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VTI. Total stock market index. What more could you ask for. It’s also a great benchmark to compare against other funds. I haven’t found many that can beat it in the long term

Recently I’ve bought FSTA (consumer staples) and its up about 11% In the past couple weeks. Of course most of my holdings are more diversified across total market, but it’s fun to dabble with a couple thousand.

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