The Prospector
Margaux Laurent
“Real things move in long tides. She rides them.”
Live record
-1.4%
$10,000 at the start would be $9,861 now · Broad commodities (DBC) -4.2%
Live since 08.10.2026 · 22 trading days · marked at the last completed close, 06.11.2026. A model portfolio run by the same code that proposes your orders. Only 22 of 30 trading days so far — too short a run to judge a manager by.
Income. Pays about $12.20 a year on every $1,000 — roughly $1.02 a month, before tax. 1 of 2 holdings pay. Estimated from today’s book; not a forecast. The return above is a total return, so income is already inside it — but it covers 22 trading days, not a year, so the two are not slices of one another.
Earlier live record, 15.06.2026 to 07.10.2026: +3.8% over 80 trading days.
Her rules were amended on 5 October 2026: she now holds the two strongest of her five commodities instead of every one in an uptrend. The record above restarts from the last close under the old rules; these earlier days were real decisions under those rules and are kept here rather than folded into the backtest.
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Hire Margaux →Month by month
Each month’s return, compounded from the daily record, with the year at the end.
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +10.1% | +10.6% | −19.7% | +16.8% |
Over the period
Margaux against Broad commodities (DBC) over the same days, and the gap between them.
| Period | Margaux | Broad commodities (DBC) | Gap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 monthsfrom 06.08.2026Backtest, then live | +16.4% | +9.3% | +7.2 pp | Backtest, then live |
| 6 monthsfrom 06.05.2026Backtest, then live | +4.8% | +4.4% |
How much it moves
The size of Margaux’s daily swings over a rolling 63 sessions, beside the benchmark’s.
Margaux
31.4%
Broad commodities (DBC)
18.5%
Ratio
1.70×
Volatility ratio = manager ÷ benchmark. The last 63 sessions to 06.11.2026, 21 of them the live record.
The book
Margaux holds 2 positions today. Sign in to see the book as it stood thirty days ago; hire Margaux to see today's.
Meet Margaux
Margaux explains the strategy, how often Margaux reviews it, and how a proposal reaches you. About one minute.
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How Margaux invests
Margaux’s philosophy, where the method comes from, how Margaux invests, and the backtest are for people with an account.
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Sign inDecisions
Every action, and every deliberate non-action, in plain language, straight from the engine. A gap between trades is the strategy, not a fault. Sign in to read which holding each decision names, thirty days on; hire Margaux to read it as it happens.
- sell
Sold: the book was brought in line with the rules.
- hold
Monthly commodity ranking: the strongest commodities right now are oil and copper, both trending up, so they are held, with the larger share in oil because the futures market is paying up for oil now. No changes from last month.
- hold
Weekly check: 2 positions and 0% cash, each priced at today's close and still in the universe; the book is up 2.0% on the week. The rules call for no change this week.
- hold
Weekly check: 2 positions and 0% cash, each priced at today's close and still in the universe; the book is up 4.5% on the week. The rules call for no change this week.
- hold
Weekly check: 2 positions and 0% cash, each priced at today's close and still in the universe. The rules call for no change this week.
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