Need Help with Deploying My Savings

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Need Help with Deploying My Savings

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TheYoungestEngineer wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 6:24 pm
Thank you so much everyone for your help and assistance.
A few thoughts come to mind after reading your post - Also, welcome to the forum.

1. I'd hit pause on the house idea. The SF Bay Area is way too expensive for someone with your income, unless you're willing to commute 100 miles or live in a chicken coop.

2. Also, I'd cease the individual stock picking activity. Consider selling the individual stocks, harvest the loss for the future tax write-off and put the proceeds into a sensible total stock market index fund like VTI.

3. Make a plan for how you intend to invest. There is a wealth of knowledge in this forum and on the wiki pages. I urge you to spend some time reading and learning about investing the "Boglehead" way.
See links:
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Boglehe ... philosophy

Regards,
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell
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You have some competing goals like starting a business or buying a home. Money you might need in the short term you can't take risk with. So you have to think carefully about what portion of this money you won't touch for the long term. That part can be invested. Have you considered writing up an investment policy statement?
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I can't help with the items you request feedback on.

What I think of your situation is that you are young. And, with some reasonable decision making, you have a bright future.

My advise is to spend some time to learn the basics of personal finance and personal investing.

Here is a place to start: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

The principles are simple. Following the principles requires a bit of discipline.
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Thank you so much everyone for the kind replies. Clearly I have a lot of reading to do. Will follow up with another post down the road once I've read some strategy.

Really value all of you for taking time to post valuable information and links. Next post will include portfolio breakdown strategy.
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TheYoungestEngineer wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:26 pm Thank you so much everyone for the kind replies. Clearly I have a lot of reading to do. Will follow up with another post down the road once I've read some strategy.

Really value all of you for taking time to post valuable information and links. Next post will include portfolio breakdown strategy.
Glad to read that you're not discouraged, and are willing to engage. Some youngsters come here looking for hot stock tips - and are disappointed.

Not to pile on, but here's some additional reading by one of the best financial authors around. William J. Bernstein "If You Can".

Regards,
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