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Suze Orman Backtracking on Gold

Last year Suze Orman was bullish on gold.    Today she appears to have forgotten her optimistic prediction for golds value and is no longer in favor of buying the shiny metal.    I recently caught an episode of her program where she told a viewer that gold would be the last place to put money behind housing and mutual funds.  

The episode aired Sept. 22nd.  The bit in question is around the 33 minute mark of the video.   The viewer asked "What is a better investment option: house, mutual funds or gold?"

Suze said first "all of those 3 things : fabulous investments over the long run".   Then Suze said that
"gold at this point really would be my last option, I have to tell you the truth".    She did go on to say that she thinks you could / should invest in all 3 assets for the long run in some portion.

Still it seems that gold is not her favorite investment of the three therefore she must assume housing and stocks will perform better than gold.   Yet late last year she was predicting ~20-25% increase in the value of gold within the 12 month period.

Here was her previous prediction which I talked about before: 

Gold prediction by Suze Orman -- Forecast : $2100 by 11/2012.  

Money reported a tweet from Suze Orman she made in Oct. 2011 where she predicted that gold will be "$2100 by 11/2012"    and recommended having 10% of your portfolio in the shiny stuff.   I found her reiterate the $2100 target on Nov. 10th last year    Gold started the year 2012 about $1600 and hit a high of $1781 in February.    

 Today gold is trading around $1750 an ounce.   If you'd followed Ormans advice and bought gold in Oct. 2011 then you would have paid somewhere between $1617 and $1741.  Depending on when you bought you'd be up 0.5% to 8%.   By comparison in the past 12 months the S&P 500 is up over 20%.

So to sum up :
Suze Orman in Oct. 2011 : predicts $2100 price of gold
Gold hits $1750 in Sept 2012.
Suze Orman in Sept. 2012 says gold "would be my last option" versus housing and stocks.

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Updown Performance : June 2012 to August 2012

Its been a few months since I last updated my Updown  performance.  I didn't do any active trading on the account this summer so it was on autopilot with my existing holdings.

Here is my performance on a monthly basis compared to the S&P 500 so far for 2012:

	Freeby50	S&P 500	diff.
Jan-12	2.8%	4.4%	-1.6%
Feb-12	2.4%	4.1%	-1.7%
Mar-12	2%	3.10%	-1.1%
Apr-12	-0.4%	-0.8%	0.4%
May-12	-1.60%	-6.30%	4.7%
Jun-12	3.90%	4%	-0.1%
Jul-12	4.40%	1.30%	3.1%
Aug-12	-1.3%*	2%	-3.3%

* Adjusted to reflect split in KO not reflected on Updown.

For the year to date my portfolio is up 12.8% while the S&P 500 is up 11.9%.   In the past 3 months June to August, my holdings grew 7.2% while the S&P 500 rose 7.5%.    Since I started trading in March 2008 I'm up 44.8% while the S&P 500 is up 9.9%.

What UPdown shows

Updown didn't give me credit in shares for the 2:1 split in  Coca-Cola (KO).   Their data shows me -3% in August which is pretty awful versus the +2% that the S&P 500 had.  I went to find out why and noticed my KO was down drastically.    KO split in August and Updown didn't give me the extra shares.  So as far as Updown shows my KO lost 50% of its value.

I don't see any way to get customer support at UPdown.   Its a free service so their help staff may be limited or non existent.   If they don't fix it then I may just need to reset the portfolio and rebuild it based on the extra KO shares.

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