Our team working at the Calgary Financial Forum is going to have a lot of fun this weekend. They are going to play "The Birthday Game."

So what's "The Birthday Game?" It's a game that's aimed to illustrate the power and efficacy of the VectorVest System of stock analysis. Here's how it works. We ask visitors to our exhibitor's booth if they would like to win a prize such as a Free Five Week Trial to VectorVest. If they say yes, we ask them for the month and the day on which they were born. We then use that month and day to select the top ten stocks sorted by VST descending in Stock Viewer in a prior year. We then use Quick Test to check the performance of those stocks to the current date. For example, I was born on March 5th. When I tested the ten top VST stocks in Stock Viewer from 03/05/04 to 11/17/05 using Quick Test, I saw a gain of 22.06% with six winners and four losers. If I went back to 03/05/03, I'll see a gain of 140.48% with nine winners and one loser. So, I guess I should always buy high VST-Vector stocks on my birthday. Seriously, however, these top ten VST stock portfolios have shown a gain about 80% of the time.

Having watched this demonstration over and over again, all with different starting dates, the skeptic will say, "Of course the stocks went up. That's because the market went up." We say, "OK, let's pick the worst ten stocks priced greater than $1.00, ranked by VST ascending and see what happens." These portfolios usually lose money. (If you allow penny stocks to enter the test, you'll often find one stock with an extraordinarily high gain which results in a gain for the portfolio, even though there would be many more losers than winners.)

So why do high VST stocks tend to go up and low VST stocks tend to go down? The skeptic doesn't know, but frequently says, "You must have it rigged some way." Our answer is, "Of course we do. We rigged the system by giving high VST ratings to stocks having the best combinations of Value, Safety and Timing. These stocks have real earnings, acceptable financial performance and are going up in price. Low VST stocks usually have no earnings, terrible financial performance and are going down in price. So how would you expect them to perform over time?"

In case you happen to be a skeptic, please read my essay of March 5, 2004. Do what is suggested there. Prove our claim for yourself. High VST-Vector stocks tend to go up and low VST-Vector stocks tend to go down. It happens because of the way VectorVest is Rigged.