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Strategies & Market Trends
Constitutional Investing - My Picks
An SI Board Since July 2026
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Emcee:  zax Type:  Moderated
Historical Portfolio Returns
9 Sept 2026

30-year internal rate of return (IRR) is spreadsheet calculated. It represents return on invested capital only; dividends and interest are not included. All other returns listed are brokerage calculated time weighted returns (TWR).

Play Account
  • 1-year: 50.6%
  • 30-year IRR: 15.5%

Retirement Accounts


IRA

Opened in 2020

  • 1-year: 19.9%
  • 3-year: 20.2%

401(k)
aka 'lucky'
Opened in 2025

  • 1-year: 66.9%
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A place to discuss investment ideas, sector themes, valuation, risk management, and pattern recognition. My goal is not to predict every market move or winning stock, but to identify situations where the odds appear materially favorable and explain the reasoning behind them. I intend to discuss both successful and unsuccessful ideas, because process matters more than any single outcome.
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80SELL: STDN @ $14.33. That's a one-week gain of +25%! I think the company iszax-Tuesday
79AI power sector having a strong morning. VST, CEG, TLN all up quite a bit, STDNzax-Tuesday
78SELL: PONY @ $6.16, AMBA @ $71.80, RGTI @ $15.97 — This was a morning of de-riskzax-last Friday
77BUY: SPGI @ $388.35 — Bought into S&P Global after a substantial pullback brzax-last Thursday
76BUY: SCTX @ $18.60 in IRA. I’ve searched pretty hard for a fundamental explanatizax-September 30
75BUY: STDN @ $11.45 — A standing GIM (lowball) order of mine for Standard Nuclearzax-September 28
74SELL: FXAIX from IRA to raise cash. I have five GTC buy limit orders open in thizax-September 25
73SELL: QCOM @ $197.87 — Sold my Play-account QCOM position for a 22% gain in undezax-September 22
72BUY: SCTX @ $26.44 - A standing lowball bid finally filled today during a brief zax-September 22
71BUY: TMUS @ $171.40 — A standing lowball bid finally filled in my IRA, giving mezax-September 17
70BUY: AMGN @ $387.84 — Yesterday, a standing lowball bid placed nearly a month agzax-September 11
69BUY: DASH @ $204.98 — A standing “gimme” price ('GIM') — a deliberately zax-September 9
68BUY: AMBA @ $63.91 BUY: RGTI @ $15.85. Bought Ambarella after a nice pullback,zax-September 8
67BUY: PsiQuantum at $29 through a Nasdaq Private Market fund. This is a pre-IPO fzax-September 4
66BUY PONY @ $6.84 in Play. Lowball GTC filled after a substantial pullback. Specuzax-September 2
65Buy AMZN at 256.97 (GTC buy, after previous 19.25% profit exit at 284.65 in six zax-August 27
64BUY SCTX @ 28.90 in Play. Was waiting for a nice pullback to get back in, 22% bezax-August 27
63SELL SKHY @ 158.99, SELL RGTI @ 17.38, both from play. I decided to de-risk thizax-August 24
62SELL SCTX @ Market (filled at $37), an eight day gain of 66% since entry last wezax-August 20
61BUY RGTI @ 16.43 in Play. Re-entering Rigetti on GTC limit order placed some timzax-August 20
60BUY: SKHY @ 161.30 pre-market in play account. Back below IPO price, a great rezax-August 19
59BUY: TLN @ 321.87 BUY: GEV @ 989.87 Limit entry fills today on two GTC orders pzax-August 18
58BUY: VST @ 142.85. Limit entry fill on order placed last week. Undersized poszax-August 18
57BUY AMBA @ 78.22 in IRA, in 'lucky' IRA, standard position size for thizax-August 17
56BUY: CEG @ 275.16. Limit entry fill on order placed last week. Undersized posizax-August 17
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