
NYSE EURONEXT NYX 114.48 $ 97.06 $ 86.11 -11.3% $ 9,857.59
Speculation (buy 1/8/07)
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. SVNT 892.46 $ 12.45 $ 11.47 -7.9% $ 10,236.50
Rite Aid Corporation RAD 1,919.02 $ 5.79 $ 6.40 10.5% $ 12,281.71
Level 3 Communications, Inc. LVLT 1,797.91 $ 6.18 $ 5.83 -5.7% $ 10,481.84
TOTAL 2.6% $ 102,693.64

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I’m still thinking of changing the name of this show. Stay vigilant.

Sound quality stinks? Turn the microphone around to the correct side!

NevSta’s strategy appears to be to short-sell companies just after their pop in earnings annoucements. He says that only about 1 in 5 are actually shortable in the real world.

Top Dog II shorts stocks just before their split in the VSE game…. doubling his money. And no, it does not work that way in the real world.

Here’s the link to the Periodic Table of Investment Returns

Eugene Fama was named as the third recipient of the Fred Arditti award by CME.

Our Guru says sometimes it is OK to sell your underperforming actively managed mutual fund, pay the long term capital gains taxes, and get into a broadly-diversified portfolio of index funds.

We check in on the Mad Money Machine Match Play Golf Classic.

Our Tool this week is more advanced. It helps you figure out how you’ve REALLY done.

I’m thinking of writing some visualization software to help analyze portfolios. More later…

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Music from music.podshow.com:

Alta Plaza – XRAY Dogs
NEW! Through My Spine – Angel Vivaldi
Metal Start – Intelect
The Answer – Eric Vardeman
Money – Theory in Motion
Nuclearstrumental by Jungli – DJ COA

Tue, April 24 2007 » Podcasts