Ouch!

In May, my net worth dropped 3.87%.  The market had a rough month, and my drop is entirely in investments.  My cash accounts are doing fine and I continue to save (and invest in my retirement accounts).  I knew it was going to be a bad month when I went to update my Roth IRA [...]

Amazing net worth jump this month!  Up 4.66%.  It was a good combination of cash savings and investment jumps.  I think it was a big of a fluke and don’t expect to see these sorts of numbers next month, but I’m going to enjoy them anyway.   I’m not sure what’s going on lately, but [...]

Excellent month for my net worth!  Up 2.93%.  This month, that change is due to a lot of little things.  My tax return came in, and I dropped most of that into savings, but even without that, I managed to save a good amount of money this month.  Little bits here and there add up. [...]

In the month of January, my net worth dropped 1.92%.  Not really what I wanted to see, especially as I’m updating this while fighting what I think is the beginning of a nasty cold.

Looking at the details, it looks like it’s mostly my investments that dropped, specifically retirement.  Conveniently, I’m not retiring for 30 years [...]