The market has a moderate buy the dip mentality today. I don’t suggest I have any strong opinion as to whether this will continue. Rationally, it should. The ISM report today was better than expected. There is an Indian trade deal which should be positive for IT demand. But there has been loads of technical…
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…
We sold the last 100 shares of the Snowflake position. Snowflake spiked up today in sympathy with the strong results reported by MongoDB. I imagine that Snowflake, which reports tomorrow did have a strong quarter-I am just now sure if the upside will be strong enough to sustain the share price spike. Snowflake is a volatile stock, and…
The last couple of weeks have been painful for investors in high growth IT shares-brutal really. With a crescendo of bubble articles and headlines talking about stretched valuation, good news got interpreted negatively and indifferent news resulted in significant share price compression. Basically, as the year end approaches, some investors, with significant gains have moved…
We sold another 100 shares of Snowflake this morning as it spiked a bit. We sold the shares at $272.01 and that raised $27, 190. We now have 400 shares of Snowflake in the high growth portfolio which has a weight of 4.94%. We added 300 shares of Samsara at $37.49. This cost $11,255. The high growth portfolio now…
We decided to take some profits on our Zscaler position which has risen by more than 80% so far this year and has reached a rather substantial valuation above average based on my estimates. The sale of 250 shares at $325.39 raised $81,340. We still have a position of 350 shares and that has a…
The market continues to trade in a consolidation mode, and we took some actions today. Although objectively the inflation news was reasonably positive, and initially stocks rose, selling resumed shortly after the opening. The consolidation trade may last until earnings season gets underway. Or it may last until the next Fed policy meeting. My ability…
We made some changes to the high growth portfolio over the course of Wednesday. Shares of Nebius rocketed. This is partially due to the announcements of the rapid build-out of Project Stargate. Over 80% of Stargate’s $500 billion dollar build out is either completed or under construction. This is far more aggressive than heretofore expected.…
Sale of AppLovin; Purchases of Monday, Atlassian, SentinelOne and Samsara in the High Growth portfolio Sale of NetApp and Cognizant and purchases of Dell and Google in the Income/Stability portfolio We made some portfolio changes today. We do not intend to make changes every day, but when opportunities arise, we take them. High Growth We…
We made some portfolio adjustments in the high growth portfolio this morning. We sold parts of positions in Pure Storage and AppLovin. Very tactical. Pure is now up more than 45% in the last month. Deserved-probably. A bit extended. I thought so. We now have 2400 shares of Pure and that has a weight of 9.48% in…