Financial Sense Advisors, Inc.
In its 13F for Q4 2024 (holdings as of December 31, 2024, filed February 3, 2025), Financial Sense Advisors, Inc. reported 104 stock positions worth $297.7 million. Its top holding was Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) at 13.2% of the portfolio, followed by iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT, 11.2%) and Tesla (TSLA, 5.8%). Compared with Q3 2024, it opened 13 new positions, sold out of 28, added to 34 and reduced 47. The biggest buy was Whirlpool (WHR, shares +123%) and the biggest sale an exit from iShares JP Morgan Usd Emergi (EMB).
- Most Recent 13F
- Q2 2026
- Location
- SAN DIEGO, CA
- CIK
- 0001358828
- Portfolio Value
- $297.7M (Q4 2024)
- SEC Filing
- 0001085146-25-000676 ↗ filed Feb 3, 2025
Holdings Value
Holdings 104 stocks · $297.7M
| VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | 13.17% | 72,749 | $39.2M | Reduce -23.0% |
| IBIT iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF | 11.18% | 627,469 | $33.3M | Reduce -3.2% |
| TSLA Tesla Inc. | 5.80% | 42,738 | $17.3M | Reduce -33.7% |
| BLOCK INC (XYZ 0 05/01/26) | 5.45% | 17,500,000 | $16.2M | Add +1.5% |
| PAAS Pan American Silver Corp. | 4.91% | 723,167 | $14.6M | Reduce -7.5% |
| GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C | 4.16% | 65,045 | $12.4M | Add +2.7% |
| WHR Whirlpool Corp. | 3.79% | 98,616 | $11.3M | Add +122.9% |
| TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical-SP ADR | 1.84% | 248,000 | $5.5M | Reduce -0.2% |
| IBM Intl Business Machines Corp. filed as INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHS | 1.74% | 23,563 | $5.2M | Reduce -1.4% |
| HESM Hess Midstream LP Class A | 1.74% | 139,801 | $5.2M | Add +150.9% |
| FSLR First Solar Inc. | 1.72% | 29,002 | $5.1M | Add +4.6% |
| XYZ Block Inc. | 1.68% | 58,954 | $5.0M | New |
| XOM Exxon Mobil Corp. | 1.62% | 44,802 | $4.8M | Reduce -10.5% |
| MO Altria Group Inc. | 1.61% | 91,624 | $4.8M | Add +51.5% |
| FLR Fluor Corp. | 1.58% | 95,436 | $4.7M | New |
| MSFT Microsoft Corp. | 1.48% | 10,465 | $4.4M | Reduce -0.1% |
| COP Conocophillips | 1.44% | 43,302 | $4.3M | Reduce -14.8% |
| NEM Newmont Corp. | 1.44% | 115,257 | $4.3M | Reduce -23.5% |
| FLOT iShares Floating Rate Bond E | 1.42% | 82,886 | $4.2M | New |
| ICVT iShares Convertible Bond ETF | 1.41% | 49,309 | $4.2M | New |
| AEM Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. | 1.40% | 53,224 | $4.2M | Reduce -15.4% |
| B Barrick Gold Corp. | 1.26% | 241,623 | $3.7M | Reduce -71.5% |
| WPM Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. | 1.19% | 62,731 | $3.5M | Add +0.9% |
| XLE SS Energy Select Sector | 1.18% | 40,999 | $3.5M | Add +11.0% |
| IAU iShares Gold Trust | 1.13% | 68,171 | $3.4M | Add +3.5% |
| AMLP Alerian MLP ETF | 1.08% | 66,966 | $3.2M | New |
| ABBV Abbvie Inc. | 1.01% | 16,950 | $3.0M | Reduce -4.2% |
| AMGN Amgen Inc. | 1.00% | 11,428 | $3.0M | Reduce -6.4% |
| FCG First Trust Natural Gas ETF | 0.95% | 115,066 | $2.8M | No change |
| PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A | 0.94% | 37,200 | $2.8M | Add +30.5% |
| SPTM SS SPDR P S&P 1500 Comp ETF | 0.77% | 32,047 | $2.3M | Add +67.0% |
| XLK SS Technology Select Sector | 0.73% | 9,388 | $2.2M | Add +3.5% |
| PHYS Sprott Physical Gold Trust | 0.73% | 108,280 | $2.2M | Reduce -27.8% |
| LNG Cheniere Energy Inc. | 0.68% | 9,455 | $2.0M | Reduce -0.1% |
| CEF Sprott Physical Gold and Sil | 0.68% | 84,603 | $2.0M | Reduce -1.6% |
| APUE Activepassive US Equity ETF | 0.67% | 56,166 | $2.0M | Reduce -1.9% |
| CVX Chevron Corp. | 0.66% | 13,666 | $2.0M | Reduce -19.7% |
| PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense | 0.64% | 16,583 | $1.9M | Add +67.5% |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | 0.60% | 7,094 | $1.8M | Reduce -2.3% |
| SLV iShares Silver Trust | 0.51% | 58,217 | $1.5M | Reduce -85.5% |
| IWF iShares Russell 1000 Growth | 0.51% | 3,780 | $1.5M | Add +0.0% |
| BWXT BWX Technologies Inc. | 0.49% | 13,187 | $1.5M | Add +31.0% |
| LQD Ishr Ibx Usd Invgd CB ETF-Ui | 0.49% | 13,539 | $1.4M | Reduce -6.0% |
| MRK Merck & Co. Inc. | 0.46% | 13,859 | $1.4M | Reduce -6.6% |
| LLY Eli Lilly & Co. | 0.44% | 1,682 | $1.3M | Reduce -12.5% |
| WBA Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. | 0.43% | 138,323 | $1.3M | Reduce -32.3% |
| XLI SS Industrial Select Sector | 0.42% | 9,450 | $1.2M | Reduce -7.5% |
| QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 | 0.41% | 2,400 | $1.2M | Reduce -20.5% |
| PG The Procter & Gamble Co. | 0.38% | 6,711 | $1.1M | Reduce -1.4% |
| PEGASYSTEMS INC (PEGA 0.75 03/01/25) | 0.37% | 1,105,000 | $1.1M | Reduce -0.9% |
| IWO iShares Russell 2000 Growth | 0.34% | 3,555 | $1.0M | New |
| T AT&T Inc. | 0.34% | 44,399 | $1.0M | Add +11.1% |
| APCB Activepassive Core Bond ETF | 0.31% | 31,725 | $919K | Add +9.3% |
| APIE Activepassive Intl Eqty ETF | 0.31% | 32,648 | $915K | Add +0.2% |
| NSC Norfolk Southern Corp. | 0.27% | 3,420 | $803K | No change |
| USMV iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Fac | 0.27% | 8,976 | $797K | Reduce -3.8% |
| XES SS SPDR S&P Og Eqp & Serv | 0.26% | 9,817 | $775K | Reduce -2.4% |
| MUB iShares National Muni Bond E | 0.26% | 7,158 | $763K | Add +1.7% |
| DIS The Walt Disney Co. filed as DISNEY WALT CO | 0.26% | 6,842 | $762K | Reduce -1.9% |
| LUV Southwest Airlines Co. | 0.25% | 21,934 | $737K | New |
| DFS Discover Financial Services | 0.25% | 4,228 | $732K | New |
| BABA Alibaba Group Holding-SP ADR | 0.24% | 8,412 | $713K | New |
| AVGO Broadcom Inc. | 0.23% | 3,000 | $696K | No change |
| MDT Medtronic PLC | 0.23% | 8,681 | $693K | Reduce -1.1% |
| QUAL iShares MSCI USA Quality Fac | 0.22% | 3,732 | $665K | Reduce -15.8% |
| SPY SS SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust-US | 0.22% | 1,130 | $662K | Add +0.3% |
| QCOM Qualcomm Inc. | 0.21% | 4,052 | $622K | Add +0.5% |
| FBTC Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin | 0.21% | 7,500 | $612K | New |
| AMAT Applied Materials Inc. | 0.20% | 3,704 | $602K | Add +0.3% |
| PFE Pfizer Inc. | 0.20% | 22,391 | $594K | Reduce -17.3% |
| CEG Constellation Energy | 0.19% | 2,540 | $568K | Add +13.8% |
| GLD SPDR Gold Shares | 0.19% | 2,316 | $561K | Reduce -10.9% |
| SCHG Schwab US Large-Cap Growth | 0.18% | 19,642 | $547K | Reduce -41.9% |
| EQT Eqt Corp. | 0.17% | 10,937 | $504K | Add +0.3% |
| EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp. | 0.16% | 6,600 | $489K | Reduce -33.3% |
| SCCO Southern Copper Corp. | 0.16% | 5,111 | $466K | Add +0.6% |
| FCX Freeport-McMoran Inc. | 0.16% | 12,124 | $462K | Add +166.3% |
| SPG Simon Property Group Inc. | 0.14% | 2,500 | $431K | No change |
| DHR Danaher Corp. | 0.14% | 1,823 | $419K | No change |
| AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate | 0.13% | 4,064 | $394K | Reduce -83.8% |
| WMT Walmart Inc. | 0.13% | 4,329 | $391K | No change |
| MBB iShares MBS ETF | 0.13% | 4,232 | $388K | Reduce -10.2% |
| IVV iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 0.13% | 658 | $387K | Reduce -10.2% |
| APMU Activepassive Interm Muni BD | 0.11% | 13,470 | $332K | Add +2.3% |
| XLF SS Financial Select Sector | 0.11% | 6,519 | $315K | Add +4.0% |
| PYPL PayPal Holdings Inc. | 0.10% | 3,645 | $311K | Add +7.1% |
| COPX Global X Copper Miners ETF | 0.10% | 7,706 | $294K | Reduce -16.3% |
| PAA Plains All Amer Pipeline LP | 0.09% | 16,027 | $274K | Add +5.4% |
| IWP iShares Russell Mid-Cap Grow | 0.09% | 2,134 | $270K | Add +5.8% |
| PAVE Global X US Infrastructure | 0.09% | 6,618 | $267K | Reduce -4.2% |
| BHP BHP Group Ltd.-Spon ADR | 0.09% | 5,276 | $258K | No change |
| FISR SS Fi Sector Rotation | 0.08% | 9,840 | $250K | Add +2.7% |
| HIGH Simplify Enhanced Income ETF | 0.08% | 10,750 | $247K | No change |
| IEFA iShares Core MSCI Eafe ETF | 0.08% | 3,469 | $244K | Reduce -61.5% |
| IUSB Ishr CR Unvrse Usd BD ETF-Ui | 0.08% | 5,359 | $242K | Reduce -13.6% |
| VZ Verizon Communications Inc. | 0.08% | 5,840 | $234K | New |
| IRM Iron Mountain Inc. filed as IRON MTN INC DEL | 0.08% | 2,216 | $233K | New |
| PBT Permian Basin Royalty Trust | 0.07% | 20,000 | $222K | No change |
| DHS Wisdomtree US High Dividend | 0.07% | 2,252 | $210K | Add +0.2% |
| PSLV Sprott Physical Silver Trust | 0.05% | 16,743 | $162K | Reduce -88.7% |
| UAMY United States Antimony Corp. | 0.02% | 30,000 | $53K | New |
| TRX TRX Gold Corp. | 0.02% | 168,483 | $52K | Add +24.4% |
| GROY Gold Royalty Corp. | 0.00% | 10,000 | $12K | No change |
| GLDG Goldmining Inc. | 0.00% | 10,000 | $8K | Reduce -49.2% |
Options reported separately and not counted above: MSFT puts ($3.2M), COP calls ($992K), GLD calls ($678K).
Portfolio Sells Q3 2024 → Q4 2024
| EMB iShares JP Morgan Usd Emergi | Sold out | 0.00% | −7.90 |
| IEI iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bo | Sold out | 0.00% | −3.98 |
| B Barrick Gold Corp. | Reduce -71.5% | 1.26% | −3.40 |
| SLV iShares Silver Trust | Reduce -85.5% | 0.51% | −2.63 |
| GIS General Mills Inc. | Sold out | 0.00% | −2.04 |
| NEM Newmont Corp. | Reduce -23.5% | 1.44% | −0.78 |
| GLDM SPDR Gold Minishares Trust | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.73 |
| O Realty Income Corp. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.66 |
| VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | Reduce -23.0% | 13.17% | −0.58 |
| AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate | Reduce -83.8% | 0.13% | −0.57 |
| JNJ Johnson & Johnson | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.49 |
| PSLV Sprott Physical Silver Trust | Reduce -88.7% | 0.05% | −0.37 |
| AVAV Aerovironment Inc. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.26 |
| PSX Phillips 66 | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.24 |
| COWZ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.24 |
| PALL Abrdn Physical Palladium SHS | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.21 |
| RSP Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.21 |
| INTC Intel Corp. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.13 |
| VRT Vertiv Holdings Co. Class A | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.13 |
| GOLD Gold.com Inc. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.12 |
| IEFA iShares Core MSCI Eafe ETF | Reduce -61.5% | 0.08% | −0.11 |
| PHYS Sprott Physical Gold Trust | Reduce -27.8% | 0.73% | −0.11 |
| AMGN Amgen Inc. | Reduce -6.4% | 1.00% | −0.08 |
| BP BP PLC-Spons ADR | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.08 |
| LULU Lululemon Athletica Inc. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.08 |
| SIVR Abrdn Physical Silver Shares | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.07 |
| WBA Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. | Reduce -32.3% | 0.43% | −0.07 |
| IYW iShares Ustechnology ETF | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.07 |
| AMD Advanced Micro Devices | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.07 |
| BITO Proshares Bitcoin ETF-Usd | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| VXUS Vanguard Total Intl Stock | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| SCHG Schwab US Large-Cap Growth | Reduce -41.9% | 0.18% | −0.06 |
| TLT iShares 20+ Year Treasury BD | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| CCJ Cameco Corp. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| GSLC Goldman Activebeta US LC ETF | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| VTV Vanguard Mrngstr Val ETF-Aui | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| PROSHARES SHORT S&P500 | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.05 |
| F Ford Motor Co. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.05 |
| LLY Eli Lilly & Co. | Reduce -12.5% | 0.44% | −0.03 |
| COP Conocophillips | Reduce -14.8% | 1.44% | −0.03 |
| CVX Chevron Corp. | Reduce -19.7% | 0.66% | −0.03 |
| COPX Global X Copper Miners ETF | Reduce -16.3% | 0.10% | −0.02 |
| PFE Pfizer Inc. | Reduce -17.3% | 0.20% | −0.02 |
| EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp. | Reduce -33.3% | 0.16% | −0.02 |
| MSTR Strategy Inc. | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.01 |
| GLDG Goldmining Inc. | Reduce -49.2% | 0.00% | −0.00 |
| MRK Merck & Co. Inc. | Reduce -6.6% | 0.46% | −0.00 |
| XOM Exxon Mobil Corp. | Reduce -10.5% | 1.62% | −0.00 |
| AEM Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. | Reduce -15.4% | 1.40% | −0.00 |
| IUSB Ishr CR Unvrse Usd BD ETF-Ui | Reduce -13.6% | 0.08% | +0.00 |
Portfolio Buys Q3 2024 → Q4 2024
| WHR Whirlpool Corp. | Add +122.9% | 3.79% | +2.49 |
| XYZ Block Inc. | New | 1.68% | +1.68 |
| FLR Fluor Corp. | New | 1.58% | +1.58 |
| FLOT iShares Floating Rate Bond E | New | 1.42% | +1.42 |
| ICVT iShares Convertible Bond ETF | New | 1.41% | +1.41 |
| GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C | Add +2.7% | 4.16% | +1.24 |
| HESM Hess Midstream LP Class A | Add +150.9% | 1.74% | +1.20 |
| AMLP Alerian MLP ETF | New | 1.08% | +1.08 |
| BLOCK INC (XYZ 0 05/01/26) | Add +1.5% | 5.45% | +1.07 |
| MO Altria Group Inc. | Add +51.5% | 1.61% | +0.76 |
| PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A | Add +30.5% | 0.94% | +0.65 |
| SPTM SS SPDR P S&P 1500 Comp ETF | Add +67.0% | 0.77% | +0.40 |
| IWO iShares Russell 2000 Growth | New | 0.34% | +0.34 |
| PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense | Add +67.5% | 0.64% | +0.32 |
| XLE SS Energy Select Sector | Add +11.0% | 1.18% | +0.28 |
| LUV Southwest Airlines Co. | New | 0.25% | +0.25 |
| DFS Discover Financial Services | New | 0.25% | +0.25 |
| BABA Alibaba Group Holding-SP ADR | New | 0.24% | +0.24 |
| IAU iShares Gold Trust | Add +3.5% | 1.13% | +0.23 |
| FBTC Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin | New | 0.21% | +0.21 |
| BWXT BWX Technologies Inc. | Add +31.0% | 0.49% | +0.19 |
| XLK SS Technology Select Sector | Add +3.5% | 0.73% | +0.17 |
| WPM Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. | Add +0.9% | 1.19% | +0.14 |
| IWF iShares Russell 1000 Growth | Add +0.0% | 0.51% | +0.12 |
| T AT&T Inc. | Add +11.1% | 0.34% | +0.10 |
| FCX Freeport-McMoran Inc. | Add +166.3% | 0.16% | +0.09 |
| VZ Verizon Communications Inc. | New | 0.08% | +0.08 |
| IRM Iron Mountain Inc. | New | 0.08% | +0.08 |
| APCB Activepassive Core Bond ETF | Add +9.3% | 0.31% | +0.07 |
| EQT Eqt Corp. | Add +0.3% | 0.17% | +0.06 |
| MUB iShares National Muni Bond E | Add +1.7% | 0.26% | +0.05 |
| SPY SS SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust-US | Add +0.3% | 0.22% | +0.04 |
| PYPL PayPal Holdings Inc. | Add +7.1% | 0.10% | +0.03 |
| APIE Activepassive Intl Eqty ETF | Add +0.2% | 0.31% | +0.03 |
| CEG Constellation Energy | Add +13.8% | 0.19% | +0.03 |
| XLF SS Financial Select Sector | Add +4.0% | 0.11% | +0.03 |
| IWP iShares Russell Mid-Cap Grow | Add +5.8% | 0.09% | +0.03 |
| APMU Activepassive Interm Muni BD | Add +2.3% | 0.11% | +0.02 |
| QCOM Qualcomm Inc. | Add +0.5% | 0.21% | +0.02 |
| PAA Plains All Amer Pipeline LP | Add +5.4% | 0.09% | +0.02 |
| UAMY United States Antimony Corp. | New | 0.02% | +0.02 |
| FISR SS Fi Sector Rotation | Add +2.7% | 0.08% | +0.01 |
| DHS Wisdomtree US High Dividend | Add +0.2% | 0.07% | +0.01 |
| TRX TRX Gold Corp. | Add +24.4% | 0.02% | +0.00 |
| AMAT Applied Materials Inc. | Add +0.3% | 0.20% | −0.00 |
| SCCO Southern Copper Corp. | Add +0.6% | 0.16% | −0.01 |
| FSLR First Solar Inc. | Add +4.6% | 1.72% | −0.19 |
Options Activity Q3 2024 → Q4 2024
| MSFT Microsoft Corp. | put | New | 7,600 | $3.2M |
| XLK SS Technology Select Sector | put | Sold out | 12,100 | $2.7Mbefore exit |
| MSTR Strategy Inc. | call | Sold out | 12,500 | $2.1Mbefore exit |
| QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 | put | Sold out | 2,300 | $1.1Mbefore exit |
| COP Conocophillips | call | New | 10,000 | $992K |
| GLD SPDR Gold Shares | call | New | 2,800 | $678K |
Calls and puts are listed by the shares they cover; their value is not part of the stock holdings above.
All Filings
| Quarter | Positions | 13F Reported Value | Top Holdings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 134 | $460.0M | VOO, EMB, FCX, NORTHERN OIL & GAS INC (NOG 3.625 04/15/29), TSLA |
| Q1 2026 | 139 | $431.3M | VOO, EMB, FCX, NORTHERN OIL & GAS INC (NOG 3.625 04/15/29), TSLA |
| Q4 2025 | 143 | $472.0M | VOO, FLOT, TSLA, IBIT, TEVA |
| Q3 2025 | 149 | $486.3M | VOO, FLOT, IBIT, PAAS, TSLA |
| Q2 2025 | 134 | $405.2M | IBIT, VOO, PAAS, TSLA, BLOCK INC (XYZ 0 05/01/26) |
| Q1 2025 | 112 | $349.8M | VOO, IBIT, PAAS, TSLA, BLOCK INC (XYZ 0 05/01/26) |
| Q4 2024 | 104 | $297.7M | VOO, IBIT, TSLA, BLOCK INC (XYZ 0 05/01/26), PAAS |
| Q3 2024 | 119 | $362.4M | VOO, EMB, IBIT, TSLA, B |
| Q2 2024 | 111 | $315.7M | VOO, IBIT, GOOG, B, PAAS |
| Q1 2024 | 108 | $281.3M | VOO, MSTR, B, GOOG, PAAS |