The latest review: the October ladder, move by move
At heart I'm a futures trader: that's my short clock, where a day is a long time. But nobody builds wealth on a short clock alone. Over the years, the money is made by owning businesses and letting them compound, and that's my 2nd cornerstone: this ladder of stock portfolios. Futures for the short game, stocks for the compounding, 2 cornerstones, 1 discipline.
You don't need another opinion. You need a system that tells you what to own, why you own it and when to let it go, and then shows you the bill when it's wrong. That's what I built. Substack has no shortage of brilliant portfolio managers, so here's why mine deserves your attention, in reasons you can check, not adjectives:
The score isn't mine to keep. All 8 of my portfolios are public on Wikifolio, and Wikifolio prints the result, not me. No screenshots, no "trust me", and the losers stay on the chart right next to the winners.
Rules make the call, not my mood. Every portfolio runs on a written mandate, and once a month each position has to prove, against those very words, that it still belongs there. Most portfolios drift away from their own pitch; mine gets audited against it.
8 engines, not 1 bet. Momentum that lives in days, chip leaders on a swing, quality held through the cycle, cash flow bought cheap. Different drivers, different clocks, different exits.
Every move comes with its reason. Not a ticker dump: each buy and each sell carries the why, so you learn the logic, not just the trade. Paid subscribers see it before anyone else.
If you've been waiting for someone to run money in the open, by rules, with every reason on the table, stop waiting. Read on: here's the whole machine on 2 pages.
The ladder
Why a ladder? Because patience and speed never live in the same portfolio. The bottom rungs are built to sit through a storm; the top rungs are built to be wrong fast and cheap. The higher the rung, the faster the money and the sharper the risk. You climb on purpose, never by accident.
Don't mistake this for 8 copies of the same idea wearing different names. When one engine stalls, the others aren't burning the same fuel. That's not decoration. That's risk control.
The 8 portfolios
The monthly review
The review is where the system earns its keep. On the last Saturday of every month I pull the live portfolios and put every sentence of every mandate on trial against what the portfolio actually holds. There's no "your call" and no "let's see": every keep, trim or kill is a verdict with its reason. A new name clears every gate, the last one live in Wikifolio's own buy screen, or the seat stays empty.
The scoreboard
Here's the bill, straight from Wikifolio's own index to the September close. 7 of the 8 are green since launch, 1 is red, and the red stays on the chart. Show me a manager who hides his losers, and I'll show you winners you can't trust. The 3 oldest have run since early 2020; the other 5 joined between July and September 2025.
Since October 2025 all 8 have run side by side. Held in equal weight, that basket was green in 8 of those 12 months and up roughly 34% on the year in US dollars. July's drawdown stays on the chart, because I don't airbrush.
The next review lands on Saturday, Oct 31, 2026. Paid subscribers get the whole card that evening: every move and the reason behind it. The scoreboard stays free for everyone, win or lose. That's the deal.
Check every portfolio at the source: Wikifolio.com/en/int/p/gekkquant
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