Claritech Labs - The Second Income Experiment - 12th to 20th May 2025

A little over a week has passed since we began this experiment and we have had some beginners luck!

Let’s look at the overall performance: the account had a starting value (on 12th May 2025) of GBP 7529.17 and an ending value (on 21st May 2025) of GBP 8010.70

That’s an absolute return of +6.4% for the period or GBP 481.53

How did we get here?

I researched (Fundamental Analysis) a few stocks on the London Stock Exchange and referred the research I had done in the blog series “Investing, Not Rocket Science” and shortlisted two stocks that I wanted to buy because they looked inexpensive; Vodafone Group and RWS Holding. On 14th May 2025 at 4 AM Eastern Time,  I bought 4500 stocks of RWS Holding and 5000 Stocks of Vodafone Group.

In the adjoining graphs, the blue arrows indicate the purchase of the instrument and a red arrow indicates a sale of the instrument. The graphs are in 1 hour intervals.

Further I researched (Technical Analysis) the DAX index and perceived it to be trading at a resistance. I sold 1 lot of the index futures and squared it when the index fell lower. I then waited for the index to rally and sold 1 lot of the index futures again. This continues to remain an open position.

Contribution to MTD Performance:

Vodafone Group:         +5.6%

Dax Futures:                  +0.9%

RWS Holding:                -0.2%

That’s the update for now, this experiment continues.

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