Comparing the two portfolios, the actively traded portfolio lost less money than the buy & hold portfolio. The actively traded portfolio allowed me to sell my holdings in Parlux, Pixelplus and Interdigital Communications, which fell significantly after I had sold them. I wish that I had sold my stock in SIGM shortly after purchasing it, or had chosen a different stock to reinvest the proceeds from the sale of PARL; the performance of SIGM was so poor that I would have done better to have kept my shares in PARL.