I have a flurry of trades to update on for June as I’ve responded to various opportunities and threats, including a recent profit warning at erstwhile favourite Best of the Best. I’ve made more trades than ideally I would have liked to, but hopefully the portfolio is sufficiently improved as a result.

The summer feels like it has kicked off. A spell of decent weather and the pubs and restaurants opening has contributed to a festival atmosphere, at least round where we live. It’s great to be catching up more with friends and family even if my social skills have got a bit rusty. The stock market seems to be rocking to a more languid vibe. Volatility seems to have come down again since the ups and downs of the first quarter. My portfolio has been idly shuffling backwards and forwards. The main challenge at the moment is to restrain myself from making unnecessary trades driven by boredom and post-pandemic mania. I’m rather struggling with this challenge and have quite a few trades to update on from the last month or so.