🚨 BIG Portfolio Changes: My Biggest Buys & Sells Early 2026

I thought it was time to update you all and let you know some of my most recent buys and some buys that were out of the norm for the portfolio and then also any sells, too. I think it's important for you to understand my thought process and how I think about and think through buying or selling within the portfolio. I'd love to know from you, so comment down below. What have you been buying at the beginning here of 2026? The vast majority of my portfolio is the three-fund ETF portfolio that I always talk about, so this video is not really going to get into that. Last year, the S&P 500 gained about 17% for the year. My portfolio returned about double that, mainly because of a couple of individual stocks that went crazy. Specifically, Palantir was one last year that gained over 200% by itself. I was able to realize a bunch of that profit within a taxable brokerage, but without paying taxes whatsoever and actually used it as a tax write-off. So, I'll explain that process as well. And no, it's not tax loss harvesting. In this video, I'm going to start with the sells that I made early this year and then I'll explain my buys in a couple of individual stocks and then also some ETFs. My name is Nolan Gobert. My students call me Professor G and I made this channel to make investing simplified. Remember that all investing carries risk, so do your own research. This is not financial advice and I'm not a financial advisor. So, I had two big sells in the last couple of months. The first one was called ARKG. I told my Patreon group right before I bought ARKG last November and it was right under $7. Within about 3 to 4 months, shot up over 150% and at the height of this war going on, I thought it was probably about as high as it would go, so I told my Patreon group at that time that I was planning to get out of it. I was happy with that increase and taking profits on something you don't necessarily see as a staple in the portfolio is never a bad idea. I told my group and a bunch of them decided they would sell as well and so many people made so much money. Probably a great idea to sell at that point because it was up around $17 and now it's down under $12 at the time of me recording this. The second sell in my portfolio was actually a sell and actually a buy as well. The first was the sell and it wasn't necessarily that it's a bad company. Actually, I think it's a great company to hold in the portfolio and I think long-term it might be one of the biggest software companies in the entire world, but the reason why I sold was actually a strategic tax move. I bought Palantir back when it was around 20 to $30, then more around 40 to $50. It's since jumped all the way to 200, but more recently it was around $150. So, my gains were well over 200%. So, I want to let you in on a secret of how to realize these gains without paying anything in taxes, especially if this is in a taxable brokerage. Even more than that, you actually get a tax deduction. So, what I did was I added to a donor-advised fund using that Palantir stock. For example, if you have $20,000 in Palantir, but you only paid $5,000 for it, you'd normally have $15,000 in capital gains that would be taxed. If you instead sell and transfer to a DAF, you get to write off the full $20,000 and you don't have to pay any capital gains. Once the money is in the DAF, you can contribute to any charity you'd like and for me, I use it to tithe at my church and give over and above as well. Also, money inside of a DAF can be invested and grow tax-free, potentially increasing how much you can give over time. Now, if you guys want a more in-depth video on this donor-advised fund and how to use it, comment that down below so that I know. Maybe I'll make a video purely about tax benefits and different tax things if that's something that you'd like. Now, just recently, Michael Burry put out a comment that said that Palantir would die out basically because of Anthropic, which made it Palantir drop and so I bought at $130 and then again at like $127. So, I sold tax-free and got a tax write-off around the $150 range, then bought the same amount back in at the 130-ish range and I'll just hold long-term. So, I'm happy with that. Okay, so now moving forward, it's just going to be pure buys. I didn't have really have anything else that I sell and I rarely do sell, so those sells were kind of an anomaly. As a reminder, I'm always dollar cost averaging with my core three-fund portfolio. That would be SCHD, VOO and QQQM/SCHG. That's the staple and I buy rain or shine. I also dollar cost average Berkshire Hathaway every month, Microsoft and Bitcoin as well. Over and above that, I do hold a couple of individual stocks and I usually just buy those in big chunks when I like the price or when it's dipped far enough. So, new to the portfolio last year, right at the end of the year, was Meta. It had hit all-time highs in 2025, then dropped about 25 to 30% from its peak and since has dropped even further and I've doubled down. It dropped huge on a report that it's pouring tens of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, so its expenses jumped about 40% year over year. The operating margins then are going to shrink, meaning that profits just aren't growing as fast. Meta didn't drop because the business is broken, it dropped because investors are just worried that Meta's spending so much money in infrastructure. It will take a little bit of time for them to pay off all of this, but down the road, I think it's going to be incredibly worth it. Most investors are just so short-term minded and they hear low profits or high expenses and they just think, well, in the short-term not going to be making much profit, so I'll move that money and go somewhere else, which, fine, if that's the way you want to invest, but that seems like a headache to me. To me, I see a great business doubling down and building the infrastructure that's going to make them an even better business, increase their competitive advantage, increase their moat and that is how businesses grow, profit and the stock price goes up crazy. Now, a while ago in June of 2025, I put out this video and I introduced you to APLD. It's Applied Digital Corporation, APLD, which is a high-risk, high-reward opportunity that appeals to investors who are looking to speculate on the future of AI and high-performance computing. Now, what you just saw in that video is that APLD at that time was around $12 and right now, at the time of filming this, it's around the mid-20s, but it was up to in the 40s. And I think, compared to where it's at today, it has a lot of space to be able to keep running. The place that I go to to find these gems in the stock market is investing.com. So, thank you to investing.com for sponsoring this video. My favorite tool is called Investing Pro at investing.com and I start by checking ProPicks AI. It's an AI model trained on over 50 financial signals and its strategies have historically outperformed the S&P 500. Like I said, I use these tools to research these hidden gems. One of my favorite tool is this Warren AI tool and it's usually where I start my research to get a good idea of some stocks to dive deeper into. Once I find a good stock, I'll go here to the Pro Research tab for the stock and it gives me so much great information that used to take me hours to compile. I can see the company's financial picture quickly and I can see analyst suggestions and comments to help me pick something great. I personally use the Pro Plus on investing.com, which gives me 65 plus predefined stock screens, 1,200 plus premium metrics for stocks. The Pro Plus is for investors who want hedge fund grade data and research capabilities to find strategic opportunities. Now, this is the absolute best part. Investing.com is running a sale right now, but I managed to get an even better discount for you all. This means you get the lowest price of the year on an Investing Pro subscription, plus my 15% off with the link down in the description. This offer is only available for a limited time, so don't miss out. Now, using investing.com lately and using some other tools to just check and do a deep dive, I still believe APLD is a great buy and I'm buying right now. I think anything under $30 for APLD is a steal. And now, another stock that I have been buying just a little bit more than usual, but I do buy this stock very often still because I still think it's way undervalued, is SoFi. I believe that down the road, this thing is just going to continue to grow. Its numbers are absolutely amazing and eventually, with everything going it very, very digital, especially our money, I think that these guys are set up the best. And so, recently, especially when it dropped a couple of weeks ago, I bought in pretty heavy and I'll just keep buying this. I think anything under $30 for SoFi is a great buy. The next one was more of the same from Meta from before, so you'll see a pattern here. Amazon took a huge dip earlier this year from like $240 down to under $200 and when that happened, I informed my Patreon group that this just doesn't make sense and the stock was way undervalued at that point. The report said that, just like Meta, Amazon's just spending tens of billions of dollars on AI and data centers, margins are going to get squeezed short-term and then also, AWS, which is Amazon's most profitable segment, the growth started to decelerate versus expectations. Again, Amazon didn't drop because the business is weak, it dropped because growth slightly slowed down and that was concerning for some investors. Again, that would be very short-sighted if you're getting out of a stock like that just based off of those reports. I think that they're building infrastructure just like Meta. I think they already have an incredible moat, but it's just going to make it that much deeper. So, their competitive advantage alone is worth holding this stock, but I just like the price that it was at. And I'm up over 15% this year with that one, so that was a great buy so far. As far as ETFs, I've been buying, obviously, the three-fund portfolio I've been talking about, but one in particular, outside of the normal three-fund portfolio, is SPMO. Just recently, it hit a low around $108 or $107 and I bought very heavy. I've been telling you guys all about SPMO and why I like it so much. It's just the best momentum fund in my opinion. As of right now, SPMO's up year-to-date while the S&P 500, total US stock market, QQQ, and so many others are very down. I am dollar cost averaging this one, but I just added more to it when I saw it was under $110. I bought pretty heavy at that point. I've also been adding a small portion of the portfolio into a broad international ETF. There are certain companies that I'd like to hold like Taiwan Semiconductor and Samsung that you can't get unless you invest international. Also, with all the geopolitical issues going on and the possible de-dollarization or devaluing of the dollar, that's probably going to heat up even more over the coming years. I think it's smart to have just at least a portion of the portfolio in international just for that alone. I have less than 5% of my portfolio in it, but it's VXUS and it has both developed and emerging markets, so I feel covered there. The last thing that I've been adding to moderately is Bitcoin. I do believe that right now we're at the bottom of where Bitcoin's going to be. I think that this is an accumulation period. I think that if you're ready to hold on to it long term, that this is a great price to be buying in at. I think that once it gets back up over 100,000, I don't know if we'll ever see it back under 100,000. So, this high 60s, low 70s is a great price in my opinion to just keep adding a little bit month by month. I think very long term that's going to have turned into a very good buy. 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