Thanks to all for taking the time to answer - some interesting thoughts and ideas.
Quite a few of you were mentioning my ‘fear’ - maybe my OP wasn’t well written. I don’t have a fear of investing and didn’t sell anything. Rather, given this was the first time I was buying stocks like this, after seeing the losses month after month (for the first 3/4 months), I was wondering if I was doing something wrong, and therefore stopped investing. I think the takeaway from a lot of your feedback is to look at the long-term strategy and not be so focused on monthly fluctuations.
I also plan to gradually increase my stock exposure (probably over the next 6/12 months, and probably mainly VT) from the 25% currently up to 60% of my assets.
The question of whether to rent in Switzerland or buy a property is probably a dilemma for another day.