Portfolio reviews

  • 2025 review

    The Good The UK didn’t crash and burn as much as I thought it would do, despite Kier/Rachel doing their level best. We had some sticky moment early on in 2025 where my Portfolio took a beating, however it clawed its way back over the rest of the year. I had a bit of a…Continue…

  • Transactions 2025 Q3

    What a turnaround. From Q2 being a write-off at the start to making it all back, and then some by the end. Those that panic sold are probably rueing it by now. In general news, I attended a day (out of two) of the Mello Conference in London. I didn’t get to hear many speakers,…Continue…

  • Transactions 2025 Q2

    Well, that’s Q2 off to a flying start with Trump trashing the whole world economy. How can it be that one person can have so much of an effect on the World? He’s put Liz Truss to shame. All my gains from 2024 wiped out in a week. Still, if you can’t stand a 10%…Continue…

  • Transactions 2025 Q1

    General commentary 11th February 22nd January. easyjet posted another improved set of results and Mr Market did his usual irrational thing and marked them down. I sold a small tranche last Quarter to shuffle things around. It went into freefall after, so have just bought back in again. 16th January. What a difference a day…Continue…

  • 2024 review

    The Good Another year of great returns. 16% compared to 5.2% for the FTSE. This takes the Portfolio to an 80% return since 2020 (the earliest date recorded on this Blog). Over the same time period the FTSE has returned 26.7% so very pleased with the performance. Might finally be getting the hang of this…Continue…

  • Transactions 2024 Q4

    In the past I have created a Post each time that I have traded. This makes for a lot of posts to click through so I have now decided to do one Post per quarter & add to it. Latest transactions first. General commentary 28th November – Direct Line (DLG.L) has confirmed that it received…Continue…

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