The Book

as of 2026-07-04

A live, real-money satellite portfolio — every position benchmarked against the S&P 500 over the same window, every loss and drawdown shown in daylight. Not advice; a diary of what I did and why.

Since inception

-2.5%

since 2026-05-28

S&P 500 · same window

-1.3%

the honest yardstick

Max drawdown

-7%

peak to trough, never hidden

Open positions

cash $9,500

Growth of $100 · portfolio vs S&P 500

Portfolio S&P 500 buy trim close

Commentary

Click any marker on the curve — or pick a holding below — to read the reasoning behind it.

Current holdings

Focus a position

Ticker	Type	Entry	Market value	Unrealized	vs S&P

Endpoints are real (current prices and authored cash); the in-between path is reconstructed from authored events priced against public market data. Options are valued from manually entered marks, stepwise.

The Book is a concentrated, higher-risk satellite run with real money, shown in daylight — not the whole picture, and not advice or a recommendation. It's a diary of what I did and why. Every return sits beside the S&P over the identical window; trades are logged after execution; the record is a public, timestamped git history. Past performance is not future results. See the methodology and disclaimer.