T212 £183k Portfolio Update and memory suppliers

My two accounts were both down at the end of this week. During the week, some of my holdings were stopped out and sold. 

Stock that stopped out and sold was Moderna (sold £1k for £400 gain) and Micron (sold £2.7k for £1.1k gain). Also OSCR (sold £1923 for £368 gain).

I topped up on AMAT, HYNIX and Korea ETFs. Also Solar Energy Infrastructure.

Here are a few of my newer purchases:

Recent ISA purchases (hurt by drop in Corning price!)

I tend to use my ISA account as a trading account. I have a bad habit of overtrading in this account (YTD ISA IRR is 13%, overall IRR 37%)!

Hynix, Samsung and memory

AI requires memory. Data centres and servers require memory. PCs and notebooks require memory. There is a forecast memory shortage up to at least 2029, even with new capacity coming online. The memory manufacturers order books are full.

AI earnings may not be as good as expected, but as AI algorithms become more efficient and as the price of tokens goes down, more people will use AI as it improves.

The video below discusses Hynix and memory suppliers.

I have loaded up on Korea ETFs, Hynix and Samsung. I am hoping for a small price increase on Monday 13th July 2026.

I took profits on Micron as it stopped out this week when the price dropped.

Micron price dropped this week.

I also sold some of my smaller holdings to crystalise some cash to buy the new stocks.

Gold, Silver and Copper miners

I am quite heavily invested (17%) into Gold, Silver and Copper miners - approx. £30k of my £180k portfolio.

These are not doing well at the moment. Central banks have been buying gold a lot over the last five years but it seems more people are selling gold than buying it!

I still think copper will improve and gold will go up slightly. I am not so sure about silver.

My plan is to slowly rotate out of these stocks if I need the cash to invest in other things. At the moment they are acting as a hedge. If I sold now, it would be for a loss. As Fed interest rates go down, gold should improve. If/when the Iran trouble is settled, gold price should improve. Things are just very unsettled at the moment!

Sometimes, I think I should just buy a few global/world ETFs and chill... but where's the fun in that?

Note: This is not investment advice. My Trading 212 portfolios and not my only investment portfolios or even my major investment accounts, so do not follow my T212 trades. The average investor should invest at least 80% of their investment holdings in a few good ETFs.

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