Year 2013 is ending on a very positive note and upbeat mood. Personally we just came from our relaxing vacation with two more families on Big Island. It was a great vacation. US Stock markets had their best run since 1997 and all indexes except Nasdaq is ending at all time highs. The yearly gains are outstanding with DOW 28%, S&P 32% and Nasdaq 41%. Instead of individual stock picking or investing in exotic hedge funds or PE, one would have done extremely well by just buying regular index funds with lowest costs. So how did my 2013 recommendations did? Here is report card (based on Happy New Year 2013 blog) Best recommendations: BBY (250%) and MTG (225%) Worst recommendations: VVUS (-31%), CRUS (-27%) Others like MBI, BAC, KBH, ITB also did ok. Overall if one had invested about $10K per stock, the portfolio would have returned 41% which would have beat S&P by 9 points. Not bad! During the course of year, I started tracking solar sector but since I had yearly reco
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