On an unrelated note, I finished my taxes (for 2024) yesterday. I'm not going to complain about having to pay a ton (after all, last year was great), but doing the taxes and recently reading "how not to invest" got me thinking about where I would be now, if instead of trading since 2008, I had simply put my money(1) on an indexed fund (or a small basket of Euro, US, ROT indexed funds), added cost-averaging and held... Paying taxes yearly vs. just at the end when you take out money is a real killer. (1) Even if I had put it right before the financial crisis crash. This is the book, I highly recommend it, even though most here will find no new information or incredible insights, but it's a very good refresher (I particularly liked the last third or so of the book).
Okay, I lied. I had to get back in for another YM long. lol Now I’m finished. I’ll check the book out. Thanks. I borrowed the ebook from the San Francisco library and will be reading it at the pool if I don’t get completely rained out here in Bangkok!
ym is going nuts. I'm getting back in long here. A lot of day left. Could maybe make a monster push as it takes stops