Week 385 Review - Santa's pressie is a new all-time low

Christmas gloom deepened as the OPTI:Optibiotix share price continued to fall, and another 1.25p drop this week was the main contributor to a widening of the deficit between cost and value of £2,639 taking it to a record £119,727 and dropping portfolio value to £62,665. This is such a great way to lose loads of money!

OPTI:Optibiotix was my worst performer, dropping 7% in the trading accounts but only 2% of the cost price of my main holding. It was enough to do much of the damage this week, although most shares dropped a little.

Share of the week was the only one to rise 5% as ANTO:Antofagasta goes back into profit and is 5% up. 

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse

We've dropped below the trend line. Great!

Here's the ISA and shares portfolio after week 21 of year 8.

			Weekly Change
Cash	£175.20		+£0
Portfolio cost	£82,003.25		+£0
Portfolio sell value (bid price-commission)	£24,025.56	(-70.7%)	-£1,340.10
Potential profits	£0		+£0
Yr 8 Dividends	£0		+£0
Yr 8 Interest	£0.05		+£0
Yr 8 Profit from sales	-£995.63		+£0
Yr 8 projected avg monthly profit	-£208.53	(-5.6%)	+£10.43
Total Dividends	£11,768.92		+£0
Total Interest	£0.05		+£0
Total Profit from sales	£27,098.43		+£0
Average monthly cash profit	£433.62	(11.7%)	-£1.13
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends - Fees / Months)
Compound performance	87%		+0%

Not much happened other than losing £1,340

Will I have to adjust the y axis to go below £20k?

Below the trend line

The SIPP looks like this after week 369 overall and week 5 of year 8.

			Weekly Change
Cash	£639.11		+£0
Portfolio cost	£98,539.81		+£0
Portfolio sell value (bid price - commission)	£38,079.50	(-61.4%)	-£1,268.81
Potential profits	£331.40		+£101.51
Yr 8 Dividends	£0		+£0
Yr 8 Interest	£0.01		+£0
Yr 8 Profit from sales	£94.41		+£0
Yr 8 projected avg monthly profit	£70.55	(1.4%)	-£17.64
Total Dividends	£14,142.78		+£0
Total Interest	£0.26		+£0
Total Profit from sales	£20,528.16		+£0
Average monthly cash profit	£395.30	(8.0%)	-£1.08
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends - Fees / Months)
Compound performance	57%		+0%

Almost the same as the ISA, with a drop of £1,268, but a silver lining as both CAML:Central Asia Metals and ANTO:Antofagasta climb to send potential profits up by £101.

Similar story to the ISA

Also just below the trend line

The trading account looks like this after week 335 overall and week 23 of year 7.

			Weekly Change
Cash	£0.10		+£0
Portfolio cost	£1,849.21		+£0
Portfolio sell value (bid price - commission)	£560.09	(-69.7%)	-£30.86
Potential profits	£0		+£0
Year 7 Dividends	£0.00		+£0
Year 7 Interests	£0.01		+£0
Year 7 Profit	-£71.73		+£0
Yr 7 projected avg monthly profit	-£13.51	(-8.8%)	+£0.62
Dividends	£60.10		+£0
Interest	£0.01		+£0
Profit from sales	£154.87		+£0
Average monthly cash profit	£2.78	(1.8%)	-£0.01
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends - Fees / Months)

The drop in OPTI:Optibiotix sees this drop by £30 into even worse trouble.

That prolonged gradual recovery has well and truly reversed

The trend line still points up, but for how long?

Not only am I losing more money that at any point so far, but my entire family came down with Covid so I couldn't visit them for Christmas. Probably for the best else I'll have infected them with the vile cold that I've had. I really hope 2023 doesn't get worse than this!