Two weeks ago I wrote about waiting on Accenture. When it broke its downtrend on top of the strategy signals, I bought at $152.13. Then the strategy fired a sell signal and I exited at $161.98 (+6.5%) on false-breakout caution. Plus: MA & MSFT.
Two quiet weeks, no trades. One watchlist name — Accenture — finally tripped its entry signal. I did the full work and chose to wait. Here's why, and what it's already cost me.
Three weeks away, no posts, three new positions. The gold cluster took a beating. META ran 16% while I wasn't watching. The process kept working — I just wasn't writing about it.
Seven sells in two days. The names I cut weren't the ones I said I'd cut. CRM dropped another 8.5% while I still held it. The sell list continues to win arguments, just not with me.
The Blue Portfolio sold GILD on Tuesday, then watched CRM fall 10.4% in the same week while still holding it. The rebalance has started — the sell list is longer than one name.
The Nasdaq fell 4.18% on Friday — the worst single session in over a year. I've been watching all-time highs for weeks and waiting for this exact pullback. I still didn't trade. Here's what I built instead, and why that matters more.
Canada just entered a technical recession. Retail stock trading volume is tracking 10% above the January 2021 meme stock bubble — the highest ever recorded. I didn't buy a thing. That's not a coincidence.
S&P closed Friday at another record. Eighth weekly gain in a row — the longest streak since December 2023. Ten-week war on the front page, valuations at the second-highest reading in 140 years. My screener ran. I didn't buy.
No buys, no sells, down a fraction. My laptop died, I lost the wiki, and the rebuild forced the Council into v2 — every Blue holding now carries a Council-aligned verdict and four screener chips.
Monday morning I sold three stocks I'd already decided to get rid of. By Friday close, two of them had bounced back. The decision was right. The day I picked wasn't. Plus four new buys mid-week — three gold miners and a pharma company.
I cleared three positions off the Sell list and rotated the cash into a basket of large, durable businesses I'd been waiting to own. Plus a quiet Tuesday afternoon adding to two winners I already held.