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):
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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.
The table below shows the weekly stats for the last 8 weeks on my T212 accounts (ISA and GIA):
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:
Another exciting week of ups and downs!
The table below shows the weekly stats for the last 7 weeks on my T212 accounts:
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.
The table below shows the weekly stats for the last six weeks on my T212 accounts:
It seems the Nuclear SMR industry is now flavour of the month.
People are beginning to realise that wind and solar are not going to solve the energy crisis, it is more expensive than fossil fuels and too much wind and solar can actually destabilise the grid!
The world needs more electricity. Massive AI and Data centers need Gigawatts of power 24x7 and they need their own source of power.
The (only) viable answer we have left is to generate heat to drive good ol' steam turbines by using nuclear fission. Since large reactors take about 10-15 years to plan and build, big companies and governments are looking to SMRs to save the day (see my previous article 'Investing in SMRs').
For anyone who wants to get to the truth about green energy and Net Zero - see this video (and others by Kathryn Porter)...
This week has shown a very nice uptick.
The table below shows the weekly stats for the last four weeks on my T212 accounts:
My portfolios went down by 1-2% over the last few days despite the S&P 500 being at an all-time high. The dip was due to the weakening $USD. However, today (Thursday 18th Sept.) it seems to be gaining strength and both T212 portfolios have bounced back up again.
The world needs green electricity - especially electricity that does not depend on the weather (i.e. neither wind nor solar). Unlike the USA, who are drilling for oil and gas with no regard for global warming, the UK have adopted a Net Zero policy.
In November 2024, the UK and 30 other countries signed a global pledge to triple their nuclear capacity by 2050.
Oana Lungescu, a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think tank and a former NATO spokesperson, said NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte "has said that NATO needs a five-fold increase in air and missile defense capabilities, so that’s an urgent priority. It’s also important that all NATO countries clarify their national legislation about downing aircraft entering their airspace."
Defense stocks and shares had increased in price over the last 8 months due to the Ukraine/Russian war, but this latest incident has shown that more spending on defense (from drones) is immediately required.
I list below some shares and ETFs that have been appearing a lot in many YouTube investor videos.
Most have shown amazing gains so far, but of course they could descend into the depths of Hades at any moment, so beware! Many are purely sentiment driven.
The ones listed below are all ones I hold and most (but not all) are showing me a nice gain so far.
Please do your own research on them and if you decide to buy any, please buy at a good price and remember to take profits before they collapse.
The market at the moment seems to be high, so maybe wait a while?
I will list each one with the 3 month and 1 year performance percentages in parentheses.
Manolete Partners are an insolvency litigation financing company who were listed on the AIM market in 2008 and has risen 38% in the last month and 16% in the last week. Manolete work for, and alongside, HMRC, the Insolvency Service, the British Business Bank and the many hundreds of outstanding private sector insolvency practitioners and insolvency and restructuring lawyers.
The recent share price increase is presumably due to recent cases which they have on-boarded and funded. Their 2024 net profit was 3%.
Last week I bought a few 'risky' shares/ETFs inside my ISA. Yesterday the whole market was down, but when the UK market opened this morning, it was looking better.
First, I have bought £1000 of the NASDAQ 100 x3 long QQQ3 this morning as I notice that EQGB, XLKQ and IITU are all up this morning (probably due to Alphabet/Google).
Then I checked on my recent smaller mining holdings which are also up today:
Hive is still looking good...
I have held a small amount of crypto via Coinbase for many years.
I originally started a Coinbase account because some of my users wanted to make a donation in crypto in gratitude for my free RMPrepUSB and Easy2Boot software.
Donations were usually quite small, but over a period of a few years, it probably added up to about £100. I experimented with this as it grew in value and bought £600 Ethereum with it as it grew in value. A few years ago, I then converted it all back into Bitcoin and this week I decided to cash it all in for about £1200. I am just not convinced Bitcoin or crypto is going anywhere - after all it has had plenty of opportunity. Stablecoins are another offshoot, but the infrastructure costs of maintaining a global blockchain and transaction costs don't seem to live up to the promises. If they did, then the finance companies would be adopting crypto like crazy.
Cashing in my Bitcoin means I have crystallised a taxable capital gain of approx. £600. The Coinbase fee for the conversion to cash and withdrawal was over £20. So much for crypto transactions being cheap (1.66%)!
Ventoy 1.1.07 is now available from the Ventoy website. Download here.
If you have added the Ventoy image files to your E2B drive, you can update them by clicking on the Make_Latest_Ventoy_Partition_Image.cmd script which is located on the 2nd partition of the E2B drive in the \e2b\Update agFM folder.
Note that the integrated and modified Ventoy For Easy2Boot is still version 1.0.97 of Ventoy.
IODD have just released the new IODD Mini Pro which has a USB 3.1Type C USB connector and improved firmware.
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Key Changes to the IODD MINI PRO:New Interface: The adoption of a USB-C type port has significantlyimproved its versatility and convenience.Expanded Storage: It now supports 80mm M.2 SSDs, a change from theprevious 42mm, allowing for a wider variety of capacities and models.Effective Heat Control: We’ve applied new materials to effectivelyreduce heat, ensuring stable performance even during extended use.Enhanced Security: The encryption password length has been increasedfrom a maximum of 16 to 76 digits, making security even more robust.
I bought Amundi Euro Stoxx Banks ETF (BNKE) in April 2025 and sold a month later for a 14% profit when it plateaued for a while. Since then, I have been tempted to buy back in but only this week have I taken the plunge. It has gained 22% in the last 3 months, so perhaps I should not have sold so early after all!
The NUCG ETF seems to be performing well. Almost 100% gain in one year (45% YTD).
I bought £2k-worth on T212 16th June 2025 and I am so far up about 12%.
See below for 2nd hot tip (500% gain in 1 year)
Holdings are spread between mainly Canada, USA and Japan 1/3 each so it does give some Fx rate diversity too.
One holding is the NuScale Power SMR producer (SMR) which has gained 158% in 3 months and another is Cameco Corp (CCJ) a Uranium producer which has gained almost 60% in the last 3 months.
Please do your own research before investing - this is not investment advice!
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