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Stock-Pick System Does Well First Qtr 2006

Beat The Stock Market, an online investment newsletter that guarantees to beat the stock market but doesn`t really explain how since they only do model stock market portfolios, 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 (981.7% 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, Beat The Stock Market`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%). 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.