One thing that has always bothered me is when I see news articles profiling people who have made a lot of money after hitting it big with a single stock. In recent weeks, we’ve seen stories about people who have become millionaires thanks to investing in Tesla or Bitcoin. Not too long ago, we were […]
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M1 Finance $75 Referral Bonus – Step-By-Step Guide
M1 Finance is a free investing app that I highly recommend. It’s my current favorite investing app and one that is great for anyone looking to start investing and that wants to make sure they’re doing it correctly. M1 Finance is also currently offering a referral bonus if you sign up using a referral link. To earn your M1 Finance referral bonus, you have to do the following:Â
Becoming A Millionaire With The $30 A Day Retirement Strategy
There’s a little-known fact about investing that most people don’t appreciate until they really think about it. That fact is this: if you give yourself enough time, the amount you have to save in order to end up with a large sum of money is actually very reasonable. Perhaps nothing can open your eyes to […]
Good Enough Investing
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about simple investing strategies that anyone can use. As I wrote this post, I realized an important principle that’s guided my investing strategy ever since I got my first job. It’s a principle that I think is important enough to warrant its own post. The basic principle? Good […]
How To Start Investing: Simple Investing Strategies And Tools Anyone Can Use
The hardest thing about investing, for most of us at least, is the very beginning. This is that moment in time when you’ve opened up your first investment account, but now have no idea what you’re supposed to do next. I found myself in this position when I started my first job after graduating from […]
Best Ways To Save For College: The College Savings Strategies We’re Using With Our New Baby
Life has changed a lot for me and my family since we had a baby earlier this year. Besides the obvious day-to-day changes that have happened, adding a baby into our life has also meant a significant change to our overall future financial plans. Retirement and financial independence isn’t the only thing we have to […]
Strategies For Dealing With The Next Recession
I’ve always thought that one of the formative periods of my life was the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. It’s an event that I think defined my cohort. We graduated into one of the worst economic periods in history, and if the studies are right, it might have set us back financially for the […]
Do Bonds Really Stop People From Freaking Out?
When it comes to investing, it seems like most long-term success comes down to a few things. First, you have to pick a reasonable asset allocation, which generally means investing in a broadly diversified portfolio (I recommend Total Stock Market Index Funds like VTSAX, FSKAX, or the like). Second, once you’ve picked a reasonable asset […]
Lively HSA Review: The Best Free HSA For People Pursuing Financial Independence
In this Lively HSA review post, I want to share what my experience with Lively has been like, why I made the move to it, and whether you might want to do the same thing.
More Important Than The Perfect Portfolio – It’s Picking Something And Sticking With It
One of the challenges that I’ve had to deal with during my (admittedly short) investing career is avoiding the persistent urge to tinker. There’s this thing that I think happens to a lot of us as we begin to learn more about investing. We start devouring a lot of information and get a handle on […]
