February was no better

Well the free fall for the stock market continued in February. Lets take a look. The Dow Jones fell a whooping 11.7% and was down 19.5% for the first two months.

Lets look at our portfolios.
First the portfolio of 10 stocks from the Fortune Magazine article.

Name	Symbol	Feb Close	Shares	Cost basis	Mkt value	Gain	Gain %
Altria Group, Inc.	MO	15.44	65.74	1001.31	1015.0256	13.7156	1.37%
Annaly Capital Management, Inc.	NLY	13.9	62.38	1000	867.082	-132.918	-13.29%
Dell Inc.	DELL	8.53	96.68	1000	824.6804	-175.3196	-17.53%
Devon Energy Corporation	DVN	43.67	15.07	1000	658.1069	-341.8931	-34.19%
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.	DO	62.64	16.8	1000	1052.352	52.352	5.24%
Fluor Corporation (NEW)	FLR	33.25	22.06	1000	733.495	-266.505	-26.65%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	50	16.55	1000	827.5	-172.5	-17.25%
Medco Health Solutions Inc.	MHS	40.58	23.62	1000.71	958.4996	-42.2104	-4.22%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	12.31	55.9	1000	688.129	-311.871	-31.19%
Potash Corp./Saskatchewan (USA)	POT	83.97	13.52	1000	1135.2744	135.2744	13.53%
Cash		-2.02			-2.02
				10002.02	8758.1249	-1241.8751	-12.42%

So we were off 12.4% for the year.

Our low risk portfolio performed better, or less awful.

Name	Symbol	Feb Close	Shares	Cost basis	Mkt value	Gain	Gain %
Schwab Total Stock Market Index Inv	SWTIX	13.17	181.52	2800	2390.618	-409.382	-14.62%
Schwab International Index Inv	SWINX	10.5	90.43	1200	949.515	-250.485	-20.87%
Schwab Total Bond Market	SWLBX	8.65	670.77	6000	5802.161	-197.84	-3.30%
Cash					0
				10000	9142.294	-857.706	-8.58%

It is no surprise that the medium risk portfolio did worse:

Name	Symbol	Change	Feb Close	Shares	Cost basis	Mkt value	Gain	Gain %
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index	VBMFX	-0.02	10.01	390.79	4000	3911.808	-88.1921	-2.4
Vanguard Total Intl Stock Index	VGTSX	-0.06	8.65	167.6	1800	1449.74	-350.26	-20.02
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx	VTSMX	-0.38	18.29	195.43	4200	3574.415	-625.585	-16.66
Cash						0
					10000	8935.963	-1064.04	-10.64%

but still beat the averages and beat the Fortune Portfolio.

Lastly the very simple rebalance portfolio

Name	Symbol	Feb Close	Shares	Cost basis	Mkt value	Gain	Gain %
iShares S&P 500 Index (ETF)	IVV	74.21	57.75	5217.45	4285.628	-931.823	-17.86%
Cash		4782.55		4782.55	4782.55	0	0.00%
		0		10000	9068.178	-931.823	-9.32%

which we rebalance to

Name	Symbol	Shares	Mkt value
iShares S&P 500 Index (ETF)	IVV	61.10	4534.09
Cash		4534.09	4534.09
			9068.18

For the year it is down 10.32%

Not a good start to the year.