•  My "Explore Portfolio" was up 196.7% or 12.8% compound annual return.

• 100% in VTSMX was up 49.6% or 4.6% compound annual return.
• VFINX (S&P500) was up 37.0% or 3.6% compound annual return.
• Vanguard's Money Market Fund was up 36.9% or 3.6% compound annual return.
• Vanguard's VFIIX GNMA Fund was up 63.3% or 5.6% compound annual return.
• My "Core portfolio results" are reported here.

• Steve Thompson: "If my better than average returns continue I’ll be able to retire at a higher standard of living and sooner than I originally thought. Kirk’s newsletter for me has been a true life changing event." August 4, 2007
• David Gratson: "Kirk's understanding of investing, and in particular the technology of which he recommends, is excellent. He understands how the small investor needs to be wary of headline information, and he does his homework to value companies and decide when to buy or sell. I have also learned a lot about fixed income (bonds etc) investing from Kirk's newsletter, and that understanding is particularly important as I age. I think you would find Kirk's newsletter a great complement to your investment process and I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter.” August 1, 2007
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• NEW stocks to take advantage of electronics manufacturing in China, solar energy, natural gas and the  green house gas reduction  move to electric automobiles.
  
  
• I took extensive profits in my technology stocks in the Spring/Summer of 2000 and bought Banks, GNMAs and Strip Zero bonds with the profit taking dollars.  I also hold significant cash reserves.  The strip zero bonds returned over 50% and the financial stocks did over 20% while the tech stocks crashed!  This allowed me to keep many of my gains in the bear market then reapply the cash when the market was low in 2002 and 2003.
  


• I always have a risky stock or two for a few percent of the portfolio for those that like to swing for the fences.  They often go down 50% or more before going higher (or going lower) so I move money into these in steps at buying points that I share in the newsletter and I often take profits quickly should we get a huge bounce.
  

For example:  WCOM was one stock in my portfolio that I lost money going down but I bought 5,000 shares at 7¢ and quickly sold 1,500 shares  at 25¢ on a bounce so I'd lock in breaking even on that trade since the bounce happened in a day.  I've since sold those remaining WCOM shares at 21¢ and moved on.  WCOM hurt my performance in 2002 but I still managed to beat the S&P500 even with that bad stock pick.  In my newsletter, I explain what  learned from bad picks and how to move forward.  Even losses can be a learning experience if handled honestly.  I publish a list monthly of all stocks I've owned and what I learned from the losers.

• I use mutual funds and cash to reduce risk and take profits when appropriate which I explain in the newsletter.  I also give BUY, SELL and "Take Profits" target prices for stocks I am looking at.
 
• To match my newsletter stock portfolio performance, subscribers would have to buy exactly what I hold going forward but most just use my ideas and incorporate my methods into their individual portfolios.  Of course, they won't get the exact same results I list.
  

I have a fairly diverse list of companies from several industries (semiconductor capital equipment, Banking, shipping and energy exploration).  When the Nasdaq was going to the moon in 1999 and 2000, I didn't add net money to technology  but took profits and put them into beaten down areas like banks, bonds and a strip zero coupon fund that I took profits in just after the 9/11 attack for a 50% gain!  This taking profits and moving the money to beaten down areas is a proven strategy to reduce risk while still getting good gains.  I still hit my share of duds (that is part of investing - all honest advisors have losers) but the overall results are what count and those results have been fantastic (if I may humbly say so).

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Higher returns from the stock market are had at a price of higher volatility.  I like to think my stock selection can help you beat the "safe and sane" method of index investing.  My advice is to use my newsletter stock portfolio for the "explore" part of your "Core and explore" portfolio rather than a managed aggressive growth mutual fund.

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