Tuesday, 11 November 2025

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Tips

Monday, 10 November 2025

My ETF top-ups today

The stock market has been down in the last few days, but now seems to be making a light recovery.

I have decided DCA in £1k each into IUCM, XDEV and ICDU.


Saturday, 8 November 2025

Trading update 2025-11-07 + tips

Weekly progress report

Oh dear, it was all going so well...

A bad week this week, albeit a slight uplift late on Friday.

The table below shows the weekly stats for the last 9 weeks on my T212 accounts (ISA and GIA):

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Buying a cheap Windows 10 Product Key for my new Windows 11 system

I have bought a new mainboard, CPU, RAM and M.2 drive in order to build a new Windows 11 system, but I wanted to keep my old Windows 10 system too. I had several spare ATX PSUs already.

Sunday, 2 November 2025

These two large S&P 500 companies gained over 200% in the last 6 months!

Two giant S&P 500 companies have beaten Tesla, SOFI, Palantir, TSM, AMD, Intel, nVidia, etc. in the last 6 months but no one is talking about them! What is more they have a virtual monopoly on a very large market.

Saturday, 1 November 2025

Trading 212 Update 2025-10-31 + tips and ideas

Weekly progress report

Another good week.

The table below shows the weekly stats for the last 8 weeks on my T212 accounts (ISA and GIA):

Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Future stock market volatility prediction & Trump's Crypto deals

If you are holding cash in your ISA or GIA Investment accounts at the moment, you may be hoping to buy in on a future dip.

Gold and Silver has undergone a correction recently. The S&P and Global indexes are up however.

ChatGPT has prepared the following event list for me:

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Trading 212 Update 2025-10-24 + tips

 Another exciting week of ups and downs!

Weekly progress report

The table below shows the weekly stats for the last 7 weeks on my T212 accounts:

Sunday, 19 October 2025

Avoid paying too much tax or too little tax on Accumulating ETFs (UK, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland)?

Accumulating ETFs don't pay out dividends, so you don't pay dividend tax on them - right?

Uhh - WRONG! - you may still need to declare and pay dividend tax each year to the tax man!

If you are a tax resident in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland or the UK you may be paying too much tax or not enough tax on your ETFs! Not only that, but you are probably not declaring your income correctly and you could wind up in trouble with the tax man (or tax woman)!

Does this apply to you?

Saturday, 18 October 2025

Trading 212 Update 2025-10-17 - Trump's black Friday

Another exciting week!

I did some day trading by selling some shares that were dropping and then re-buying them at the bottom. I also have 5K in cash now.

Weekly progress report

The table below shows the weekly stats for the last six weeks on my T212 accounts: