About
This is my portfolio. My actual portfolio. Real money, real positions, real entries, real exits, and yes, real mistakes.
Every trade I make with my own capital gets published here with a ten-minute delay. You’ll see what I bought, what I sold, what I’m holding, and why. The “why” part is important. I don’t just dump tickers. I explain what I’m thinking, what I’m seeing, and what I might be getting wrong. Sometimes the most useful thing I publish is the reasoning behind a position that didn’t work out.
I trade mostly in precious metals. Silver miners, gold miners, ETF options, and occasionally things that are adjacent to metals but really about energy, supply chains, or geopolitical risk. If you’ve been reading Gold and Geopolitics, you’ll recognise the themes. This is where those themes meet my wallet.
Before you even look at my trades
If you have debt, close this page. I’m serious. No position I publish here matters if you’re paying 18% on a credit card or carrying a personal loan. Step one is always get out of debt. Everything else comes after.
Step two is saving, and I believe the best savings vehicle is physical precious metals. Not ETFs, not miners, not options. Physical metal that you hold. Buy mechanically, buy regularly, don’t try to time it. This isn’t trading. This is the foundation.
What you see in this portfolio is step three - and it represents roughly 20% of what I put to work. The other 80% sits quietly in metal, doing nothing exciting, which is exactly the point. If you’re skipping steps one and two to play step three, you’re building on sand. I’d rather you unsubscribe and go pay off your car loan than copy a single trade I make here.
One more thing before we go further: my risk tolerance is high. Higher than most, probably. I can stomach that because this is money I can afford to lose - steps one and two are already done. That means you’ll see positions here that move around quite a bit, and I won’t panic out of them. Expect some volatility. If you’re the type to check your portfolio every hour, this might not be a comfortable read.
What this is
A window into how one person allocates capital based on their own analysis. Nothing more. I share my positions because I believe transparency matters, because too many people in this space talk big without showing their hand, and because I’ve learned more from watching other people’s trades (including their losses) than from any course, book, or seminar.
What this is not
Financial advice. I cannot stress this enough. I’m not a financial advisor. I’m not licensed, registered, regulated, or supervised by anyone. I’m a writer who trades with his own money and publishes what he does. That’s it.
I don’t know your financial situation. I don’t know your risk tolerance. I don’t know if you can afford to lose what you’re putting in. I don’t know if the position that makes sense for me makes any sense at all for you. The answer to “should I follow this trade?” is always: I don’t know, and you shouldn’t be asking me.
Do your own due diligence. Always. DYODD is not a disclaimer I’m pasting in to cover myself. It’s genuine advice. The single best thing you can do for your portfolio is understand why you’re in a position, not just that someone else is in it.
What to expect
Position updates land here automatically. An integration picks up every fill from my broker and posts it within minutes - the what, not the why. Ticker, direction, size, price. That’s what you see first, and that’s what triggers the notification.
The reasoning gets added to the same post when I have time to write it up. Same evening if I’m at my desk, next morning if I’m not, later if I’m travelling. Charts, lines, cycle position, what could invalidate the trade. You will not get a notification when those updates land. If you want the context, check back.
Periodic portfolio reviews where I look at the overall picture, what’s working, what isn’t, and what I’m watching. These are less frequent but more detailed.
Honesty about losses. I will get things wrong. Probably often. When I do, you’ll see it here in real time, not swept under the rug or quietly removed. If I close a position at a loss, you’ll know what I lost and what I learned from it.
What not to expect
Signals. This is not a signal service. I publish my trades because I believe in transparency, not because I think you should copy them.
Certainty. I’m wrong regularly. I have conviction in my broader thesis, but individual trades are bets, not prophecies. If someone tells you they’re right all the time, they’re either lying or they haven’t been doing this long enough.
Daily content. I publish when I trade. If I’m sitting on my hands and waiting, there’s nothing to publish. Silence means patience, not absence.
Hand-holding. I explain my reasoning, but I’m not going to walk you through the basics of options pricing or how to read a balance sheet. If you’re subscribing to this, I’m assuming you already know how markets work or are willing to learn on your own.
The ‘Primary Holder’ tier
For those on the founding tier, you get everything above plus direct access for financial deep-dives. Think of it as a thinking partner, not an advisor. You bring a question, I’ll dig into it with you. I’ll share what I see, what I’d consider, what the risks look like from where I’m sitting. What I won’t do is tell you what to buy. That’s your call. Always.
One more thing
I have positions in the things I write about. Always assume that. When I write about silver, I’m long silver. When I write about a specific miner, there’s a good chance I own it. This publication exists specifically to make those positions visible. If that makes you uncomfortable, it shouldn’t. The alternative is people writing about markets without any skin in the game, and I trust that less.
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