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Week 19 Recap
No new all time high this week, but surprisingly the portfolio did quite well despite the huge ups and downs.
Although a ton of interesting things happened this week (Coinbase listing BCH), it's the holidays and I don't have time to write a full update. The main takeaway from this week: for the first time (except for the third week of this experiment), a pure Bitcoin portfolio underperformed this portfolio!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Week 19 Results
Two assets in the portfolio doubled this week: DigitalNote (XDN) and NXT. These weren't insiginficant either, both of them had already gained 400%, and are now sitting at around an 800% gain. The winner this week was NXT with +$82.33 USD (+110%), and the biggest loser was Bitcoin with a loss of -$14.84 USD (-31%). The portfolio gained +$188.48 USD (+21%).
Since inception:
| Symbol | Quantity | Price | December 17th | December 24th | Week Change $ | Week Change % |
| AEON | 12.4 | 3.62 | 49.23 | 44.89 | -4.34 | -9% |
| BCN | 8500 | 0.005969 | 36.35 | 50.74 | 14.39 | 40% |
| BTC | 0.00248323 | 13439.09 | 48.22 | 33.37 | -14.84 | -31% |
| BNT | 3.42 | 3.55 | 13.54 | 12.14 | -1.40 | -10% |
| DASH | 0.035 | 1082.99 | 37.81 | 37.90 | 0.09 | 0% |
| DCT | 8.221 | 1.19 | 6.39 | 9.78 | 3.40 | 53% |
| DNT | 47.75 | 0.09582 | 4.01 | 4.58 | 0.56 | 14% |
| DOGE | 6000 | 0.00846 | 36.46 | 50.76 | 14.30 | 39% |
| EDG | 11 | 2.19 | 18.92 | 24.09 | 5.17 | 27% |
| EOS | 7.524 | 7.73 | 60.42 | 58.16 | -2.26 | -4% |
| ETC | 0.701 | 26.65 | 24.13 | 18.68 | -5.45 | -23% |
| ETH | 0.029 | 656.38 | 21.00 | 19.04 | -1.96 | -9% |
| LSK | 3.31 | 19.02 | 43.03 | 62.96 | 19.93 | 46% |
| LTC | 0.2 | 266.96 | 64.81 | 53.39 | -11.42 | -18% |
| MAID | 20 | 0.7783 | 12.20 | 15.57 | 3.36 | 28% |
| NXT | 94 | 1.67 | 74.65 | 156.98 | 82.33 | 110% |
| OAX | 5.587 | 0.6304 | 3.46 | 3.52 | 0.06 | 2% |
| PLBT | 1.346 | 4.96 | 5.83 | 6.68 | 0.85 | 15% |
| PPC | 5.618 | 4.1 | 36.85 | 23.03 | -13.82 | -38% |
| QAU | 59.229 | 0.3837 | 11.66 | 22.73 | 11.06 | 95% |
| SC | 1400 | 0.0297 | 22.57 | 41.58 | 19.01 | 84% |
| SNC | 112.863 | 0.2245 | 21.30 | 25.34 | 4.04 | 19% |
| STRAT | 1.844 | 13.33 | 28.47 | 24.58 | -3.89 | -14% |
| STX | 4.167 | 0.5293 | 3.09 | 2.21 | -0.88 | -29% |
| XDN | 3700 | 0.02396 | 39.55 | 88.65 | 49.10 | 124% |
| XEM | 38 | 0.9163 | 25.75 | 34.82 | 9.07 | 35% |
| XMR | 0.12 | 317.51 | 41.13 | 38.10 | -3.03 | -7% |
| XRP | 62 | 0.959 | 44.42 | 59.46 | 15.04 | 34% |
| ZEC | 0.04 | 501.69 | 21.06 | 20.07 | -0.99 | -5% |
| ZRC | 7.808 | 1.5 | 14.29 | 11.71 | -2.58 | -18% |
| ZRX | 28.066 | 0.5811 | 12.76 | 16.31 | 3.55 | 28% |
| Totals: | 883.33 | 1071.80 | 188.48 | 21% |
Want to follow along?
If you're Canadian and want to try the same thing, I use QuadrigaCX (wire transfer, interac online) and Coinbase (VISA, Mastercard, AMEX) to purchase bitcoin, ethereum, or litecoin to transfer to an exchange that supports all these alternative currencies. I used HitBTC to buy all 31 currencies, but many exchanges will work just as well.
Click here for details about this experiment and what the rules are.