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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June Didn’t Change My Portfolio. It Changed How I Look At It.
June was my worst month of the year. So I stopped tracking 25 stocks and started tracking 4 themes instead. Turns out I’m better at finding good companies than deciding how much of the portfolio each one deserves.
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May 2026 Portfolio Review: China Is Dragging Everything Down
May 2026 portfolio review is up. The headline +0.4% hides a tale of two portfolios — non-China up +28% YTD, China down -15.2%. I break down what’s dragging, why I’m still holding the AV names, and what I’m doing in June ahead of the FOMC on June 17.
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My China Stocks: Ground-Level Reality vs What the Market Is Pricing
I was in Beijing when China’s Q1 GDP came in at 5.0%. The number and what I saw on the ground didn’t quite tell the same story. Here’s how my China positions benchmarked against HSCI — and what I’m watching next.