Week 195 Review - Some significant recoveries

There were some significant gains this week, but OPTI:Optibiotix stayed still, so the fact the combined portfolios increased by £1,302 is pretty good. The deficit dropped to £6,489 and total portfolio value is £93,933.

MMX:Minds + Machines was the only significant faller this week, and that was just 5%. I still don't understand why this is dropping when it's generating cash. I guess the only reason is that management have shown no desire to return any of the cash to shareholders. That's certainly the only thing that's stopped me topping up at these prices. This "quick win" share is now down 33% and losing £337

IQE:IQE are on the move upwards on news that their new foundry is in production. Hopefully the shorts will start to close and this can get back up to the 130p level I bought at. Still a way to go, but they are up 15% this week and so now only losing 29% and £696.

TLOU:Tlou Energy did even better, climbing 16% as sentiment improves dramatically. Now only down by 10% and losing just £271 I'm confident we can see significant upside in the near future. I won't be waiting long as I've decided not to invest in fossil fuels and will just make sure I take a modest profit. I invested £2,700 in these so by modest were talking £1,000.

Share of the Week is JLP:Jubilee Metals. It had the same 16% rise as TLOU:Tlou Energy but I have a lot more invested so it's worth a hell of a lot more. They are only down by 19% now and losing £887, but given I was convinced they were about to go bust, things are looking much better with 2 very significant new investors on the scene.

Still a long way to go

The trend line is about to take a massive dip downwards

The ISA and share accounts look like this

	Weekly Change
Cash	£23.22		-£3.75
Portfolio cost	£57,274.78		+£0
Portfolio sell value (bid price - commission)	£52,316.51	(-8.7%)	+£1,232.04
Potential profits	£4,502.21		+£10.99
Yr 4 Dividends	£60.50		+£0
Yr 4 Profit from sales	£1,077.60		+£0
Yr 4 Average monthly cash profit	£122.71	(2.6%)	-£3.65
Total Dividends	£1,298.83		+£0
Total Profit from sales	£19,774.72		+£0
Average monthly cash profit	£464.29	(9.7%)	-£2.48
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends - Fees / Months)

The tiny increase in potential profit was thanks to CWR:Ceres Power, with everything else being reduced losses. It makes me much happier to see losing companies turn things around than succeeding companies doing better, as loss-making shares hurt.





Nice tick up but big gap to cross.

Another trend line about to get much worse

The SIPP looks like this after week 179

		Weekly Change
Cash	£59.50		-£14.62
Portfolio cost	£40,725.38		+£0
Portfolio sell value (bid price - commission)	£39,870.99	(-2.1%)	+£4.10
Potential profits	£3,336.57		-£293.76
Yr 4 Dividends	£0		+£0
Yr 4 Interest	£0.07		+£0
Yr 4 Profit from sales	£732.65		+£0
Yr 4 Average monthly cash profit	£123.83	(3.6%)	-£8.51
Total Dividends	£1,342.25		+£0
Total Interest	£0.09		+£0
Total Profit from sales	£11,277.57		+£0
Average monthly cash profit	£296.86	(8.7%)	-£2.02
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends - Fees / Months)

Cash dropped due to monthly charges. Potential profits actually dipped as CAML:Central Asia Metals lost 4%. Improving losses meant a net gain of £4 this month. Year 4 is almost halfway through and performance is rubbish at 3.6%. My only real hope is something dramatic happening for MMX:Minds & Machines as everything else is either in big trouble or a long term income hold.

Still in alien territory below the red line





I think there's a better chance of reversing the trend line in this account, but without a significant re-rate it's going to be pointing downwards for about 4 months.

The trading account looks like this after week 145

			Weekly Change
Cash	£18.80		+£0
Portfolio cost	£2,321.29		+£0
Portfolio sell value (bid price - commission)	£1,644.47	(-29.2%)	+£66.56
Potential profits	£0		+£0
Year 3 Dividends	£17.33		+£0
Year 3 Profit	£177.06		+£0
Yr 3 Average monthly cash profit	£20.55	(10.6%)	-£0.51
Dividends	£18.48		+£0
Profit from sales	-£64.29		+£0
Average monthly cash profit	-£1.37	(-0.7%)	+£0.01
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends - Fees / Months)

Things might actually be looking up for this one. Another good week, and year 3 profits above target, and 2 of the shares only down by 12% with a third only down 22% gives hope that some profits could be banked in the next few months.

As trading accounts go, it's still completely rubbish!

However even though it's rubbish, at least it's heading upwards!

Now we're into May we're nearing dividend payout dates for CEY:Centamin (13th May) and CAML:Central Asia Metals (20th May). There's not enough to do anything with, but it will be nice to sit on a bit of cash for a while and know the monthly fees can be paid.

I've had a sell order in for TND:Tandem Group for 195p. It would give me a loss due to commission, but the dividends make up for that and would result in £40 profit. I placed the limit order in a huff when OPTI:Optibiotix dropped again and I wanted to buy some cheap. That's picked up now, so I think I'll go back to the Warren Buffett mantra of never losing money on a share and cancel the order. I've had them for 4 years so really anything under 40% is a failure. That would mean them climbing from the current 180p to 279p, which isn't that far fetched given their stupidly low P/E ratio. The problem is, by the time the share price gets near there I'll have had them 5 years and that means the target goes up to 299p.