Bitcoin seems to be the flavour of the moment, with any number of analysts' speculations, media articles, explanations, sales pitches and advertising going around.
Given the language being used and the widespread pulling in of previously risk averse friends and neighbours, it just sounds like a hugely ramped up pyramid scheme to me, and I will be steering a wide birth.
However, I will be attempting to gain some understanding of the so called "block chain" technology behind it which appears to have every opportunity to be a game changer in global finance.
As I come back to terms with the extended spreadsheet, I keep finding little measures and checks that I had in place for some reason or other, sometimes long term, sometimes just a momentary question I had at the time. As it is, in this case it is the Forecast Div. Yield which I have updated this month. Not set in stone, the measure uses the consensus estimates from the next, and as yet unreported, financial year.
Following all the changes and a little culling, its Interesting to see the forecast yield jump to 5.16% for my portfolio overall.
Along those lines of measures, I am also considering a rolling 5 year measure, which may replace the 85 month gain, which came about following a rebase of my charts to the point when I started a monthly measure. But, I am thinking I might revert to the all time measure and I think the 5 year rolling might be quite useful too.
Finally, for this update at least, it could be said that I am now back up to date with my postings! At least until tomorrow anyway, when February's becomes due.
Now I wonder if I can remember how to change my "live" spreadsheet.
Update to the update, I have managed to modify the live spreadsheet too, making the changes to the list of shares held.
I have retained R-R for now though (personal interest), and also added the FTSE100 to the top of the list.
