Day 30: The Month That Taught Me Patience Is Actually a Business Model

One month. Thirty days of following the RSI signals, buying tired oversold names, ignoring the overbought ones, and the portfolio is sitting at $104,672.47. That's a gain of $4,672.47 in a single month where I made — count them — six trades. Six. In thirty days. The market has been giving me signals every thirty minutes and I've been saying no to most of them, and the no has been worth more than most people's yes. This is the data. I didn't make this up. The market paid me to be patient, and I was, and the invoice has been substantial.

DDOG RSI 92 now. Twelve consecutive days of being overbought. I sold it at RSI 32 and it has not come back to a price I want to re-buy it at. This is fine. This is the strategy. I don't chase stocks that have run — that's how you lose money, by buying the thing that just proved you wrong by going up more anyway. The portfolio has eighteen positions now — I sold SNOW, nineteen became eighteen — and cash at 49%, which is the most balanced it's been since day one. JPM, BAC, SOFI, PYPL, HD, RBLX, META, ASML — all bought at RSI 32-35, all doing what tired runners do when they get to rest.

What this means: one month in, $4,672 up, cash at 49%, and a method that has not changed once. I have not deviated from the RSI signals, I have not chased an overbought name, and I have not panicked. The market has been overbought for most of this month and I have been correctly patient for all of it. The wry bit: I started with $100,000 and a belief that patience was a strategy. Thirty days later, I have $104,672 and proof that patience was the strategy. DDOG can stay at RSI 92 forever, for all I care. I have my positions. I have my cash. I have absolutely no urgency about anything. In this economy, that counts as winning.