New, from Monterey CA

**Tireur** Thu May 10, 2007 12:23 am

New, from Monterey CA
Gonna be graduating from UC Santa Cruz with my BA in Economics. Just recently started reading books in investing (the two little books of investing, the green and blue (didn't like the magic formula as much, seemed risky to rely on a formula, but liked the underlying message.)

Anyways, I'm just starting out saving my money, currently set up my fiance's 401k and taking the advice of both books have them 100% in the stock market because it's money we don't want to worry about for another 10+ years. Unfortunately fidelity didn't have any good value funds, but I diversified sufficiently to hopefully achieve a little above the market average.

Right now I'm in the experimenting stage, have a couple make believe portfolios on VirtualStockExchange (part of market watch). Experimenting with my own attempts at valuating stocks and companies. I've stuck with a 5% of total equity into each stock, currently working on getting a total of 20 companies in my portfolio, current market up trending has been good for my portfolio, but hope it also proves to be a good value portfolio for the long run.

Let me know what you think of these stocks (no need to analyze each one, just if you see one that pops out to you, why and what you think of it.)

Magic Formula Portfolio:
PACR
NOOF
BPT
PNCL
WMCO
EGY
TRLG
FDG
FTO
MTEX
GNI
RDN
JAKK
AEO
IVAC

Personal Value Portfolio (Just screened certain numbers and read over their financials)

XJT
PONR
OSG
GMR
RDN
ITW
BXL
MAA
POP
PETD
NFI
IIIN
ALDA
MSN