Stock-Picking System Returned 32.1% In First Quarter of 2006

Averaging 34.2% per year since 1998 for a total return of 1,008.8% (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 88.3% since 5/5/2005, including the cost of commissions. For the first quarter of 2006, this particular strategy resulted in a gain of 32.1%.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 4, 2006 -- BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter, released their returns through for the first quarter of 2006. Since inception in 1998, the website's model portfolio has returned 34.2% per year (1,008.8% 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 (1,008.8% versus Berkshire's 96.4%).

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%
- Chaparral Steel Company +187.3%
- Altria +166.1%
- Zimmer Holdings +157.1%
- Florida Rock Industries +154.4%
- Rockwell Collins +150.2%
- SCS Transportation Inc. +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 83.1% while the S&P 500 rose only 14.8%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 47.5% 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 62.9% per year. These returns assume that profits are not reinvested. If profits were reinvested, the gain would jump to 129.1% per year.

Another model portfolio that offers a handful of recommended stocks is the Cornerstone Growth Stock Screen. Each month three stocks from a subset of fifty recommended companies are selected as having great potential for superior price appreciation. Buying these three stocks and holding for a month has resulted in an annualized return of 98.9%. These returns include the cost of commissions. Investors using a one-year holding period instead of one month would have achieved an annualized return of 52.7%.

BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first three years of existence, the portfolio has returned 51.5% per option with an average holding period of 7 months. This is equivalent to an annualized return of 103.3% 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 (+26.1% per year, +96.4% 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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