Scoreboard - January 29

The last week of January 2006 ends with upbeat note of all the major indices as positive earning results help the boost. However the ultimate winner of the week goes to Brazil stocks as the overall percentage gain of the portfolio advanced more than 10% to 27.44%, taking the lead way from the Hydrogen Cell stocks. On the other hand, the long underdog Nanotech stocks out of nowhere took the second place from the superior performance by Altair Nanotechnologies(ALTI), which ends the last session of the week with a 19.93% spike, pushing the total gain of the stock to 51.65% since we covered the stock last December. Last week's winner Hydrogen Cell stocks fall to third place with 18.66% gain while Taiwan stocks remained at the fourth place with 18.12% gain, about 6% higher than last week. The last week second place voice over ip stocks fall to fifth place with 13.75% gain, down about 3% overall.

Here is this week's top five portfolio as well as the top five individual stocks. Please note that the overall amount is shows how much the portfolio is worth as if you invested $1000 for each stock:

Brazil (Brazil1/Brazil2)
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
RIO / 49.8 / 40.3 / +23.57%
ITU / 29.5 / 23.49 / +24.52%
EWZ / 40.32 / 33.17 / +21.56%
BBD / 38.2/ 29.41 / +29.89%
GGB / 21.5 / 15.97 / +34.63%
SID / 27.1 / 21.36 / +26.87%
PBR / 90.0 / 68.77 / +30.94%
Overall $8,990.1 +$1935.91 +27.44%

Nanotechnology
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
NANX / 6.87 / 6.01 / +14.31%
NGEN / 3.16 / 2.91 / +8.59%
ALTI / 3.67 / 2.42 / +51.65%
PXN / 18.37 / 17.17 / +6.99%
Overall $4,808.63 +$814.61 +20.4%

Hydrogen Cell
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
DESC / 9.58 / 7.9 / +21.27%
HYGS / 3.65 / 2.67 / +36.7%
MCEL / 1.44 / 1.47 / -2.04%
Overall $3,638.85 +560.46 +18.66%

Taiwan
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
GIGM / 4.83 / 2.7 / +78.89%
EWT / 13.56 / 12.21 / +11.06%
TSM / 10.82 / 9.94 / +8.85%
UMC / 3.36 / 3.33 / +0.9%
AUO / 15.4 / 13.43 / +14.67%
TMIC / 34 / 33.74 / +0.77%
MXICY / 1.47 / 1.29 / +13.95%
ASX / 4.53 / 3.9 / +16.15%
Overall $8,968.23 +$1,451.04 +18.12%

VOIP
Stock / Current / Start / Change(%)
DDDC / 2.86 / 2.64 / +8.33%
NTOP / 2.06 / 1.96 / +5.1%
SONS / 4.58 / 3.81 / +20.21%
LVLT / 3.62 / 2.97 / +21.89%
Overall $4,765.33 +563.53 +13.75%

Top 5 Stocks
GIGM +78.89%
ALTI +51.65%
HYGS +36.07%
GGB +34.63%
PBR +30.94%

The Brazil stocks are the huge winners of the week as each stock in the portfolio(about seven stocks) gained at least 21% and the best one GGB gained 34%. No woner the portfolio can have an average gain of 27.44%. Every stock but one in the top five portfolio is in positive territory. In another word, 25 out of 26 stocks are winning and the only losing stock, MCEL is losing 2%.