Revealing my $37,170 Investment Portfolio

Hello and welcome to my investment

portfolio video where I'll be showing you

my 2 main portfolios, how much money I

lost, and what I'm currently investing in.

So I've invested a total of £26,700,

which is about $37,000,

into 2 different investment portfolios.

So this is the first portfolio. It has

about £6,788. It's currently

down £71. And this is the timeline

of my— this

is the timeline of my investment history.

So you can see I started in October 2020,

and initially I just put £2,000 in, and

then I started to gain confidence And I

put another £2,000 and then another

£2,000. And I mainly

invested in NIO, which is a Chinese

electric car company. And as you can see,

it did pretty well. Watch it go up.

It went up to a peak of about £10,000,

nearly £11,000. That was a pretty nice

gain. I had nearly 40% gain on my total

investment. And then February came And

yeah, I lost all of it. And then after

that, I sold NIO at probably not

a loss but not a profit. So I didn't even

make anything from my NIO trade because I

held it. I bought it here, held it as it

went up, and then I watched it go back

down. And then I got fed up watching it go

down and I sold it. And then I put the

remaining money, the $6K, into dividend

stocks. And as you can see,

the dividend stocks have done absolutely

nothing. Look at this line, it's pretty

much a completely flat straight line. It

hasn't moved at all. Look, went from

£6,300 to £6,700.

Oh wow, I made a couple hundred. And I

still have some of my dividend stocks and

my safe stocks I also had oil stocks which

I sold now, but this is what I have for my

dividends. I got Altria, which is now down

6%. They are a tobacco

company. And I've got Walgreens Boots,

which are down 9%. And I got JP Morgan,

which is down 1%. And I put a tiny bit

into Etsy and a tiny bit into US Growth

Index. I only put $200, but that's up

really nicely, 25%. I should have put more

in. I should have put more into that. The

problem with my dividend stocks, the

reasons why it's just a flat line,

because I sold my NIO and I bought into

value stocks and dividend stocks when they

were at their all-time highs. So I didn't

make any money because again, I bought

high and I sold low, and then I bought

high again. So that's just been a complete

failure. Look at this, it's just, just a

straight line. Didn't make anything. So in

portfolio 1, I made a total of minus

£71 so far. Not great.

And yeah, I do get dividends, but it's

only about— it's probably about $60 to

$100 every few months, so it really

doesn't make any difference. Yeah, I made

a big mistake selling NIO and pivoting

into dividend stocks. It just didn't

really do anything for me. But I guess on

the bright side, it stopped going down

loads. If I carried on holding on to NIO,

it would have went down, probably down to

here. But then NIO is back up to about

$50. So if I carried on holding it, I

would have probably been back up around

$8K or maybe even $9K. Yeah, that's the

problem. I bought NIO when it was near the

high, and then I panic sold it, didn't

hold it, didn't buy more of the dip, and I

didn't carry on holding it when it went

back up. And then I pivoted into stocks

that don't really move much. And this

chart is quite interesting. It compares my

portfolio performance to the, um, the

All-World Index Fund, which is like an

ETF of the entire world markets. And as

you can see, I kind of underperformed the

market. In the beginning, I was just

destroying it. Look at this, this gray

line, and then look at my portfolio

performance. I was just destroying the

market, and then this happened, and now

I'm actually— uh,

well, the All-World ETF is up 17%,

whereas mine is up 9%. I don't know why it

says up 9%, but then it says I'm down £71.

So I would have just made more money if I

just put all my money into the All-World

ETF index fund and then just left it. I

would have a 17% gain if I did that.

Okay, so here's where the real pain

begins. This is my main portfolio where I

initially invested £20,000, and as you can

see, it's currently at £11,600.

So I've lost nearly 50%, nearly 40% of

that initial investment. And here is

the sad tale of my investment journey.

Began in October, just adding $2K, added

another $2K, started to get more

confident, added $5K, another $4K,

and then I got to a total of $20K

invested. And I was mainly investing in

stocks that YouTubers were recommending,

and that strategy worked pretty well in

the beginning. I was buying Tesla, I was

buying NIO. I was buying— what else I buy?

Microvision, BNGO, Macy's,

just the stuff that was hyped up.

And look, I was doing pretty well. Got

$23K in December, $24K December.

January was a bit rocky, went down to

$21K. And then February— I mean, end of

January was really good, back to $24K.

And then you can see this spike. I got to

a total of nearly £30K though. I actually

did hit £30K at one point. Jesus,

£30,000.

I, I made £10,000 at my peak, and that was

because of the AMC GameStop meme stock

thing. And I got pretty lucky with the

GameStop stock and AMC stocks, and I made

thousands from that. Unfortunately, I lost

most of it. As you can see, it just

plummeted back down to $23K, and I

thought, okay, don't worry, I'll work my

way back up. And I did. I slowly

swing traded my way back up to $29K

again.

And then February, middle of February,

the NASDAQ correction came and it just

plummeted. Look at this.

Dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping.

15K, 14K, 12K.

Oh no, oh no. I went to as

low as 8K. Look at that, from 30K down

to 8K.

Things have been rebounding a little bit,

see. It went up back to 12K

in June.

July hasn't been good. So I nearly got

back up to 13K, but then it started

flopping again. Now I'm back down to 11K.

So let me explain what happened.

Basically, I got too confident around this

point. I was up around 10K. I had a total

of Nearly 30k, and I was feeling great,

and I thought, wow, I'm doing so well. I

need to put more money to get bigger

returns. And I did something really

stupid, and I put about 15k into BNGO,

and then I put about 10k into Microvision.

And then February came, and those stocks

and other hypergrowth stocks all crashed

about 40. 50%. It was just insane.

I bought BNGO when it was around $12.

Look, here's BNGO.

So BNGO peaked around $15,

and I was getting really excited. I

thought, wow, this is like going to be the

next superstar stock. It's going to get to

$50 or $30. I can 2x my money. So I put in

a huge amount of money When BNGO was

around $12, probably around here. And then

BNGO just crashed. Look at that, it went

all the way down back to about $4, $5.

Yeah, here it drops back down to $4.

So that's, that's over 50% it

crashed, and I had over 50% of my money in

it. And then the other stock I was heavily

invested in was Microvision. And I did

pretty well in the beginning. I bought— I

think I put about $4,000 when Microvision

was about $10.

Yeah, it was about here, and it shot up to

about $20, $23. I got really excited.

I thought, wow, this stock's going to go

to $100. I need to put more money into it.

So I put more money into it when it was

around probably $16.

And then Microvision dropped all the way

back down to about $10,

and I lost over 50%. And then I panic sold

when it was about $12, and then

Microvision shot back up to $26.

I'm so stupid. If I just held it, I

wouldn't have lost anything, but I

paper-handed. I bought when it was at its

high, I sold when it dropped, and then I

didn't manage to, to benefit from when it

shot back up again. Microvision is just

like all over the place. It drops down to

as low as $10, it shoots back up to $26,

it drops back down to $14, shoots back up

to $22. Ah, it's just so volatile. And

this is what I currently have. I still

have some BNGO. Says +20% because I

sold all of it around $7 And then I bought

back into it when it was around $5. So

it's back up to about— it's

back up to nearly $7. So I made a 20%

gain. And then I got— I put— I

panic sold Microvision, and then I put

that money into Riot Blockchain, which is

like a Bitcoin mining company. And that

was another failure because I bought that

around here when it was about $50,

back when Bitcoin was about $60,000.

And as you may know, Bitcoin has dropped

back down to $30K, and so has Riot

Blockchain because it's, it's linked to

Bitcoin, so it, it traces Bitcoin's

movements. And yeah, I panic sold it

as well, and then I bought back in when it

was around $22, so that's why it says I've

got a 30% gain. It's not really a gain,

it's actually still a loss. And then

I recently bought SoFi Technologies,

American Airlines, and I got this Original

Bark company, which is actually up 4%,

which is nice. And I've got about £2,000

in cash just waiting to buy something.

So yeah, I haven't really done very well.

I recovered a little bit from $8K. Jesus,

I can't believe I dropped from

$29,000-$30,000 all the way down to $8K.

That's like a loss of 2/3. And then I

rebounded a little bit back up to $12K.

And as you can see from the all-time

performance chart, I was destroying the

market at this point. I was up 30%,

37%, and then it just tanked whilst the

overall markets slowly and steadily rose

18%. So if I just put all my money into

this, I could have had an 18% gain right

now and I'd be up probably £5,000.

But instead I YOLO'd on risky stocks and

I'm down 44%.

Great. So what have we learned from my

mistakes? I've learned that my mistakes

were made because I bought at the top when

things were rallying and going to the

moon. I got all excited and I was like,

wow, I gotta buy more BNGO because it's

gonna go up even more. Oh, I gotta buy

more Bitcoin stuff because it's at $60K

and it's gonna go to $100K. And then I

bought at the top and then it crashed and

then I panic sold and then I bought back

in. Trying to time the bottom, and then I

lost most of it because it's really

difficult to time the top— the bottom. I

bought at the top, I sold at the bottom,

I bought back in at the bottom. It's so

bad. I made every single investing mistake

that you should never make. And to be

honest, I don't really know what to do

now. If I sell everything, what if it

starts going back up again and then I just

missed out on recovering? And then if I

sell everything, what am I gonna buy? I

don't know what's what's a good thing to

buy right now. So I think I'm just gonna

leave it and not sell anything and just

try and be patient. Maybe eventually after

months and months some of these stocks

will go back up. People saying Bitcoin's

gonna go back up to $60K, maybe I can just

be patient and wait for that. So my

investing journey since I began, how long

ago was it? October, and now it's July.

So that's about 9 months, 9 months of hard

work trying to invest, and I managed to

turn £26,000 into £18,000.

Yay! I turned $37,000 into $25,000.

Amazing success story.