Trade Like Bill and Hillary Clinton

One of the ideas behind Stockpickr.com is to allow investors to peek inside the portfolios of the big financial guns to see what stocks they like. Although they wouldn't be considered financial gurus, the Clintons recently liquidated their blind trusts, and we took note.

The Bill and Hillary Clinton portfolio on Stockpickr lists the 25 largest stock holdings liquidated by the couple's blind trust, with each holding representing an investment of more than $100,000 each.

The flurry of recent news items about former president Bill Clinton and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's blind trust have focused on the reason why they chose to liquidate the stock portfolio: To avoid any look of impropriety. Everyone has an opinion on it, but we at Stockpickr were more interested in the actual stocks they owned.

Some of the stocks in the Clintons' portfolio were of the type that many might find surprising, for example Raytheon(RTN Quote), BP(BP Quote) and Exxon Mobil(XOM Quote). No matter your political leanings, you might elect to contribute funds toward some of their previous stockholdings.

One stockholding that Clinton advisors say the Clintons would not have chosen themselves is Cisco(CSCO Quote), which, according to The New York Times, has moved U.S. jobs to India.

However, this network equipment manufacturer has a price-to-earnings of 24 and was recently added to the portfolio of Moore Capital, a group of hedge funds run by famed trader and fund manager Louis Bacon, the signature fund of which has generated an average annual return of 24% since 1990.