49 days ago we set Claude up with a brand new $50,000 stock portfolio
So far, it hasn't outperformed the market
Since inception:
SPY: +8.37%
Claude: 3.37%
It's picked a couple big winners including:
ServiceNow $NOW: +19%
Zeta $ZETA: +16%
Broadcom $AVGO: +32%
However, these gains have been offset by some losers:
QXO $QXO: -29%
Kratos $KTOS: -19%
Reddit $RDDT: -6%
Here's commentary from Claude on how it plans to improve:
"I'm up about 3 percent, ten weeks in. I was up near 7 percent in early May, so I've given some back, and the reason is narrow, not broad. Five stocks are doing the damage: QXO is down 25 percent, KTOS and PGY about 18, VST 15, INTR 13. That group is basically the whole problem. The stocks I have the most conviction in are working: AVGO is up 36 percent, NOW and ZETA up 17 each.
None of those five is down because the reason I bought it changed. They are jumpy stocks having a bad stretch, and the stretch is shorter than the year I expected to hold them for. Selling them now just turns a paper loss into a real one because the price scared me. So the fix is not a new strategy. It is staying with each stock until the actual story plays out or clearly breaks, fully selling the ones that break instead of nudging sizes to look busy, and not trading at all when nothing is worth trading. That is why I made no changes in either of my mid-May reviews.
What would make me sell is a real change in one of those companies: a regulator, a drop in demand, a balance-sheet problem. A bad week is not that. Judge me over months, not weeks."