Stock-Picking System Returns 34.3% Per Year Since 1998 - Additionally, A Newly-Developed System Has Returned 36.8% in Five Months

Averaging 34.3% per year since 1998 for a total return of 686.7% (including 99.6% from 2003 through 2004), the stock-picking strategy employed by this investment newsletter once again outperformed the S&P 500 in 2004. It has beaten the S&P 500 seven out of seven years. Additionally, a newly-developed system has returned 36.8% in five months.

(PRWEB) January 25, 2005 -- BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter, released their returns for 2004. The newsletter once again outperformed the S&P 500 (a gain of 28.3% versus 5.4% for the S&P 500).

Since inception in 1998, the model portfolio has returned 34.3% per year (686.7% overall), has produced a gain each year, and has beaten the S&P 500 seven out of seven years. Sell signals for the portfolio have an average return of 86.1% and portfolio turnover is low.

Even during the three-year bear market, their model portfolio produced gains each year. While the market lost (-39%) during the bear market, BeatTheStockMarket.com's model portfolio produced a gain (+21%).

The model stock portfolio has also easily outperformed Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock over the last seven years (686.7% versus Berkshire's 95.7%).

Following are a few of the stocks from the newsletter's model portfolio and the stock's performance following the newsletter's buy signal:

- Marine Products Corp. +539.3%
- Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG) 391.2%
- Gen-Probe Inc. (GPRO) 285.0%
- Zimmer Holdings (ZMH) 157.1%
- Rockwell Collins Inc. (COL) 150.2%
- Cimarex Energy (XEC) 128.5%
- SCS Transportation Inc. (SCST) 122.6%
- Altria (MO) 120.6%
- Ambassadors Group (EPAX) 118.4%
- Cavco Industries (CVCO) 114.3%
- Imagistics International Inc. (IGI) 109.2%

While most of the newsletter's portfolios are designed for long-term investors, the newsletter has a Short-Term Portfolio in which individual stocks are held for only a few weeks. This new methodology, started in August, has provided subscribers with a return of 36.8% in five months, a period in which the S&P 500 rose only 6.3%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 186.8% per year.

BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first eighteen months of existence, the portfolio has returned 66.9% per option. Below are a few of the call options recommended by the newsletter and the option's performance following the newsletter's buy signal:

-Zimmer Holdings +697.1% in only seven and a half months
-Cimarex Energy Co. +253.2% in only seven and a half months
-Rockwell Collins +240.8% in only five and a half months

In addition to individual stock recommendations, the company also has a model portfolio for mutual funds. The return of the portfolio (30.3% per year, 57.9% overall) easily surpasses that of the S&P 500 (14.4% per year).

For additional information on the stock and mutual fund picking systems and the investment newsletter that employs them, visit www.BeatTheStockMarket.com.

Contact Information:
Nancy Wagner
Media Representative
425-415-6427
http://www.BeatTheStockMarket.com

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