While I’m still working on figuring out exactly what information I wanted to share as related to my investments, I’ve started my new spreadsheet. As reported earlier, January was a terrible month for stocks. I was lucky to escape the month with about 2% decline in my total portfolio. The S&P 500 was down a little over 6% for the month of January, and could’ve been down much more if not for a rally at the end of the month.   Below is my performance from Jaunary 1st to February 1st 2008.

My worst performing account was my new Vanguard Mutual Fund account. I opened the account late last year and am making it my primary passive investment vehicle outside of my 401K. The nearly 10% hit I’ve taken in that account is an unfortunate consequence of when I opened the account, but given the small relative size of the account the losses are not a huge deal. I realize the reporting on my investment is still very limited. I would like to be able to provide as much information as easily possible while still maintaining a certain level of privacy. My hope is to improve this monthly update with each coming month.