This may be the most banal post ever, but by total fluke, I started investing in stocks for the first time around the beginning of the pandemic. Rode many meme stocks to the moon. A few I rode back down to the center of the earth. I’ve been slowly moving all of my many, many, too many positions into a handful of low-cost mutual funds, which is where I started before all of this nonsense. Basically, going semi Boglehead. I’m keeping a few, quality large caps, some growth, some cyclical, and a few beaten down speculative crap stonks that I hope will recover/remind me to never gamble with my retirement money. My total return is showing that I’m up almost 10%, but I figure with all the losses I’ve cut, it’s probably more like breakeven. I plan to stick with a “boomer” portfolio and mentality for the foreseeable future with maybe 5% of my money in individual stocks. That’s it.
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