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Our Substack, which is where most of you have found us and subscribed, and where you find all of our newsletters and things like that, that is found at thesimpleside.substack.com. And so, that’s what this is, and if you have read our most recent article, you might have gone through and seen this. Some quick notes and other information are here as well. And then eventually, down here at the bottom, I link to, you know, our macro page and stuff like that, and I’ve included a link here. But regardless, I wanna talk to you about how to log in, join, et cetera. So let me real quick reset this back to the main page. Homepage and Macro Snapshot If you just come to the website and you’re not logged in, you’re a free subscriber, or if you’ve just found this and you’re wondering what’s going on, this is what you are going to be presented with. It’s the main page here, and I’ll scroll down and then we’ll jump into some of the individual, I guess, links or tabs within the website that you can go and look at, and I’ll help you understand how some of these work. So we’ll start off here. You get a quick macro look. This is just telling you the current macro rate regime that we are in. So right over here, you’ve got a look at the 2-year yield and the 10-year yield, where both of those are sitting. And then I’m telling you what state these rates are in. What’s the current regime that we’re in? Right now, it’s a bear flattener. And then of course, I’ve got the date for you here as well. That is as of October 6th. Now, I’m recording this as of October 6th. It’s after the markets and everything have closed, and so that’s why we have it updated as of today. I’ll show you a bit more about that later. And then very quickly, if you just wanna know what’s going on and what this current regime means, this bear flattener regime, it just tells you right here what it means. The 2-year yield has been rising faster than the 10-year yield, and then it tells you for the bond market what that means. Well, it’s bearish for the bond market, and it typically means that bond prices are falling, led by shorter maturities. So all that means is bond prices and interest rates are inversely correlated. So as rates rise, bond prices fall. As rates decline, bond prices rise. And so that’s telling you this is bearish for the bond market because rates are rising. Now over here on the stock market side of things, you can see it’s also bearish. This is saying it’s usually negative for stocks, particularly rate-sensitive assets. The reason for that is obviously these companies have to borrow money to invest and grow. Now, if they can borrow cheaply, they’re able to invest and grow at a lower cost, and they’re able to sacrifice less for growth. For example, if the borrowing rate is 2%, and I know that I can go and borrow at 2% and create a 5% return, I should do that as much as I possibly can because I’m making that 3% spread between my 2% borrowing cost and the 5% return that I’m going to make. However, if I can only make 5% and it costs me 5.27% to borrow, all of a sudden that growth no longer makes sense because the borrowing cost exceeds the return. And the same thing goes for other companies. If they can borrow at 2% and return 10%, well, there’s an 8% spread that they’re making. But if that goes up to five, now all of a sudden they’re only making a 5% spread, which is much less, which obviously means that their long-term growth rate at that point is going to be a little bit lower, just because they’re not gonna be able to put as much cash into growth while still adding as much to the bottom line. So, this is just a quick explainer. Live Portfolios and Weekly Movers Then of course, I have a few of my live portfolios showing up right here. Of course, we’ll jump into each of these a little bit more later. We have our flagship fund, and then it tells you a bit about the portfolio. This is an annual portfolio. It’s picked on January 1 and held through December 31. Currently, we have 20 active holdings, and like I said, it’s an annual rebalance. Then of course, you get your year-to-date returns right here, up 20%. This is a little off from what our actual returns are, and I’ll explain a bit about why that is here in a second. Again, we have our monthly combined portfolio. We just rolled out some new picks for this. Some of those are doing extremely well, which we needed. We had a rough month last month with these. So, some of these are doing very well, and it tells you here how this works. We actually have two different sleeves plus a rolling three-month small/mid-cap sleeve that’s all invested in this portfolio. It’s rebalanced monthly, like I said, and right now we have 15 active holdings. At most, I think we would allow 30 holdings in this portfolio at a time. Right now, we just have 15. And then again, you’ve got your year-to-date return here, up 19.53%. Then we have this InsiderEdges.com monthly portfolio. This is a portfolio that we manage and run for the InsiderEdges.com team, and I guess I could probably pull that up real quick. Yeah, so this is their website. Obviously, they’ve got a bunch of different stuff, premium portfolios and things of that nature that you can go and look at. And so they show all of their individual quarters and what the returns were and how it was versus the SPY and all of that stuff. So you can see in 2025, the portfolio was up 21.7%. The SPY was up 26.6%, so it trailed the SPY. And you can see that across every year, all of the historical stock picks. Needless to say, we just manage that portfolio on this website as of now. And then we have a new portfolio that I have just added. These are monthly picks that are held for a quarter. Again, this is brand new, so if you are looking for a consistent quarterly holding portfolio, if you like holding things for a couple of months, this is gonna be a great thing for you to look at. And I’ll talk a bit more about what we’re doing here with this, “dirt cheap portfolio.” If we scroll down, we can see current weekly movers for each portfolio. So you can see here we’ve got the flagship fund. It’s up 1.41% so far this week, and it’ll tell you here, October 5 through October 6. So obviously, today’s Tuesday, yesterday was Monday, and that is why we’re just seeing those two days so far. And then again, top three performers, bottom three performers, and you know, you can click into any of these and we’ll jump into that again later, like I said. Then we have our monthly combined portfolio. Again, top three, bottom three, and this is one that I said, you know, we’re doing really well on this month so far. And you can see here just this week how some of these picks are performing. We’ve got stuff up almost 14% just over the past couple of days. So, really good stuff there, InsiderEdges portfolio. And then here’s this dirt cheap portfolio. You’ve got, a little look here into the top three and bottom three performers in this portfolio so far this week. Obviously, we didn’t invest in this or send this to you guys until today, or really tomorrow, which is gonna be October 7. And so these returns aren’t gonna be included. Obviously, if we go up here, we show that 0% so far because this portfolio won’t become actively tracked until tomorrow. Then down at the very bottom here, you can see we’ve got this list that you can scroll through of all the recent transactions. And so if I scroll way, way down, you can see all the way at the beginning of the year, some stuff from, you know, late 2025, early 2026. And you’ll notice that we’ve got all the buys and sells included in here, and then we have some other things. Let me see if I can find it. Yeah, some transitions where maybe we, “exit” a stock in 2025, but we continue to hold that stock, in 2026. And so it’ll be marked as a transition, which usually just means that there’s some sort of rebalancing taking place with that company. And so things like that are, worth paying attention to here. You can also filter this by any of the portfolios that we have. So if I drop this down, I can see the dirt cheap portfolio, InsiderEdges, the monthly combined, the flagship fund, et cetera. And so I can filter that out and then see all of the recent transactions available. So that’s everything we’ve got there individually. Let’s jump into the macro. Subscriber Access and Login If I click here and select “Let me see this full macro view,” All of a sudden, I get this pop-up, unlock all the portfolios, enter the password. And I’m thinking, I don’t know what the password is. These returns look great. I’d love to be able to go through and see, you know,