I have always laughed at people who claim they can time the market - I simply do not believe anybody can. But I was looking at my portfolio performance since 2016 and realized I must be putting more money to work when the market is doing well, even though it had not been a conscious decision.

I truly believe that buying at the "Best Price" is what makes the difference between a great investor and lots and lots of good investors. The simple factor is

From the table above you can see we have handily out performed the 3 major indexes for the past year. Tech heavy Nasdaq has been on a tear and we have even outperformed that over the past 3 years without having all our eggs in big tech.

Buying S&P put options with a strike price between 5% and 15% below the current market value that would expire in a few months. So we are self insuring the first 5% to 15% of the loss and am hoping the put option covers the rest if there is a sudden fall.

By popular demand I am going to start publishing my top 5 holdings at the start of each month. These top 5 make up 54% of my total portfolio and gives you the flavor of stocks I am most committed to.

Since March 1st, we are up 55% versus the market's approx 25% Since January 1st, we are up 112% versus the markets approx break even performance.