Shutting down portfolio, starting up new portfolio on Instavest

I'm deciding to shut down the Ten Grand Chicago portfolio as I have pretty much liquidated all my positions with exception of XHB ETF (Hombuilders) that I continue to hold in my account.  I started this experiment back in 2008 and after 8 years, the portfolio has garnered 26.4% total return.  On a annualized basis however, it is only 2.98%.  I would have done better moving that into the S&P500 (