Palm Oil and AI: An Odd Pairing I’m Watching, Not Buying
Malaysia’s data centres are straining the water supply, and a palm oil coolant might help. It’s made me look twice at IOI — but I’m not buying yet.
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July 2026: What Changed After June
July looked like a modest 1.49% bounce back from June’s rough month. Underneath it, one part of the portfolio did all the work while everything else quietly got worse — and three stocks reacted to good news in three completely different ways.
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How I Choose Funds (Even Though I Prefer Picking Stocks)
Two very different blow-ups — a hedge fund forced into liquidation, Korean retail investors wrecked by leveraged ETFs — left me with the same takeaway. I walk through the questions I actually ask myself before putting money into a fund, using my own Hamilton Lane position as the example.
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What I Do With My Portfolio When the Market Panics
The Nasdaq-100 and South Korea’s KOSPI both hit correction territory this week — then bounced hard, one much faster than the other. Neither move told me anything. So instead of guessing what happens next, I scored every holding in my portfolio using five simple questions, weighted by market value, and found out my biggest position wasn’t as safe as I thought.
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Hard Assets in 2026 — Are You Buying the Right Ones?
Gold queues at BullionStar, $2M condo FOMO, silver crashing 38% in four months — everyone’s rushing into hard assets in 2026. Here’s why most of them are buying the wrong things at the wrong time, and what I’m doing with cash instead.
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April 2026 Portfolio Performance: The Market Gave Back What It Took
My April 2026 portfolio returned +9.6%, now 4.2 percentage points ahead of the S&P 500 YTD. Healthcare led, Industrials lagged, and five positions reported earnings in 24 hours. Here’s what I’m watching going into May.
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UAE Quits OPEC Today. Here’s What I Think Happens to Oil Prices.
The UAE just left OPEC — the third-largest member walking out for the first time. Here’s why oil spikes near-term, why I think prices crash once the war ends, and why buying gold at $4,630 is the wrong trade today.
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HSBC 7% Bond: Three Reasons I Said No
HSBC’s new 7% Perpetual AT1 bond looks attractive at first glance. Here’s why I passed — the macro environment, a 2-point banker’s spread, and the CoCo structure that most private investors don’t fully understand.
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March 2026 Portfolio Performance: The Toll Booth at Hormuz
March was rough — portfolio down 3.6%, but still beating the S&P 500’s 5.1% drop. OVID surged 36%, WeRide delivered, and Pony AI got punished on earnings. Here’s my full March breakdown and Q1 strategy reset.
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I Lost Almost $1,000 on Novo Nordisk Options. The Stock Is a Hold For Now.
I bought Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) call options betting on a V-shape recovery after earnings. They’re now worth almost nothing. In this post I walk through what happened, why I still hold the stock, and why my view is a hold for now — not a buy, not a sell.