Sunday, 21 June 2026

Week 567 Review - Just in the black, but most gains lost at the end of the week.

It was a positive week, but didn't feel it after being up by over £4,000 mid-week and seeing most of that vanish as the week ended, with the deficit between cost and value just £591 less and the deficit reduced to £154,987. The deficit between injection and value reduced to £62,712 and total portfolio value increased to £122,676.

Worst performer was RAT:Rathbones, dropping 18% after announcing a series of measures following an FCA assessment of their operation. It will hit profits, but not by 18% so I'm hoping they will recover.

CKN:Clarkson  dropped 9%, presumably because things are easing up in the Middle East and much of the recent rise has been off the back of the complexities with shipping out there.

PAGE:Pagegroup continue their decline, with a 9% drop for no obvious reason. My holding is now 78% down, making this one of my worst performing magic formula shares.

BTG:BTG Consulting fell 7%, possibly due to people thinking the ceasefire in the Middle East will improve the economy to the detriment of BTG. I don't think that's the case, so may use this as an opportunity to buy more when my next pension transfer comes through.

OPTI:Optibiotix fell another 5% and there's no sign of anything changing.

RIO:Rio Tinto was the worst of the miners, dropping 5% when the rest were either flat or reasonably up.

EDV:Endeavour Mining went up 5%, and ATYM:Atalya Mining 6% but mid-week they were up by twice that.

AMP:Ampeak Energy climbed 8% for no obvious reason, but my holding is still 64% down.

GGP:Greatland Resources was the best of the miners, climbing 10% to go 94% up.

IES:Invinity Energy zoomed up 22% after another contract was announced.

SBTX:SkinBioTherapeutics dropped badly after being removed from suspension last week, but this week climbed 38% presumably on hopes that one day Croda might sell something.

I'm awarding Share of the Week to TAM:Tatton Asset Management. They climbed 18% which is amazing for a magic formula share. This was on the back of final results significantly exceeding expectations. I'm hopeful this has much further to run.

Here's the ISA and shares portfolio after week 47 of year 11.

Weekly Change
Cash£105.81    -£3.92
Portfolio cost£116,490.29+£0
Portfolio sell value
(bid price-commission)
£32,109.85(-72.4%)+£578.37
Potential profits£444.34+£92.82
Yr 11 Dividends£86.83
+£0
Yr 11 Interest£1.57            +£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£873.14+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£80.73(1.1%)-£2.13
Total Dividends£12,574.90+£0
Total Interest£10.14    +£0
Total Profit from sales£18,433.41+£0
Average monthly cash profit£232.08(3.2%)-£0.44
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends
- Fees / Months)

Monthly fees slightly reduced cash, portfolio value up by £578 thanks to the big increases in IES:Invinity Energy and SBTX:SkinBioTherapeutics, and the £92 gain in potential profits was mainly down to IES.


Still pretty flat.


Back up almost on the trend line


The SIPP looks like this after week 551 overall and week 31 of year 11.




Weekly Change
Cash£854.29
+£40.14
Portfolio cost£160,213.80
+£0
Portfolio sell value
(bid price - commission)
£89,606.55(-44.1%)+£7.68
Potential profits£10,730.71
+£278.66
Yr 11 Dividends£1.477.07
+£44.41
Yr 11 Interest£12.26
+£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£9,397.72
+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£1,503.45(18.2%)-£44.32
Total Dividends£19,697.27
+£44.41
Total Interest£32.96
+£0
Total Profit from sales£34,064.23
+£0
Average monthly cash profit£409.28(5.0%)-£0.43   

Cash was up thanks to a £6 dividend from PAGE:Pagegroup and £37 from YU.:Yu Group, minus monthly fees. Portfolio value was just about as flat as it could be, but potential profits increased £278 mostly thanks to TAM:Tatton Asset Management.


I had a feeling I was never going to close the gap to the injection line, and that does seem to be the case.


Still well below the trend line.


Leaving the trend line behind here too.

I'm not terribly optimistic about things getting better in the Middle East, given Israel are acting as if there's no ceasefire. Markets will continue to fluctuate wildly so I may as well just accept the fact there's not likely to be any recovery in my portfolio value for the rest of the summer at least.

Saturday, 13 June 2026

Week 566 Review - Bad week for the ISA and flat for the SIPP

This week could have been a lot worse. I was down by £4.5k by Thursday evening, but a big rally on Friday reduced my deficit to £1,511. It means the deficit between cost and value widens to £155,573 and the deficit between injection and value increases to £63,334. Total portfolio value drops to £122,054.

Worst performer was IES:Invinity Energy, dropping 21% as people took profits following the recent surge. I guess it was bound to happen.

SBTX:SkinBioTherapeutics shares began trading again after they completed the fraud investigation. They ended up 16% down, but at one point in the week were 37% down, so this isn't bad.

HPOW:H-Power suffered a similar fate to IES, dropping 12% after recent strong gains.

THX:Thor Explorations was the worst hit of my gold miners, dropping 6%. Most of them were down this week, but not by that much.

Share of the Week is shared between GAW:Games Workshop and SBRE:Sabre Insurance, as both climbed 5% and were my only big risers this week.

Here's the ISA and shares portfolio after week 46 of year 11.

Weekly Change
Cash£109.73    +£0
Portfolio cost£116,490.29+£0
Portfolio sell value
(bid price-commission)
£31,531.48(-72.9%)-£1,259.89
Potential profits£351.52-£104.52
Yr 11 Dividends£86.83
+£0
Yr 11 Interest£1.57            +£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£873.14+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£82.86(1.1%)-£1.84
Total Dividends£12,574.90+£0
Total Interest£10.14    +£0
Total Profit from sales£18,433.41+£0
Average monthly cash profit£232.52(3.2%)-£0.41
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends
- Fees / Months)

Most of my losses were in my ISA this week, with big drops for HPOW:H-Power, IES:Invinity Energy and SBTX:SkinBioTherapeutics, with the drop in IES reducing potential profits by £104.


The rise is looking more like a blip along a steady decline.


Back below the trend line


The SIPP looks like this after week 550 overall and week 30 of year 11.




Weekly Change
Cash£814.15
-£467.92
Portfolio cost£160,213.80
+£493.00
Portfolio sell value
(bid price - commission)
£89,598.87(-44.1%)-£251.52
Potential profits£10,452.05
+£234.41
Yr 11 Dividends£1.432.66
+£25.08
Yr 11 Interest£12.26
+£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£9,397.72
+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£1,547.77(18.8%)-£49.62
Total Dividends£19,652.86
+£25.08
Total Interest£32.96
+£0
Total Profit from sales£34,064.23
+£0
Average monthly cash profit£409.71(5.0%)-£0.55   

It was monthly investment time. I bought 106 shares in ESTC:European Smaller Companies Trust at 232.9611p costing £248.17 and 35 shares in BPM:BP Marsh & Partners at 699.5p costing £244.83. I've bought as many ESTC as I want now, but will continue with BPM for a few more months.

Portfolio value only dropped £251 and potential profits actually went up £234 and I got a £25 dividend from GCP:GCP Infrastructure Investments.


Still tantalisingly close to the injection line


Still below the trend line.


Hoping I can stay above £400 until August when I clear out some of my magic formula shares, hopefully for lots of profit.

There was an encouraging presentation from JLP:Jubilee Metals about their Molefe mine this week. It got me all excited in JLP again, but I'm not making the mistake of buying more shares. Every time I do that, the share price drops even further. I am optimistic it will turn around some time this summer when they can show production is increasing. That will be a game changer for my performance in both accounts. It's just taking a very, very long time. I need to keep reminding myself that I've been in this position with JLP before, but have made £1,700 profit in my SIPP and a massive £13,183 in my ISA, so this has been one of my best ever shares. There is hope!

Saturday, 6 June 2026

Week 565 Review - SIPP hammered, ISA flat.

A dreadful week for the SIPP, with huge drops especially in miners. The ISA actually ended up in the black. The overall effect was a widening of the deficit between cost and value by £3,745 to £154,062 and a widening of the deficit between injection and value to £61,848. Total portfolio value fell to £123,540.

Worst performer by a long way was PAF:Pan African Resources, dropping 23% after an operational update that wasn't really bad. I guess given all gold miners were hammered this week, it's not a surprise. I took advantage of the drop to buy some more.

EDV:Endeavour Mining dropped 13% and is now only 4% in profit, which is amazing given the price of gold.

PRU:Prudential fell 12% and are now at a loss by 3%. It sounds like investors were spooked by performance in China.

THX:Thor Explorations also dropped 12% following the trend amongst miners.

ATYM:Atalya Mining fell 10% and my ISA holding is no longer in profit.

FRES:Fresnillo and GGP:Greatland Resources both fell 9% which was pretty good compared to the rest.

FDM:FDM Group fell 7% after a recent rally and are now 68% down.

AMRQ:Amaroq, FNX:Fonix and HPOW:H-Power all fell 6%.

GAW:Games Workshop, INVP:Investec and JHD:James Halstead all fell 5%, which is especially surprising for INVP, having just been announced as a FTSE 100 entry.

There was some good news

BTG:BTG Consulting went up 7%, and 5% into profit after announcing an acquisition.

AMP:Ampeak Energy went up 13% for no obvious reason, but are still 67% down.

IES:Invinity Energy are still on a roll and went up another 13% this week. It's now even looking possible I may not make a loss on them, which I never would have thought a few years ago. My recent holding is up by 76% and I deeply regret just matching the value of my old holding, as I could have broken even by now if I'd got more at the cheap price. As it is, I need it to double again from here to break even.

Share of the Week is PBX:Probiotix Health, which seems to have had a delayed reaction to recent contract news and went up 15% this week after a 10% drop last week. Whether it will continue to climb is another question though.

Here's the ISA and shares portfolio after week 45 of year 11.

Weekly Change
Cash£109.73    -£3.81
Portfolio cost£116,490.29+£0
Portfolio sell value
(bid price-commission)
£32,791.37(-71.9%)+£285.73
Potential profits£456.04-£43.92
Yr 11 Dividends£86.83
+£0
Yr 11 Interest£1.57            +£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£873.14+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£84.70(1.2%)-£2.30
Total Dividends£12,574.90+£0
Total Interest£10.14    +£0
Total Profit from sales£18,433.41+£0
Average monthly cash profit£232.93(3.2%)-£0.44
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends
- Fees / Months)

The portfolio value actually increased by £285 thanks to IES:Invinity Energy and PBX:Probiotix Health, although the big drops in HPOW:H-Power and AMRQ:Amaroq meant potential profits dropped by £43.


Still pretty flat.


Hugging the trend line


The SIPP looks like this after week 549 overall and week 29 of year 11.




Weekly Change
Cash£1,292.07
+£435.99
Portfolio cost£159,720.80
+£180.21
Portfolio sell value
(bid price - commission)
£89,357.39(-44.1%)-£4,031.66
Potential profits£10,217.64
-£3,297.16
Yr 11 Dividends£1.407.58
+£197.78
Yr 11 Interest£12.26
+£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£9,397.72
+£180.92
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£1,597.39(19.4%)-£0.38
Total Dividends£19,627.78
+£197.78
Total Interest£32.96
+£0
Total Profit from sales£34,064.23
+£180.92
Average monthly cash profit£410.26(5.0%)+£2.15   

I added £250 injection for monthly savings and got £71 dividend from FOUR:4imprint, £23 from both JHD:James Halstead and KAIN:Kainos Group, and £79 from SBRE:Sabre Insurance, so cash is up. Big drop in portfolio value though, most of which was potential profits.

I sold my 81 shares in SCT:Softcat for 1824.7013p and made £180.92 (13.9%) profit. Given I've now accepted I have a curse, they rocketed the day after to 1864p which would have given me another £30. I bought 1,272 shares in PAF:Pan African Resources with the proceeds at 114.78p costing £1,472.30. They promptly dropped 7% to 106p.

The combination of small profit and dividends was enough to keep year 11 performance pretty flat, and improved long term performance by £2 a month. I hope to get to the stage where I can maintain 5% on dividends alone and the rest will be bonus selling for profit. That won't happen until I can offload the non-dividend shares.


I'll never get to cross that bloody injection line!


Very grim


The up-tick isn't enough to take us back above the trend line.

A depressing week, but I think we're stuck in a period of intense volatility for a while longer yet.