Here we go again! Despite being busy with one thing or another in life, my passion for investing keeps bringing me back to the stock market. And so, with my existing $10k to $1m challenge that I started about two years ago in a period requiring patience while waiting for the wider market to recognise what I believe to be the true value of EnSilica plc (ENSI.L), that has left me time to look at starting a second challenge. One that will be entirely focused on the US stock markets.
Having earlier this year fully exited the US markets and exchanged my US dollar (USD) capital for British Pounds (GBP) and Euros (EUR), due to concerns (which I largely still hold) about US political volatility and policy negatively affecting the strength of the USD and US markets, I nonetheless have decided to make a modest re-entry given various seemingly promising opportunities exist, despite the continued turbulence (albeit abated somewhat) and possible direction of the USD.
My goal once again is to hopefully demonstrate how I turn approximately $10,000 into $1,000,000 in a reasonably short time frame, in this case less than ten years. As with the existing challenge I will be operating a mirrored trading position (investing through two separate trading accounts for my partner and I) however the table below reflects only my tranche.
Investing less than $10,000 ($9,992.07 to be precise!) on July 7th 2025 the following trades were made and the running balance is as follows;
| Stock Symbol | Shares Bought | Bought Price (ea) | Bought (MDY) | Shares Sold | Sold Price (ea) | Sold (MDY) | Running Balance |
| LUNR | 240 | $10.2929 | 07/07/25 | – | – | – | – |
| MDAI | 925 | $2.7057 | 07/07/25 | – | – | – | – |
| RDDT | 17 | $150.755 | 07/07/25 | – | – | – | – |
| UPST | 33 | $74.427 | 07/07/25 | – | – | – | – |
| RDDT | – | – | – | 13 | $243.24 | 09/08/25 | +$1,202.24 |
| LUNR | 129 | $8.4452 | 09/08/25 | – | – | – | – |
| MDAI | 575 | $1.8394 | 09/08/25 | – | – | – | – |
| UPST | 15 | $66.996 | 09/08/25 | – | – | – | – |
| RDDT | – | – | – | 4 | $257.66 | 09/15/25 | +$422.09 |
| LUNR | 110 | $9.2597 | 09/15/25 | – | – | – | – |
| Running Total: | $11,524.81 |
It should be noted that this table does not include all my investment trades and positions. Only shares that I consider part of the ‘Less than $10,000 to $1,000,000’ challenge.
If you would also like to see my general historical investment performance you can do so here.
Updated: September 19th 2025 at 20:00 UTC.
An interesting start to the US trading day for growth stocks… with many falling significantly, perhaps on the back of confirmation by GM of a potential $5 billion tariff hit to its finances. It seems probable in my opinion that there are more interesting times ahead and perhaps more down days as the impact of tariffs on the US economy becomes clearer…
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-forecasts-2025-core-profit-including-tariff-hit-2025-05-01/