September 2026 Portfolio Review: In a Closed Pool, Averaging Down Means Selling Winners
A month with no trades erased my YTD gain, and showed me that in a fixed pool, averaging down means selling winners to fund losers.
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My August 2026 Portfolio Review: A Good Month, More Selective Now
On 11 August my portfolio was up by double digits for the year. Three weeks later it was 4.1%. Nothing collapsed — the month just got less friendly, and it’s made me want to own fewer companies.
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Tesla Is Making a Big Tech-Sized AI Bet Without Big Tech Margins
Singapore’s National Day Rally made me more bullish on robotaxis generally, but not on Tesla specifically. The stock is running a Big Tech-style AI bet without Big Tech margins to fund it — here’s why I’m staying on the sidelines for now.
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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.