Stockopedia Investment Club: Starting again after a rollercoaster two years

Back in early 2020 - just a few weeks before Covid turned the world upside down - we started a Staff Investment Club here at Stockopedia. It was an ideal way of getting the whole team into the mindset of investors, and making some money to boot.
For two and a half years we had some terrific highs and a few sobering lows. But this week we’re closing the first chapter on this adventure. It’s not the end of the Investment Club, but a new beginning instead. In fact we’ve now got more staff, and more enthusiasm for it, than ever.
But the frustrating truth is that while virtual meetings kept the club together when we all went remote, banks saw things differently. Not only did our bank, HSBC, stop providing IC accounts, but many others did the same. So we’ve had to take a different route.

A baptism of fire
In the innocent days of early 2020, our initial club meetings were held at Stockopedia’s Oxford HQ. By February we’d notched up a few initial positions and things looked promising. But then the Covid-induced market wipeout struck. We were stopped out of everything and burned with an early personal lesson on how...