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.
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.
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.
If he is right, my portfolio is exactly where the damage would happen. Here is how I thought it through.
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.
As a Singaporean investor who largely ignored SGX for years, I didn’t expect to be writing about Singapore as a global safe haven. But the data is hard to ignore — and the capital flows from Dubai, Hong Kong, and beyond are reshaping two markets worth paying attention to.
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.
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.
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.
February was rough — my equities portfolio ended down 3.7% while the S&P 500 dropped 0.9%. A war in the Middle East, an AI wave gutting SaaS valuations, and inflation refusing to cooperate. Not exactly the month anyone planned for. But YTD I’m still up 4.0%, and the 2026 strategy is intact. Here’s what happened, what hurt, and what I’m doing about it.
WeRide (NASDAQ: WRD, HKEX: 0800) is the world’s first publicly listed robotaxi company — already running commercial driverless rides in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and across Europe. It trades at 24x EV/Revenue vs Waymo’s 360x. Here’s why it’s my 4th stock pick for 2026.