The market presented some opportunities this morning that I have reacted to. In particular I added to the position in Pagaya which got hit a bit because of the misguided proposals of President Trump regarding interest rates. In addition, Figma shares were down despite positive brokerage comments. I continue to add to the positions in…
The market has been quite volatile today, at least in terms of our high growth portfolio. We have (hopefully) taken advantage of the volatility and made some trades. Overall, the trades wound up reducing our margin balance by $660, and the balance now goes to $738,612. There were, in aggregate7 transactions today. In the interest…
Earnings are at a high ebb and I am trying to provide some thoughts in a timely fashion on the results of those companies likely to be of most interest to subscribers. This morning I am looking at Pagaya in the light of Upstart’s results, Unity and Dynatrace. As additional earnings are released, I will…
We made some portfolio changes this morning. We sold 100 shares of our Snowflake position at $266.99. This raised $26,690. We now have 500 shares of Snowflake which has a weight of 7.11% in the high growth portfolio. As discussed earlier, we bought 400 shares of Dynatrace at $46.89. This cost $18,765. We now have…
I am getting this to subscribers a bit later than normal-last week’s post ran too long so this was not included. Then too, with the excitement with regards to Oracle and Nebius, my scheduling got severely impacted. Here is the list: the first 3 ideas are the companies that have just reported, i.e. Oracle, Nebius…
I made some changes in the high growth portfolio this morning. I sold 50 shares of the AppLovin position, reducing the holding to 225 shares. The shares have come a long way in a short time and lately appreciated on the inclusion of the shares in the high growth portfolio. We sold 50 shares at $571.99 and…
Pagaya shares have dipped considerably since the company’s earnings release. Pagaya has long had a trading pattern that is close to indecipherable as well as the remnants of a legacy ownership base who have used liquidity events to sell shares. It remains underfollowed by brokerage analysts. The quarter and the outlook were what they were…
Lots of companies have reported their Q2 results-several hundred in fact. Within our high growth portfolio 4 companies out of 8 scheduled to report this week have now done so. For the most part, the earnings reports emerging range from good to excellent. Q2 is shaping up to have been a better quarter for software…
Sale of 150 shares of CyberArk (Entire Position); Purchase of 200 shares of Pagaya; Purchase of 200 shares of Rubrik; Purchase of 250 shares of Samsara; Purchase of 200 shares of Dynatrace; Purchase of 200 shares of Braze; Purchase of 50 shares of Atlassian; Purchase of 20 shares of Monday We have made some changes…
High growth equities were under some pressure in trading Thursday morning. Overall, the high growth portfolio has fallen about 3%. There is still tariff angst as the president has sent aggressive letters to some trade partners such as Brazil threatening punitive tariffs because of political issues. Further, the QQQs and other indices made all-time highs…