2018

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On the 9th of December I posted about a potential bearish wave in the S&P 500 & VTI ETF. Yesterday (17-12-18) it hit the target line exactly in Both!

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The US market has bounced back a bit due to a rumor that the US and China were about to agree a trade deal. We’ll see what happens there.

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I noticed a bearish Wolfe Wave that looked like it was about to reach point 5. I continued to watch, and sure enough it looks like it may hit the target line!

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Peer to Peer Lending Portfolio Update for November 2018 The update for November 2018 is a little late this month. I was away traveling in Spain with some friends for a week so I didn’t get the time to provide the full update. I did however update the portfolio returns so they are still accurate

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  Wolfe Waves Many years ago when I was still finding my feet with investments and looking to “get rich quick”, I took an interesting trading course by a gentleman called Bill Wolfe on an investment strategy called “Wolfe Waves” (named after himself obviously).  It is similar to the Elliott Wave Theory, however much easier

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The Growth Portfolio took a dip in October, mostly due to some uncertainly about the US midterm elections, which will be held in November (6th). That, added to the trade war situation with China really shook things up a bit. It may calm down towards the end of November once we get the elections out of the way. Who knows if it will rally, or fall depending on if democrats or republicans win the house and/or the senate. Personally I think it will rally back up into the new year. Optimism is high right now, but not quite high enough for a major crash yet (yes, you read correctly, “optimism”, markets typically seem to do the opposite of what people think they will do). If you look to the past, when people are most optimistic is when the biggest crashes happened, when no one was expecting it. 

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Peer to Peer Lending Portfolio Update for October 2018.  Live versions of these charts are always available here.   Overview Portfolio growth is plodding along as expected. A little over £833 income for the month which really isn’t bad. I get emails from banks regularly touting 1.3% interest on their super-duper accounts, which would mean

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P2P Lending Portfolio Return Figures for September 2018 We are starting to see some of the loan payments kick in from most of the loans made over the past couple of months. The returns are starting to become more as expected. I added funds to two of the lenders this month; £400 to Kuflink bringing

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Return figures for September 2018. The Growth Portfolio pulled back a little in August. The markets still have a bit of confusion about the trade wars it seems, plus all this posturing going on in the U.S. about Trump and his team, so things were a little mixed. Pullbacks & drawdowns happen frequently with this

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