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Looking for a growth ETF for H2 2026 and 2027 - Try IWVG

2026-09-13T11:06:41.233+01:00

I already have large holdings in MSCI Core world class funds. In my Trading 212 ISA and GIA I also hold quite a bit of gold and metals miners and tech companies.I am looking for a good global index fund which is not too heavily dependant on the US or on any one sector.I eventually settled on the iShares Edge MSCI World Value Factor ETF IWVG (dist.). I had already bought this on July 21 2026 in my

Trading 212 update £201k Portfolio 2026-11-9 + a look at Vanguard's VALL and my recent buys + tip

2026-09-12T12:10:39.218+01:00

My ISA lost approx. £1.5k this week and my Invest account approx £500.I used the cash in my ISA to buy the following, hopefully at a good price:I bought a little more OKLO as it may have bottomed out. OKLO seems undervalued, with a minimum fair value at $50.Bloom Energy was another small buy which I may add more to later. It provides a faster energy solution (fuel cells) than nuclear for

Investments for Q4 2026

2026-09-06T12:08:51.304+01:00

High bond rates and high inflation seems likely. We have high rates of borrowing. Most bonds, equities and interest-paying funds will not do very well if this escalates.In these circumstances, it make sense to diversify away from over-valued US stocks such as tech stocks and invest more in essential commodities that must be bought by everyone, no matter how much they cost (such as energy or

Trading 212 203k Portfolio update

2026-09-05T09:28:05.314+01:00

This week saw a drop in value of about £4k followed by recovery on Thursday/Friday. The drop was probably mostly due to the bond market and high Treasury yields but the good performance figures from Tech stocks this week from Oracle and Broadcom also helped. So I am up £2k from last week and about the same as two weeks ago. Overall, I am £53k up on my total deposits of £150k over a period of

Trading 212 201k Portfolio update (+ investment opportunities)

2026-08-29T12:07:28.094+01:00

Both portfolios were down a bit this week due to a bad Friday, having reached £204k on Thursday. Top Invest GIA winners - last 30 days(P.S. Ignore the WDC entry in the above list - AI was hallucinating!).I made very few trades this week. I am looking at buying some more rare earth companies at a good price as I think China supply problems may escalate. I am looking at companies who have

Trading 212 £203k portfolio update 22/08/2026 + Tips

2026-08-22T08:59:27.557+01:00

After a bad Tuesday, the market seems to have recovered, despite the news of the USA economy debt being serious.£150 Deposit (+£53k)Market movements this week (see video below)T212 GIAT212 GIA (IRR 91%)Invest GIA holdingsT212 ISAT212 ISA (IRR 55%)ISA holdingsTradesIn my ISA account, I sold Hensoldt, Semi-conductor ETFs and I did a cheeky trade buying Moderna and then selling again for a very

T212 Portfolio 201k update + thoughts on the USA, etc.

2026-08-15T11:30:00.483+01:00

My two T212 accounts together have finally broken the £200k barrier (£150k deposited over 30 months)! It probably won't last but it's still nice to see. My IRRs are now 50% for my Trading 212 Stocks ISA and 90% for my Invest account.Semiconductor gains have been variable but my metals holdings (gold, silver, rare earths, copper, etc.) seems to finally be on the rise after being undervalued for

What ETFs would I choose for a 'hands-off' Junior ISA?

2026-08-14T13:09:36.116+01:00

Recently, a friend asked me about how to open a Junior ISA for their child and what stocks they should buy within their ISA (max. deposit £9k per child per year). When their child reaches 18, they hopefully would have a nice fund on which they can draw on for college or a car or whatever. Another objective however, was to hopefully interest the child in the power of investing in the stock market

T212 Portfolio £197k update + tips

2026-08-09T12:51:36.543+01:00

The last few weeks has been interesting. My portfolio seems to have recovered and I am up £7k this month on Trading 212...£150k Portfolio - Invest (£110k deposited) + ISA (£40k deposited) I added £10k to my GIA a 3 weeks ago when stock prices were down and mainly bought AI stocks including disks and memory companies. These are now climbing into profit again (having sold for a nice profit

Issue: Cannot update Ventoy partition images on E2B drive to latest v1.1.17

2026-07-27T12:50:19.840+01:00

To fix:Go to Partition 2 of the E2B USB drive and run"\e2b\Update agFM\Download and update agFM_v2.cmd" which will update agFM to v1.A4.This will also update the "\e2b\Update agFM\Make_Latest_Ventoy_Partition_Image.cmd" cmd file.You can then run that command file and it should make the latest Ventoy v1.1.17 partition images instead of Ventoy v1.1.16.

I asked Codex to fix my Wordpress Asgaros forum issue - and here is what happened...

2026-07-18T11:27:35.135+01:00

My UK capital gains tax calculator website www.ukcgt.xyz had an issue. All my posts on the Asgeros forum on the site where displaying my private email address!I tried asking Google for a solution and also ChatGPT on Google and spent many hours trying to solve the problem to no avail.Finally, I tried Codex.I pointed it at my forum page at https://ukcgt.xyz/forum/ , told Codex that it was

T212 Update £181k portfolio - I'm DOWN £12k in a week!

2026-07-18T09:36:48.135+01:00

I have just added a £10K new deposit to my T212 Invest account, so the £181k value is actually over £12k down from last week.Invest and ISA accounts£10k cash deposited this week I have bought over £5k more shares over Thursday and Friday to take advantage of the low prices:I had not deposited any new cash for many months, so this seemed a good time. I still have almost £5k in cash left.Why

AI is down again today - I am still BUYING!

2026-07-16T10:52:36.924+01:00

AI shares are down today but compute needs are going up. Companies need more AI compute not less. Demand is strong. Large companies say they intend to spend more on AI, not less. They want their own in-house models to do their own training and develop their own agents because they all see the value in AI but do not want to be held hostage by AI providers and their haphazard model costs and

Time to buy AI picks and shovels companies again?

2026-07-15T08:42:39.955+01:00

Recent doubts about AI not being profitable has caused a sharp price drop (10-15%), but now the market is beginning to think they have over reacted! Memory suppliers have secured safe, long-term orders. Large companies have increased their capital expenditure on AI, not decreased it. Quarter profit numbers are showing positive gains.Memory manufacturers are starting to recover today.I will be

T212 £183k Portfolio Update and memory suppliers

2026-07-11T07:12:58.339+01:00

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

Samsung and Hynix are down - massive buying opportunity!

2026-07-08T09:34:51.186+01:00

There is a memory shortage. There will continue to be a memory shortage for at least the next 3 years. The SK Hynix and Samsung price is down 20% this week. Planned/announced capacity ramp (HBM/AI-memory related), as reported by recent coverage:SK HynixHBM-related DRAM node capacity (1c): targeting ~160,000–190,000 wafers/month (300mm) by end-2026. siliconanalysts.comNear-term

T212 £186k Portfolio update 2026-07-03

2026-07-04T10:13:56.081+01:00

Not much change (-£1k) overall this week. I used the tech stock dip to buy what I hope are cheaper shares, so I now have little spare cash left now in both accounts.Bought £2K of MSFT at $371Bought £1k Corning at $254Bought £1k META at $598Bought £1k Broadcom at $366Here are recent purchases this week (TOELY was last week).Corning has been mentioned quite a lot recently in blogs, articles

T212 £186k Portfolio update 2026-06-26 and outlook for the future

2026-06-27T10:09:09.468+01:00

This week I saw a drop from £193k at the end of last Friday to £186.5k at the end of this Friday 26th June.Invest IRR 90% and ISA IRR 42%I had set some stop loss sells and some of these had triggered. Later on in the week, I bought a few back at a cheaper price.Here is a list of some of the GIA the trades, with the reason and the current price - this is mainly for my notes, but you may find it

Will AI Data Centres fail us?

2026-06-25T12:26:40.146+01:00

AI companies seem to be the tech darling still - but will it last if they are not profitable and they cannot be connected up to a 24x7 supply of electrickery?Are we (the retail share market) being asked to fund AI because they are short of capital but must expand to survive even though they have not defined a way to be profitable until at least 2028? What use are AI data centres if only a

Ramsdens (RFX) agrees to GBP203 Million takeover by FirstCash

2026-06-23T10:48:15.398+01:00

I had posted a few blog articles on buying pawn brokers Ramsdens and FirstCash because these businesses usually do well when the gold price is high and times are hard (people need cash quickly).Is Pawn good for you - 19th Sept 2025Invest in Pawn (gold) - 23rd January 2026and told you I bought £500 of RFX in my 23rd May 2026 blogRamsdens has just shot up 30% due to the news that FirstCash is

Trading 212 £193k portfolio update + tips

2026-06-20T14:16:39.814+01:00

A great week for my Trading 212 portfolio, gaining over £10k in a week!£140k deposited over 2 years shows a £53k uncrystallised profitThe Hormuz 'memorandum of misunderstanding' helped a lot, and also the US stock market being closed on Friday helped too!I have set up stop sells on many of my ISA stocks so that should the market fall on Monday, I will try crystalise my profit. I will buy

Investing in SpaceX via Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT)

2026-06-15T13:21:30.494+01:00

Instead of buying SpaceX, I invested in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust fund SMT.My SMT holding bought mid-April 2026.SMT had an approx. 20% stake in SpaceX as a private company before the SpaceX IPO.SMT's PortfolioThe Baillie Gifford flagship trust currently holds roughly 63% in public equities and 37% to 41% in unlisted private companies. Its top ten holdings make up

Swing trading is easy (in hindsight) but here is how ChatGPT can help!

2026-06-14T11:46:21.433+01:00

I opened an ISA on Trading 212 and put £20k in it in April 2025 and started buying stocks. I bought a mixture of individual companies and ETFs. I tried to chase trending stocks. The idea was to use my ISA for more risky stocks which had a higher potential gain (or loss!). In April 2026 I added another £20k and bought more shares.To date, my T212 ISA has had £40k deposits in 14 months, is at £

Trading 212 184k portfolio update

2026-06-13T10:38:07.796+01:00

After a disastrous Friday last week, my portfolio has climbed back a bit.I had some uninvested cash in my T212 accounts, so I took the market dip as a buying opportunity and nearly all £140k of my deposits are now invested.My all time high was £191k, so my portfolio has not quite fully recovered.My purchases at the beginning of the week to pick up 'cheap' stocks

Trading 212 179k portfolio update 2026-06-05

2026-06-07T10:19:14.897+01:00

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 my limits and deliberately stop me out, but this week, because of the insane