
Hello Friends! Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting my blog, Stock Picks Bob's Advice. As always, please remember that I am an amateur investor, so please consult with your professional investment advisors prior to making any investment decisions based on information on this website. I cannot be responsible for any losses generated by your trading and shall not ask for any credit!
If you are new to this website, I am happy to welcome you and hope that you enjoy your visit. My blog performs two functions: looking at a variety of stock investment possibilities, and then actually building a real portfolio and following along with those investments. I do not buy every stock that I review, in fact, I currently own 20 stocks in my "Trading Portfolio". This is a real investment portfolio and I try very hard to update my trading activity on this blog as events happen. However, at the same time I have reviewed literally hundreds of stocks since starting this blog almost two years ago. I also have a Xanga account which acts as a "mirror" site, but offers Xanga readers what I consider a more personalized website.
In order to determine how well the multitude of stock picks turned out, I use the weekend, when I get a chance, to review past stock picks with about a trailing one year period. Last weekend I reviewed stock picks from the week of February 16, 2004. This week, I shall be looking at picks from the week of February 23, 2004. Besides looking at the price performance, I also like to look at the latest quarterly result, which I believe gives us a good idea whether the stock is still a good investment at least from my perspective. If both revenue and earnings are positive, I give the stock a "thumbs-up", otherwise down goes the thumb!
By the way, this analysis, as I have pointed out previously, assumes a buy and hold strategy that I do NOT employ in practice. I practice selling my losing stocks quickly and then selling portions of my gaining stocks slowly at pre-determined sale points. That certainly would affect the performance of any portfolio that I actually owned!








So how did I "do" for picking stock picks for that week in February, 2004? Well, actually quite well for these four selections. I had one big loser (ESMC) and four very strong gainers. Thus, the average percentage gain that week was 33.6%.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope that you have a very good week and that you visit here often. I enjoy hearing from readers and if you have any questions, comments, or words of encouragement, please feel free to email me at bobsadviceforstocks@lycos.com or just go ahead and leave your comments right here in the blog!
Bob