Some comparisons to my other holdings with no changes to capital, rounding down by various factors of 10s for privacy (slight differences may be caused by FX rates):
Freetrade baggers
Feb 2021: £61.04
Today: £49.05
Shares held in public companies
Feb 2021: £50.73
Today: £56.19
On the subject of randomness, perhaps the Freetrade Community Forum needs some sort of animal that randomly and haphazardly picks stocks on a whim without any idea of what it’s doing.
Shell has been a very good purchase, I am up 120% on 128 shares. Very nice dividends too.
For 2022 I’d guess a few Cyber Companies will double in price, and web infrastructure like $NET - Cloudflare - will have a very good year. CloudFlare is up 47% for me.
Approximately 25% of my £21,000 portfolio is spread across Cyber:
DarkTrace (+14%)
Avast (+4%)
SailPoint (+6%)
CrowdStrike (+8%)
CyberArk (+8%)
ZScaler (+7%)
Tenable Holdings (+5%)
Sentinel one (+5%)
CheckPoint (+4%)
Rapid7 (+4%)
MimeCast (+10%)
Palo Alto (+12%)
Fortinet (+6%)
Datto (+5%)
RadWare (+3%)
McAfee (-5%)
KnowBe4 (-5%)
Allot Com (-5%)
I don’t think returns are random. But I do think that by the time people are getting excited about a stock it’s often too late, especially with meme stocks and FOMO type stocks
My portfolio is doing better than the freetrade baggers, but it’s mostly safe stocks that you wouldn’t have expected to double in a year
Nah they can’t pick and choose when it suits them. This thread was maintained and hyped up in good times yet everyone scarpered when growth stocks began to underperform. We won’t hear nothing if it remains that way. Just goes to show how markets go through cycles favouring different methods at different times some people have been clouded due to the prior year and to an extent a prior decade long plus bullrun.
ahem…