Mr Market, member profits for 2005, poll

[Websman]

Last chance to enter your 2005 gain or loss in the poll. It looks like the majority here gained 15-30%.

I wonder if the Canslimmers did that well?

[gerihearne]

Buy And Die

Since I love you guys, I'll tell you. In all of my trading accounts (not my buy and die stuff, real estate, company stock, commodity futures, fine art, sports betting, etc.)...just the stuff in my online trading account, most of which is MM stuff, I am up 20.34% for the year.

It looks like the S&P 500 was up only 5.6%. This wasn't a good year for me by MM standards but it's now the 15th year in a row that I've beaten the market.

Thanks for asking Webs. Now if I posted this on the IBD board, they would all ask me for my tax returns, brokerage statements, etc.

Found this mr. market term "buy and die" ... was wondering what members hold in their buy and die portfolios. Since I work for NBC, I keep ge stock, I also have excelon (commonwealth ed is here in chicago). Reason I'm asking: WSJ report says by the end of the year, we might be seeing the big companies outperform the small and medium cap market.

Anybody have any thoughts on a) do u think the big companies will be stronger by end of year and for the next few years ... and
b) any thoughts on good "buy and die" stocks?

Regards,
Geri

[diogenes]

Reason I'm asking: WSJ report says by the end of the year, we might be seeing the big companies outperform the small and medium cap market.
Regards,
Geri

I think that the media says a similar thing every year.

[gerihearne]

media

I think that the media says a similar thing every year.

interesting ... i think most of them owned by large companies now ...
NOT that i'm sayin' .. i'm just sayin' ...