July 2013 update ($258,550 +$11,500 or + 5%)

The portfolio changes:

↑ Accumulated additional 7,000 USD as part of recreating my Emergency fund.

↑ Vanguard VDE is up by 1,500USD

↑Vanguard VOO is up by 600 USD

↑Rosneft is up by 1064 USD

↑ Dividend Vanguard SPF 500 ETF 66.5 USD (10% tax subtracted).

↑ EUR part of the portfolio grew by 2,660 USD

Grand total additions:  12,890 USD

↓ Company shares are down by 104 USD

↓ Precious metals down by 841 USD

↓ RUB part of the portfolio lost 130

Grand total losses are 1075 USD

 I was hoping to support this month statement by dividends from Rosneft and Gazprom for 2012 period, but this will happen in August.

As I previously mentioned for financial independence in pre-retirement phase, it is or relatively no importance whether portfolio grows or not, but what it could deliver in terms of dividends.