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2008 PERFORMANCE

• QEP Future Fund completed beta testing January 31 after completing 4 month 65% live return of Beta Version 4.  Final Live Launch March 31 2008.
  

• Our first MAJOR forecast for 2008 was that Gold would break out to all times highs (above $850) on January 2, 2008.  We were spot on to the DAY!
• Our next major recommendation was to sell Oil circa $100 and to short the XOI at 1550 [>20% ROI in less than 1 month].
• We recommended covering our January 2 shorts January 21 & 22, and go long Tuesday 8.07am 13 minutes before the "surprise" Ben interest rate drop rally, covered by end of day and then go long again next day at 9am! for an incredible 3 part trade.    
• Profitably forecast the largest weekly drop in March of the CRB index (gold, silver. Oil, Wheat etc) in 50 years!

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TOP 2007 FORECASTS

2007 had more than its share of accurate forecasts: Our major forecast was the 2007 US Real Estate Crisis.  US Dollar Dropping below .80 in September along with our major play Gold and Silver was well timed all year: Q1 Gold & Silver Rally, Sell $722 then buy again a rally gold bottom circa August 22 past $700; Silver bottom August 22 $11.51 then major rally, $800 gold to the day (October 31). Additionally, we forecast quite accurately much of the recent stock market turmoil including such astrologically timed days as the August 28th Dow 280 point drop, September 7th Dow's 249 point drop and October 19 366 point drop. 

Going forward, it is appropriate to change our performance tracking as we are no longer making public most of the forecasting work we provide to money managers, hedge funds and our institutional clients, e.g. the Fed Move on interest rates August/September the day after Ben was hired.
Instead, we will list our QEP Futures Fund returns* which beta launched July 1, 2007:           

•    Q3 2007    27.92%     

•    Q4 2007    38.38%

• US DOLLAR WEAKNESS (Yes)
• MAY to JUNE Market Fall (Yes, Market Fell below 10,000 to low of year 9822 in May)
• A WAR TIME ECONOMY (Yes)
• HOUSING BUBBLE ENDING (Global slowing, but not dropping as much as we expected. This may take until H1 2005.)
• Gold rally to 425 (Yes) and later above 450 in Q4 2004 (Yes).
• Nanotech rally (Yes)
• Interest rate rise - Increase Tips vs Bonds (Fed started tightening cycle slower than most expected)
  
• Japan Top Global Performer (Yes: Reached 12K target)
• Strong Australia Dollar (Yes: Reached our .80 target)
• AXP and T, two 2004/2005 favorite Dow plays (AXP made money, T  lost)

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• US  economic slowdown and secular US$ weakening. 1Q forecast 1.2% 2Q .045%; 3Q -2.40%
• Outperformance of Value & Growth
• Canada and Northern Europe Out Performance
• JAPAN/NIKKEI reached multi-year target low of 12,222.  We reversed and buy for 2002. [5/1: 14,425]
  
• IHITF comes home
• IBM favorite DJIA stock returned a positive 42% in 2001!
• Bond Yield rallies reversal second half of year into 2002 [Second half of the year forecast not valid]
• 2001 UIT reached 28% January 29, 2001. [34% ROI locked in & 27% ROI locked in for Saturn Version]

• 1998 January UIT up 23% by May 14, 1998 & 31% one year, 140% 2 years* after expenses.
• 1999 January UIT up 30% by April 28, 1999** after expenses; up 52% 3/7/2000.
• 2000 January UIT results up 13% 3/7/2000 after expenses. Then cashed out = 17%.
• 2001 January UIT up 28% January 29; locked in..

TEN TOP 2000 FORECASTS
• 2000 UIT up 17%.
• IBM, BA, DISNEY, GM and JNJ vs Dow Dogs
• BUY ECU/SELL US$ from 104 onto .95 OB and ECU 1.12+ [ECU fall exceded .95, reversal forecast followed with buys in May .88 to .92. May 19th bottom was timed to the day]
• Sell US Bonds to 6.80, then accumulate to 6.50 OB [Reached 6.75 on first run]
• IHITF comes home [First double 3/3 from $.53 to $1.23 as of 3/7.  Second double forecast did not materialize ].
• DJIA target 7001.67 extended till May; avoiding Technology stocks from after January effect is over until after the Saturn/Uranus pass. [DJIA broke the important 10,000 floor, but blood forecast showed up in Nasdaq only, not as much in the DJIA.]
• Holland and Canada favorite 2000 countries [Canada was number one, and Netherlands in top 5]
• Gold rallies above $350 [2/4 Gold exceeds P1 to 314, but fully rally did not materialize.]
• January 21 is the first of our three key dates in 2000. [One week after DJIA high, FEAR first entered into the investor Zeitgeist THAT day.] May 5 (3-5) and October dates showed market rollercoasters.
• May 2000 is the ring pass not for momentum/value investing. [Yes correct, in May investors finally became fearful after a 40% Nasdaq drop]

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TOP 10 1999 FORECASTS

• 1999 UIT up 30% (After expenses) by April**
• Euro decline versus US dollar (Exceded P2 target of 102.40)
• Oil dramatic recovery (From $10 to $25+)
• Japan drop from May (~17,000) on [First dropped to 16,000 then rose to 18,000+, then trading back and forth below 17,000 before rising again. Not a trading loss, but still a wrong forecast.]
• Gold mid-year/Fall rally [Initially, problematic as Gold broke 20 year lows. However, our XAU marker of 60 soared past 90 [up 50%] and Gold reached our target price of $325 by October.]
• Buy US bonds to 4.90 and Sell to 6.40. [Perfect buy and sell]
• 7001.67 December 31 trading target: under 1% target, BUT wrong direction.
• First quarter top broad market/Nasdaq second qtr  [Wrong here, although the Internet sector which was the primary target of our shorting did peak in April].
• Summer collapse of Tech stocks [Phase one Internet stocks down 40%; Phase 2 Saturn/Uranus midJuly perfect to the day with the Nasdaq top July 16, although this did not hold as we expected.  Phase 3 November fundamentally right with Microsoft to the day, otherwise Nasdaq went to new records so a mixed call- 2 out of 3.]
• July 1 and November 5 Market pivots [July 1 was the day after the Fed reversed course and raised interest rates and days before Rubin and Mr Yen's resignations. November 5 the day of the Key Microsoft ruling. Our earlier two 1999 pivot days forecast were highly significant: one a monthly top, the second the start of the Yugoslavian War.]

• 1998 UIT UP 31% one year; 2 year performance UP 134% (Dec 28th close/rollover)*
• OIL would drop dramatically in 1999 (Starting in October)
• July 20, 1998 Market top (correct to the day)
• Italy top performing major 20 stock market again (from 1997 to 7/98 up over 100%)
• Korea best Asian market (up 100%)
• Buy US Bonds August on (until 4.70!)
• 1998 Bond hedge - Buy US Bonds/Sell Canadian Bonds from 10/97 on)
• Yen  Buy 145+; Sell 112-115
• Thought Spring would be a top (Wrong forecast)
• October crash (right day, but wrong direction due to Fed intervention)

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* Performance figures are "Asian" accounting, closed positions in 2007 and "American" accounting, marked to market in 2008..

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