4 month update on r/Stocks favourite stock picks - up 43.62%!

See my [last update from February here](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1r46r7c/a_1_month_update_on_rstocks_favourite_stocks/) And [OP in January here](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1qbw2zr/putting_rstocks_to_the_test_by_buying_all_this/) Again, anyone wanting to follow the [Trading 212 Pie](https://www.trading212.com/pies/l7rMzBS5lmGR0u48kZjwpqARSr2J) (that's the trading app we use in the UK/Europe - it's basically our Robinhood) is welcome to do so I got some shit on r/Investing for shitty formatting, so I'll explain the list a bit. The list is sorted top to bottom by target weighting (max was 10% with Kraken/Nebius and the bottom one is weighted at 3%). The £ total is the total currently in the fund. The % number is just what our total percentage return is. I've highlighted the top performers **Numbers are as of Monday 18th** when I actually wrote the original post - most have gone up a bit over the course of the week hence the title of the post: |Holding|Current total|% total return| |:-|:-|:-| |Kraken Robotics|£8.70|\-12.83%| |Nebius Group NV|£20.74|\+113.81%| |ASE Technology|£14.58|\+82.48%| |Advanced Micro Devices|£11.63|\+94.16%| |Celestica|£6.75|\+12.69%| |Eos Energy Enterprises|£2.87|\-52.09%| |First Solar|£5.83|\-2.67%| |SELLAS Life Sciences|£10.68|\+78.30%| |Amprius Technologies|£9.02|\+80.76%| |Applied Digital|£5.79|\+16.03%| |Intuitive Machines|£9.61|\+92.59%| |IREN|£5.28|\+5.81%| |Micron Technology|£10.61|\+112.63%| |Ondas|£4.03|\-19.24%| |Planet Labs|£8.18|\+63.93%| |Rezolve AI|£2.84|\-28.82%| |NuScale Power|£1.77|\-41.00%| |**Total**||**+38.6%**| Before anyone asks **I HAVE NOT ADDED ASTS INTO THE LIST BECAUSE I AM ALREADY INVESTED IN IT ELSEWHERE.** It also wasn't included in the OP as the OP was "what stocks *other than* ASTS and RKLB do you like". It's been an interesting few months. Almost immediately after I made my last post in February, Trump invaded Iran and these high beta stocks took a nosedive. Things weren't looking positive, particularly around 26th March when suddenly we were down about 14%, but then April Fool's Day happened and I guess everyone said fuck it and piled back into the market. It's basically gradually marched upwards since then with the occasional downward swing. In the last 3 months (pretty much since my last post when we were at £90), our peak was on Friday 15th May, when we had a return of a whopping 61.3%! **With our measly £100 initial investment, that brings our current total to £138.90, for a total actual return of 38.6%.** This is compared with the benchmark of the S&P 500 (VUSA for us, since we're using GBP) which has returned 11.01%. So Reddit, so far, is outperforming the market by quite a wide margin. The target weight for each stock was dependent on the amount of mentions it received in another post by another user (linked in my OP). As you can see, only 6 out of the 17 stocks are currently at a loss, with 8 of our picks sitting on high double digit returns. 3 of the losers also weren't mentioned very much, hence their low target weights. As previously said, I'm letting the winners run and the losers die out so i don't intend on rebalancing at all. If the last few months are anything to go by, I imagine at least one will just completely die out and one will probably skyrocket above the rest, so I'd rather not double down on losses in an experiment like this. What lesson should you take from this? Idk yet, we're not very far through the experiment.