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Weekly #101: Synchrony Financial, Sold After +56.6%

ILC: Three Engines, One Mispriced Holding

Weekly #100: Investment Styles: What Survives When Everyone Copies?

+62% Since May 2025: Record Sales, Still A BUY

The September Pick: Mr. Market Took $23B Off This Bank For $300M Of Fees

Weekly #99: CDE: How Much Growth Is Already in the Price?

+127% Since The Pick: A Record Quarter, A Violent Markdown, And Still A BUY

Weekly #98: DELL Is Up 325%. I’m Moving It To HOLD

+72% In Five Months: Records In A War Zone, And Still A BUY

Weekly #97: Blockchain Is Coming for the Middlemen

Weekly #96: The Bessent Put, and Who Pays for It

Strattec at +75.7%: What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong, and Why I Sold

Q2 2026 Update: The Hidden Infrastructure Winner, +60.8% In 11 Months

August Stock Pick: Everybody Is Watching The Wrong Number

[Trade alert] August Stock Pick

Weekly #95: The Crown Jewel Finally Showed Up

Record Profits, Falling Stock, And A Target I Cut

Weekly #94: DXPE Doubled. Now It Joins My Trim List

STRL Q2 2026 Update: Record Quarter, And 40% Cheaper Than When I Last Wrote It Up

It Hit Its 2028 Targets Two Years Early. The Stock Fell.

Weekly #93: The Shark Rule, and the 439% Fund That Broke

Celestica (CLS) Q2 2026: The Fundamentals Got Better. The Market Got Scared.

Weekly #92: A PE Firm Already Bid $12 For RYAM

Weekly #91: The Weakest Force That Moves Everything: Why Valuation Is Gravity

Stock Deep Dive: The Market Is Pricing 2016. Management Is Delivering 2026.

[Trade alert] July Stock Pick: A Record Year, Priced For A Relapse

Gap Stock: Cheap, Well-Run and Going Nowhere (NYSE: GAP)

Weekly #90: Mr. Market Lives in Your Head, Not on Wall Street

Weekly #89: The $437 Trillion Rocket: Sitting Out the SpaceX IPO

Weekly #88: My Top 2026 Pick Is A 4x Bagger, and I'm Raising My Target

Weekly #87: Why AI Isn't a Bubble, in 5 Dominoes

Closing Heritage Insurance (HRTG) At +20.8%, And Why I’m Stepping Aside

Stock Deep Dive: The $9B Compounder That Prints When Markets Panic

Weekly #86: Why Buying Nike Today Isn't Brand Investing

[June Stock Pick] Trade Alert: I Just Added a New Position

Trade Alert: Closing AXIA on the ADR Delisting

Weekly #85: Is Dell Still a Buy After a 220% Run?

Weekly #84: Micron Went Parabolic. I Raised My Target.

Trade alert: Closing one more position

Trade alert: Closing one position

Weekly #83: My February Pick Is Up 140%. Is the Operator Thesis Done?

After Two AI Picks Hit +1,000%, Here's Where I'm Recycling The Capital

Trade Alert: Closed ALL, Trimmed STRL, Bought My Fourth-Bucket Pick

Weekly #82: Letter From an Older Brother (Who Also Started Broke)

STRL Q1 2026 Update: Tsunami Confirmed, Asymmetry Spent

Powell (POWL) Update: Holding the +1,103% Unicorn at Fair Value

Weekly #81: The Two Questions That Stop You Selling Winners Early

Why Beating the Tide Is One of the Best Stock Investing Newsletters in 2026

Stride (LRN) Q3 FY2026 Update: The Engine Is Career Learning, The Wobble Is Gen Ed

Weekly #80: Why I Stopped Using Stop-Losses 14 Years Ago

Celestica (CLS) Q1 2026: Déjà Vu. Beat, Raise, Drop

Weekly #79: Why I Cap Even My Best Calls at 5% (Position Sizing)

The Halal Chicken Plant That Taught Me To Close Pilgrim's Pride

A Record Quarter, a Stock Still Trading Like Nothing Happened

Axia: This Latam Utility Hit My Target (+40%) in 3 Months. Now What?

Weekly #78: TSMC Beat Every Line, The Market Yawned. That's the Setup

The Next Boom No One Wants to Talk About Is Already Underway

Trade alert: The April Pick is A Picks-and-Shovels Play on Aerospace and Defence

Weekly #77: The Physics of Investing, Why Higher-Order Thinkers Win While the Crowd Panics

The Tide Simulator

Weekly #76: "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth"

Weekly #75: 7 Mines, 3 Metals, One Thesis

Weekly #74: Micron Q2 2026. The Supercycle Just Got Louder. My Target Goes to $934.

Deep Dive: The Eagle in the Desert: My Highest-Conviction Energy Buy of 2026

Trade Alert: The Oil Paradox: Finding Value While the Middle East Burns

Weekly #73: The Fog of War & Why I’m Ignoring The Friction

Weekly #72: The Year the KINS Thesis Graduated. Plus, the Friction That's Quietly Destroying Your Returns.

STRL Q4 2025 earnings: STRL is not riding a wave...it is riding a tsunami.

Weekly #71: DXPE’s Water Segment Is Carrying

Dell Deep Dive: The Market Is Confusing “Commodity” With “Uninvestable”

Trade alert: February Pick, A Commodity Business With an Operator Edge

Weekly #70: The Pendulum Never Stays Up

Weekly #69: Why I Respect Cemex More Than Ever and Still Won’t Buy It Here

Weekly #68: POWL Grabs the Crown as the Portfolio’s New Top Performer

PayPal Post-Mortem: Why I Sold PYPL and What Changed in the Investment Thesis

Trade alert: Closing position in PYPL

Weekly #67: Trump Thinks He Found His Denzel Moment

Rebalancing some positions

Celestica (CLS) Q4 2025 Earnings: Double Beat, $1B Capex Plan, and Why the 15% Drop Looks Wrong

Why I’m Closing My Position in NatWest Group (NWG) After a 42% Run

Weekly #66: CLS Dropped 12% for No Valid Reason. Mr. Market Gave a Gift.

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AXIA Deep Dive: A Boring LATAM Utility With a Not-So-Boring +40% Upside

Weekly #65: Why I’m Raising My TSMC Target Price After Earnings

Why I’m Closing AGX after a +166% Gain

Weekly #64: No Investment Is Risk-Free... And That’s the Point (And a Quick Survey)

Trade Alert: New 3% Position Added (January Monthly Pick)

JD.com Stock Deep Dive: Why a Cheap Valuation Wasn’t Enough

Weekly #63: 2025 Recap and the Venezuela Event That Could Reshape South America