Marketocracy update - year end 07 at Dec 28.

I think there might be another trading day left in the year next Monday, but I wanted to go ahead and review the year's Marketocracy investment results.

For the past 12mo, my main Marketocracy fund SMF is up 10.99%. A decent year overall, but it is worth noting that the fund actually declined 1.11% over the past 6 months. The past 6 months have been wheel-spinning. Not good.

For the past 12mo, my secondary Marketocracy fund SOS is up 9.64%, and virtually flat over the past 6 months.

While investing in similar stocks and having similar selection criteria, the secondary SOS fund is more aggressive in selling positions than the primary SMF fund by design - it's a test in sell strategy. Again like in past years I find that it's better to follow the SMF approach and ease out of positions slowly - to let them run a little longer. The SOS approach of selling more rapidly when my opinion of a stock changes just doesn't seem to be quite as effective.

The 10 largest holdings in the SMF fund are (53.4% of fund):
GRMN Garmin
LIFC Lifecell
GOOG Google
HANS Hansen Natural
CTSH Cognizant Tech
SAY Satyam Computer Services
INFY Infosys
HWAY Healthways
VDSI Vasco Data Security
NTRI Nutrisystem


The 10 largest holdings in the SOS fund are (65.95% of fund - the SOS fund is more concentrated at the top because I sell full positions faster here)
GRMN Garmin
VDSI Vasco Data Security\
LIFC Lifecell
CTSH Cognizant Tech
GOOG Google
HANS Hansen Natural
INFY Infosys
TRAD Tradestation
SAY Satyam Computer Services
CEO China National Oil