My portfolio, I'm not up at quite as much as Ben, you know. I don't know what our portfolio sizes are, but through 250 plus percent, I'm up so, you know. And that continues, I'm not really having a problem.
SourceAnd the trick that I'm kind of using, it actually straddles the line between what you're doing and what Ben is doing, which is, I'm not doing much of anything, but I'm keeping an eye not on the intraday charts, but on the daily charts. And when a stock that I love pulls back a bit. I'm jumping in when it gets overextended. I'm jumping out a little bit right, and so in between the lines, that's how I'm being successful with the trading.
But at the same time, I'm just focusing on those 10s. I'm not my portfolio has less names in it now than it has in a couple of years, and it's because we're being picky, picky, picky, and it's working like a charm to continue to make I'm at another all time high today, as a matter of fact. So we keep doing that, and it works.
So as far as what does that mean? From a macro perspective, it's the same story as last week. From macro perspective, everything's okay. In fact, we're coming to the end of September, right? Pretty soon, we're going to walk into the strongest part of the year, that end of year push, and it's been a strong year.
So you know, a lot of these institutions are either going to be chasing to make the same market returns right against their comps, or putting their foot on the accelerator to get those their year end returns and bonuses up as high as humanly possible.
So we should continue to play the market. I stay focused on three intersecting themes, and that's AI where I come from. You know, my technology and background going back 30 years, and then increasingly defense, which is, you know, increasingly technology driven, and a bit of the commodities that go into both. So you'll stay focused on the main themes that are probably not going to slow down, even if there's a recession, and focus on the names in those spaces where the valuations are attractive.