Pop the Champagne

Another week brought another record for our Virtual Value Portfolio.

Market Shadows has been cashing in some chips recently as a few holdings hit their sell targets. Our cash reserve has swollen to $27,195 or almost 20% of our total portfolio value.

Our original $100,000 has grown to $138,991 in about 14 months. We tacked on $2,357 or 1.72% in the holiday shortened trading week.

Our weekly gain of 1.72% slightly outpaced both the DJIA (+ 1.59%) and the S&P 500 (+ 1.27%) since last Friday.

The Virtual Value Portfolio is 'plain vanilla’. Our goal is to show what can be accomplished simply buying and selling value-oriented shares. We used no options or margin in this account, yet we’ve managed to handily beat our benchmark, the Standard & Poors 500 ETF (SPY), since inception 14 months ago.

See details on all our previous buys and sells by clicking here .

Option players should check out our Virtual Put Writing Portfolio. Access the full history of closed-out and current options positions here.