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Navin navigated the market crisis with skillful timing

San Mateo, CA, December 8, 2008 - Marketocracy Data Services LLC, (MDS) an investment research firm that has developed the industry's most extensive farm system of investment talent, announced the addition of John Navin to its growing team of mFOLIO Masters, bringing the total number to twelve. Navin navigated through the crisis earlier this year and is ahead of the S&P 500 Index with his JMF model fund by over 28% year-to-date and by over 20% annualized since inception of May 7, 2001.

"As a technical analyst, when I see something like the 50-day moving average cross below the 200-day moving average, I take notice because that indicates the potential for a bear market," explained John Navin. "I use complex Fibonacci mathematics and other methods to verify or negate such a signal. This was the strongest bear signal I had seen since I'd started with Marketocracy in 2001. So in April I moved into cash and started buying inverse ETFs and stocks I thought would fare better even in a bear market."

“Investing is a rare skill so finding great portfolio managers is like finding a needle in a haystack,” explained Mark Taguchi, President of MDS. “We have more data on more managers and that gives us a distinct research advantage in finding the best managers with long-term track records that are doing well right now – even in this volatile market.”

MDS will offer an mFOLIO based on Navin’s JMF model fund for registered investment advisors (RIAs). An mFOLIO is an actively managed model portfolio that RIAs can use to manage client accounts with. The company’s affiliate, Marketocracy Capital Management LLC (http://advisor.marketocracy.com) offers separately managed accounts that invest in the stocks of the mFOLIO Masters and allow investors to mix and match mFOLIOs to their personal investment needs and objectives.

mFOLIO Masters are ‘best of the best’ model portfolio managers that have risen through the ranks at www.marketocracy.com. For over eight years Marketocracy has tracked 100,000 model portfolios, analyzing their performance, sifting through millions of trades to search for those skilled enough to be called mFOLIO Masters. To learn more about all the mFOLIO Masters, including John Navin, and to see their detailed investment track records, please visit: http://m100.marketocracy.com

Marketocracy Data Services LLC (MDS) is an investment research company whose mission is to develop the most extensive farm system of investment talent, to refine a team investment process, and to generate actionable research. Its website - www.marketocracy.com - is home to over 80,000 people from 130 countries that manage 100,000 model stock portfolios.

Marketocracy Capital Management LLC is an investment management firm which uses the research generated by MDS and manages mutual funds, hedge funds, and separately managed accounts and is an affiliate of MDS.