April review Up 0.02% (lol), bringing YTD returns to 76.81%. The portfolio was down for most of the month, but eventually came around, closing at breakeven. The max drawdown was approx 10%, and actually started from end-March to mid-April. I missed the rebound in the indices completely due
March review Up 19.02% for the month, bringing YTD returns to 76.78%. A good month for the portfolio due to increased volatility, but the war in the Middle East made this month's performance particularly bittersweet. Being in Asia, I am also worried about flow on effects
February review Up 5.99% for the month, bringing the YTD returns to 48.53%. This month was tough for me, and it was made more painful by the fact that I made and repeated a lot of mistakes that should really have been avoided. Markets felt volatile, and emotionally
January review My best month as well as best start to a year. Returns were mostly from commodities. I traded around a bit, but anyone with a heavy portfolio weighting towards that or HBMs this month would have done really well by just buying and holding. While I feel good,
2025 was a nice year for the portfolio. My goal here is to look back on the year in order to: * Understand what contributed to my performance. * Gain some insights into how I can sustain or improve performance Performance contribution by symbols (extracted from IBKR) (data was extracted on 27
November review Ended the month up just a bit, pushing the YTD performance to 92%. Felt jittery this month, putting on and reducing exposure a few times. Trades in higher beta growth and Chinese names post the Trump-Xi meeting did not go so well, with many of my attempted entries
October review Everyone was worried that the next big crash was coming soon, myself included. A couple of weeks in, I went from 130% long to just 70% long in the span of about 15 minutes. I've since reshuffled my holdings a bit, and am back to almost
Been looking at my equity curve, and can't shake the feeling that it's mostly just luck. Assuming it's not, however, that could mean that this is the year I finally reached a sort of tipping point where the total output of my good behaviour
Quick first post to get things started. The market's been strong, which has been nice for the portfolio. How much of it is due to stock selection, and how much of it to the bull market is hard to know, but there is a definitely correlation when comparing