Greetings. Following another great week and some introspective questions on another forum from a reader, I thought I'd stop posting recent trades only and just put a full snapshot in time of where my portfolio stands for all to see. You can either pat me on the back for continued gains or cringe in horror if this predicted bubble actually bursts, as I hold a lot of high-Beta stocks right now and my fall will hurt more than the old ladies holding cash. Moving forward, following a new buy, I'll throw up a quick post within a day or so. In the past, I thought the research and analysis was the draw here, but there seems to be some interest in whether I'm truly putting my money where my mouth is. Past posts started to include full disclosure, but each article wasn't fully inclusive of all existing holdings not relevant to the post.

I figured by posting about how I DIDN'T buy those AQNT options that returned 6,000% the day after I recommended the out of the money calls because I made the time to post but didn't get around to buying them, it would be evident that I post the mistakes just as prominently as the successes (I literally could have been claiming some clairvoyant market ability with that call and pretended I bought the options, but I was forthright in my self-deprecation), but there's a particular skeptic out there on another forum, as rightly there should be; for there are some disingenuous people out there in the blogosphere...So here it is in all it's majesty:

And before you read this and raise your eyebrows, this is what I currently hold in that one account. It's not to say I haven't taken a beating (and tax-losses "refund moves" is what I tell my wife!; just kidding dear in case you ever visit my website once) on Lucent, EBAY and others; this is simply what's in there now. Since it's pretty volatile stuff, shouldn't be much of a surprise that it's outperformed the market. Some of these have been held for a year or two as well...

Traditional Taxable Trading Account:

Stocks:
Symbol Gain(%)

BIDU 12.41
CMXHF -2.70
CROX 9.82
DNH 1.18
FMCN 81.01
GOOG 30.63
HXM 4.41
SU 52.58
WBD 6.86

Options:
Symbol Gain(%)

+BQCGX -10.00


Mutual Funds:
Symbol Gain(%)
BPTRX -0.45

**Disclaimer - I have excluded some particular hedging strategies relying on options/ETFs due to a proprietary method that an old investment club co-founder and I have been working on for years. In the event I can prove the real-life performance matches our back-tested results, we may take it forward and manage funds (May sound far-fetched but the preliminary research shows the barrier to entry is actually not that enormous). It's totally quant, not stock-picking, but in the interest of full disclosure, there are SOME positions in my account which are not covered in this blog due to the potential for future development, which I'm sure you can all respect.

In the interest of time, I need to retire for the evening. In my next post, I'll publish the holdings of my Self-directed IRA trading account which is focused primarily on high-yielding stuff to protect the dividends from taxes. I will also throw up the rough composition of my 401K. Without revealing too much, I don't intend on publishing aggregate net worth, as existing holdings should suffice in showing what kind of stuff I own and how that jives with the research and recommendations I propose here. I will also revisit some of my existing holdings (which I intend on hanging on to for a while) and elaborate on why I have them, what their story is and how I went about getting them (some of the international stuff isn't as easy to buy as you'd think).