Danger, Danger Will Robinson. Market Week (February 25, 2026)

February 27, 2026

Danger, Danger Will Robinson. Market Week (February 25, 2026)

...yeah. Stuff... smells weird. You know, like that ham hock you might have placed in the freezer just a little too long ago (take a good wiff. No, that isn't going away, that smell, if you try boiling the thing. It'll only get worse) or that Dijon mustard in the back of the penultimate top fridge shelf. Honey mustard (though the color somehow reminds you of Angus Young, the AC/DC guitarist, on stage.) You kept just enough for another sandwich but check the date before swiping it over the bread. It likely has passed by more than the 6-month safe-ish grace period after the expiration date. (What... 2024? Oops.)

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update, February 27th... well, i should have finished this post that eve 2 days ago. I'd sold off a good bit in the fiddling account that afternoon but that eve and yesterday felt a bit under the weather - maybe from the honey mustard, yes, Dijon, eaten the day before (though I did throw away the ham hock.) Anyway.

Premarkets today I just checked... look rather daunting. Maybe the US will actually start bombing Iran, maybe that bullshit AI+ tech found the hertbeat of, to identify, the ayatollah and they already blew the old dude to smithereens along with a whole bunch of kids and women and the like. Or will tonight. Maybe, more so after the supreme court's decision, the administration is too stuck not to. A certain group does dominate and has, like it or not, geopolitics - including both the US congress and senate - in the west for some time. (But don't fret. It's kosher. Jerkey and all.) Or maybe nothing will happen at all. One hopes. Anyway. (....Ah, a phone call and plans change. Looks like I'll be writing this note tonight. Pause. )

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Unpause. It's tonight. The markets have closed and with them so has week 25 of the practice portfolio:

...up 24.25% vs the 5.93% on the S&P. Since it appears the Trump administration will go ahead this weekend and do a diddy on Iran... look out for next week. What to do? Well, not much really, at this point. Keep informed and act only when things are clear and opportunities emerge. Same old, same old. One thing: the sort of final deal I wanted to learn was - limitations. Mine. Not any, ah, idea like why 7 of the first 8 positions are correct nearly always while 1 is nearly always mistaken sort of thing, how inference works, reasoning, what is risk, how we - in this case I - work, which networks and motivations, ecc. No - more practical ones in context.

Ie, when I did this long ago, truth is on the investment, so-called speculative or trading, accounts I kept a limit of 7-15 normal stock positions, rotating out as a company's stock reached full valuation in my estimation. Other accounts were more to accomplish other things like smooth income and capital gains using bonds and bond etf's and mutual funds, dividends, and dividing the markets up in different ways and using mutual funds, today that would be etf's, to represent those divisions - doing the work, the math, the numbers, the reading, the rules to transfer from to another or to and from money market cash according to said rules. The market and individual companies were king and queen.

Some of that still works today but much of it would not. As mentioned, I spent about 18 months in 22-3-4 learning geopolitics, seeing as it was clear that was to dominate investing over the coming years. Ie, as mentioned in earlier posts the market has changed from being representative of the world, largely, to the reverse, that is the world as representative of the markets. Madness. But we do mad things.

So, in addition to getting used to it again, modelling and using the markets, helping some friends well, become more well-off, I also wanted to learn to use forex (currencies) and options, which I didn't earlier. And, getting back to it - the limitations. Of how much I, alone, as a hobby can handle without organization and with. I think... that's arrived. So...I'll once again go through the holdings with price points begining this weekend. And, finally, I'll start the videos. The list, ex options and forex, is below:

disclaim and all: (Note to anyone perusing: for now, I've none of these things - those who know me know the primary cause. He did actually steal literally every thing. Just suggestions these and no conflicts of interest or certified advice. Investing, or betting, is always problematic and filled with risk. Then again, so can be eating a pizza.)