The Simple Side
I don't know who won last night's sports game. Hell, I don't know where the remote for the TV is in my house, but I know one thing: markets.
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What they write about
Weekly portfolio updates written in a plain, informal style, tracking a model portfolio through market moves. Recurring subjects include technology-sector swings, macroeconomic explanations for market weakness, and general guidance on staying invested through volatility.
- portfolio updates
- macro
- technology stocks
- market commentary
Recent examples: Mid-Week Performance Update | **NEW Dirt Cheap Portfolio Up 1.78% in 7 Days** · Navigating TheSimpleSide.News Website & New Dirt Cheap Portfolio
Written from The Simple Side’s own published post titles and openings in Sep 11, 2026. It describes the subjects the newsletter covers, not its views, and is not investment advice.
Growth history
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #11 today · #13 a week ago · #10 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 43 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
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- #9
- Rank, 7 days
- +2 places
- Rank, 30 days
- −1 place
- Followers added
- −1.5K
- Posts
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- Reactions per post
- 6
- Reactions tracked
- 93
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on Sep 21, 2026
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last 30 days
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Most-reacted post we have seen: Portfolio Update — 20 reactions on Jul 18, 2026.
Recent posts
- Mid-Week Performance Update | **NEW Dirt Cheap Portfolio Up 1.78% in 7 Days**
Invest in High-Potential Startups Like These Alumni Ventures is giving readers early access to high-potential startup opportunities across today’s most active sectors, co-invested alongside name-brand VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer, & Y Combinator. You get: Curated deal flow of high-potential startups Invest alongside well-known lead venture firms in these deals No cost to see deals No obligation to invest See Current Deals → Market Overview Today’s newsletter is a pretty simple one. We’re going to take a quick look at the current macroeconomic regime and what we’re seeing…
- Navigating TheSimpleSide.News Website & New Dirt Cheap Portfolio
THIS IS A SPONSORSHIP FROM ALUMNI VENTURES Invest in High-Potential Startups Like These Alumni Ventures is giving readers early access to high-potential startup opportunities across today’s most active sectors, co-invested alongside name-brand VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer, & Y Combinator. You get: Curated deal flow of high-potential startups Invest alongside well-known lead venture firms in these deals No cost to see deals No obligation to invest See Current Deals → WEBSITE AND PASSWORD LINKS Website Link: thesimpleside.news Password Link…
- Weekly Portfolio Updates | NEW MONTHLY PICKS
13 Retirement Investment Blunders to Avoid Download our guide to avoiding investment mistakes to learn key ways to keep your retirement on track. Download Now Quick Notes Everybody, I have been gone for a little bit, but I am back with another market update, an update on portfolios, trades, and all of that stuff. We have some new stock picks that we made for our monthly portfolio, and we have some thoughts about the general market that are probably a bit contrarian. Let’s talk about it. Like I said, welcome back to another portfolio update, a weekend update from The Simple Side. This one, of…
- We Are Changing How Things Work Around Here... For The Better
Fischer Investments Download our guide to avoiding investment mistakes to learn key ways to keep your retirement on track. Download Now *Sponsored by Fischer Investments If you are a paying subscriber and want to see the current portfolios, you can skip to the bottom of this newsletter and see them all. If you do not see them, you may need to find a button on your email provider (Outlook, Gmail, etc) to see the whole message. Reach out to me by replying to the email or messaging me if you need help! I have been working in the background on some exciting things, which include an updated…
- Portfolio Updates: Neither Bullish nor Bearish Based On Last Weeks (and the weekends) News
Thanks to Particle for sponsoring today’s post! Okay, I have a lot for you today, but I want to start by going back through a few things I have said over the past couple of weeks because some of them were right, some of them were wrong, and some of them are still sitting somewhere in the middle. I said the selloff looked more like a market reaction to a bunch of smaller problems piling up rather than the beginning of some generational market collapse. I still feel pretty good about that. The S&P 500 finished Friday up on the day, and even after losing 1.4% this week it is still up roughly 12%…
- Portfolio Update: Bullish Through Year End
Thanks to Belay for sponsoring today’s post! This past week I said non-generational defining events were generating the current market selloffs, and here we are a week later with the market recovering nicely (though we have no idea what this upcoming week will hold)! I have some additional comments that I feel need to be made since the market does seem to be recovering in the way that it is (very quickly). Okay, I have a lot for you today… We have new monthly picks, opinions on the selloff and subsequent rebound, portfolio information, and some new picks from the hedge fund analysis platform…
- Portfolio Update
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- Portfolio Update
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