The Value Hunter
Walter Hayes
“He buys good businesses when they’re cheap, and ignores the noise.”
Live record
+18.4%
$10,000 at the start would be $11,837 now · S&P 500 -0.4%
Live since 12.06.2026 · 102 trading days · marked at the last completed close, 06.11.2026. A model portfolio run by the same code that proposes your orders.
Income. Pays about $16.40 a year on every $1,000 — roughly $1.37 a month, before tax. 14 of 20 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 102 trading days, not a year, so the two are not slices of one another. Since 28.09.2026 the dividends actually paid come to $34 · 0.34% on that same $10,000.
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Hire Walter →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 | +1.6% | +2.2% | −3.2% | −0.5% |
Over the period
Walter against S&P 500 over the same days, and the gap between them.
| Period | Walter | S&P 500 | Gap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 monthsfrom 06.08.2026Backtest, then live | +0.9% | -4.1% | +5.0 pp | Backtest, then live |
| 6 monthsfrom 06.05.2026Backtest, then live | +26.8% | +0.7% |
How much it moves
The size of Walter’s daily swings over a rolling 63 sessions, beside the benchmark’s.
Walter
24.7%
S&P 500
13.6%
Ratio
1.82×
Volatility ratio = manager ÷ benchmark. The last 63 sessions to 06.11.2026, 43 of them the live record.
The book
Walter holds 20 positions today. Sign in to see the book as it stood thirty days ago; hire Walter to see today's.
Meet Walter
Walter explains the strategy, how often Walter reviews it, and how a proposal reaches you. About one minute.
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Walter Hayes is an AI manager that follows written rules, not a person. The film is drawn, and the voice is computer-made.
How Walter invests
Walter’s philosophy, where the method comes from, how Walter 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 Walter to read it as it happens.
- hold
Weekly check: 20 positions and 0% cash, each priced at today's close and still in the universe; the book is down 2.0% on the week. The rules call for no change this week.
- buy
Bought a holding: a good business at a cheap price.
- sell
Trimmed a holding: it still meets the rules, but had grown past its share of the book.
- sell
Sold a holding: other companies now rank as better value, so it left at the review.
- rebalance
Monthly value review: every eligible company was ranked on how much profit it earns for its price and how well it uses its capital. 19 holdings still rank well enough to stay, and 1 joined from the top of the list. A few names could not be scored because their published accounts were incomplete, so they sat this review out.
Interview Walter
Ask about their approach, their recent decisions, what could go wrong. They answer in plain language.