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Marketocracy ETF Portfolio: April 12, 2008
Marketocracy, in their own words, is:
"""Marketocracy Data Services is a research company whose mission is to find the best investors in the world and then track, analyze, and evaluate their trading activity. The company's affiliate, Marketocracy Capital Management, is the investment advisor for the Marketocracy family of mutual funds and uses the research generated by Marketocracy Data Services."""
This isn't an endorsement for Marketocracy, but last October, I started a portfolio there as part of the activities for a club here at the University of Michigan. While I'd originally intended it to be allocated strictly from the Select Sector SPDR ETFs, Marketocracy rules led me to increase the scope of the fund to include commodities, currencies, and geography-based ETFs.
You can view the portfolio performance at this link: www.marketocracy.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Portfolio.woa/ps/FundPublicPage/source=DeDoDkLbEhAdLcIhMaKiAbDd

| RETURNS | S&P500 RETURNS | RETURNS VS S&P500 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Week | -1.80% | -2.69% | 0.88% |
| Last Month | 3.36% | 1.98% | 1.39% |
| Last 3 Months | 0.42% | -4.36% | 4.78% |
| Last 6 Months | -2.34% | -13.76% | 11.42% |
| Last 12 Months | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Last 2 Years | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Last 3 Years | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Last 5 Years | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Since Inception | -1.63% | -12.48% | 10.85% |
| (Annualized) | -3.08% | -22.38% | 19.31% |
My largest positions at the moment are DUG @ 14%, SHV @ 11%, UPW @ 7%, and EWA @ 5%. I doubled my exposure in DUG, the double short Oil & Gas fund, this week as it hit a new 52-week low, despite downgrades in both the funds' constitutents and projected consumption. I'll be looking to lighten the position in the short-term treasuries SHV in the coming month for bottom plays, possibly in the double long financials ETF UYG or some mixture of country ETFs.
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United Kingdom ETF and the Pound: How to Play the Currency Trend
As Carl Delfeld at ETF XRAY and Tom Lydon at ETF Trends have recently discussed, the pound has appreciated considerably in recent months as a result of persisting inflation in the British economy. Although the results of such currency appreciation can be mixed depending on trade deficit in an economy, the general consensus has been that this should provide an overall boost to the ETF's holdings despite a trade deficit of approximately 4.3 billion pounds. In order to better determine the historical relation between the Pound and the iShares MCSI UK Index, I have analyzed the return correlation of a number of relevant variables.
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