
u/Gulliveig

To the investors considering non-US *AND* non-Tech investments, I just wanted to point out, that this would not be a diversifying move, but a risk-concentrating one
(This is a redraw of an earlier but faulty comment of mine, which still managed to get 2 awards, thank you lovely people! :)
The number of yellow pixels in relation to the content of the red circle corresponds pretty much to the exposure you'd have with such a strategy in real: non-Us & non-tech leaves you pretty much with 20% of the world's non-tech firms (yellow).
If non-US & non-tech is your philosophy, though, by all means, just go for it. But know, that this is not where the music currently plays ;)
Do schiint öppis usem Weste z'choo
iischlägigi Fore (z.B. sturmforum.ch) gsehnd viel Sturmpotenzial, im Extremfall sogar Tornados.
Viellicht wiä so oft nur im Wasserglas, aber jo, passet halt uuf und rolled dä Terrassestore ufe ;)
Maybe interesting for active traders: IBKR trading hours in CEST
Since many of you are with IBKR, I thought it might be helpful to share my guide, at what times of the Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit you can actually trade your shares and ETFs.
"Ausserbörslicher Handel" (yellow) is offered for the American exchanges, apparently even almost closing the 2:00 am to 10:00 am gap (short of 10 minutes), but I have no experience in that latter. And for HK between 3:00 and 3:30 am.
Oh. And it's pure Excel, not AI. The 05:45 start in India were an additional complication ;)
If you have corrections/additions, just shoot!
Waldbränd. Emergency. Ihr müend weg. Was etz?
Ha mit miner Frau das Topic churz gha am Friitig. Mier lebed sehr nöch am Wald. So Öppe 20 Meter. Oder 40, was weiss i, has nöd gmesse.
Aso. Mir hend gredt, und am SA simmer in Decathlon gonen spezielle Rucksack z'chaufe.
Plan isch, öppe 5 Underwösch iizpacke und so Sache, und es Bargeld, wome dihei als Bünzli eh het, dri izschmeisse im Kriisefall.
Jo. Ihr so. Was isch euen Plan bi Waldbrand-Evakuation?
Aligro, Switzerland, 311.55 CHF (€333, $384)
Contains some wine (6 bottles at 0.75L) and mineral water (24 btl at 0.5L).
These times we sometimes just go to get some extra AC treat via car and their store ;)
Welches Finanzportal abonnieren?
Schwanke zwischen Reuters, Bloomberg, und AP.
Ich möchte schnelle Infos über marktbewegende Finanznews. Welches Portal funktioniert für euch?
(Alle 3 bieten auch gratis einen RSS Feed an, aber der ist natürlich zeitlich (sehr) verzögert. Lesen kann man den Artikel ausser dem Titel dann aber natürlich wegen der Paywall trotzdem nicht.)
Electricity & Grid Infrastructure ETFs
AI, EVs, heat pumps, data centers all are a thing these days, and all require massive amounts of electricity.
Someone has to manage and upgrade the grids transporting all that electricity, so I'd look at companies involved in electrical equipment, grid tech, power management, industrial electrification and transmission infrastructure.
What I ideally would want is an ETF containing Eaton, Schneider Electric, ABB, Prysmian, perhaps some raw powr plant generation like Siemens Energy and the like.
(Edited paragraph: Preferably denoted in USD, but listed in Ireland as I'm in Europe: however, in non-EU Switzerland, so not bound to UCITS.)
My reasearch tells me, what comes closest is probably the Nasdaq Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index (GRID or the Irish equivalent GRDU, IE000J80JTL1). Doesn't directly contain Siemens Energy, but its parent. And much more ofc.
What do you think about GRID? Do you perhaps know of a better alternative to cover the needs of the sectors mentioned in the first paragraph?
Hört mal, entspannt euch, ist immer noch Weekend. Was war heut der Plan?
Der Hersteller sagte: Nicht über 400°C gehen!
Wir Schweizer befolgen solche Regeln natürlich :)
Auf dem Katamaran Richtung Friedrichshafen
Nehmt euch für wenig Geld ein Glas Sekt von der Bar mit nach draussen ;)
Happy with the new pizza stone
Don't regret to have purchased a Rösle gas grill :)
Naja, dann schau ich auch mal, was der Rösten-Konsens hierzu ist...
Eingangs-Bemerkungen: Ich rechne in Schweizer Franken (CHF). Und BTEC, RBOT, RENW und AIAI haben so viel P/L rel., weil ich grade ein bisschen rebalanciert habe. Details hier
Kopie aus Excel, für Ende Juli 2025 bis jetzt (fast ein Jahr). Strebe 20% p.a. an, schaffe ich dank Donald's Angriff nicht: der März war brutal. Nuja, bin noch positiv :)
| ETF Ticker | ISIN | Stk | Bezahlt | in CHF | Market | in CHF | Anteil | P/L abs | P/L rel | Voller Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHF | inkl. VkGeb | |||||||||
| CSSMI | CH0008899764 | 1500 | 201496 | 201496 | 225360 | 225135 | 10.08% | 23639 | 11.7% | ISHARES SMI ETF CH |
| CFR | CH0210483332 | 200 | 31050 | 31050 | 36840 | 36780 | 1.65% | 5730 | 18.5% | CIE FINANCIERE RICHEMO-A REG |
| SRFCHA | CH0124758522 | 1000 | 38640 | 38640 | 41540 | 41480 | 1.86% | 2840 | 7.3% | UBS ETF SXI REAL ESTATE |
| EUR | ||||||||||
| EXW1 | DE0005933956 | 2400 | 132196 | 123563 | 156600 | 143812 | 6.44% | 20249 | 16.4% | iShares EURO STOXX 50 UCITS ETF |
| IWDA | IE00B4L5Y983 | 8000 | 921092 | 835936 | 1006200 | 924034 | 41.36% | 88098 | 10.5% | ISHARES CORE MSCI WORLD |
| DFND | IE000U9ODG19 | 5500 | 37963 | 35484 | 49088 | 45074 | 2.02% | 9590 | 27.0% | iShares Global Aerospace & Defence UCITS ETF |
| WDEF | IE0002Y8CX98 | 1000 | 31736 | 29663 | 31925 | 29305 | 1.31% | -358 | -1.2% | WT EUROPE DEFENCE UCITS ETF |
| RMS | FR0000052292 | 50 | 112400 | 104729 | 82025 | 75327 | 3.37% | -29402 | -28.1% | HERMES INTL |
| SAP | DE0007164600 | 250 | 42630 | 38911 | 34870 | 32011 | 1.43% | -6900 | -17.7% | SAP SE |
| ETL | FR0010221234 | 20000 | 36330 | 33952 | 50640 | 46500 | 2.08% | 12549 | 37.0% | Eutelsat Communications |
| USD | ||||||||||
| BTEC | IE00BYXG2H39 | 5000 | 19375 | 15228 | 49450 | 39708 | 1.78% | 24480 | 160.8% | iShares Nasdaq US Biotechnology UCITS ETF |
| RBOT | IE00BYZK4552 | 2200 | 22278 | 17579 | 47036 | 37780 | 1.69% | 20201 | 114.9% | iShares Automation & Robotics UCITS ETF |
| RENW | IE00BK5BCH80 | 2600 | 11515 | 8875 | 46582 | 37413 | 1.67% | 28538 | 321.5% | L&G Clean Energy UCITS ETF |
| AIAI | IE00BK5BCD43 | 1100 | 6159 | 4547 | 43593 | 35015 | 1.57% | 30468 | 670.1% | L&G Artificial Intelligence UCITS ETF |
| NDIA | IE00BZCQB185 | 6000 | 52504 | 42612 | 52980 | 42540 | 1.90% | -72 | -0.2% | iShares MSCI India UCITS ETF USD Acc |
| DXJ | US97717W8516 | 400 | 50373 | 40298 | 69312 | 55677 | 2.49% | 15379 | 38.2% | WISDOMTREE JAPAN HEDGED EQ |
| AMZN | US0231351067 | 250 | 51258 | 39315 | 60750 | 48799 | 2.18% | 9484 | 24.1% | Amazon.com Inc. |
| AXP | US0258161092 | 200 | 65610 | 50773 | 70360 | 56519 | 2.53% | 5747 | 11.3% | American Express Co. |
Rebalanced several London-based ETFs in my portfolio; happy feelings :)
Bought these about a year ago. They've grown considerably, so I rebalanced them somewhat.
Despite being listed at the LSEETF, the values are in USD.
| IBKR Ticker | ISIN | Bought | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTEC | IE00BYXG2H39 | 8,000 @ 6.04 | 3,000 @ 9.635 |
| RBOT | IE00BYZK4552 | 3,400 @ 14.158 | 1,200 @ 21.57 |
| RENW | IE00BK5BCH80 | 4,600 @ 10.29 | 2,000 @ 17.914 |
| AIAI | IE00BK5BCD43 | 2,100 @ 22.21 | 1,000 @ 40.48 |
Also sold all my MSFT and NVDA shares, but since they are not ETFs I omit the details here.
Now pondering where to insert the funds. But who am I kidding. Probably all into my MSCI World, I guess...
Just wanted to share my feel-good-moment :)
Lock in profits or sell?
I have some (partially overlapping) sector bets, purchased about a year ago.
It so happens that they're all nicely positive.
At this point of time, would you cash in on the profits, or even sell all of them? (I do not need the cash, have 14.1% of the portfolio in cash already.)
| ETF Ticker | ISIN | Portf Share | P/L CHF | P/L rel | Full Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTEC | IE00BYXG2H39 | 2.8% | 23,554 | 61.0% | iShares Nasdaq US Biotechnology UCITS ETF |
| RBOT | IE00BYZK4552 | 2.7% | 21,697 | 56.3% | iShares Automation & Robotics UCITS ETF |
| RENW | IE00BK5BCH80 | 3.0% | 29,780 | 78.6% | L&G Clean Energy UCITS ETF |
| AIAI | IE00BK5BCD43 | 3.1% | 30,916 | 82.9% | L&G Artificial Intelligence UCITS ETF |
Wiä chame i de Schwiiz anonym spende?
Nöd Krypto bitte.
Bi GoFundMe z.B. chame schiinbar säge, dass me nöd im öffentliche Spenderegister wett ufgführt werde, aber de Spende-Empfänger chunt din Name gliich mitteilt über. Wetti aber nöd.
Hintergrund:
Dä uf Bünzli gläse, und mer tänkt, wett en Batze drageh, en Hunderter oder so, viellicht mached anderi jo au mit.
Aber ebe: Machi nume wenn's (vo Spendersiite) komplett anonym goot :/
Ideeä?
Grilled water melon with homemade ice cream
It was an experiment, so I didn't take pics. I will recreate it soon and provide them then :)
I decorated the lot with some fresh spearmint leaves.
If you try: use thick watermelon wedges (2–3 cm thick) in order to hold their shape on the grill. Mine were slightly too thin.
Oh, let them get some grill marks: it adds to the "Oooh" experience.)
Let cool for a minute before adding the ice cream, for... reasons ;)
A light drizzle of honey, or maple syrup might add to the taste, didn't try either, just some afterthoughts.
D-Mark vs Swiss francs concurrency
I guess, most Germans are more than happy now to have the Euro instead of the D-Mark, but I would have enjoyed to compare the D-Mark with the Swiss Franc personally on a daily basis. And I guess such existed indeed, when anecdotes from ancestors are to be taken literally :)
>The German mark had a reputation as one of the world's most stable currencies; this was based on the monetary policy of the Bundesbank. The policy was "hard" in relation to the policies of certain other central banks in Europe. The "hard" and "soft" was in respect to the aims of inflation and political interference. This policy was the foundation of the European Central Bank's present policy towards the euro.
Anyway, the Swiss thousander still exists :)
Request to the Mods
It would really (really) be helpful and useful, if you would enable pics in comments (as is the case in at least 98% of all subs now).
We could compare stuff. "Better" notes, worse quality, different styles, etc.
Not assuming it, but in case: If you need assistance on how to turn the feature on, just ask, am a mod myself. It's just one tick ;)
Respectfully,
--G