15 February 2023

January Portfolio Roundup

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GENERAL THOUGHTS

I continue to get whip-sawed around by the market. As I expected I timed the bottom perfectly by getting out of all my stocks at the bottom. For now that's the case. Who knows what will happen. I got caught flat-footed and while my portfolio should have been up about 10% for the month it's basically flat. I'm under-allocated. But alas. We'll see if this is a bear market bounce or the start of a new bull run. 

I tried to allocate to macro positions in addition to my preferred portfolio. It has sort of worked but not really. It will take some serious work to get it right. It's not easy. I'll continue to learn and iterate. Ultimately what I need to do I think is become a better trader. Then I can trade my positions. I don't know if I can really do it. 



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PORTFOLIO

The bolded tickers are my preferred portfolio

Then the macro portfolio is basically precious metals, treasuries, and China


6% - GTLB
6% - SNOW
6% - SLV
5.7% - GLD
5.3% - PPLT (Platinum)
6.1% - BILL
4.9% - BABA
4.6% - IEF (7-10 Year Treasuries)
4.6% - TLT (20+ Year Treasuries)
4.5% - GDX (Gold Miners)
4.4% - NET
3.7% - PSQ (Short QQQ)
3.7% - FXI (China Large Cap)
3.6% - PDD (Pinduoduo)
2.9% - UUP (US Dollar Index)
2.8% - AEHR
2.5% - S
1.9% - EWH (Hong Kong)
1.8% - CRWD
1.1% - DDOG
1% - ZS

18% - Cash


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THOUGHTS

This is a lot of time and effort spent to trail the S&P 500 by 5% in a month. Going to need to get better.