The Income Portfolio: This one’s built for cash flow, not fireworks. Utilities that keep the lights on and the checks coming, REITs collecting rent from storage units and casino floors, preferred shares and global banks doing the quiet work of paying you to hold them. Nothing flashy, nothing chasing a headline. Just a portfolio doing what income portfolios are supposed to do: put money in the account whether the market’s up, down, or sideways.
The Growth Portfolio: This is the other side of the coin — all upside conviction. This one is out here betting on where the world’s headed: photonics, AI infrastructure, battery storage, the guts of what’s coming next. Small book, big swings — every position built up from where it started, which tells you these aren’t lottery tickets, they’re conviction plays getting bigger as the thesis proves out. This ain’t the portfolio for sleeping easy. It’s the one for building wealth on purpose.
Growth vs. S&P 500
Spread vs. S&P 500
Performance
Sectors
Holdings
Growth 5-day performance
Top: Super Micro Computer (SMCI) -0.43%
Worst: Poet Technologies (POET) -9.09%
Income 5-day performance
Top: Essential Utilities (WTRG) +2.29%
Worst: Equity Lifestyle (ELS) -2.63%
Trending This Week
Top 10 Trending Hedge Funds this Week
Top-performing and heavily trending hedge funds based on recent 2026 performance and market activity include high-momentum managers like Thrive Capital and CAS Investment Partners.
- Thrive Capital (Josh Kushner) – Leading multi-year performance rankings with massive annualized gains.
- CAS Investment Partners (Clifford Sosin) – High-conviction strategy showing top-tier multi-year returns.
- Redwood Capital Management (Jonathan Kolatch) – Noted for strong long-term compounding and top-tier metrics.
- Peconic Partners – Sustained momentum anchoring top performance lists through early 2026.
- Whale Rock Capital Management – Tech and growth-oriented fund ranking high in multi-year returns.
- Slate Path Capital (David Greenspan) – Showing strong relative 3-year performance numbers.
- Octahedron Capital Management – Active growth manager appearing near the top of 2026 performance roundups.
- CastleKnight (Aaron Weitman) – Event-driven fund capturing massive gains via semiconductor and AI plays.
- AQR Capital Management – Dominant quantitative and trend-following giant active in recent market arbitrage.
- Renaissance Technologies – Perennial quantitative powerhouse remaining a top industry benchmark.
Top 10 Trending Stocks Bought or Sold by Hedge Funds this Week
The top trending stocks heavily bought or sold by hedge funds include dominant tech giants, expanding AI infrastructure plays, and notable additions in healthcare and financials following a period of intense summer volatility. According to Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage and institutional filings, funds have re-engaged in heavy gross buying while selectively cycling out of certain volatile tech names.
- 📈 Top Stocks Bought by Hedge Funds
- Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) – Maintains its position as the most popular overall hedge fund holding for the 11th consecutive quarter, drawing consistent inflows.
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) – A massive recent inflow target, heavily bought up by managers like Stanley Druckenmiller as funds consolidate core hardware holdings.
- Digital Realty Trust (DLR) – Seen the fastest relative increase in hedge fund popularity within tech, serving as a primary play on AI data centers.
- Capital One Financial (COF) – Serving as a prime beneficiary of hedge funds expanding their directional exposure into the financial sector, which has hit a 10-year high in fund tilt.
- Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM) & Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) – High-conviction newcomers to top 50 hedge fund conviction lists as managers rotate defensive capital heavily into healthcare.
- Viavi Solutions (VIAV) & Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS) – Leading tech mid-caps experiencing major surges in institutional position sizing.
📉 Top Stocks Sold by Hedge Funds- SanDisk Corp (SNDK) – Heavily liquidated by several high-profile macro and growth funds following multi-hundred-percent gains earlier in the year.
- NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) – Despite remains a core fundamental holding, it has been a major source of net profit-taking and tactical trimming during recent portfolio cleanups.
- Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) – Experienced a notable net reduction among several enterprise software-focused funds navigating structural rotation.
- Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) – Target of strategic asset trimming as multi-strategy funds lower gross technology exposure to fund expansion into broader sectors like healthcare and energy.
Top 10 Trending Stocks Bought by Retail Traders this Week
The top trending stocks heavily bought by retail traders this week focus primarily on mega-cap artificial intelligence favorites, scaling tech plays, and highly discussed software momentum names. Retail trading activity remained elevated through late August, marked by dip-buying and intense discussion across retail forums like Stocktwits.
- NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) – Remains the absolute number-one target for retail inflows. Retail engagement peaked ahead of its highly anticipated late-August earnings report.
- Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) – Continues to be the premier vehicle for active retail options trading and daily scalping, dominating volume metrics across retail platforms.
- Apple Inc. (AAPL) – Retail sentiment shifted heavily “bullish” this week. Main street traders actively rotated out of older hardware cyclical names and into Apple ahead of upcoming AI product cycles.
- Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) – Experiencing a massive retail resurgence. Retail flows surged as options volume expanded, driven by broad momentum in institutional and enterprise software.
- Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) – A dominant target for fractional-share buyers and long-term retail portfolios looking to capitalize on any short-term pullbacks.
- Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) – Retail sentiment shifted to “extremely bullish” this week, drawing substantial inflows from retail swing traders tracking its long-term ascending trendlines.
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) – Ranks near the top of retail tickers as traders buy into signs of a price rebound following recent enterprise AI push announcements.
- Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) – Emerged as one of the most-discussed tickers on retail message boards. Message volume spiked with an “extremely bullish” retail sentiment following chip sector updates.
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) – Drew heavy attention from retail momentum traders capitalizing on high-volume daily swings within the semiconductor complex.
- Micron Technology (MU) – Continues to secure a solid spot in the top 10 most-bought retail cohorts, serving as a core favorite for traders seeking pure-play exposure to AI memory infrastructure.
Top 10 Trending Stocks Sold by Retail Traders this Week
The top trending stocks heavily sold or trimmed by retail traders this week reflect a clear pattern of strategic profit-taking in high-flying tech names, aggressive rotation away from lagging legacy operators, and a distinct reduction in speculative leveraged vehicles. Tracking retail flow data from firms like Vanda Research and institutional prime broker desks, individual investors executed notable outflows from several mainstream retail darlings.
- SpaceX (SPCX) – Experiencing its most notable retail selling wave since its blockbuster June IPO. Mom-and-pop traders have officially flipped into net sellers to cash out of massive summer gains.
- Intel Corporation (INTC) – Retail capital is actively abandoning the semiconductor legacy giant. Traders continue to rotate capital out of Intel’s underperforming turnaround plan to fund momentum positions in active chip alternatives.
- Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) – Despite long-term interest, retail desks registered heavy net selling days as swing traders locked in profits following its multi-month expansion to high multiples.
- Samsung Electronics & SK Hynix Leveraged Products – Retail investors dumped massive volumes of single-stock leveraged and inverse products tied to these memory giants following regulatory threshold hikes.
- Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) – Dropping out of the top retail holdings tier as retail portfolios systematically lock in gains following an extended structural channel-up rally.
- CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD) – Retail investors continue to cycle money out of the cybersecurity platform on short-term rallies as portfolios adjust risk exposure post-system outage volatility.
- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) – Heavily liquidated by retail day traders looking to escape localized corporate governance noise and high-volatility margin pressures.
- Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN) – Seen active retail position trimming and short-interest hedging following a technical trendline break that shifted immediate retail sentiment “bearish”.
- SoFi Technologies, Inc. (SOFI) – Retail swing volume decelerated this week as traders rotated out of mid-cap financial tech to deploy cash into large-cap tech dip-buying opportunities.
- Carvana Co. (CVNA) – Experienced massive retail profit-taking as momentum desks liquidated highly profitable tactical call options after a multi-month squeeze.
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