Trading 212 Portfolio Update: I Bought 3 NEW ETFs!

I've just added £1,500 into my stocks

and shares ISA. Some of my stocks over

the last three or four weeks have been

doing amazingly well, even though I've

seen a couple of people's portfolios

completely melt with the growth side of

it. Which brings me on to why I've added

three new ETFs. I'm building a growth

portfolio as well now. But I'll explain

why I've chosen them, what my journey

is, and the goal. The goal overall for

what I'm trying to achieve to get to a

million within my portfolio by the age

of 50. I'm on track massively actually.

But

stock market crash is incoming. Are we

maybe? Who knows? Before we go on

though, this is not financial advice.

This is my personal portfolio, my

personal reflection and my own monies

going into this. Okay. But in terms of

my portfolio value right now, in terms

of my overall portfolio, it is currently

at 88,000 roughly, give or take. This

data isn't the best. This is new. This

is my new portfolio analyzer on my plus

membership. I am doing some big boy

updates to this. So just it is quite raw

but as you can see it's doing aok okay

at the minute in terms of the

performance of the year going on to

trading 212 it has been absolutely

fazzy. I cannot complain about this at

all. There will be someone in the

comments going but if you were in the

graph portfolio you would have I

probably I disagree. I think I would

have probably done just as well. Um the

income side of it going pretty well too.

So everything is hunky dory. Yes, I do

need to add £14,491

remaining by April. So, I do need to

pluck some numbers out my ass somehow. I

might have to sell the dog. In terms of

the biggest winners or losers in my most

recent history, I'm using Snowball to

showcase this, but basically, long story

short, Shell has been amazing. I

remember when I bought this, everyone

was like, "Why on earth are you buying

that?" Well, there you go. I could say

I'm amazing, but I'm going to showcase

my loser in a minute. So, you can

probably see there's an offset here.

But, as you can see, the world of like

energy prices, gas, whatever, oil, etc.,

is going to play a factor in what is

going to be achieved with earnings and

the situation around revenue on the

well, Shell, BP, etc. So, Shell, it's a

top quality company in my opinion.

Anyways, in terms of my biggest loser at

the minute is actually Barclays. It's

not terrible. I mean, I'm not going to

cry about it, but overall, yeah, it's

not doing well. Um, so yeah, may well

recover. There is issues with taxation

around banks now with the budget, but

also as well there was some situations

around some complaints around customer

side of it, uh, data and stuff. So,

there's issues there, but it's still top

quality. Still, in my viewpoint,

probably one of the better ones to have,

but it's not going to be all sunshining

rainbows. In terms of my best at the

minute ETF is LDG, this has done

phenomenal. It doesn't look amazing, but

ultimately I've been buying quite a few

in in little intervals, but as you can

see, overall total gains 8%. I cannot

complain with that. So, yeah, it's

pretty good. 500 quid in dividends as

well. So, it's quite a good one.

Personal opinion is quality and I feel

like with the world of growth stocks

doing a little bit iffy defensive

companies such as quality companies like

this is what this one tracks, this will

probably do pretty well, which is good.

But before I go on, in terms of how my

[snorts] portfolio looks in terms of

scoring, it's all right. Resilient wise,

it's good. geographical area. It's

pretty much UK, a bit of America, a bit

of Japan, a bit of everything. It's not

too crazy. Very little duplication as it

stands at the minute, but that will

probably change in terms of if I look at

isolation of my growth portfolio, but

things are looking pretty good to be

fair. The first ETF that I bought is the

Valve fund from Vanguard, which is by

far one of the better ones out there.

This is going to be the foundation layer

of this because it probably will do a

similar sort of performance as the the

old world fund. They do offer really

good returns. So, it just makes sense to

have that as a core and it has a little

bit of small caps in there. I don't

think it will outperform the old world

fund, but we'll see. The next one is

IITU, which is basically the information

technology sector of the S&P 500. Pretty

much this is pretty concentrated. It's

pretty crazy this one. So, this is the

30% little split essentially you can

argue of the volatility. It's pretty

good. But it performance has been very

good. You could see that this could be

very very interesting. Over the last

month is down a bit. So it's not a bad

thing to be down at the minute in terms

of value, but in terms of what it

actually has, you can see it's got all

the big boys in there. Quite obvious. So

yeah, it's very heavy with certain

things and that's what we want. And a

popular one with my users who watch my

content is WLDDS.

Now, let me know in the comments if

there's anything else you'd do or change

or have, but this is small cap. So, this

is only 10%. So, basically, long story

short, I have all world with small caps.

I have technology, information

technology in that little sector. And

then I have small caps as well with a

little 10% kind of push to the upside.

So, basically [snorts] just improves the

exposure a little bit to small caps.

Basically, it's easiest way of doing it.

But again, we'll see how the small caps

do. Only 10% on this one, but over the

last year or so, it's been pretty good.

We may well see small caps do well

longer term because people are money

moving money around at the minute. So,

we'll see how it goes. But again, it may

change, it may not. This is the one

that's up for debate because I've

already got small caps in Val. So,

unless I find another little satellite

sector, which I could, but we'll see.

But the reason why I've built this is

because you lot have been asking me for

a very long time, do a growth portfolio.

So here I am. I'm starting it anyways.

Will I buy individual stocks?

Potentially, yes, I will add to it. It's

just at the starting point. I've only

put 100 quid in at the minute. This is

to separate the longerterm growth plan

of the income portfolio. And it gives me

something else to talk about and monitor

and look in terms of how it does and be

able to look at each one separately. But

the long-term plan with this is to

contribute 300 pounds per month on

average within this portfolio to see how

it goes. And if I do get some profit or

value appreciation, a capital

appreciation, and it goes a bit crazy, I

could be able to move that into the

dividend pie, which is kind of the aim

anyways. But just a warning, don't go

copying. I'm not putting this pie up

publicly just yet. As I say, I've still

got a little bit of a contentious thing

around that small cap fund there,

whereas I'm kind of duplicating it. I

could quite easily put another satellite

in there of something totally different,

which is probably the better way of

doing it realistically when I think

about it. So, we'll see how it goes.

Problem is though, if I go with

semiconductors or whatever, I'm going to

have overlap anyways with whatever fund

I use. So, that's going to be the

biggest issue here. Whether I just go

with one or three or two is another

situation as well. Now to get to roughly

£10,000 passive income on this

portfolio, we're looking about seven

years based of the dividend yield and

the dividend growth with the

contributions of me filling it by 20K

every single year. So there's a