To cut a long story short ... after this month, the path to financial freedom has come a little further. In fact, this month was the worst month of my stock market career so far, both in absolute and relative terms. Not nice, but it happens. The reasons for this are the Iran war and the associated turbulence on the commodities market (especially gold and silver), where the lion's share of my investments are held.
But let's take a look at the figures!
👉🏻 March:
Start: 1,559,460 euros + 300 cash
End: 1,330,246 euros + 9,843 cash
Deposit: 16,250 euros
Profit: - 235.921 Euro (-14.4%)
These are of course unpleasant figures, but on the plus side: 90% of the decline is due to the price losses of my two largest positions (K92 Mining and New Equinox). In the course of the 15% fall in the gold price, both stocks lost a good 30% each and this had a particularly negative impact due to their high weighting.
At its peak, my portfolio even lost almost 500,000 euros within a few days/weeks. That makes you a bit nervous. Fortunately, however, it has already recovered significantly from the lows and is also up YTD. So all is well... 👍🏼
I remain optimistic in the medium term. With the Iran war, geopolitical uncertainties have increased further and inflationary pressure will rise. Even if interest rates are raised, I am sure that real interest rates will continue to fall, which will tend to be good for gold. But let's see... If history repeats itself from the mid-70s, we are in for golden times 😉
Otherwise, I naturally took the opportunity to increase my positions in $KNT (-0,62 %)
$EQX (-2,54 %) and $SCZ (-3,56 %) expand my positions. At the same time, turbulent market times naturally also offer opportunities to take profits. I have liquidated my entire position at $OXY (+2,04 %) was liquidated. The past dividends have resulted in a nice profit there (thanks to the rise in oil prices). Otherwise, smaller profits were taken (e.g. $TUI1 (-2,19 %) etc.), but these were not really worth mentioning...
As things stand now, we have just under 16,000 euros in realized capital gains and 2,000 euros in dividends received. You can build on that... I am now waiting patiently for the recovery! 👍🏼
➡️🆓: On my way towards 4 million total assets, the target achievement rate is now 43.7%.
Here's to good stock market trading and Happy Easter to you all! 😊
PS: Since I'm a little late, the current portfolio value does not match the one from March 31 (it has recovered a bit since then - fortunately)





