It’s time to see how the Dilbert Portfolio is doing. Recall that this is the portfolio chosen from the opinions you left on this blog.
Result: -17% so far.
Shares Current Value Cost Change
ADM 500 41.24 20,620 20,585 35
BHP 500 41.82 20,910 24,030 (3,120)
IN 500 21.36 10,680 13,160 (2,480)
PEIX 500 21.68 10,840 17,900 (7,060)
Total 63,050 75,675 (12,625) -17%
I’m only down 3% personally on those stocks because I put in stop/sell orders on PEIX and ADM when they jumped up right after I bought them. So they both made money for me. But BHP and IN took back all of that and more.
Here’s what I said about my stock investing prowess in that earlier blog:
“Someone also noted that Bill Gates was investing in a company with ticker price PEIX that is involved in Ethanol. That stock is up about 60% already this month. I thought it would be funny to screw Bill Gates by buying a few shares myself, since everything I buy goes down. You might want to stay away from that one.”
Since then, PEIX went from about 39 to under 22. Indeed, as I predicted, “everything I buy goes down.”
As you know, Bill Gates is giving away most of his money to help poor people in undeveloped countries. Therefore, by investing in PEIX myself, and making the stock collapse, an entire village will die of malaria.
But I got a good blog entry out of it. I like to focus on the positive.