Stock Portfolio and Watch List Updates for May 2010

Following are the activity from the previous month:

1. Initiated positions on Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Cardinal Health (CAH), and Pearson (PSO) with roughly 2% of our portfolio each.
2. Wrote Sep 2010 17.5 Cash Covered Puts on NutriSystem Inc. (NTRI) at $1.70. The cash coverage requirement is about 2.4% of our total portfolio value.

The cash coverage requirements on the puts account for about 15% of our cash position. The cash position in our portfolio is still pretty high at around 50%. We will continue to use cash-covered puts spread-out over a period of time along with direct purchases to build the portfolio over time.

Below is our updated portfolio – it is around break even:

Stock	Buy Date	Buy Price	Current Price	Current % Of Portfolio	Unrealized % Return	Yield as % of Portfolio Value
Altria (MO)	Various	16.69	21.67	1.29	29.88	0.38
Philip Morris International (PM)	1/4/2005	32.19	47.99	1.91	49.07	0.45
Kraft Foods (KFT)	Various	26.33	30.40	2.41	15.47	0.23
Pfizer (PFE)	Various	24.37	16.90	1.68	(30.65)	0.30
ICICI Bank (IBN)	5/18/2006 and 08/01/2008	25.28	41.12	4.08	62.69	0.30
Advantage Energy Fund (AAV)	11/2/2006	3.85	6.65	0.66	72.73	0.17
Central Europe & Russia Fund (CEE)	Various	39.23	34.46	2.39	(12.15)	0.03
Itron Inc. (ITRI)	11/07/2007	85.01	77.41	1.54	(9.05)	None
Anthracite (ACPIQ – formerly AHR)	11/09/2007	7.97	0.014	0.00	(99.82)	0.00
iRobot (IRBT)	12/18/2007	18.65	21.45	1.70	16	None
LDK Solar (LDK)	01/22/2008	30.49	6.46	0.38	(78.81)	None
Aegon N.V. (AEG)	04/28/2008	15.99	6.52	0.39	(59.22)	0.00
Frontline Limited (FRO)	10/06/2008	36.95	33.98	1.01	(8.03)	0.17
DryShips Incorporated (DRYS)	02/09/2009	6.96	5.60	0.78	(19.59)	0.00
Plum Creek Timber (PCL)	07/23/2009	30.50	38.73	3.07	26.99	0.46
CPFL Energia S.A. (CPL)	07/28/2009	50.45	63.06	2.50	25	0.55
BP plc (BP)	08/05/2009	51.49	48.50	1.93	(5.81)	0.45
AT&T (T)	08/27/2009	26.38	25.82	2.05	(2.14)	0.39
Sysco Corporation (SYY)	10/13/2009	25.23	30.69	2.44	21.62	0.39
Exelon (EXC)	12/30/2009	49.38	42.16	2.51	(14.63)	0.39
Telefonica SA (TEF)	02/09/2010	68.74	60.71	2.41	(11.75)	0.57
Vonage Holdings (VG)	04/06/2010	1.51	1.83	0.73	20.84	0
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)	04/23/2010	28.27	27.50	2.18	(2.74)	0.39
Intel Corporation (INTC)	04/23/2010	23.98	23.09	2.29	(3.71)	0.39
Google Inc. (GOOG)	05/03/2010	528.36	505.35	2.01	(4.35)	0.39
Cardinal Health (CAH)	05/06/2010	34.42	35.35	2.10	2.70	0.57
Pearson PLC (PSO)	05/06/2010	14.32	14.96	2.08	4.44	0
Cash				51.47
Total Portfolio					(0.25)	2.24

Below is a summary of transactions during the year:

Stock	Buy Date	Buy Price	Sell Date	Sell Price	% Gain (Loss)	% Portfolio Return*
Ameritrade (AMTD)	5/21/2008	17.69	01/19/2010	17.45	(1.33)	(0.02)
AMTD Jan 17.5 Covered Calls (TQAAW)	1/19/2010	NA	9/10/2009	NA	NA	0.22
COST Jan 60 Covered Calls (PRQAL)	1/19/2010	NA	9/10/2009	NA	NA	0.06
IBN Mar 40 Covered Calls (ITZCN)	1/22/2010	NA	10/06/2009	NA	NA	0.20
Costco (COST)	8/01/2009	62.27	02/09/2010	58.18	(6.57)	(0.08)
Realized Gain/(Loss) YTD	-	-	-	-	-	0.04

• % Gain/Loss Relative to Portfolio Value at Beginning of Year + Deposits
• The table assumes realization of profits associated with selling options only after the option is exercised or expiry.

We have covered calls written against 40% of our ICICI Bank (IBN) shares (Sep 2010 40) and 100% of our Advantage Energy Fund (AAV) shares (Aug 2010 7.5). We also have cash covered puts on Glaxo (GSK) shares (Jan 2011 35), Nucor Steel (NUE) shares (Jan 2011 40), and Nutrisystem (NTRI) shares (Sep 2010 17.5) with a cash requirement of about 15% of our cash position.

Our watch list was updated to add Air Products & Chemicals (APD), Goldman Sachs (GS), Harris (HRS), NYSE Euronext (NYX), Owens & Minor (OMI), and VF Corporation (VFC) to replace the positions we initiated the last month. We also deleted Eaton (ETN) from our list as it has runaway – it went up over 40% since our adding to the watch list and is no longer an attractive option. Our current watch list follow –Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Air Products & Chemicals (APD), Becton Dickinson (BCK), BHP Billiton (BHP), Cresud (CRESY), Disney (DIS), Emerson Electric (EMR), AgFeed (FEED), Goldman Sachs (GS), Home Depot (HD), Harris Corporation (HRS), McDonalds (MCD), Nokia (NOK), China Nepstar (NPD), NYSE Euronext (NYX), Owens & Minor (OMI), Qiagen (QGEN), UPS (UPS), VF Corporation (VFC), and Waste Management (WM).