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Year 2009 Recommendations: Report Card

Now that 2009 year is over, it is time for report card on market predictions and stock recommendations I have been doing on my weekly posts.

Here are macro predictions and actual:
In all, macro predictions were more or less came out to be accurate and that helped me pick my weekly predictions.

Here is summary of report card of weekly predictions (assuming one invests about $1000 in weekly stock recommendation at recommended stock price)
  • Overall return: 80% (assuming dividend investments). By any standard this is winning performance (in comparison: S&P up by 23.5%).
  • Best stock: XL with 354 % gain;DDR-PG: 296%
  • Worst stock: YRCW: -79%
  • Stocks with positive return: 26 (72%); negative return: 10 (286%)
Here is total report-card:

Symbol

Trade Date

Shrs

Price Paid

Holdings Value

Gain/Loss

Gain/Loss %

Price

12/31

Notes

ACAS

13-Apr-09

400

2.3

$976.00

$48.00

5.17%

2.44

Target:$3.60

BCS

7-Feb-09

200

5

$3,520.00

$2,512.00

249.21%

17.60

Target: $10

BCS-PD

7-Feb-09

100

9

$2,486.00

$1,578.00

173.79%

24.86

Target: $18

CENX

8-Jun-09

160

6.06

$2,590.40

$1,612.80

164.98%

16.19

Target: $9

CHK

8-Sep-09

50

22.22

$1,294.00

$175.00

15.64%

25.88

Target: $30

CMZ

14-Sep-09

900

1.12

$828.00

($188.00)

-18.50%

0.92

Target: $1.60

CNO

3-Aug-09

300

3.25

$1,500.00

$517.00

52.59%

5.00

Target:$4.50

DDR

6-Apr-09

400

2.51

$3,704.00

$2,692.00

266.01%

9.26

Target: $4.50

DDR-PG

6-Apr-09

200

5

$4,000.00

$2,992.00

296.83%

20.00

Target:$7.5

DPTR

26-May-09

600

1.7

$624.00

($404.00)

-39.30%

1.04

Target: $3

DRYS

25-Jan-09

100

9

$582.00

($326.00)

-35.90%

5.82

Target: $15

EROC

14-Sep-09

250

4

$1,447.50

$439.50

43.60%

5.79

Target: $6

FIG

6-Jul-09

333

3

$1,481.85

$474.85

47.15%

4.45

Target: $5

GE

22-Feb-09

125

8

$1,891.25

$883.25

87.62%

15.13

Target: $12

GNW

2-Nov-09

100

10

$1,135.00

$127.00

12.60%

11.35

Target: $15

HIG

19-Jan-09

100

12

$2,326.00

$1,118.00

92.55%

23.26

Target: $18

HUN

4-Jan-09

300

3.3

$3,387.00

$2,389.00

239.38%

11.29

Target: $6

IDG

1-Mar-09

200

5.5

$3,938.00

$2,830.00

255.42%

19.69

Target: $12

LNC

27-Jul-09

55

18.5

$1,368.40

$342.90

33.44%

24.88

Target: $30

OIL

12-Jan-09

50

21

$1,294.00

$236.00

22.31%

25.88

Target: $33

PCX

1-Jul-09

150

6.4

$2,319.00

$1,351.00

139.57%

15.46

Target: $9

PDS

20-Apr-09

300

3.33

$2,175.00

$1,168.00

115.99%

7.25

Target: $6

PEI

17-Aug-09

175

5.8

$1,480.50

$457.50

44.72%

8.46

Target: $9

PLD

30-Mar-09

200

5.5

$2,738.00

$1,630.00

147.11%

13.69

Target: $9

PMI

5-Oct-09

250

4

$630.00

($378.00)

-37.50%

2.52

Target: $6

PNX

31-Aug-09

400

2.8

$1,112.00

($16.00)

-1.42%

2.78

Target: $4.50

RF

26-May-09

250

3.8

$1,322.50

$364.50

38.05%

5.29

Target: $6

RQI

4-May-09

300

3.25

$1,821.00

$838.00

85.25%

6.07

Target: $4.50

SFI-PE

28-Sep-09

150

7.7

$1,093.48

($69.51)

-5.98%

7.29

Target: $12

SNV

-

1,000

2.03

$2,050.00

($2.00)

-0.10%

2.05

Target: $4

UNG

24-Aug-09

100

11.5

$1,008.00

($150.00)

-12.95%

10.08

Target: $16

URE

27-Apr-09

300

3.5

$2,067.00

$1,009.00

95.37%

6.89

Target: $5.25

VEIEX

16-Nov-09

40

26

$1,036.40

($3.60)

-0.35%

25.91

Target: $30

XL

15-Feb-09

250

4

$4,582.50

$3,574.50

354.61%

18.33

Target: $6

XTEX

15-Jun-09

250

3.99

$2,150.00

$1,144.50

113.82%

8.60

Target $6

YRCW

22-Sep-09

260

3.9

$218.35

($803.65)

-78.64%

0.84

Target:$6

Total




$32,019.53

$30,167.53

79.37%




So overall 2009 was interesting year and kept me going with my blogs and recommendations. Let's see how 2010 turns out - I do have some macro predictions and some interesting recommendations for 2010. But for that you would have to wait till 2010 actually starts.

Till then, Happy New Year !

/Shyam

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