I’ve told people in the past and on social media, it's easy to do well, long term, very easy. Just pick the right themes, follow the right few people on x and, you know, pick a 1020, stocks,
and it's easy, not a big deal. What's hard is trading in the short term and trying to crush markets, which we've done great at I'm up 500% here today, but something's changed, man, that doesn't really match my style.
I don't know what's going on for at least two weeks to be honest with you, it's been since August. I've had a harder time with my style of timing markets with Catalyst, sentiment, fundamentals and technicals, and really pronounced here in the last couple of weeks.
This market is wild man. I'll get to the macro in a second, but the individual stock behavior, I guess it would be best described as maybe like a momentum market, where it's just a crowd. It's like wherever the crowd goes, and there's just crazy, crazy moves in stocks that aren't necessarily well timed with catalyst or aren't necessarily well reasoned with fundamentals, and it's just a whole bunch of people piling into names.
And maybe, if you're a pure technical trader, you can capture those better than me, but I've been having a hard time, you know, getting alpha in in what I do, story trading, and it's been great all year. It's been superb, 500% over 500% but something's changed a little bit in the market, which doesn't really fit my process too well. So I've been struggling the last two or three weeks. Finding Alpha been pretty much break even for like two weeks, and today's been a pretty rough day.
Most of my large swings not working today. It's been difficult because there's been just crazy alpha, and especially a lot of the popular names, and they look at Robin Hood just exploding today, things like that. And aqua, like some benefiting in my long term account. You know, I have a big Robin Hood position in my long term account. But again, that's easy. There's nothing to it. There's like nothing to buying these leading companies and just holding on to them.
