Trading 212 179k portfolio update 2026-06-05

We saw a rapid drop on Friday 5th June 2026 for Tech. stocks including CPU and memory companies. At the end of last week (end May), my portfolio was at £189k so it has lost £10k.

I had set some limit buys and stop losses and most of them triggered. I don't normally do that because it lets the broker (or their agent) see you limits and deliberately stop me out, but this week, because of the insane price rises on some stocks, I wanted to be prepared for a sell-off.

Here are my buys and sells for the first week in June (profit shown for sells in ISA and GIA)...

B     01/06/2026   AUCP         12.21747098   81.8500000235     
B     01/06/2026   HPE           8.27047784   32.5749013796      
B     01/06/2026   HPE          21.72952216   32.6123140114       
B     02/06/2026   SLP                 1050            0.97      
B     03/06/2026   GEV                  1.4  716.4714285714       
B     03/06/2026   LHL                  420    2.4232380952       
B     04/06/2026   AVGO                   3          307.75       
B     04/06/2026   LHL                  220    2.2936363636     
B     04/06/2026   MP           19.85124579   49.2397308633      
B     04/06/2026   NU                   120    9.0674166667       
B     05/06/2026   ETN                  3.5  298.9257142857       
B     05/06/2026   SILG                  34           30.48      
S     01/06/2026   ADUR         45.77628463   12.3384849724      +£82
S     01/06/2026   LLY                  3.5  804.0714285714      +£265
S     02/06/2026   NOW           6.33128201    96.045318948      +£109 
S     03/06/2026   ARM           11.9785184  282.3612977044      +£1189 (GIA)
S     03/06/2026   IONQ         42.94830906   51.2795508881      +£383 
S     04/06/2026   CMP                   47   23.3780851064      +£90
S     04/06/2026   HY9H          1.84971318 1117.8706095396      +£1072 (GIA)

I managed to buy HPE at $43, just before it shot up and even with Friday's drop it is now at $48.

I tried to pick up a few other stocks at cheap prices.

I currently have about £8k in cash.

My IRR's have now gone down to 37% and 78% (ISA/GIA). The GIA had an IRR of 100% on Thursday.

My most recent speculative purchases inside my ISA are showing some promise...

Help - I am over-trading!

I realise that I am over-trading far too much. I should just buy some index ETFs and hold them. A lot of trades in the ISA are just speculative or act as place holders - e.g. Safran and Hensoldt.

However, I do hold global index ETFs in my other broker accounts and my SIPP. Even on Trading 212, about 1/3rd is invested in ETFs.

Next week

SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO) is expected to begin trading on Friday, June 12, 2026, on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker SPCX. The landmark offering will have the following key details:

Expected Price: $135 per share

Target Capital: Approximately $75 billion

Valuation: Roughly $1.75 to $1.77 trillion, making it the largest public market debut in history

Was the drop on Friday due to everyone taking profits in preparation of buying SpaceX?

Was it influenced by Berkshire Hathaway's large buy of Google (Alphabet) shares at a discount price and thus diluting the share price for the rest of us?

I sold my ISA Micron shares way back on 21st April to crystalise a 50% gain, only to watch them almost double afterwards!

The Iran/Hormuz conflict seems to be in complete turmoil at the moment, and the Ukraine war is also heating up.

I still think that commodities should do well but I probably hold enough uranium, gold, silver and copper miners.

So overall, next week is going to be very choppy!