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Barchart Van Meerten New High Fund earns Marketocracy Honors! For the period ended 12/31/10, this fund beat all but 1 of the top 50 mutual funds for that period. The portfolio would have been ranked #2 just ahead of Van Eck Global Hard Assets (GHAXX), a fund ranked as a 5-star 5-year fund by Morningstar.

Barchart Van Meerten New High Fund

About the Barchart Van Meerten New High Fund:
Jim Van Meerten is the carpenter and Barchart is the tool. This fund will invest in the stocks trading over $1 per share, at least 100,000 shares per day and experiencing new 20-day highs as indicated on Barchart and be sold when they fail to reach new highs.

Marketocracy Honors -- Marketocracy evaluates over 100,000 model portfolios.

Honor #1 -They evaluated the top 50 mutual funds for the period ended 12/31/2010 and determined that the Barchart - Jim Van Meerten New High portfolio (VMNHI) actually beat all but 1 of the top 50 mutual funds for that period. The portfolio would have been ranked #2 just ahead of the Van Eck Global Hard Assets (GHAXX)) a fund ranked as a 5 star 5 year fund by Morningstar.

Honor #2 - Marketocracy evaluated over 100,000 portfolios and determined that for the 5 year period ending 12/30/2010 the Barchart - Jim Van Meerten New High Portfolio was ranked #106 for total return.

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Performance

Year-to-Date: 2033%
Previous Year: -9.88%
Since Inception: 9.14%

Portfolio

RHT, CYS, UIL, NUE, ULTA, AGNC, GIGM, IAU, PAA, AZO, CIM, BGS, LTON

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Sym	Name	Last	Change	Percent	High	Low	Volume	Time
AGNC	American Capital Agency	29.69	-0.05	-0.17%	29.77	29.60	5678235	02/08/12
AZO	Autozone	349.15	-1.33	-0.38%	351.93	347.20	220462	02/08/12
BGS	B&G Foods Holdings	22.84	+0.34	+1.51%	22.88	22.43	253267	02/08/12
CIM	Chimera Investment Corp.	3.03	-0.02	-0.66%	3.10	3.01	13856647	02/08/12
CYS	Cys Investments Inc	13.37	+0.02	+0.15%	13.42	13.29	2838256	02/08/12
GIGM	Gigamedia Limited	1.20	-0.16	-11.76%	1.42	1.14	632132	02/08/12
IAU	Comex Gold Trust	16.90	-0.12	-0.71%	17.05	16.80	5403230	02/08/12
LTON	Linktone Ltd	1.29	-0.03	-2.27%	1.35	1.29	249440	02/08/12
NUE	Nucor Corp.	45.31	-0.02	-0.04%	45.66	45.14	2103039	02/08/12
PAA	Plains All American Pipeline L.P.	78.78	+0.38	+0.48%	78.97	78.27	414929	02/08/12
RHT	Red Hat	48.08	+0.07	+0.15%	48.14	47.45	1159848	02/08/12
UIL	Uil Holdings Corp.	35.37	-0.09	-0.25%	35.49	35.10	170702	02/08/12
ULTA	Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance	80.61	+0.96	+1.21%	81.25	79.09	919015	02/08/12

Barchart Van Meerten Speculative Fund

About the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative Fund:
Jim Van Meerten shows you how to use Barchart to improve your portfolio's performance. This fund will hold approximately 40 stocks that trade below $10 per share, trade at least 25,000 shares per day and are experiencing new 20-day highs and sorted for frequency as indicated on Barchart. Because this fund contains stocks with low volume and low prices it will be more speculative than funds holding high volume and high priced stocks.

Marketocracy Honors - After evaluating over 100,000 model portfolios Marketocracy has added the Barchart Van Meerten Speculatrive Fund to their M100 Funds. Per their press release: " m100 members have proven long term track records, and serve as the ambassadors of our top performing members. We have thousands of excellent investors who are beating the market, but only 100 make this list at any given time."

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Performance

Year-to-Date: 1.24%
Previous Year: -9.87%
Since Inception: 13.61%

Portfolio

BRP, MTE, TLF, LHO, FMNB, ADK, ULGX, EDR, DX, FNB, WTBA, PBNY, DCIX, STN, DUSA, GCA, KOG, LEAP, NLST, OKSB, ORBC, PDFS, BVX, WTT

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Sym	Name	Last	Change	Percent	High	Low	Volume	Time
ADK	Adcare Health Systems Inc	4.80	-0.06	-1.23%	4.87	4.73	16800	02/08/12
BRP	Brookfield Residential Propert	9.25	+0.09	+0.98%	9.39	9.17	121900	02/08/12
BVX	Bovie Medical Corp.	2.80	-0.15	-5.08%	3.05	2.75	20800	02/08/12
DCIX	Diana Containerships Inc.	6.91	+0.11	+1.62%	6.98	6.80	148869	02/08/12
DUSA	Dusa Pharmaceuticals	5.02	-0.07	-1.38%	5.10	5.00	161483	02/08/12
DX	Dynex Capital	9.11	-0.03	-0.33%	9.18	9.10	409707	02/08/12
EDR	Education Realty Trust Inc.	10.69	-0.03	-0.28%	10.83	10.65	460274	02/08/12
FMNB	Farmers Natl Banc Corp Oh	5.50	+0.12	+2.23%	5.58	5.38	240000	02/08/12
FNB	F.N.B. Corp.	12.16	+0.04	+0.33%	12.28	11.95	473900	02/08/12
GCA	Global Cash Access Holdings	5.45	+0.01	+0.18%	5.55	5.31	240600	02/08/12
KOG	Kodiak Oil	9.44	+0.47	+5.24%	9.80	9.11	19950472	02/08/12
LEAP	Leap Wireless International	9.41	-0.13	-1.36%	9.66	9.20	1020417	02/08/12
LHO	Lasalle Hotel Properties	28.11	+0.12	+0.43%	28.28	27.80	874571	02/08/12
MTE	Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd	1.14	+0.02	+1.79%	1.16	1.12	67634	02/08/12
NLST	Netlist	4.13	+0.08	+1.98%	4.20	3.97	939795	02/08/12
OKSB	Southwest Bancorp	8.76	+0.07	+0.81%	8.87	8.60	40585	02/08/12
ORBC	Orbcomm Inc.	3.56	+0.06	+1.71%	3.57	3.48	26700	02/08/12
PBNY	Provident New York Bancorp	8.75	-0.10	-1.13%	8.90	8.48	88064	02/08/12
PDFS	Pdf Solutions	6.69	+0.01	+0.15%	6.76	6.64	23300	02/08/12
STN	Stantec Inc	29.50	+0.35	+1.20%	29.50	29.00	3370	02/08/12
TLF	Tandy Leather Factory	4.92	+0.03	+0.61%	5.05	4.92	1400	02/08/12
ULGX	Urologix	1.44	+0.12	+9.09%	1.49	1.34	101176	02/08/12
WTBA	West Bancorporation	10.14	+0.12	+1.20%	10.34	10.02	10200	02/08/12
WTT	Wireless Telecom Group Inc.	1.24	+0.02	+1.64%	1.25	1.21	27300	02/08/12

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