As you will know if you read my last post, this was not a good week.

My main desktop's HDD crashed completely and I had to next-day a new one, then rebuild everything from scratch.

Thankfully, I'm a little obsessive with backups. I've lost some stuff (some pet videos that I'm upset about and will try to recover with some clever tools) but my Banking crypto's safe and recovered with the good old reliable seed words!

Relieved. 😬

Here are this week's numbers:

That disk crash prevented me from acting on the little ETH price pop to $2,550 that I would've taken - a couple of percent on my "down" money - and then things kinda dipped. So for now I'm stuck with my $2,500 "down" ETH and the $2,600 "up" ETH.

That's OK, it's ETH. The big three always go back up. 😁

In detail:

• Trading down 7.37%
• Banking down 3.08%
• Overall down 4.18%

Given that today's a down day, I'm not unhappy with that. It's still pretty stable, even though I'm back in the negative (boo!).

The tracking's showing a bit more red, of course. 

That'll change once we get closer to the end of year. Well, unless crypto suddenly decides to buck that trend as well! Ye gods, that would suck.

'26 Picks

The Picks all dipped. I wouldn't expect any less, to be honest, with everything moving downward this week.

It's been a depressing year for those coins.

I am sorely tempted to sell them all as soon as they go positive and forget the multiples. Then wait until the end-of-year pump drops/crashes back down and pick some others for 2027.

And I won't be putting as much in next time, either. That was far too trusting and hopeful. 😜

Lesson learned.

How was your week? Did you profit from the little pump or have you bought the wee dip?