
...Part 2 - The portfolio I forgot about for 200 days
200 days since my last trade on this account; Dhan showed me that notification today like it was proud of itself.
This is one of my newest portfolios. ₹1.35 lakh deployed, basically a small test book I built some signal-driven entries on through a system called AION, then walked away from.
Here's where it sits right now:
Investment: ₹1,35,377
Current Value: ₹1,73,841
P&L: +₹38,464 (+28.41%)
I'm booking everything this week, I'd rather be wrong and in cash than right and holding through a 40% drawdown, but i am very certain this time
Here's what I'm looking at...
Buffett is sitting on $397 billion in cash. A new all-time record.
He's been a net seller for 13 consecutive quarters. That's 3 full years of selling. He offloaded 75% of Apple, 77% of Amazon, 50%+ of Bank of America.
These were his highest conviction holdings. He didn't trim them, he gutted them
That cash isn't sitting in a savings account. It's parked in US Treasury bills earning ~5% annually. He's choosing guaranteed 5% over the entire US stock market.
Think about what that means.
And here's the scale of it: $397 billion is roughly ₹33 lakh crore. If he deployed just 10% of that in India, he could buy Indian Companies like Infosys, Maruti, Sun Pharma, Mahindra, Axis Bank, and NTPC. ENTIRELY
That's how much dry powder the world's greatest investor is sitting on instead of buying stocks.
He's not scared of a crash; He's waiting for one. He's said publicly he's seen 60 years of markets and only 5 of them were genuinely worth deploying into, He wants a 50% correction.
The $397 billion is a loaded gun pointed at the post-crash market.
The valuation numbers back this up completely.
The Shiller CAPE ratio (cyclically adjusted PE) is sitting at 40 right now. The last time it was this high was 1999, right before the dot-com crash.
The crash came when it hit 43. In 2008, it was only at 26 before the collapse.
The Buffett Indicator (total market cap divided by GDP) is at 230%. Buffett himself has said above 200% means you're playing with fire. It's at 230.
The AI boom is being compared to the dot-com bubble for a reason. Nvidia up 1400% in 5 years, Memory stocks up 3600-4100% post-listing, OpenAI is still not profitable and continues burning billions annually.
The infrastructure companies are getting paid from funding rounds, not real revenue.
And it's not just Buffett.
- Moody's AI recession model is at 49% probability. Historically, once it crosses 50%, a recession has followed within a year. J.P. Morgan is putting a 35% chance on a US recession in 2026.
- Goldman's Risk Appetite Indicator just hit its highest reading since 2021, landing in the 99th percentile of all observations since 1991. Extreme greed.
- The S&P 500 broke below its 200-day moving average. VIX is elevated. 76% of investors in a recent survey said they're worried about a correction this year.
- Hedge funds are sitting on their biggest short bet against US stocks in years.
- Nifty is already down over 1% today as I'm writing this.
When the world's most patient investor is hoarding cash, when every major valuation metric is at historic extremes, when institutional money is quietly moving to the exits, I don't need to be a genius to read the room.
28% on a small neglected book is fine. Giving it back in a drawdown I watched coming would not be fine