State of the Stash – August

It is time for another update to my monthly personal finance journal. The stock market continued to rally strongly in August. While my portfolio did not keep up with the stock market, my balances continued (modestly) to increase.

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State of the Stash – June

It is time for another update to my personal finance journal. Tracking my net worth and savings is important to help me to stay motivated and on track. I hope it is also interesting for you to follow along on my (long) journey. This month I continued to save, but Mr. Market did most of the work growing my portfolio!

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State of the Stash – April

Time for the monthly update to my savings/investment balances. Things bounced back a bit this month, as one might expect in the strongest monthly rally since ~1987.

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State of the Stash – March

Oooof! Time to take my medicine and update my investment balances. Click here to behold the raging chemical fire that my dirty financial laundry has become (just kidding it’s not THAT bad).

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State of the Stash – February

Hold my corona! It is time for the airing of my personal financial laundry. Let’s see what the corona virus and related market action has done to my portfolio.

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Gone to Cash…

The equity markets have been more turbulent of late.  As I type, most markets outside the U.S. are around 20% off their highs and the U.S. markets are in a ~10% drawdown.  Today, the NASDAQ is off more than 3%, apparently based on earnings reports from Amazon and Alphabet which were not well received.  I am dropping a quick note during this market turbulence to update on a “tactical” move I made in one of my accounts.  I went to cash… Continue reading “Gone to Cash…”

Weekly Media Pin – Grantham on Graham

Time for the weekly finance media pin.  Sorry that I have not been active posting lately, but I told you I might be falling into the web of WEB, and I have done just that.  But I’ve also been consuming podcasts, videos, newspaper articles, and other finance related media. Continue reading “Weekly Media Pin – Grantham on Graham”