Historical Returns

The following represents the BLOG's 2010 ETF returns vis-a-vis other benchmark investment measures:

------------$Initial-----%Growth----$Return-----$Result
BLOG-----$100,000----26.6%-----$26,646-----$126,646
S&P 500--$100,000----12.8%-----$12,783------$112,783
1.5% CD--$100,000-----1.5%----- $1,500-----$101,500


S&P result excludes dividends.
Return on one Futures Contract: $137,684 (roughly margin of $25,000 to $50,000).
Please see the BLOG page on "Shortcomings and Limitations."

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

BLOG RESULTS: Year-To Date

Our philosophy is a variant of a Bible Verse: There is a time to be long, a time to be out, and possibly a time to be short. Certainly, this maxim applies to any market. It would have been wise to be out of real estate over the past few years, and the stock market in most of 2008, etc. Sometimes things that did poorly for an entire decade, like gold, soar in a time when all currencies and economies are called into question.

For the year, our BLOG, which follows many diverse investments using computer programs, has generated an ETF return of 5.6% year-to-date (June 8). Annualized, this would be 13.3%.

This return is generated using a plethora of assumptions that can be found on the post of March 9.

For the record, the S&P index of 500 stocks has returned -3.1% year-to-date, and let's just hope that that won't be annualized.

The programs continue to generate signals that are not intuitive to me. However, that is precisely why I use them to begin with...............



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