November Trades

November 12 2008
Buy 2 Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKB) $3,175.00

Buy 289 Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) $15.50

Buy 200 Home Depot (NYSE: HD) $19.50

Buy 300 Intel (NYSE: INTC) $13.20

Buy 300 Cisco (NYSE: CSCO) $16.00

Buy 300 General Electric (NYSE: GE) $15.25

Buy 140 Cadbury (NYSE: CBY) $31.50

Buy 180 Dr. Pepper (NYSE: DPS) $18.00

Buy 600 Ebay (NYSE: EBAY) $12.00

Buy 125 Sears Holdings (NYSE: SHLD) $41.00

Buy 350 Centex (NYSE: CTX) $8.20

Buy 500 Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq: SBUX) $8.50

Buy 100 Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) $63.5

Buy 200 Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) $19.50

Buy 300 USG Corp. (NYSE: USG) $8.80

Buy 200 Leucadia National (NYSE: LUK) $17.5

Buy 500 Mueller Water (NYSE: MWA-B) $5.00

November 10 2008
Buy 1000 Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq: SBUX) $10.00

Buy 150 Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) $70.00

Buy 400 Ebay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) $13.5

Buy 200 Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) $25.00

Buy 300 USG Corp. (NYSE: USG) $12.75

Buy 200 Leucadia National (NYSE: LUK) $22.60

Buy 1000 Mueller Water (NYSE: MWA-B) $6.00

September Update

For the Fiscal Year ending September 30^th, 2008 the Model Portfolio’s return was -11.0% vs. S&P 500’s total return of -20.6%. Since inception, the Model Portfolio's 3-year return through September 30th, 2008 is 21.2% vs. S&P 500's total return of 4.2%.

It was a tough year. Many of our holdings are deep in negative territory especially those with exposure to the housing market. For now we are happy to hold on to these holdings and in some cases will increase our positions. Many should emerge stronger from the current downturn. Coutrywide Financial which we bought aggressively throughout the year is now Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). We also added new positions such as Ebay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and General Electric (NYSE: GE). Finally, Cadbury (NYSE: CBY) completed the spin-off of Dr. Pepper (NYSE: DPS).

September Trades

September 17 2008
Sell 100 Morningstar Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN) $57.00

Sell 100 Western Union (NYSE: WU) $25.00

Buy 300 General Electric (NYSE: GE) $23.00

Buy 200 Ebay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) $22.00

Buy 100 USG Corp. (NYSE: USG) $27.20

July - August Trades

NO TRADES

June Trades

June 13 2008
Buy 2500 Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC) $4.75

February - May Trades

NO TRADES

January Trades

January 8 2008
Buy 200 Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC) $5.50

January 14 2008
Buy 1000 Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC) $6.00

Buy 35 Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) $88.00

January 23 2008
Buy 800 Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC) $5.25

Buy 100 Ebay (Nasdaq: EBAY) $26.50

Buy 100 Cadbury Schweppes (NYSE: CSG) $43.75

Buy 200 USG Corp (NYSE: USG) $31.50

Buy 200 Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) $22.50

Buy 150 Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) $18.75

Buy 300 Mueller Water Products (NYSE: MWA-B) $7.80