Fred Goodman's GPS NASDAQ 100 Portfolio

This separate portfolio was discontinued on April 13, 2006 and the holdings were moved directly into the Discretionary GPS Portfolio, instead of indirectly as before. Holdings from both the S&P 100 and NASDAQ 100 have been combined.

The GPS NASDAQ 100 Portfolio is managed entirely based on the Goodman Price/Volume Stock Selection System, as applied to the 100 stocks that make up the NASDAQ 100 Index (NDX). It's a "paper portfolio" -- sometimes it will reflect in a general way what Fred is doing for his own account and for accounts he manages.

The GPS NASDAQ 100 Portfolio is fully invested in equities at all times, with new positions added in approximately equal weights. The only exception to the fully invested policy will be in the rare case in which the GPS system has no stocks listed as buys, in which case the portfolio will hold no assets until the system produces a buy.

The Portfolio will begin as soon as the GPS system generates the first buy signal. We account for the portfolio like a mutual fund, computing a daily Net Asset Value. The initial NAV will be set at $10. The Portfolio assumes no particular total amount of money invested, so positions are given as percentage portfolio weights rather than numbers of shares.

Changes in positions will generally be at the closing price on the day on which a GPS signal to buy or sell is generated, and will be announced in the next edition of Fred's daily "Technical Analysis" report. For simplicity we ignore transaction costs (which would reduce reported performance) and dividends (which would increase reported performance). There may be significant differences, beyond our control, between the performance of this hypothetical portfolio and an otherwise similar actual portfolio.

Stock prices on this page are normally updated daily after the market close. Changes in portfolio positions will be made as of the close on the date on which buy and sell signals are generated; they will generally be updated on this page the morning after.

Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.

Closed trades 2006 | 2005

Stock Buy date Buy price Sell date  v Sell Price Gain (loss)
CHRW 2/14/2006 42.68 4/13/2006 51.43 20.5%
CTSH 3/29/2006 60.16 4/7/2006 58.06 (3.5%)
COST 3/15/2006 55.00 3/29/2006 54.68 (0.6%)
MXIM 1/27/2006 42.26 3/17/2006 36.17 (14.4%)
BIIB 2/24/2006 49.58 3/9/2006 47.54 (4.1%)
GRMN 12/21/2005 62.79 2/22/2006 65.13 3.7%
PTEN 1/9/2006 37.34 2/16/2006 29.52 (21.8%)
ERICY 12/14/2005 34.55 2/7/2006 34.45 (0.3%)
APCC 12/22/2005 21.92 2/3/2006 20.08 (8.4%)
FISV 12/16/2005 42.85 2/3/2006 42.48 (0.9%)
PCAR 12/1/2005 71.12 2/2/2006 69.20 (2.7%)
FLEX 12/21/2005 10.94 1/27/2006 10.55 (3.6%)
PIXR 8/26/05 41.99 1/25/2006 58.02 38.2%
BRCM 12/14/2005 49.30 1/23/2006 56.88 15.4%
CELG 11/25/2005 62.43 1/12/2006 67.01 7.3%
DISH 12/16/2005 27.25 1/10/2006 28.10 3.1%
ADBE 8/12/2005 26.84 1/9/2006 38.38 43.0%
AMZN 12/21/2005 48.97 1/4/2006 47.25 (3.5%)

Fred Goodman, CFP, is a fee-only Certified Financial Planner based in Los Angeles. To send Fred your questions or comments, click here: Fred@MarketMonograph.com. E-mail sent to Fred may be edited for clarity and brevity and published on this web site, and may include your name unless you request anonymity or specify not for publication. The charts and commentary represent what Fred thinks about the market and what he is thinking of doing for his own account and for accounts he manages at the time of writing. Fred, his clients, or his family may have positions or may make trades in securities mentioned in these commentaries. There is no guarantee that you will profit from trading as discussed herein. You may lose money and Fred assumes no responsibility for what you do or do not do with this information. Copyright © 2006 Fred Goodman. All rights reserved.

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