Our Stock Picks

Since I purchased this website midway through 2008, I am only including picks from 2009 and later on this page but you are than welcome to look through the FreeStockPicks section to get the others!!!

2012: (Performance as of March 7th 2012)

 

TickerEntry DateExit DateEntryLast/CloseReturnLong/Short EffectTrade Return
AAPL01/05/201201/13/2012410419.702.37%3.38%21.71%
NILE40.6935.4712.83%18.33%
TRIP01/06/201201/16/201225.5229.5815.91%22.73%26.24%
AOL15.4615.082.46%3.51%
BIDU01/09/2012122.97134.949.73%13.91%-4.22%
XOXO8.129.15-12.68%-18.12%
AAPL01/16/201202/17/2012424.20503.1118.60%26.57%20.05%
NILE37.0138.70-4.57%-6.52%
DHX01/17/201201/27/20129.1810.2511.66%16.65%24.38%
MWW8.327.875.41%7.73%
TRIP01/23/201202/10/201230.4229.02-4.60%-6.57%-27.58%
AOL15.7818.10-14.70%-21.00%
GOOG01/30/201202/27/2012578.05606.594.94%7.05%-19.64%
VCLK17.3720.58-18.69%-26.69%
TZOO02/06/201203/07/201227.9324.12-13.64%-19.49%-22.45%
IACI45.4046.34-2.07%-2.96%
AMZN02/13/201202/17/2012187.17180.09-3.78%-5.40%-18.60%
RAX49.3853.94-9.23%-13.19%
AAPL02/21/201203/05/2012506.88545.427.60%10.86%24.98%
NILE38.8635.029.88%14.12%
AMZN02/27/2012177.54183.773.51%5.01%8.79%
NFLX108.05105.192.65%3.78%
AAPL03/05/2012545.42530.69-2.70%-3.86%0.77%
AOL17.6017.033.24%4.63%
Total0.50%0.72%2.87%

2011: (Performance as of December 31st 2011)

TickerEntry DateExit DateEntryLAST PRICEReturnLong/Short EffectReturnLink to that Pick
AAPL01/03/20112/13/2011325.64356.799.57%13.67%21.85%Long AAPL/Short NILE
NILE59.6756.255.73%8.19%
PCLN01/04/20113/29/2011415.74482.8416.14%23.06%21.87%Long PCLN/Short IACI
IACI29.9830.23-0.83%-1.19%
DHX01/05/201102/02/201113.5714.9910.46%14.95%64.42%Long DHX/Short MWW
MWW24.2315.8434.63%49.47%
AMZN01/06/201102/02/2011186.5171.42-8.09%-11.55%-28.95%Long AMZN/Short KNOT
KNOT10.1811.42-12.18%-17.40%
CTRP01/07/201106/22/201145.1940.43-10.53%-15.05%-19.92%Long CTRP/Short VCLK
VCLK16.1216.67-3.41%-4.87%
AMZN07/02/20115/13/2011176.15205.716.78%23.96%29.66%Long AMZN/Short YHOO
YHOO16.8116.143.99%5.69%
GOOG02/14/201106/17/2011623.34506.18-18.80%-26.85%-21.88%Long GOOG/Short AOL
AOL21.5620.813.48%4.97%
AAPL02/23/201106/22/2011338.77325.16-4.02%-5.74%18.73%Long AAPL/Short NILE
NILE53.1244.0217.13%24.47%
WBMD05/04/201104/19/201152.8853.441.06%1.51%22.23%Long WBMD/Short KNOT
KNOT11.9310.214.50%20.72%
PCLN04/25/201106/06/2011544.8506.38-7.05%-10.07%25.38%Long PCLN/Short MWW
MWW17.9313.4824.82%35.46%
BIDU05/16/201107/18/2011129.07145.9413.07%18.67%19.56%Long BIDU/Short RST
RST14.4714.380.62%0.89%
EBAY06/06/201107/27/201130.2234.1713.07%18.67%26.29%Long EBAY/Short XOXO
XOXO9.759.235.33%7.62%
GOOG06/20/201107/18/2011485592.4922.16%31.66%36.81%Long GOOG/Short ADBE
ADBE30.2729.183.60%5.14%
AAPL06/27/201109/12/2011331.3737814.07%20.10%24.93%Long AAPL/Short YHOO
YHOO15.0814.573.38%4.83%
TZOO07/11/201107/19/201175.2187.7016.61%23.72%36.32%Long TZOO/Short NILE
NILE47.7543.548.82%12.60%
AAPL07/19/201108/05/2011378380.500.66%0.94%35.89%Long Apple (AAPL)/Short Blue Nile (NILE)
NILE43.5432.8924.46%34.94%
GOOG07/25/201108/10/2011605.39561-7.33%-10.47%25.73%Long Google (GOOG)/Short Valueclick (VCLK)
VCLK18.7413.9925.35%36.21%
TZOO08/02/201108/18/201154.4134.76-36.11%-51.59%-26.61%Long Travelzoo (TZOO)/Short Demand Media (DMD)
DMD9.788.0717.48%24.98%
AAPL08/08/201109/12/2011361.693733.13%4.47%-29.15%Long Apple (AAPL)/Short Yahoo (YHOO)
YHOO11.4314.1223.53%-33.62%
GOOG08/08/2011499.34627.6425.69%36.71%19.70%Long Google (GOOG)/Short eBay (EBAY)
EBAY27.4730.74-11.90%-17.01%

Average Return per trade: +15,14%
Portfolio annual return as per this return: 82.89%
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*This return is before fees, read about the fees involved here

2010: (Performance as of December 31st 2010)

Jan 12 - PCLN/EXPE: +20.91% – closed
Jan 18 – NFLX/NILE: +63.04% – closed
Jan 25 – GOOG/BIDU: -24.79% – closed
Feb 8 – AAPL/AMZN: +27.10% –
closed
Feb 22 – EBAY/KNOT: +25.62% – closed
March 2 – RIMM/YHOO: -20,04% – closed
March 8 – DHX/MWW: +21.08% – closed
March 14 – GOOG/VCLK: -22.16% – closed
March 22 – EBAY/IACI: -18,25% – closed
April 26 – NFLX/NILE:+19.02% – closed
May 17 – PCLN/TZOO: +25,75% – closed
May 24 – AAPL/NILE: +21,09% – closed
June 1 – GOOG/AOL: +17,87% – closed
June 8 – SNDA/KNOT: -24,21% – closed
June 22 – RST/IACI:
-23,48% – closed
June 29 – RIMM/MWW: -20,71% -closed
July 6 – PCLN/TZOO
+36,80% – closed
August 3 – MSFT/YHOO: -27,31% – closed
August 9 – EBAY/IACI: +25,26% -closed
August 16 – AAPL/NILE: +18,40% – closed
September 27 – AMZN/NILE: -23,72% – closed
October 18 – AAPL/TZOO: -26,20% – closed
October 25 – EBAY/YHOO: -3,35% – closed
November 1 – AAPL/RIMM: +8,05% – closed
November 8 -  BIDU/KNOT: -26,64% - closed

Average Return per trade: +2,76%
Portfolio annual return as per this return: 14,61%
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***Return is before commissions on trades and estimates that stock borrowing is the same cost as the return on cash


2009: (Performance as of December 31st 2009)

Jan 9 – KNOT/IDC: +20,75% – closed
Jan 23 – GOOG/IACI +21,14% – closed
Feb 2 – PCLN/AMZN +20,76% closed
Feb 18 -GOOG/VCLK -24,71%
closed
Feb 25 -EBAY/KNOT
-34,17% closed
March 9 -WBMD/YHOO
+45,39% – closed
March 16- PCLN/NILE -22,76%
closed
March 23- PCLN/NILE -14,37%
closed
July 31 – EWC/RSX -38,12%
closed
Oct 5 – AAPL/INTC +9,26% – closed

Oct 7 – CTRP/EXPE
+21,65% – closed
Oct 9 – GOOG/IACI
+20,82% – closed
Oct 27 – MSFT-BIDU
+18,59% – closed
Nov 6 – BIDU/AMZN-5,82% – closed
Nov 13 – PCLN/TZOO
+24,45% – closed
Nov 20 – NILE/YHOO+2,29% – closed
Dec 7 – EBAY/MWW - -6,41% – closed
Dec 14 – GOOG/TREE- -8,50% – closed

2009 Average Trade Return: +2,53%