Monthly Trading Standing

Putting myself into the line by exposing my trade performance. Tracking performance is very importance if you are serious about trading and investing. If you lose picture of your real performance, you are not going to make serious money.
The key measurement is the index performance. I think I need to track the index as well.
Looking at the normalized STI index (month's closing value) against my portfolio, I realized that my performance is actually ahead of the STI index stocks. (I had previously posted a calculation that showed STI increase by 31% from Feb 2010 to Feb 2011)

Before I come up with this method of measurement, I had no idea of how I actually perform against the major index. When I saw my portfolio increase by 18% over the last one year, I thought I was doing all right. I felt quite satisfied with that number. When I told my friend about my performance, he thought that I was on the right track because he obviously did worse than I do. I was happy for a while. But I had no idea whether I really out perform the Index.
Then I decided to get serious and try to normalized the STI index using my initial portfolio value and make comparison neck-to-neck. I realized that I am on the right track.

Month Ended	Total Value	Equity Value	Cash Value	Vested	Chg	Port Perf	ST Index
28/02/2010	88,241.76	29,100.00	59,141.76	33.0%			2750
31/03/2010	81,884.82	37,210.00	44,674.82	45.4%	-7.2%	-7.2%	2887
30/04/2010	89,801.52	30,650.00	59,151.52	34.1%	9.7%	1.8%	2975
31/05/2010	81,884.82	37,210.00	44,674.82	45.4%	-8.8%	-7.2%	2753
30/06/2010	84,523.72	24,650.00	59,873.72	29.2%	3.2%	-4.2%	2836
31/07/2010	86,770.52	70,610.00	16,160.52	81.4%	2.7%	-1.7%	2988
31/08/2010	84,503.39	55,450.00	29,053.39	65.6%	-2.6%	-4.2%	2753
30/09/2010	89,778.20	47,150.00	42,628.20	52.5%	6.2%	1.7%	3098
31/10/2010	94,407.07	69,550.00	24,857.07	73.7%	5.2%	7.0%	3143
30/11/2010	95,045.95	60,200.00	34,845.95	63.3%	0.7%	7.7%	3145
31/12/2010	107,021.21	98,120.00	8,901.21	91.7%	12.6%	21.3%	3212
31/01/2011	104,898.73	78,760.00	26,138.73	75.1%	-2.0%	18.9%	3180
28/02/2011	104,988.58	18,350.00	86,638.58	17.5%	0.1%	19.0%	3011
31/03/2011	104,508.77	46,650.00	57858.77	44.6%	-0.5%	18.4%	3061

So, what's next?
The key now is to continue to out perform and improve on my performance if possible. Instead of 18% annual return, now, try to target 30% annualized return.