Hypothetical: You are a 23 year old consulting analyst seeking honest advice. You’re incredibly fortunate in that you have no debt, have maxed out your Roth 401k for the year, and have a good emergency fund. You have ~10k in the markets being invested outside your 401k but you’re unsure how to best utilize ~30k you have sitting in a bank account doing nothing (separate from your emergency fund). What would you do?

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Do nothing. Market is going to tank. Cash is king atm

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PWC 1, Read the news, match the rally to the fundamentals. Doesn’t make sense and prolonged pain is all but guaranteed. Look at GD in 29/30, Asian fin crisis. They both rallied... then crashed. This is much WORSE.

I sold out start of Feb betting that politics and stupidity would get in the way of science. Then bought the dip and sold the rally gain two weeks ago. I am done. Things are now getting real.

I was a senior in 2008. That was a fin crisis, not a health crisis that closed economies and divided the country over things like masks.

I wish someone said to me then, ‘save your money for a deposit, buy a nice apartment when prices drop and start paying down the mortgage while you survive this crisis’. Good luck OP, that’s what I’d do ✌️

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1 - Continue propitiating the finance gods for my good fortune and bask in my glory for a bit.
2 - What D1 said (or a similar low cost ETF)

Put 15k in VOO, 5k in individual stocks of your choice, 10k in bitcoin

Well that depends, tell us your goals

^^ this. Figure out your goals and it will be much more clear...

Do you want to save for a house? Do you want to go on a baller trip traveling the world while still young? Do you loathe your job and are looking to find a way to retire ASAP?

Think about what you want to do and that money is just a vehicle to do those things. This may help you frame up what you do with your cash...

I’d like to maximize what I have doing nothing. No planned extravagant expenses with it for at least 5 years.

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