2005

December 30 Trade Alert - ETF Single-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares iShares MSCI-Mexico and Buy iShares MSCI-South Korea

December 30 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares iShares MSCI-Mexico and Buy Cash (no funds left showing positve price strength > 3%)

December 28 Trade Alert -  single Fund Portfolio - Sell Buy Energy Service and Buy Paper & Forest Products

December 20 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Basic MaterialsMSCI Brazil and Buy Shares MSCI-South Korea

December 13 Trade Alert -  Fidelity Select single Fund Portfolio - Sell Gold   and Buy Energy Service

December 13 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI Brazil and Buy MSCI South Africa Index Fund

December 06 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell IShares Dow Jones Transportation Avg and Buy iShares MSCI Brazil

December 06 Trade Alert - ETF Single-Fund Portfolio - Sell IShares Dow Jones Transportation Avg  and Buy iShares MSCI Mexico

December 05 Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Portfolio - Sell Brokerage/Inv Mgnt and Buy Gold

December 02 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell MSCI South Africa Index Fund and Buy iShares Dow Jones US Basic Materials

November 22 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell MSCI-South Korea anfd buy MSCI South Africa Index Fund

November 15 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell MSCI - Brazil and Buy MSCI-South Korea 

November 04 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell cash and  buy iShares MSCI-Brazil

November 04 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell cash and  buy iShares MSCI - Mexico

November 04 Trade Alert -  Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell  Grizzly Short Fund and buy  Fidelity Latin America 

November 01 ETF Trade Alert - ETF single and Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell cash and buy Shares Dow Jones Transportation Avg

October 31 Trade Alert -  Fidelity Single Fund Portfolio Sell Cash and Buy  Brokerage/Inv Mgnt

October 21 Trade Alert -  Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell RS Global Natural Resources and Buy Cash

October 18 Fund-Track Trade Alert - Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell U.S. Global Investors Global Res and Buy Grizzly Short Fund

October 18 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI Brazil Index buy Cash

October 18 Fidelity Trade Alert - Single fund portfolio Sell Gold and Buy Cash

October 14 Trade Alert -  Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Excelsior Energy & Nat Res and Buy . Rowe Price Japan

October 07 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI South Africa Index buy Cash

October 07  Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Natural Gas and Buy Gold 

August 30 Trade Alert - Single Fund Model Portfolio - Buy Natural Gas

August 29 Trade Alert -  Fidelity Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Gold and hold cash (down market)

Aug 22 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI Mexico buy iShares MSCI Japan Fund

August 19 Trade Alert - Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Winslow green Growth and Buy U.S. Global Investors Global Res

August 18 Trade Alert -  Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Energy Service and Buy Gol

August 10 Trade Alert -  Fund-Track Single-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell  SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT and Buy  RS Global Natural Resources

August 10 Trade Alert -  Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT and Buy Excelsior Energy & Nat Res

August 5 Trade Alert - Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Alpine U.S. Real Estate Equity Y and Buy RS Global Natural Resources

Aug 05 Trade Alert - Single-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology and buy MSCI South Africa Index Fund  

Aug 05 Trade Alert - Multi-fund-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology and buy MSCI Brazil

July 27 Trade Alert -  Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Brokerage/Investment Management and Buy Energy Service

Jul 22 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares Shares S&P Latin America 40 Index and buy MSCI South Africa Index Fund

Jul 15 Trade Alert - ETF Single & Multi-fund portfolios - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Energy and buy  Shares Nasdaq Biotechnology

July 14 Trade Alert -  Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Energy Service  and Buy Brokerage/Investment Management

June 17 Trade Alert -  Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Amer Cent Target Mat 2025 and Buy  Alpine U.S. Real Estate Equity Y  

June 17 Trade Alert - Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares Goldman Sachs Semiconductor and buy ishares S&P Latin America 40 Index.

June 17 Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Electronics and Buy Energy Service

June 14 Trade Alert - ETF Single and Multi fund portfolio - Sell iShares Goldman Sachs Networking and buy iShares Dow Jones US Energy.

June 14 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Westport Fund and Buy  Winslow Green Growth 

May 27 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares Cohen & Steers Realty and buy iShares MSCI Mexico.

May 20 Trade Alert - Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare and buy iShares es Goldman Sachs Semiconductor

May 20 Trade Alert - Single-fund portfolio - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare and buy iShares  Goldman Sachs Networking

May 19 Trade Alert -  Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Biotechnology and Buy Electronics

May 17 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares S&P Global Healthcare and buy iShares Goldman Sachs Networking

May 10 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell Shares Dow Jones US Utilities and buy Shares Cohen & Steers Realty

April 21 Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Cash and Buy Biotechnology

April 15 Trade Alert - Multi-fund portfolio - Sell U.S. Global Investors Global Res and RS Natural Resources and Buy Grizzly Short Fund Amer Cent Target Mat 2025

April 15 Trade Alert ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell MidCap SPDRS and buy iShares S&P Global Healthcare Sector

April 12 Trade Alert - ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Energy and buy iShares Dow Jones US Utilities

April 08 Trade Alert - Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI-Canada and buy iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare

March 24 Trade Alert - Multi-fund model portfolio - Sell Fidelity Latin America and buy Strong Energy

March 24 Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Sell Energy Service and Buy Cash (down market)

March 24 Trade Alert -  ETF Single portfolio - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Energy and buy MidCap SPDRS      ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI-Australia and buy MidCap SPDRS

March 18 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Multi-fund model portfolio - Sell Alpine U.S. Real Estate Equity Y and Buy  U.S. Global Investors Global Res

March 18 Trade Alert - ETF Single and Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI South Korea and  iShares MSCI Austria Index and buy Shares MSCI-Canada and iShares MSCI-Australia

March 11  Trade Alert ETF Multi-fund portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI-Brazil and buy iShares Shares Austria Index

March 04 Trade Alert Single fund portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI-Mexico and buy iShares Shares Dow and Multi-fund portfolio Sell MSCI-Mexico an Buy iShares MSCI-Brazil

February 04 Trade Alert ETF Single & Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell iShares MSCI-Singapore - Buy iShares MSCI-Mexico

January 28 Trade Alert Fidelity Select Single Fund Portfolio - Sell Banking and Buy Energy Service

January 28 Trade Alert ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio- Sell iShares MSCI-Japan - Buy iShares MSCI-South Korea

Jan 04 2005 Trade Alert Fidelity Single fund Model Portfolio -  Sell Medical Delivery and Buy Banking

Subscription Rate Change - Foe 2005 Subscription rates have dropped to $59 for an annual membership and $18 per quarter. 

Fund-Track Multi-fund Model Portfolio Rebalance -  This portfolio has been rebalanced for 2005.  Adjustments were made to the number of shares held at year end 2004 to balance all 3 funds to equal amounts.  (this makes the returns for the first 3 funds being held look way off) but total return remains the same

January 7 - Performance sections have been updated with 2004 model portfolio returns. 

Fund-Track Multi-fund Model Portfolio Rebalance -  This portfolio has been rebalanced for 2005.  Adjustments were made to the number of shares held at year end 2004 to balance all 3 funds to equal amounts.  (this makes the returns for the first 3 funds being held look way off) but total return remains the same

Subscription Rate Change - Foe 2005 Subscription rates have dropped to $59 for an annual membership and $18 per quarter. 

2004

December 14 Trade Alert -  Single and Multi-Fund Model Portfolios Sell U.S. Global Investors Global Res and Buy CGM Realty.    

December 10 Trade Alert -  ETF Multi-Fund Alert -  Sell iShares Sweden and Buy Shares MSCI Spain Index and Sell iShares MSCI South Africa Index Fund and Buy iShares MSCI Italy Index

December 03 Trade Alert, ETF Multi-Fund Alert - Sell iShares Australia (EWA) abd Buy iShares MSCI-Sweden (EWD)

November 30 -  Trade Alert, ETF Multi-Fund Alert - Sell iShares S&P MidCap 400/BARRA Val(IJJ) and Buy iShares MSCI South Africa Index Fund (EZA)

November 26 Trade Alert, ETF Single and Multi-Fund Alert -  Sell iShares Goldman Sachs Software (IGV) and Buy iShares MSCI Austria Index (EWO)

November 12 - Trade Alert Fund-Track Multi-Fund portfolio -  Sell RS Global Natural Resources (RSNRX) and Buy Winslow Green Growth  (WGGX)

November 10 - Trade alert Select Fund single fund portfolio - Sell Developing Communications (FSDCX) and Buy Medical Delivery (FSHCX)

November 05 - Trade Alert  ETF Multi-Fund Portfolio -  Sell iShares MSCI-Canada (EWC) and Buy iShares S&P MidCap 400/BARRA Val (IJJ)

November 01 Trade alert Select Fund single fund portfolio - Sell Gold (FSAGX) and Buy Developing Communications (FSDCX)

October 19 - ETF Single and Multi-Fund trade alert - Sell iShares MSCI Bazil (EWZ) and buy Shares Goldman Sachs Software (IGV)...

Trade Alert October 15 - ETF Multi-Fund trade alert - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Energy (IYE)  and buy Shares MSCI-Canada (EWC)

October 12 - Trade Alert - ETF Multi-Fund trade alert - Sell iShares South Africa Index (IZA) and Buy iShares Australia (EWA)     

October 05 - Trade Alert Fund-Track Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell Amer Cent Target Mat 2025 (BTTRX) and Buy U.S. Global Investors Global Res (PSPFX)

October 01 - ETF Single fund trade alert - Sell iShares MidCap 400 (IJH) and Buy iShares Bazil (EWZ)      ETF Multi-Fund fund trade alert - Sell iShares MidCap 400 (IJH) and Buy iShares South Africa Index Fund (EZA)

September 24- Trade Alert  - Single and Multi-fund portfolios - Sell SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT (SSREX)  and Buy CGM Realty (CGMRX).    Sell Security Capital US Real Estate (SUSIX) and Buy Fidelity Latin America (FLATX)

September 24 - Trade Alert  ETF Multi-fund  - Sell iShares MSCI-South Korea(EWY) and Buy iShares Dow Jones US Energyl (IYE)

Trade Alert September 21 - ETF Single and Multi-fund trade alert - Sell iShares MSCI-Singapore (EWS) and Buy iShares MSCI-Brazil (EWZ)

September 10  - Dodge & Cox Balanced *+(DODBX) has just closed to new investors.  It will be replaced in next years ranks. 

August 27 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Single and Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell Grizzly short fund (GRZZX) and Buy SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT - SSREX

August 17 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell Icon Energy (ICENX) and Buy Amer Cent Target Mat 2025 - BTTRX

August 16th Fidelity Select Trade Alert - Sell Cash and Buy Utilities Growth (FSUTX)

August 13 Trade Alert ETF Multi-fund Model portfolio, Sell Cash and Buy Shares MSCI-South Korea (EWY) - Showing good short term strength (> 3%)

August 06 Trade Alert ETF Multi-fund Model portfolio, Sell iShares Dow Jones US Eneregy (IYE) and hold Cash - Market sliding down and no fund showing price strength > 3%

August 06 Trade Alert - Single and Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Kinetics Paradigm (WWNPX) and Buy Grizzly Short Fund (GRZZX) -- Trade was made into a bear market fund as market continues to slide downward.

August 05 Trade Alert Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Energy Service (FSESX) and Buy Cash - Currently in "down" market conditions as evidenced by the Profunds Bear fund rising to top and both average strength indicators being negative.

August 03 Trade Alert ETF Single and Multi-fund Model portfolios. Single fund - Sell iShares MSCI Austria Index (EWO) and buy iShares MSCI-Brazil (EWZ) Multi-Fund - Sell iShares MSCI Austria Index (EWO) and buy Shares Dow Jones US Telecomm (IYZ)

July 28 - Updated Fund-Track rank for Tuesday July 27th.   Some data problems caused some prices to be missed.  No change in the model portfolios

July 23 Trading Alert ETF Multi-fund Portfolio Sell iShares MSCI-Australia EWA and Buy iShares Dow Jones US Energy IYE

July 20 Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Defense & Aerospace (FSDAX) and buy Energy Service (FSESX)

July 09 - Trading Alert  ETF Multi-fund Portfolio, Sell Dow Jones Transportation Avg IYT and Buy iShares MSCI Australia EWA,

July 07 - Trade Alert Fund-Track Multi-Fund Portfolio -  Sell iShares MSCI-Japan EWJ and Buy iShares MSCI Brazil EWZ, 

June 25 - Trade Alert Fund-Track Multi-Fund Portfolio - Sell PBHG Large Cap 20 - PLCPX and Buy Icon Energy - ICENX.

June 16 Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Portfolio.   Sell Developing Communications (FSDCX) and Buy Defense & Aerospace FSDAX.  

June 15 - Trading Alert - ETF Multi-fund Portfolio,  Sell MSCI South Africa Index Fund EZA and Buy Shares Dow Jones Transportation Avg IYT

June 08 - Trade Alert - Fidelity Select Single Fund Portfolio.   Sell Gold (FSAGX) and Buy Developing Communications (FSDCX)

June 04 ETF Mutiti-fun Model Portfolio Trade Alert -   Sell Goldman Sachs Semiconductor IGW  and Buy MSCI South Africa Index Fund (EZA)

May 28 - Trade Alert - Fund-Track Single and Multi-Fund Model Portfolios - Sell Grizzly Short Fund GRZZX and Buy Kinetics Paradigm - WWNPX, Sell cash and Buy Security Capital US Real Estate - SUSIX,  and PBHG Large Cap 20 - PLCPX

May 28 ETF Single Fund and Multi-fun Model Portfolio Trade Alert -   Sell Cash (all funds) and buy iShares Cohen & Steers Realty ICF,  iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate IYR, and iShares Goldman Sachs Semiconductor IGW 

May 25 Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert -  Sell Cash and Buy Gold (FSAGX)

May 21 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolios - Sell Turner Healthcare & Biotech THBCX and Buy cash, Sell Pimco RCM Biotech N DRBNX and Buy Cash (According to rules down market conditions still in effect, with bear funds not showing enough strength to buy)  

May 18  ETF Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert -  Sell  iShares Dow Jones US Energy - IYE and Buy Cash  -   Down market conditions are in effect this week.

May 14 ETF Fund-Track Single and Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell iShares Dow Jones US Consumer Cyc - IYC and Buy Cash  

May 11 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Single and Multi-Fund Model Portfolios - Sell T. Rowe Price Japan PRJPX and Buy Grizzly Short Fund GRZZX.

May 07 ETF Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert -  Sell  iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology- IBB and Buy Cash -  Down market conditions are in effect this week.

May 07 Fidelity Select Single Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert -  Sell Natural Gas FSNGX - Buy Cash (money market) Down market conditions are currently in place

May 03 Trade Alert - Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Commonwealth Japan CNJFX, and Buy Turner Healthcare & Biotech - THBCX

April 30 ETF Single and Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell iShares MSCI-South Korea (EWY) and Buy iShares Dow Jones US Consumer Cyc (IYC)  - The South Korea fund crashed this week dropping from 1st to 63rd in the ranks and losing almost 13% of its value since last friday.

April 23 Trade alert, Fund-Track multi-fund model portfolio -  Sell Managers Emerging Markets - MEMEX and Buy Pimco RCM Biotech N - DRBNX

April 23 Trade alert, ETF multi-fund model portfolio -  Sell iShares Astria EWO and Buy iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology IBB

April 20 Trade alert ETF, single and multi-fund model portfolios - Sell  iShares - Japan EWJ and Buy iShares South Korea EWY

April 20 Trade alert ETF multi-fund model portfolio -  Sell iShares Mexico EWW and Buy iShares Dow Jones US Energy IYE

April 16th - Trade Alert - Fidelity Select single fund model portfolio - Sell Electronics FSELX and Buy Natural Gas FSNGX

April 13 - Added End of Quarter Reports For all 3 ranking systems including model portfolio returns.  For Fund-Track see the Performance page, for Fidelity Select see the Performance section on that page and for ETFs also see the Performance section on that page. 

March 30 - The Icon Fund family has been "restricting" trading privileges of some investors that they deem as "Market timers"   They give no exact definition of what constitutes this, but Fund-Trackers should note this when purchasing one or more of their funds.   Please check their prospectus before buying and/or selling one of their funds.   Fund-Track holds 7 Icon funds

March 30 - All four Pimco Funds have implement early redemption penalties of 2% if held less then 60 days.  

March 12 -  The weekly update page is now being switched to the "Monthly Update" page.  Instead of being updated at the end of every week with ranks from the previous week, it will be updated once a month on the first weekend of each month with the ranks and model portfolios from the previous month.  

March 03 - Model portfolio spreadsheets available to members. - For all members that want an excel spreadsheet like the one the model portfolios are exhibited on please contact me and request one (see contact link at bottom right of this page) and state what version you are interested in:  (the single fund, multi-fund and/or the weekly averaging (currently for the Fidelity Select system) I use these to track my own investments as well as for the model portfolios because I have simply not found anything that I like better yet in the standard financial packages (Quicken, money) or online.   

March 03 - Adjusted look tat the ETF Model Portfolios - An adjusted look at the ETF model portfolios were completed that accounts for the trading spreads from the closing price on Friday's (and or Tuesdays for the mod week update) at which trades were triggered and the actual opening prices the following day (the price at which your trade probably would have been executed at).   These portfolio PDFs can be seen on the MSN discussion site (see link on left margin) under the new message "ETF Real Time Trading" .   

January 30 - Added new Single Fund Model portfolio for the Fund-Track ETF Rank.   It follows the same rule set as that of the Multi-fund but with just one fund.  It is off to a good start this year with a Year-to-date return of 14.7%.

January 27 - Effective Jan 29 ICON has changed the names of a couple of funds.  ICON North Europe Region Fund becomes ICON International Equity Fund. ICON South Europe Region Fund becomes ICON Europe Fund.

January 15 - New Fund Replacements - 4  funds have been dropped from Fund=Track that have just recently closed to new investors or have been liquidated.  These funds are: William Blair Small Cap Grth - WBSNX, Dodge & Cox Stock - DODGX, Eclipse Small Cap Value - EEQFX, and Pimco RCM Europe - DRENX.   They were replaced with Excelsior Pan-European - UMPNX, PIMCO PEA Value - PVLDX, RS Value & Growth - RSVPX, and Harris Insight Small-Cap Opport - HSCAX

January 14 -  2003 Year End Review section is completed with results from the 4th quarter.  Includes some good summary reports of how Fund-track funds and the model portfolios did during the year. See 2003 Performance on the Performance Page.  Same for the Fidelity Select funds.  See Fidelity Select Performance page   

January 13 -  Emergency Procedure -  If for some reason the website is down (because of a server crash or something) ranks will be posted on the Fund-Track MSN Discussion site.  

January 12 -  New Website -  Should be easy to navigate, somewhat similar to before but with the new "Member" sections.  I hope you enjoy it.  Not particularly pretty but hopefully functional.   If you have problems please  contact me. 

January 05 -  Lots of new stuff for 2004!.

2003

December 22 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Medical Delivery (FSHCX) - Buy Energy Service (FSESX). Medical Delivery was held for only 17 days and lost - 0.6%. Medical delivery started off fast with a good gain for a few days, but then faded in a slow decline until it was finally triggered out.

December 12 - Trade alert Trade Multi-Fund Model Portfolio (2 trades)- Sell Royce Opportunity (RYPNX) and Buy Gabelli Utilities (GABUX). Sell Meridian Growth (MERDX) and Buy RS Global natural Resources (RSNRX). Royce Opportunity was held for 28 days and lost 2.6%, and was hit with an additional early redemption penalty of 1%. Meridian Growth was held for 21 days and gained 2.3%. Both of these trades were made into the surging funds in the Natural Resources and Utilities sectors.

November 25 - Trade Alert Multi and Single -Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Matthews China (MCHFX) - Buy American Cent Small Cap Quantitative (ASQIX). MCHFX was held for only 28 days and lost 3.1%. It also lost another 2% as the result of a early redemption penalty (listed on ranks for this fund).

November 21 - Trade Alert, Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell RS Information Systems (RSIFX) - Buy Meridian Growth (MERDX) . RSIFX this time around was held for 63 days and gained 1.3%

November 14 - Multi-fund model portfolio Trade Alert - Sell T. Rowe Price Japan (PRJPX) and Buy Royce Opportunity Fund (RYPNX) . PRJPX was held only 21 days and was hit for a small -0.3% loss.

October 27 - Vontobel US Value Fund  (VUSVX) has been dropped from Fund-Track. It closed, merging its assets with the Janus US Value Fund (JVVAX). It will replaced by another appropriate Mid Cap Value fund for 2004.

October 28 - Multi-Fund and Single Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert. Sell Royce Technology Value (RYTVX) Buy Matthews China (MCHFX) RYTVX was held for 74 days and gained 17.5% in the Multi fund portfolio. It was less successful in the Single Fund Model portfolio where is was held for 39 days and lost 2.2%.

October 24 - Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Rockland Small Cap Growth (RKGRX), Buy T. Rowe Price Japan (PRJPX) RKGRX was held for 185 days and gained 43.3%.

October 10 - 2 Funds on Fund-track have closed and will be dropped from Fund-Track.
NPLGX - Navellier Large Cap Growth has closed merging its assets to the Touchstone Large Cap Growth fund (TEQAX). DRAPX - Driehaus Asia Pacific Fund, has closed merging its assets with the Driehaus Emerging Markets fund (DREGX) which is currently not on Fund-Track but will probably be picked up for next year.

October 01 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Select Gold (FSAGX) and Buy Select Home Finance (FSVLX) Gold was held for only 6 days and lost 5.9%. As it has in the past the move to gold proved to be a costly one.

September 24 - Fidelity has dropped the 3% Front End load fee for its Select Family of Funds. For those of you not familiar with this fee, Fidelity in the past has charged a one time 3% front end load fee when first getting into a Select Fund. You didn't have to pay this again as long as you traded into any other Select fund. As soon as you traded out and tried to get back into a Select fund you would be hit again with the 3% fee. On the Fidelity Model Portfolio included this 3% front end fee when it first started trading (first trade at beginning of 1997) Great move by Fidelity!

September 24 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Electronics (FSELX) and Buy Gold (FSAGX). Electronics was held for 30 days and gained 1.7%.

 
September 19 - Single and Multi-fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert Sep 19 - Single-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Matthews China (MCHFX) and Buy Royve Technology Value (RYTVX), Multi-Fund Model Portfolio - Sell Matthews China (MCHFX) and Buy RS Information Systems (RSIFX).   Holding MCHFX in both model portfolios didn't work out so well in this case. Matthews China started out strong early into the trade then seem to fizzle and then sink in the rankings. It was held only 38 days for a 1.2% gain which includes a short term redemption fee of 2% which was incurred due to not being held longer then 90 days. This is the first short term trading penalty assessed this year. The upgrade (into MCHFX) was made back into RS Information systems which was narrowly "sold" back in August when it dipped below 40th place for only one day (8/12).  Had both of these portfolios held onto RSIFX they would have current returns of 44 and 45% respectively each.. But hindsight is 20-20 and rules are rules....

August 26 - Results for the Conclusion of Round 8 of MSN's Strategy Lab have been posted on the Performance page. Round 8 concluded on August 15th. The Fund-Track multi-fund model portfolio for the 8 months of the this round gained 13.5% 2nd best of the 6 experts tracked.

August 26 - Fidelity Fund-Track Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Industrial Materials (FSDPX) - Buy Electronics (FSELX). FSDPX was held for 21 days and gained 3.6% . Another short move as this trade gets another 0.75% redemption penalty assessed.
 

August 15 - Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert  -- Sell Green Century Balanced (GCBLX) and Buy Royce Technology Value (RYTVX). GCBLX could not ever get really on track but still managed a small gain of 0.6% over just 23 days.

August 12 - Fund-Track Model Portfolio (Single & Multi) Trade Alert, - Sell RS Information Technology (RSIFX) Buy Matthews China (MCHFX) . RSIFX had a good run for the Fund-Track Model portfolios being held for 144 days and a gain of 39%.

August 05 - Trade Alert Aug 05, Sell Biotechnology (FNINX) -- Buy Industrial Materials (FSDPX). Biotech was held only 13 days for a -4.% loss.

July 28 - Last camping trip of the year. Will be unable to update until this Saturday (8/2). Therefore I am leaving with Monday evening (7/28) update.

July 21 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Air Transportation (FSAIX) -- Buy Biotechnology (FBIOX). Air Transportation was held for 27 days and gained 3%.

July 08 - A review of Fund-Track for the 2nd quarter this year has been added which includes some reports. It is on the Performance page in the Year-To-Date Review section. In summary, over all a pretty good quarter as market stability returned and a strong rise produced sustained trends to take advantage of. The model portfolios did just that gaining 25.6% in the quarter for the multi-fund portfolio and 33% for the single fund portfolio.

A review for the Fidelity Select Fund-Track can also be found on the Fidelity page under the "Past Performance" section. This system did not fare so well and is still struggling with sharp and short lived trends in the Select sector funds. Movements in a lot of these focused funds continues to be somewhat erratic compared to the market in general. Hopefully we can get back on track this quarter.

July 07 - In performing a mid-year review of all Fund-Track funds I uncovered the following:
- Meriden Funds (MERDX and MVALX) are no longer offered on Schwab or Scottrade (except to institutional investors)
- NINQX also is no longer offered on Schwab or Scottrade
- MNSGX was taken over by Wells Fargo and is no longer offered on Schwab or Scottrade
- TREMX implemented a redemption a 2% fee I held less then 360 days
- DNLDX has implemented a front end load of 5.75% and thus is no longer a no-load fund
- HAINX has implemented an initial investment minimum of $100,000.
- RHJSX has closed to all new investors
- CSVFX has implemented a front end load of 5.75% to all “new” investors and thus is no longer a no-load fund.

The changes in these nine funds will cause them to be dropped from Fund-Track at the end of the year.

July 03 - Fund-Track Multi-fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Pimco RCM Biotech (DRBNX) - Buy Green Century Balanced (GCBLX).

June 29 - Another fund bites the dust.  The Northern Global Communications Fund NOGCX has been closed and its assets merged into the Northern's Technology fund which is not carried on Fund-Track. This makes the 2nd telecommunications fund to be dropped from the ranks in June.

June 27 - The Performance page has been updated with the latest returns for the MSN Strategy Lab Pros and the Fund-Track Multi-Fund model portfolio. (from last month) Link HERE.

June 25 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert --, Sell signal on Brokerage/Investment Management FSLBX -- No Buy's (move to Money Market) No fund was showing positive short term momentum. FSLBX was held only 11 days and took a -4.3% loss. Jun 24 Buy signal for Air Transportation FSAIX. Buy was triggered as this fund moved back to positive short term strength. These 2 signals were not updated until this evening as some out-of-town model problems were uncovered. Sorry.

June 12 - Posted a Business Week recent commentary "Mutual Funds: Is Your Broker Ripping You Off" that talks some about what goes on behind the scenes at full service brokerages concerning mutual funds that most investors don't know about. See Monthly Update Page

June 12 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert --Sell Electronics FSELX and Buy Brokerage/Investment management FSLBX. Electronics was held only 10 days for a very slight gain. The short term redemption fee (0.75%) actually turned into a net loss of 0.7%.

June 10 - The Montgomery Global Telecommunications Fund (MNGCX) has effectively closed, being merged with Wells Fargo Special Technology Fund (WFSTX). This fund carries a 5.75% front end load and is not carried in the Fund-Track ranks. MNGCX will be the 2nd fund eliminated from the ranks this year reducing the total tracked to 198.

June 03 - Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model Portfolio Trade Alert: Sell FBR Small Cap Value A (FBRVX) and Buy Pimco RCM Biotech (DRBNX). FBRVX was held for 70 days and gained 14.4%.

June 03 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Alert: Sell Energy Service FSESX and Buy Electronics FSELX. Energy Service was held for only 13 days for a gain of 4.0%, continuing the trend of short lived trades for this year. Its gain of 4.0% was also relatively poor considering what some of the other funds have been doing in the last month.

May 30 - The "Fund-Track vs. MSN Strategy Lab Pros" Performance section has been updated. - I try to update this section about once a month. The Fund-Track 3 fund portfolio has managed to climb back into 2nd place amongst the set of portfolios created by the panel's investment experts.

May 20 - Fidelity Fund-Track Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Air Transportation FSAIX, and buy Energy Service FSESX. Air Transportation was held 22 days, for a gain of 1.0%.

May 16 - Columbia Real Estate Equity (CREEX) has closed to new investors.

May 09 - Slight Change in Method of "Return" calculation for the Fidelity Select Model Portfolio spreadsheet. I have updated the way that "Return" for each trade is calculated. If an early redemption fee (0.75%) is assessed, it is now taken off the "Return" for the trade and seen in that column. Previously it was reflected in the "Start $" amount for the following trade. The overall return for the portfolio has of course stayed the same.

April 28 - Fidelity Fund-Track Model Portfolio Trade Alert - Sell Multimedia FBMPX, and Buy Air Transportation FSAIX. Multimedia was held only 12 days, and thus picked up another short term redemption charge (.75%). It inched out a 1.5% gain.

April 25 - 2 Funds to be dropped from Fund-Track: Berger Mid Cap Value BEMVX and Excelsior Latin America UMEAX - Berger was bought by Janus and has merged all its funds to Janus funds. The Mid Cap Value fund was merged with the Janus Mid Cap Value fund. Excelsior closed its Latin American Fund and merged its assets to their Emerging Markets Fund UMEMX.

April 23 - Change to Fidelity Select Fund-Track - As the result of some successful testing with the Fidelity Select System, a new non Fidelity select fund has been added to this ranking system. The Bear market fund (Profunds Bear - BRPIX) serves as a timing indicator (not a valid fund to trade into) as to when to exit the market (go to cash or the Select money market fund). Please see details on the Fund-Track Discussion Board..

April 22 - Trade Triggered: Multi-Fund Model Portfolio, Sell PBHG Large Cap 20 (PLCPX) and Buy Rockland Small Cap Growth (RKGRX).  PLCPX was held 35 days for a 2.7% return and was traded on relative strength because it fell to 43rd place on the Fund-Track rank.

April 16 - Fidelity Select Model Portfolio Trade Triggered, Sell Health Care FSPHX  and Buy Multimedia - FBMPX. Health Care was held for 16 days and took another loss of -1.3%.

April 04 - Posted 2003 1st Quarter Reviews for Fund-Track on Performance page and for Fidelity Select System in the Performance section of the Fidelity Select page.

April 02 - Sorry about how late the Fidelity Select ranks have been posted the last few days. I have run into a data input problem that is not letting me access the days closing prices until late in the evening. Should have it worked out soon.

March 31 - Trade Triggered: Fidelity Select Model Portfolio, Sell Electronics FSELX - Buy Healthcare FSPHX. Electronics was held only 14 days and took a 7% loss. Another losing trade caused by a whipsawing market heading up and then back down very quickly.

March 21 - Trades Triggered: Single-Fund Model portfolio from American Cent Intl Bond BEBGX to RS Information Age -RSIFX. Multi-Fund Model portfolio from American Cent Intl Bond BEBGX to RS Information Age -RSIFX and from T-Rowe Price Intl Fund - RPIBX to FBR Small Cap Value - A - FBRVX.

March 18 -  Trade Triggered in Fund-Track Multi-Fund Model portfolio from Prudent Safe Harbor-PSAFX to PBHG Large Cap 20- PLCPX

March 17 -  Trade triggered in the Fidelity Select Model Portfolio from the Money Market fund to Electronics FSELX. Geopolitical events and rumors have fueled this brief but strong rally the last couple of days and triggered a trade out of the money market fund now held over a month. Will this rally last is the million dollar question? Similar conditions have caused previously held funds to be whipsawed in this portfolio so far this year. Nevertheless an objective systematic trading strategy should be adhered to as witnessed by this latest trade.

March 5 -   A couple of new Business week articles were posted on the Monthly Update page about the turbulent market conditions as of late with some why and what to do about it. Cover article March 10: "Whipsawed by the Market - Volatility is back big time. There are basic changes under way in the stock market. here is what you can do about it."

Feb 24 -   On the Monthly Update page, I added a link to the Mutual Investor. com's Weekly Fund Wrap page. This page offers some good information about the previous week in the market but is not published until Mondays.  It should be more dependable source of information then the previous link I had to CBS Marketwatch's on again off again weekly mutual fund summary.

Feb 22 -   Three funds were dropped from Fund-Track as of the latest rank (Friday Feb 21) and replaced with 3 others. The 3 dropped were: 1. Deyfus Emerging Markets DRFMX (Intl - Emerging Markets) - It added a 5.5% front end load for new investors. 2. Wasatch Ultra Growth WAMCX (Small Cap Growth) - Closed to new investors in January. 3. Federated International ISCAX (Intl - Foreign Stock) - Added a 5% front end load. These 3 were replaced with: 1. Harris Insight Emerging Markets HEMAX - (Intl - Emerging Markets) 2. FBR Small Cap value A FBRVX - (Small Cap Growth) 3. AXA Rosenberg Intl Small Cap RISIX - (Intl - Foreign Stock) I believe these to be good additions to Fund-Track, have been watching them for a while, and looking for an excuse to get them into the ranks.

Feb 14 -   Trade triggered in Fidelity Select Model Portfolio from Energy Services FSESX to Cash (Money Market).   Energy Services was held for only 4 days for a -4.9% loss. No where to turn in this set of Funds with all showing neg price strength.

Feb 10 -  Trade triggered in Fidelity Select Model Portfolio from Gold - FSAGX to Energy Services FSESX.  Gold was held for only 16 days and took a 9.2% loss. Already 2 trades and 2 substantial losses year to date. This portfolio is off to a very poor start this year!

Feb 08 - Back... In doing the ranks for the week gone trades were triggered in both the Single and Multi-Fund model portfolios on Friday Jan 31. Both Gabelli Utilities AAA GABUX and the Gabelli Global Telecom GABTX Funds were upgraded to the Amer Century Intl Bond BEGBX and T. Rowe Price Intl Bond RPIBX funds. The rank for Jan31 can be seen on the Past Ranks page.

Jan 24 - Updates on Hold for next 8 days. Sorry but I will be traveling out of the country and unable to update Fund-Track for the next 8 days. The next update will occur next weekend (Feb 8-9). I have updated the Top Funds page with the latest rank (Wednesday Jan 29) and provided a PDF for the whole rank. Hold funds you have, or if they are near trading thresholds and showing weak price strength think about upgrading them. A week is not long, and most funds do not move much in that time.

Jan 24 -  Trade triggered in Fidelity Select Model Portfolio from Networking & Infrastructure - FNINX to Gold - FSAGX

Jan 24 - Wasatch Ultra Growth (WAMCX) - Closed to new investors. It closed 12/31/02. It will be replaced with another fund.

Jan 21 - Correction to Ranks and Multi-fund model portfolio. I detected a data problem with one of the funds being held in the Multi-Fund portfolio, Wasatch U;tra growth (WAMCX). A small year end distribution was erroneously added to this fund, which lifted its price strength a few 10ths of a percent and kept it in just barely in the top 40 on Fri Jan 03. Correcting this (removing the distribution) dropped Its price strength and re-ranking dropped it to 48th place and thus out of the top 20%, triggering a "Sell" on Jan03. The corresponding Buy would have been to PSAFX (the same fund it is now holding). I have put in a safeguard in to prevent this from happening in the future. This correction has not done much to help the poor start of the model portfolio for this year.

Jan 21 -  How To Use page updated. - This page has been re-written a little and some new information has been added. The Trading Tips section has been moved up to the main menu, and a new section How Not To Use Fund-Track has been added. These two important sections should be re-read. Have a look.

Jan 15 -  Starting this year any short term redemption fees that would be assessed on Fund-Track trades in the Single fund and Multi-fund model portfolio returns. These are the fees seen in the last column for each fund that were added late last year. I will still not include brokerage transaction fees because they are widely different depending upon the brokerage being used. Short term redemption fees have always been included on the Fidelity Select model portfolio.

Jan 14 - Fidelity Model portfolio trade triggered from gold fund FSAGX, to Network and Infrastructure FNINX.

Jan 14 - The Fund-Track Single-Fund Model Portfolio for year 2000 has been corrected. NN,  a good contributor Fund-Track found this while back testing ranks for previous years. The Vanguard Health Fund (VGHCX) being held at the end of the year was not corrected for the unusually large distributions that were taken at the end of the year. (total 0f $10.64) which equated to per share multiplier adjustment of 1.084. This raised the return for the year for this portfolio from 14.2% to 23.8%, and in turn raised the 4 year total (1999 - 2002) from 289.9% to 322.4% and the annualized gain from 40.5% to 43.4% thus surpassing the Fidelity Select portfolio as the top Fund-Track portfolio over the last 4 years. The 2000 portfolio can be viewed in detail in the Historical Performance section of the Performance page. A discussion of this correction is on the MSN Fund-Track discussion board under the "Single Fund top 15% Experiment" thread. Thanks again to NN!

Jan 14 - A measure of Risk (Standard Deviation) has been added to the Ranks for each Fund n a new column. Standard deviation is a measure of the past (over the last 36 months) price volatility of a fund. The MSN Fund-Track Discussion board has a more detailed overview of this measure.

Jan 09 - The 2002 Review page has been completed with a look back at 2002 for Fund-Track.

Jan 09 - WMCVX was replaced with the FAM Equity Income fund (FAMEX) This fund I consider to be a very good small cap value fund Morningstar' gave it its highest rating of 5 stars. It is still small in size ($60 Million in assets) and returned 20.2% in 2000 and was down only -2.2% last year. No redemption fee's and widely available on most major brokerages. It does have an initial investment minimum of $10,000.

Jan 08 - Trade Triggered in the Single and Multi-Fund Portfolios on 1/07 from Icon Energy Fund - ICENX to the Gabelli Utilities AAA Fund - GABUX.

Jan 06 - WMCVX - Wasatch Small Cap Value - Has been closed to new investors. This fund which recently re-opened was just added back to Fund-Track. It will be replaced soon.

Jan 05 - New updated Performance Page for Fund-Track and the Fidelity Select Fund-Track (Past Performance) including year end review of 2002, for ranks and model portfolios.  It's not completed yet.  Also Fund List page has been updated with new funds for 2003 and changes that were made from 2002.

Jan 03 -  New Rank for 2003 - The new Rank for 2003 is up and running. It has 200 funds and includes 38 new funds replacing 36 funds from last year. To see why funds were replaced and what they were replaced with see the Fund List Page.

2002 - What's New