The Twitter Top 10 portfolio continues to under perform the S&P 500 Index (SPX) on the year. It is down 17% while SPX is up almost 3% from the first Friday of the year. If you have/had a portfolio of momentum stocks I’m suspecting you’re suffering the same type of draw down. This month the portfolio kept a few momentum stocks which is the reason for most of the negative numbers.
The new picks for May are much more defensive in nature. Below is a list of the stocks with the strongest support from the Twitter stream over the past month. The portfolio picks the top 10 each month.
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Below is a performance chart and details of last month’s holdings.  Note: I’ll update the numbers to today’s closing prices sometime over the weekend.
| Start Date | Symbol | Shares | Start Price | Start Total | End Price | End Total | % Gain / Loss |
| 4/4/2014 | $MSFT | 292 | 39.87 | 11642.04 | 39.89 | 11647.88 | 0.05% |
| Â | $HIMX | 1021 | 11.43 | 11670.03 | 8.95 | 9137.95 | -21.70% |
| Â | $GTAT | 761 | 16.90 | 12860.90 | 16.86 | 12830.46 | -0.24% |
| Â | $QCOM | 148 | 78.53 | 11622.44 | 79.02 | 11694.96 | 0.62% |
| Â | $BIDU | 73 | 149.35 | 10902.55 | 160.33 | 11704.09 | 7.35% |
| Â | $KNDI | 687 | 14.08 | 9672.96 | 11.27 | 7742.49 | -19.96% |
| Â | $F | 724 | 16.13 | 11678.12 | 15.88 | 11497.12 | -1.55% |
| Â | $AA | 925 | 12.63 | 11682.75 | 13.82 | 12783.50 | 9.42% |
| Â | $K | 183 | 63.77 | 11669.91 | 65.42 | 11971.86 | 2.59% |
| Â | $GMCR | 113 | 102.99 | 11637.87 | 91.69 | 10360.97 | -10.97% |
| Â | Cash | Â | Â | 116.05 | Â | 116.05 | Â |
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| Totals | Â | Â | Â | 115155.62 | Â | 111487.33 | -3.19% Â |
