Sunday, 19 July 2026

Week 571 Review - ISA flat but gold miners hammered so the SIPP suffers.

Another red week, with the SIPP bearing most of the loss. The deficit between cost and value widened by £935 to £159,956 and the deficit between injection and value widened to £67,611. Total portfolio value fell to £120,327.

Worst performer was my biggest holding OPTI:Optibiotix which fell 13% and was responsible for much of this week's loss. There is still no sign of anything positive happening in the near term and probably the medium term too.

The gold mines were all hammered again, with GGP:Greatland Resources falling 9%, FRES:Fresnillo falling 8%,  EDV:Endeavour Mining falling 7% and PAF:Pan African Resources falling 6%. That did most of the damage to my SIPP.

HPOW:H-Power dropped another 8% as the recent spike was reversed, and W7L:Warpaint London also dropped 8% for no obvious reason.

DXRX:Diaceutics fell 6%, again for no clear reason.

SBTX:SkinBioTherapeutics dropped 5% and will continue to drop until something positive happens with Croda.

It wasn't all bad news though.

FDM:FDM Group  and FSG:Foresight Group Holdings went up 5%.

CKN:Clarkson, FOUR:4imprint and KNOS:Kainos Group went up 6%.

TAM:Tatton Asset Management went up 9% for no clear reason.

JLP:Jubilee Metals finally had a turnaround and went up 10%. Is this the long awaited reversal in fortunes or a blip?

Share of the Week for the 2nd week in a row is PAGE:Pagegroup, this time climbing 27% compared to just 13% last week. Shame I've already spent my transfer cash, as my holding is still 68% down and I could have bought some more and reduced my average and taken advantage of this momentum .

Here's the ISA and shares portfolio after week 51 of year 11.

Weekly Change
Cash£98.44    -£3.86
Portfolio cost£116,490.29+£0
Portfolio sell value
(bid price-commission)
£30,783.68(-73.6%)-£49.69
Potential profits£275.56+£16.86
Yr 11 Dividends£86.83
+£0
Yr 11 Interest£1.82            +£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£873.14+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£73.77(1.0%)-£1.81
Total Dividends£12,574.90+£0
Total Interest£10.39    +£0
Total Profit from sales£18,433.41+£0
Average monthly cash profit£230.39(3.2%)-£0.44
(Sold stocks profit + Dividends
- Fees / Months)

Pretty much flat, with a big drop in OPTI:Optibiotix cancelled out by a big rise in JLP:Jubilee Metals. Potential profits went up after small rises in TRU:Trufin and IES:Invinity Energy.

Still sinking slowly.


Still below the trend line


Still nothing.

The SIPP looks like this after week 555 overall and week 35 of year 11.




Weekly Change
Cash£310.25
+£17.78
Portfolio cost£163,385.47
+£0
Portfolio sell value
(bid price - commission)
£89,135.45(-45.4%)-£885.59
Potential profits£8,707.27
-£405.50
Yr 11 Dividends£1.583.29
+£21.94
Yr 11 Interest£15.48
+£0
Yr 11 Profit from sales£9,419.73
+£0
Yr 11 proj avg monthly profit£1,345.84(15.9%)-£37.32
Total Dividends£19,803.49
+£21.94
Total Interest£36.18
+£0
Total Profit from sales£34,086.24
+£0
Average monthly cash profit£407.23(4.8%)-£0.59   

Gold mines really dragged down both the sell value and potential profits. I did get a £21 dividend from IPX:Impax Asset management, but not much else happened.


Sinking further away from that elusive injection line.


Well below the trend line.


Just 4 weeks to go before I review my magic formula ranking and hopefully bank some more profits.

Gold finished the week just over $4,000 which is hardly down from the week before, and yet my gold miners were down 7-9%. I fear we're not going to get a turnaround for some time yet, but I'm confident it will come, so I'm happy to hold my gold stocks but not happy a lot of them are down by 30%.

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