What We Do

This page describes how PortfolioRunner makes investment research done more quickly and efficiently.

A. Recommendations

Discouraged by complexity when looking for your next great stock investment? PortfolioRunner discovers latest investment ideas using
3 types of investment strategies:

Technical strategies (based on pattern recognition methods, indicators, etc.)

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Fundamental strategies (calculating ratios, making projections, discounting, etc.)

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Community strategies (tracking the latest stock picks reported by some of the best known communities of stock market investors)

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B. Risk Management

Even a very good trading system or investment strategy is absolutely worthless without a method of managing your money and risks. Your management strategy should answer the following questions:

How much money should I risk on every trade?
PortfolioRunner provides an intuitive interface to determine how many shares should be bought to achieve better diversification
and maximize portfolio's return for a preferred risk level.

When to exit a trade?
PortfolioRunner determine an exit point for any trade to lock in profit or fix loss. So PortfolioRunner preserve your capital to ensure
you can trade another day.

Test Portfolios Performance
Strategy Test Portfolio Chart Risk Inception ROI Per Year vs. S&P 500 SDR Sharp Ratio MaxDD
Penia
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the technical pattern (Pennon) and volume changes. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+167.44 +157.23 3.63 2.88 -19.03
Osmia
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the rules of price and volume change. Confirmation of the trend is determined by the value of the technical indicator SMA.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+156.03 +145.82 2.91 3.34 -20.98
TriaUni
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the fundamental principles of supply and demand, and volume change. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+88.13 +77.92 2.18 2.49 -14.42
Sysia
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the rules of price and volume change. Confirmation of the trend is determined by the value of the technical indicator CCI.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+69.02 +58.81 2.45 1.72 -21.35
Reversal
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the technical pattern (Double Bottom) and volume changes. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+64.38 +54.16 2.23 1.76 -28.74
OffCenter
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

An experimental strategy.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+62.13 +51.92 1.79 2.10 -26.88
Wedia
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the technical pattern (Wedge) and volume changes. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+61.01 +50.80 1.96 1.89 -24.15
Tria
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the fundamental principles of supply and demand, and volume change. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveno
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+60.78 +50.56 1.85 1.99 -18.72
Ceria
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the rules of price and volume changes. Confirmation of the trend is determined by the value of the technical indicator CCI.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+53.22 +43.01 1.78 1.80 -24.19
Zigia
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the technical pattern (Zig Zag) and volume changes. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+51.51 +41.30 2.18 1.42 -31.67
GStockPick
Community
Up-Trend following strategy

It collects buy and sell recommendations from Community Service
Conservative
Adaptiveno
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
05/2010
Start.Balance$100,000
+40.80 +37.71 1.26 1.92 -6.32
Recia
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the Elliott Wave principle and volume changes. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+37.40 +27.19 1.96 1.13 -21.78
Suro

Up-Trend following strategy

An experimental strategy.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,671
+33.42 +23.20 1.98 0.99 -22.49
Dynamo
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

An experimental strategy.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+29.15 +18.93 1.71 0.99 -31.01
TriaMix
Technical
Up-Trend following strategy

It is based on the fundamental principles of supply and demand, and volume change. Confirmation of the trend is determined by a resistance line breakout.
Aggressive
Adaptiveyes
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
01/2009
Start.Balance$100,000
+26.69 +16.48 1.62 0.95 -26.66
FoolPick
Community
Up-Trend following strategy

It collects buy and sell recommendations from Community Service
Conservative
Adaptiveno
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
05/2010
Start.Balance$100,000
+9.73 +6.64 1.21 0.38 -5.12
Value
Fundamental
Up-Trend following strategy

Value catches a few value companies just when they're ready to move. Its goal was to find strong stocks that are significantly undervalued. The strategy is based on 8 factors, including value investor favorites like low p/e and price-to-book ratios.
Conservative
Adaptiveno
Stop(Exit Strategy)wave
07/2010
Start.Balance$100,000
+0.75 +11.52 0.31 -0.35 -1.90

C. News Analysis

Your news sources give a massive amount of information which is overwhelming? PortfolioRunner cuts down all the noise
providing you with two powerful features.

1. Categorization: PortfolioRunner engine assigns positive or negative flag to appropriate news (classification facility uses
a number of classified text examples and learns how to classify newely received texts using language models).

2. Extraction Summary: PortfolioRunner engine locates statistically significant sentences inside the text.

Sample Recent News Analysis
Header Price Ch.,% Category Summary
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Investigation Related to the Acquisition of ZymoGenetics, Inc. -- ZGEN
ZGEN

ZGEN

Chart, News
Company - ZymoGenetics, Inc.
Exchange - NASDAQ
Sector - Healthcare
Industry - Biotechnology
news
7 hours and 17 minutes ago
+84.20 positive
with 99 percents of probability
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Investigation Related to the Acquisition of ZymoGenetics, Inc. -- ZGEN Published September 8, 2010 4:43 PM Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities firm headquartered in New York City, is investigating the Board of Directors of ZymoGenetics, Inc. ("ZymoGenetics" or the "Company") (NasdaqGM: ZGEN) for potential breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with their conduct related to the sale of the Company to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY).

The proposed transaction offers ZymoGenetics shareholders to only receive $9.75 in cash for each share they own.

Qiao Xing Universal Announces Proposal to Acquire All Outstanding Shares of Qiao Xing Mobile
QXM

QXM

Chart, News
Company - Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
Exchange - NYSE
Sector - Technology
Industry - Wireless Communications
news
15 hours and 59 minutes ago
+37.60 positive
with 99 percents of probability
Qiao Xing Universal Announces Proposal to Acquire All Outstanding Shares of Qiao Xing Mobile HUIZHOU, China, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- This press release is issued for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy any security, nor is it a solicitation of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of the securities referred to in this press release in any jurisdiction in contravention of applicable law.

California Bank Agrees To Submit Improvement Plan To Fed
PMBC

PMBC

Chart, News
Company - Pacific Mercantile Bancorp
Exchange - NASDAQ
Sector - Financial
Industry - Regional- Pacific Banks
news
1 day and 12 hours ago
-10.30 negative
with 99 percents of probability
The plan must consider actions the board of directors will take to improve the bank's condition.

Published September 7, 2010 11:14 AM -By Jeff Bater, Dow Jones Newswires; 202 862 9249; jeff.bater@dowjones.com