I frequently visit my Vanguard account dashboard on the Vanguard website and study the progress of my portfolio. The dashboard includes a tool that specifically tracks the portfolio’s performance. On it, a…
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Day 181: Back to Investing Basics
In re-reading “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” I am reminded of the basics of how to succeed as a long-term, buy-and-hold index fund investor. These basics could be summarized as follows:…
Day 179: Re-Reading “Random Walk Down Wall Street”
I am re-reading (again) “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” by Burton Malkiel (2012 edition), the investing classic that champions buying and holding index funds for investors rather than trying to beat…
Day 103: The 2022 Market Volatility Bummer
I have written about how investing* is really about growing your share ownership; that is, growing the number of shares you own of any given fund over time. Writing about this has…
It’s Not the Subject (It’s How It Feels)
I have written a lot (as in A LOT A LOT) on this blog about delighting in things that I enjoy. Well, recently, I have been blissing out thinking through some adjustments…
The Fabulous Investing Decade of the 2010s (What’s Next?)
I started investing square in the middle of the decade, in April of 2015. We were already about six years into a fabulous bull market for stocks, and many people doubted it…
Day 379: Staying Cool, Calm, and Collected About Mr. Market
In my four and a half years of investing, I have been paying close attention to my psychology as we go through the changes in the market. Last fall and winter, the…
Day 363: REITs, aka My New Treats
So this week I bought my first ever REITs (rhymes with “treats,” hence the title 😉 ). First, let me do my best to explain what REITS are (If you happen to…
Day 349: Stay the Course!
A long time ago, back when I still lived in the Bay Area and before I met Charr, I had a most unusual housemate at the place where I was living. He…
Day 317: My Money Management Fetish Revisited
So back on Day 18 of my 365 Day Blogging Project, I wrote about how well I take to managing our money. It started way back in my days of bachelorhood, when…