Noob investor with wealthfront, only up $3.96 on $3k investment over 15 day period, am I missing something/doing something wrong?

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Can't tell if serious...

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Lol. Were you expecting to be a millionaire now? Good luck on your investing

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We should talk to your hiring manager

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This isn't blackjack. Investing should be long term focused. If you get those same returns over a year it would be a good rate of return.

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Still don't know if it was a serious question. But trying to benchmark returns for a 15 day investment is like asking for a performance review from your manager on a project after day 1

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Hey guys, I've been dating this chick for 15 hours and want to know if I should marry her or not. Any good proposal benchmarks?

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I second D1

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Set it and forget it; don't be looking at your performance regularly.. Investing is a marathon.. look at performance yearly and make adjustments if necessary; play the long game

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Ugh. Should have been at least $4 by now. Gotta re-evaluate your portfolio and make some drastic changes.

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@D1, can't tell if you are going to provide actual insight into the question...

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Lol Accenture. What a shame

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Sell EVERYTHING

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👹

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Op, tell me you don't work in FS and studied sports medicine in undergrad

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I'd sell. Bad time to be in the market. Make the check out to me.

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Thanks D3 for answering

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savage ATK1

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I think he needs to rebalance and change his investment strategy and risk appetite

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Depends... did you do tax loss harvesting? 😛

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Obviously not expecting to be a millionaire or anything, just trying to benchmark and see if that is an ok return or not

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