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 my equity curve with the S&P 500.
The reason for starting writing is to try to sharpen my thinking so that I am able to achieve this type of result more consistently.
So here it is - first of hopefully many posts to come!
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
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