Scoreboard - January 1

Happy New Year! As we are entering into 2006 with more optimistic economy yet softening housing market, investing in the right sector with the right combination of stocks could be still as tough as any other year. Here we provide investor with an alternative way of finding stocks according to trend, buzz word, technology or gadgets. Such stocks include : Bird/Avian Flu Vaccine, Tamiflu, Halloween, New Technolog(Solar, Nanotechnology, VOIP), Harry Potter, Hot Gadget(Tivo, iPod, Satellite Radio, iRobot, Xbox 360), Thanksgiving(Turkey, Black Friday, Cyber Monday), emerging market (China , Taiwan, Brazil) stocks and more. Here is a list of some of the big winner "sectors" we have covered. Please note the overall performance is based on buying $1000 for each stock.

Shopping Mall Pick
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
BBW / 29.64 / 25.27 / +17.29%
URBN / 25.31 / 26.04 / -2.80%
Overall +$147.06 +7.35%

Tamiflu
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
TEVA / 43.01 / 38.35 / +12.15%
BRL / 62.29 / 56.8 / +9.67%
MYL / 19.96 / 19.94 / +0.1%
Overall +$220.98 +7.33%

Taiwan
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
GIGM / 2.85 / 2.7 / +5.56%
EWT / 12.48 / 12.21 / +2.21%
TSM / 9.91 / 9.94 / -0.3%
UMC / 3.12 / 3.33 / -6.31%
AUO / 15.01 / 13.43 / +11.76%
TMIC / 38.45 / 33.74 / +13.96%
MXICY / 1.58 / 1.29 / +22.48%
ASX / 4.49 / 3.9 / +15.13%
Overall +645.62 +8.06%

India
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
TTM / 14.37 / 13.34 / +7.72%
IBN / 28.8 / 27.82 / +3.52%
WIT / 11.95 / 11.43 / +4.55%
INFY / 80.86 / 77.99 / +3.68%
REDF / 18.07 / 20.83 / -13.25%
SIFY / 10.76 / 9.47 / +13.62%
Overall +199.34 +3.31%

VOIP
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
DDDC / 2.91 / 2.64 / +10.23%
NTOP / 2.04 / 1.96 / +4.08%
SONS / 3.72 / 3.81 / -2.36%
LVLT / 2.87 / 2.97 / -3.37%
Overall +96.11 +2.34%

Senior House
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
CSU / 10.34 / 10.06 / +2.78%
ACR / 25.13 / 25.22 / -0.36%
ESC / 20.95 / 18.94 / +10.61%
SRZ / 33.71 / 34.65 / -2.71%
Overall +103.39 +2.58%

So far out of the six winning portfolios, in which the overall gain is at least 2%, two portfolios are emerging market stocks with stocks from Taiwan gaining 8% and stocks from India gaining 3%. Brazil stocks are not in the winning list but is still gaining 1.77%. Tamiflu and Shopping Mall stocks still holds top spot with both gaining 7%.

For individual winners we have MXICY, IC and memory chip maker from Taiwan, making 22% return in less than a month. Ex-winner Build a Bear Workshop(BBW) is still holding a 17% gain tieing with hydrogen cell maker HYGS from hydrogen cell portfolio. Semiconductor testing service provider ASX gets 15% gain followed by 14% return from anti-virus provider TMIC and 13% gain from India e-commerce firm SIFY.