Total Balance

Here we are again, dear readers!

Another month has passed, and it’s thus time to look back and see how investments fared during one of the toughest months the world has faced in many years.

COVID-19 is raging war against our planet and its inhabitants. We’re in the midst of a pandemic, and the world leaders are calling it The greatest challenge since World War II (not Trump obviously, he’ll have it beaten by the end of Easter 😉 ).

These weeks and months will forever be imprinted in our minds, and we will be talking about the events of 2020 for years to come. The great pandemic of 2020 will now forever be a part of our history. From that perspective, it seems a bit pointless (wrong even?) to be focusing on the stock markets (and/or crowdlending or other passive income streams).

However, pandemic or not, the show must go on. The world has overcome pandemics before, and it will overcome this one too. Stay home and stay safe.

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Update #18 is about to go down, which means I’ve now been doing these for 18 months!

Of all the updates this has by far been my LEAST favorite one to do. But even though life has its ups and downs the show must go on 🙂

2019 ended on a high note for the average stock investor, while 2020 has revealed itself as a bit of a challenge (she’s been a bit of a bitch lately, hasn’t she?)!

Luckily for me, I’m not hugely invested in stocks (I do have stocks in my pension portfolio, but only about 30% of the portfolio).

Unluckily for me, I was “invested” in a couple of (what turned out to be) dodgy crowdlending platforms, and last month I wrote off my investments with Kuetzal. – This month the time has come to write off my Envestio portfolio…

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The first month of 2020 is already over, guys – and thank God for that.

January is usually my least favorite month of the year (long and cold), and this year was no exception. There’s really no easy way to say it! What a shitty month. Lets wrap this one up quickly, so we can get back to February and hopefully enjoy the arrival of an early spring this year (thank you, global warming).

As we all know December spelled trouble in Crowdlending land, with the fall of Kuetzal. Next in line was then Envestio. Two of my best performing platforms turned out to be dubious (as it seems). That kinda put a damper on everyone’s excitement for the new year. The fall of these two platforms basically saw all my crowdlending earnings from last year vanish over night. I guess there’s always a silver lining though; At least I don’t have to worry about paying the taxes on my crowdlending income for 2019 (HAHA – the joke is on you, IRS!)…

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It’s 2020 already! Happy New year, everybody!

Time flies, when you’re counting pennies! It’s 2019 no more, and this is thus the final Monthly Update of 2019!

The month of December saw no records broken (besides maybe the one for how much sugar one guy can eat within 1 month – yikes!)

Christmas was indeed long and expensive, in many ways. Anyway, January is here and it’s thus time to get back in the saddle! (Literally and figuratively speaking!).

Let’s look at some numbers from the final month of the decade – did I reach my goal or what!?

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