Jim Van Meerten is an investor who uses Barchart tools, including Screeners, Barchart Technical Indicators, Signals Search, and more, to find interesting stocks for Barchart readers to review. He writes a daily blog that you can view right on the Barchart.com site, and explains how he found his stock pick of the day.
He also features his two model portfolios on Marketocracy.com, which evaluates and rates over 100,000 model portfolios. He blogs about financial matters on Barchart.com, Seeking Alpha, and MSN's Top Stock Blog.
Jim recently received a number of special honors from Marketocracy for his two model portfolios.
The following is a year-end recap of Jim's portfolios.
Barchart Van Meerten New High Fund ended the year with a return of 27.04% — a full 1000 BPS above the S&P 500! The fund has been in the top 100 of the 100,000 portfolios reviewed by Marketocracy for 10 straight quarters.
Honor #1 -They evaluated the top 50 mutual funds for the period ended 12/31/2010 and determined that the Barchart - Jim Van Meerten New High portfolio (VMNHI) actually beat all but 1 of the top 50 mutual funds for that period. The portfolio would have been ranked #2 just ahead of the Van Eck Global Hard Assets (GHAXX)) a fund ranked as a 5 star 5 year fund by Morningstar. Honor #2 - Marketocracy evaluated over 100,000 portfolios and determined that for the 5 year period ending 12/30/2010 the Barchart - Jim Van Meerten New High Portfolio was ranked #106 for total return. |
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Barchart Van Meerten Speculative Fund ended the year with a return of 17.92% — beating the S&P Index by over 70 BPS!
| Marketocracy Honors: After evaluating over 100,000 model portfolios, they added the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative Fund to their M100 Funds. Per their press release, "M100 members have proven long term track records, and serve as the ambassadors of our top performing members. We have thousands of excellent investors who are beating the market, but only 100 make this list at any given time." |
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Jim Van Meerten is an investor who uses Barchart tool to find interesting stocks for Barchart readers. Please email comments to jimvanmeerten@gmail.com.
