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Stock-Picking System Returned 33.9% Per Year Since 1998, Has Beaten S&P 500 Each Year, and Made a Profit During the Bear Market

Averaging 33.9% per year since 1998 for a total return of 961.8% (including 99.6% from 2003 through 2004), the stock-picking strategy employed by this investment newsletter has beaten the S&P 500 eight out of eight years. Additionally, a newly-developed stock-selection methodology has returned 106.6% since 9/14/2004, including the cost of commissions. For 2005, this particular strategy resulted in a gain of 55.1%.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) February 7, 2006 -- BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter, released their returns through the first month of 2006. Since inception in 1998, the website's model portfolio has returned 33.9% per year (961.8% overall), has produced a gain each year, and has beaten the S&P 500 eight out of eight years. Sell signals for the portfolio have an average return of 91.2% and portfolio turnover is low.

Even during the three-year bear market, their model stock 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 out-performed Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock over the last eight years (961.8% versus Berkshire's 94.5%).

Following are a few of the companies from the newsletter's model portfolios and each stock's performance:
- Marine Products Corp. +539.3%
- Fording Canadian Coal Trust +539.2%
- Gen-Probe Inc. +317.1%
- LifePoint Hospitals +290.3%
- Cavco Industries +255.8%
- Altria +165.9%
- Zimmer Holding +157.1%
- Florida Rock Industries (FRK) +154.4%
- Rockwell Collins +150.2%
- SCS Transportation Inc. (SCST) +142.7%
- Cimarex Energy +139.1%
- Ambassadors Group +138.7%
- Imagistics International Inc. +129.4%

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 on average. This methodology has provided subscribers with a return of 73.1% while the S&P 500 rose only 13.4%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 48.1% per year after factoring in the cost of commissions. In 2005, these stock recommendations gained 34.8% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a loss (-0.6%).

For investors who don't have the funds to invest in all of the stocks of the Short-Term Portfolio, the editors of the website select a handful of stocks from the Short-Term Portfolio that they believe have the most potential for explosive growth. These stocks are labeled "Double Allocation" stocks, and their return is 106.8% in a little more than 16 months. That's the annualized equivalent of 68.2% per year. These returns assume that profits are not reinvested. If profits were reinvested, the gain would jump to 136.1% in a little more than 16 months.

BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first three years of existence, the portfolio has returned 45.8% per option with an average holding period of 6.8 months. This is equivalent to an annualized return of 93.3% per year. 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 (+26.6% per year, +91.1% overall) easily surpasses that of the S&P 500.

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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