It certainly has been an exciting month.
I just opened my brokerage account and copied my month-end numbers into the spread sheet where I track my overall performance. Despite such painful moves as BOFI (-37%), ENTA (-22%), SCTY (-30%) and SKX (-30%), for the month of October I am up 4.47%.
I really helped that Amazon (+22%) is my third largest position and Priceline (+17) is fourth. All my top 9 largest* - about 54% of my portfolio - were up.
*(NFLX, AAPL, AMZN, PCLN, ATVI, COST, CNI, SBUX, DIS. Note that top 9 is based on today’s ranking. BOFI was up in there last month.)