This article looks back on the end of 2020 and some of the financial actions that I took then. These included learning about and beginning Covered Call writing and Cash-Secured Puts, changes to Lending Club, my decision to close my Acorns account, and why I did some tax loss harvesting at the end of the year.
As the stock market dropped down into bear market territory, I created this video with some of my thoughts on March 12, 2020. You can choose to watch the video or read the transcript below. Video Transcript Hi friends, I’m Rebecca, welcome to Squintillions! Today I am talking about what is going on in the market and how I am reacting. First, the news of the day is that the market is dropping into bear territory. In reaction to this, the Fed is offering $500 billion in a 3 month repo operation. You can read their statement about that on… Read More »Here Comes the Bear Market! Now What?
The Grow Your Dough Challenge involved putting $1,000 into your investment choices, via whatever investing platform you liked, at the beginning of 2019. I ended up investing via seven different platforms: Acorns, Capital One, E*Trade, Fundrise, Lending Club, M1 Finance and Robinhood. Read more about my year of investing…
Time for my 2019 Grow Your Dough Challenge third quarter update. The Grow Your Dough Challenge involves putting $1000 into the investments of your choice via the investing platform of your choice at the beginning of the year. At the end of 12 months, we’ll see how the investments have progressed and which one can grow the most dough. I invested in seven different platforms, plus myself and my blog. Read more to learn how my investments are doing.
Time for the 2019 Grow Your Dough Challenge second quarter update! The Grow Your Dough Challenge involves putting $1000 into the investments of your choice via the investing platform of your choice at the beginning of the year. At the end of 12 months, we’ll see how the investments have progressed and which one can grow the most dough. For the challenge, I made investments across six different investing platforms, plus a special bonus category of investing in myself through my blogs and YouTube channel. (Click through to read more…)
Following my investment choices in the Grow Your Dough Challenge. $1000 invested for 12 months in each of theses accounts: Acorns, Robinhood, Fundrise, Lending Club, E*Trade, and a Capital One CD. Also looking at costs to develop my blog and YouTube channel as part of investing in these tools and my education to use them.
Depositing $1000 over the course of a year with Acorns as part of the Grow Your Dough Challenge. Brief explanation of the deposit scheme I planned, how Round-Ups work, and other benefits of the Acorns platform. Includes link to my YouTube video where I show a walkthrough of the Acorns app. Use my Refer a Friend link to get $5 when you open a new Acorns account.