I finally hit $400k. Congratulations to all of you hitting new milestones in this insane market. Hopefully, I’ll reach my $500k milestone before the end of this year.

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Nice work. It’s a great feeling isn’t it?

A 6% run in a couple weeks is fantastic, but it tells you you have some hi-volatility positions in your portfolio. Maybe take SOME profits there. I was up a decent through the first 6 weeks of this year and half that back by the end of Feb. I’ve almost back to that same high now, but I regularly trim positions and have been raising cash for the next pullback.

You can see lots of other posts around here where people were up big until mid-Feb and lost most those gains. Don’t sell all those hi-vola positions. Just SOME - like 25bp of your total portfolio value from each position that’s up more than 10% this month. You can use a different rule if you like, but a small adjustment like that has a decent impact on performance in the next pullback and sets you up sell to buy in the next correction.

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It is! I have some positions that are short term and I’m definitely sticking to my plan to exit out of those.

Congrats!!

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What app is this?

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Congratulations!

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How tf do you have no liabilities? Not even a CC?

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I rent, paid for my car in cash, received scholarship for college and my parents paid for my living during college. My liabilities are related to my credit cards, but I pay that in it’s entirety each month with the bill.

Congrats OP!!

Thank you.

Nice! What’s the breakdown?

It’s my EY pension plan A cash balance. So at EY we have a pension plan A and plan B. It specifically tells you what plan A is worth if I were to leave now. I update that monthly, since I don’t know how to link it. We have a plan B too, but it only tells me how much I would receive when I retire. I’m too lazy to figure out the cash value now.

How old are you tho

goals!! I’m 25 NW ~$85k. how can I 3-4x my money in a couple years?

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How did you save so much?

Way to go!! I unfortunately burn myself out frequently. It’s a give and take. I’m hoping to leave PA to have more time and higher pay.

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What do you do outside your EY work?

Not clothes. Mostly electronics, furniture and Legos

Would you mind sharing your salary progression?

Financial goal

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Wow, it’s really amazing you saved this much on this base

Unfortunately no.

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