Sunday, November 16, 2008

Gold Mining & Stock Market Performance to date

Our fast Super GDX Mining Share portfolio since Oct 23, 2008 matching the XAU perfectly is +37% vs +18% for the index; Profund mining bull/bear +51%, RYDEX mining long only +33%. The slower GDX model is XAU trade vs. XAU hold +32% vs. +18% ;Profund bull/bear +47%; RYDEX long only +29%.

The stock market model fast swing trade model since Oct 20, 2008 is SPX trade bull/bear vs. SPX hold +30% vs. -11%. Profunds bull/bear is +47% vs. -11%; RYDEX 2X bull/bear is +29% vs. -11%, Direxion Nasdaq 100 bull/bear ETF 2.5X is +71% vs. -11%.

The same is true for the IT model which has traded more often due to the volatilty.

The Direxion NASDAQ 100 ETF 2.5X bull/bear was +95% on Thursday not +121% as I had erroneously reported.

These are as of the close of the day Friday.