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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Momenta Just IPO’d. It Doesn’t Belong in My Robotaxi Basket.
Momenta’s technology is strong enough to attract nine of the world’s top ten automakers, but as a software supplier rather than a vehicle owner, it doesn’t capture value the way Tesla or XPeng do. I’m watching it, not buying it — unless its cross-automaker learning advantage turns out to be real.
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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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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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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.
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XPeng vs Tesla: Why I’m Backing the Chinese EV Maker
XPeng vs Tesla: Same technology roadmap, opposite trajectories.
XPeng growing 150% trades at 2x sales. Tesla declining 8.6%
trades at 16x sales. Here’s my full investment analysis.