Workshop Portfolio

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Monthly Relative Strength      

by Jim Stevens (JimStevens@aol.com)

Burlington, VT (March 8, 1999) -- Since last Friday was the first Friday of the month, this week I bring you the updates of the monthly traded Workshop models. Again the Relative Strength-Investor's Business Daily method beat out the Unemotional Growth, so I'll update that one first.

The stocks for this model are picked like this: Starting with the 100 stocks ranked #1 for "Timeliness" in the ValueLine Investment Survey, list in decreasing order by their Investor's Business Daily "Relative Strength" score. Buy the top 5 or 10 stocks, update once per month. This screen hasn't been backtested more than a few years, but for that short time it's been a Workshop chart topper.

Here are last month's stocks as listed in my 02/08/99 Report, listed with their performances on the month through last Friday:

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) -7.49%
America Online (NYSE: AOL) 6.02%
Schwab (Charles) (NYSE: SCH) 22.61%
VISX Inc. (Nasdaq: VISX) 42.98%
Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) -14.31%
MiniMed Inc. (Nasdaq: MNMD) -15.92%
Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) -0.06%
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) 3.98%
Amer. Eagle Outfitters (Nasdaq: AEOS) 12.28%
Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) 7.60%
Top 5 9.96%
Top 10 5.78%

That brings the 1999 performance of this hypothetical monthly traded screen up to 25.66% for the 5-stock port and 16.41% for the 10-stock version. Some real hot ones here, folks!

The "relative strength" of the 12 inches of fresh powder that fell on northern Vermont on Sunday drew me away from my keyboard, so today's update is brief and to the point. Here's the RS-IBD stock list for the month of March, according to the most recent Workshop Rankings:

Schwab (Charles) (NYSE: SCH)
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO)
America Online (NYSE: AOL)
VISX Inc. (Nasdaq: VISX)
Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY)
Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL)
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
Quiksilver Inc. (NYSE: ZQK)
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW)
Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN)

Check my Thursday column for the latest numbers on the Unemotional Growth model.

Have a great week!

Check out the latest file updates for the Workshop:
New Rankings | Workshop Returns


Workshop Portfolio


9/28/01 as of ~5:30:00 PM EDT

Ticker Company Price
Change		 Daily Price
% Change		 Price
AETAETNA INC NEW0.943.36%28.94
BABOEING CO(1.04)(3.02%)33.36
CATCATERPILLAR INC1.112.53%44.91
COGCABOT OIL & GAS 'A'0.693.59%19.90
DDDU PONT (EI) DE NEMOURS0.992.74%37.14
DGXQUEST DIAGNOSTICS(0.45)(0.73%)61.42
EKEASTMAN KODAK0.421.31%32.49
GMGENERAL MOTORS1.393.38%42.55
LHLABORATORY CORP AMER HLDG(NEW)1.141.42%81.21
MOPHILIP MORRIS COS(0.76)(1.55%)48.24
NEWPNEWPORT CORP0.261.90%13.97
NVRNVR INC(0.54)(0.38%)140.41
PKXPOHANG IRON & STEEL ADS1.097.51%15.61
PVNPROVIDIAN FINANCIAL1.075.64%20.04
QCOMQUALCOMM INC(0.40)(0.84%)47.16
RJRRJ REYNOLDS TOBACCO HLDGS(0.69)(1.19%)57.31
SLESARA LEE CORPUnchg.Unchg.21.09
UNFIUNITED NATURAL FOODS0.563.18%18.15
WMIWASTE MANAGEMENT(0.01)(0.04%)26.74

Overall Return -- total % Gained (Lost)
  Day Week Month Year
To Date		 Since
Inception
(12/24/1998)
Workshop1.30%7.32%(12.02%)(20.66%)(18.91%)
Comparable S&P 500n/an/an/an/a(19.07%)
S&P 500 (DA)1.95%7.48%(8.33%)(21.22%)(14.88%)
NASDAQ2.02%4.71%(17.46%)(39.68%)(31.41%)
DJIA (DA)1.68%7.07%(11.07%)(17.86%)(2.22%)

Internal Rate of Return -- Annualized Rate of % Gained (Lost)
  Since Inception (12/24/1998)
Workshop(17.62%)
vs. S&P 500(17.63%)

Trade Date # Shares Ticker Cost/Share Price Total % Ret
1/8/0126MO40.9448.2417.82%
1/8/0122RJR50.1057.3114.39%
1/8/0167UNFI16.4518.1510.34%
12/24/9824CAT43.0844.914.24%
1/8/018NVR136.63140.412.77%
1/8/0140WMI27.4426.74(2.54%)
1/8/0150SLE22.5421.09(6.42%)
1/8/0161PKX17.8315.61(12.46%)
1/8/0115DD48.8337.14(23.95%)
1/8/0129AET38.1728.94(24.19%)
1/8/0139COG28.7519.90(30.79%)
1/8/0114QCOM75.5447.16(37.57%)
1/8/018LH134.6981.21(39.70%)
12/27/9918GM73.2642.55(41.92%)
1/8/0118BA59.5333.36(43.96%)
1/8/019DGX114.4961.42(46.35%)
12/27/9920EK65.0932.49(50.08%)
1/8/0120PVN55.5020.04(63.89%)
1/8/0115NEWP74.9613.97(81.36%)

Trade Date # Shares Ticker Total Cost Current Value Total Gain
1/8/0126MO$1,064.50$1,254.24$189.74
1/8/0122RJR$1,102.25$1,260.82$158.57
1/8/0167UNFI$1,102.12$1,216.05$113.93
12/24/9824CAT$1,034.00$1,077.84$43.84
1/8/018NVR$1,093.00$1,123.28$30.28
1/8/0140WMI$1,097.50$1,069.60($27.90)
1/8/0150SLE$1,126.88$1,054.50($72.38)
1/8/0161PKX$1,087.75$952.21($135.54)
1/8/0115DD$732.50$557.10($175.40)
1/8/0129AET$1,107.00$839.26($267.74)
1/8/0139COG$1,121.37$776.10($345.28)
1/8/0114QCOM$1,057.62$660.24($397.39)
1/8/018LH$1,077.50$649.68($427.82)
1/8/0118BA$1,071.50$600.48($471.02)
1/8/019DGX$1,030.44$552.78($477.66)
12/27/9918GM$1,318.62$765.90($552.73)
12/27/9920EK$1,301.75$649.80($651.95)
1/8/0120PVN$1,110.00$400.80($709.20)
1/8/0115NEWP$1,124.37$209.55($914.83)
 
Cash: 
Total: 		$10.80
$15,681.03
 

Key
• S&P 500 (DA) = dividend adjusted. Dividends have been added to the total return of the index.
• DJIA (DA) = dividend adjusted. Dividends have been added to the total return of the DJIA.

Note
Note: The Workshop Portfolio was launched on December 24, 1998, with $4,000 which was invested in the Foolish Four strategy. Approximately $15,000 was added on January 8, 2001, to support five additional mechanical strategies. At that time approximately $1000 was transfered out of the Foolish Four strategy to bring the Foolish Four into balance with the other strategies. (That's why the Foolish Four's overall return is not consistent with stock values.) Such rebalancing will take place each year among the strategies so that each will start out with approximately the same value at the begining of the year. No more cash additions are planned. The first four tables above show the overall performance of the portfolio. Below that we also track the performance of each component strategy. All transactions are announced publicly before being made, and returns are compared daily to the S&P 500 and the Dow. (Dividends are included in the yearly, historic and annualized returns.) Stocks are chosen using strategies developed by the Workshop community.