If only I put my money in these at the beginning of last year…

To say that the stock market performed surprisingly well in 2020 would be an understatement. For the major indices, this translated to the Dow rising by 7.3%, the S&P 16.3%, and the Nasdaq an impressive 43.6% to finish out the year.

Simply put, if you had just put your money in some index funds at the beginning of the year and left your account until the end of the year, you would have been well rewarded for not panic selling during the crash from February to…

Are you looking to try your investing but don’t know where to start? Or, have you started investing but feel like you don’t really know what you’re doing? Whatever the case, you’re at the right place.

While this guide is tailored to Robinhood users because I use Robinhood chart screenshots, the strategies described can be applied to any trading platform of your choice.

Disclaimer: This article is long. You don’t need to read everything to start investing/trading. It is ordered in a way that you can begin doing some simple trades by just reading strategies 1 and 2. …

Checking my brokerage account has started to become a masochistic exercise to see how much more money I lost in the stock market. By the end of yesterday, my account balance showed that I had wiped out over a month of profits in a single week. How naive I was to think that a $5,000 loss would be the most I experienced in February.

To add to all of this, my body naturally wakes me up either before or right at 9:30am EST sharp when the market opens, and I find myself unable to prevent myself from checking the status…

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Why It’s Okay to Have Multiple Medium Accounts

Eating breakfast while staring at a several thousand dollar loss isn’t fun. By this point, I know this feeling all too well. I don’t know about you, but I often see stories about how others are managing to score enviable gains in the stock market. However, learning how to navigate red days in my account has been instrumental to helping me keep my overall trading trajectory.

If you’re looking to learn how to manage losses in the stock market, you will need to find what works best for you. What I share here is simply my personal perspective, and I…

Why I’m not buying Bitcoin, and what I’m doing instead.

I would have easily made over 300% of my investment in under a year if I had invested in Bitcoin at the start of 2020. In fact, between the time I started writing this article and where it’s trading now, Bitcoin has soared another $6,000 or another 15% in price.

But, I didn’t buy then and I have no plans to buy in now or in the near future. I readily acknowledge that I may easily miss out on the next parabolic move up, but that’s the reality of missing…

It’s not a four hour work week for me.

“Escape the 9–5, live anywhere and join the new rich.” — Tim Ferris

Currently, I’m probably working at least ten hours a day that easily increases if I’m busier. It’s not an outrageous work schedule, but it’s not the kind of working lifestyle that would allow me to live anywhere and join the new rich.

I’m not a Tim Ferris hater, but I think it would take me a while to get to his lifestyle. I don’t anticipate to continue working like I am for the long run, but I do…

Congratulations on landing your new job! Now, let’s set you up for success on your new team.

While the recommendations here are aimed at people entering new software engineering roles, the tips for success can also be applied to internal team transfers and even existing roles.

1. Schedule 1:1 Meetings With Your Teammates