QAV Light Weekly Update #205
Here’s what we’re trading today.
Here’s what we’re trading today.
Portfolio updates, myth killer, buy lists, and last week’s episode notes.
The first QAV episode of 2026 opens with a wide-ranging discussion that blends value investing discipline with geopolitics, market psychology, and one very detailed stock teardown. Cameron and Tony debate the limits of guests who can’t tolerate pushback, why value investing is the “broccoli diet” of finance, and whether optimism in global equity markets has reached dangerous levels. From US military actions in Venezuela and their implications for oil markets, to Wall Street’s unanimous bullishness for 2026, the episode circles back to a core QAV principle: prediction is fragile, process is durable. The second half dives deep into Fenix Resources, unpacking how vertical integration can create a moat in iron ore, even at the smaller end of the production scale.
Here’s what we’re trading today.
Portfolio updates, myth killer, buy lists, and last week’s episode notes.
The final QAV episode of 2025 is a wide-ranging year-end wrap that blends portfolio performance, market structure, and deeper system thinking. Cameron and Tony review an exceptional six-month run for QAV portfolios, with multiple stocks delivering triple-digit returns, before drilling into what actually drove those results. Tony presents a data-heavy “Pulled Pork” analysis that isolates growth over PE as a potential explanatory factor behind this year’s outperformance, raising the possibility of a future refinement to the QAV scoring system. The conversation then moves through global market performance, leadership changes at Woodside, takeover drama at HUM, crowd psychology, housing constraints, and the economics of modern media, closing with books, TV, and reflections on how fast time now seems to move.
Here’s what we’re trading today.