Summary of June 2014

The month became much, much more expensive than what I had expected. My bicycle broke down so  badly that I was forced to buy a new one. I took the stupid decision of ordering a bicycle online. Big mistake! The bicycle had so many faults with it that the day after I made a cancelation of the buy due to faulty goods. The company, no phone number existed to call, only had an email address and when I sent my complaints to that company email it bounced back without being delivered. I then went to my bank to block the credit card payment and now I am stuck within the decision  process of my bank and in the meantime I was sitting on a useless bicycle and 320 € less.

Still... I needed to have a bicycle to go to work so I bought a second one for 280 € but this one I tested in the store before buying so the slightly more clever approach of buying  a bicycle. I am very happy with this one and to decrease the interest of people to steal it I made some ugly paintings on it with indoor paint. This means that it looks ugly right now but once the bicycle start to look used the paint will also have disappeared and in this way there should theoretically never be an interest in stealing it. Fingers crossed.

I also realised that I had to make a service and safety control of my car which brought me down an additional 321 €. There are no rules about service of cars in Germany but the safety control is a must every second year. When you have bought a new car you can wait three years until having the first control. It is exactly the same in France but in Sweden one have to make this check each year.

So... it was a pretty bad month considering that I lost a block of investment (~1,000 €) on expenses that I was not really prepared for. Good that I always keep a buffer though so that these kind of things never become a real problem and is only slightly annoying.
How did then the investment work out?

The total invested value made a significant jump up this month and I am now up at 39,826 €. The reason for the increase is due to that I was forced to buy more shares in DB (analysis of DB 2014), because I wanted to buy more shares in DBAG (analysis of DBAG 2014) and in Cez (analysis of Cez 2014). This then also means that I am back on track with my investment plan of around 1,000 € per month at least for the running half year of 2014.

The current value is now at 37,734 € and it is sad to see how the pie chart of Asian Bamboo has become smaller and smaller. If we compared my stock portfolio to last month then the increase has been +1.29% which is pretty ok.

As can be seen in the chart above DAX is far, far away from me but it did lose last month. DAX went back with -0.5% while my portfolio increased with almost 1.3%. Looking back Dax has beaten me 20 out of 29 months and the best month for DAX was +6.8% and the worst was -9% for me the best month has been +7.3% and the worst has been -13.5%. DAX in total is now up 42.8% and I am -5.3%.

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