Mr. FightToFIRE

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Investor jumping over pitfalls others have fallen in.

My top 4 investment mistakes & 4 more mistakes investors make

I screwed up more than once. Ever since I was allowed to hold an investment or trading account, I fell and got back up. I started in 2008 with Forex, and I moved to stocks over time. In this decade of trading both stocks and Forex, some of the errors I made happened more than once and cost me a pretty penny. Today, I want to share my 4 most significant lapses of judgment based on this experience.

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Rask analysis

What type of investor are you?

At the beginning of every year, I get a letter from the bank I have an investment portfolio with to review my investment and based on a questionnaire reevaluate what type of investor I am, i.e., my investment profile. Then based on the result we check what’s the most optimal way to invest my money.

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Front cover of the book De schitterende eenvoud van index beleggen by Jaques Wintermans

Book review: “The marvelous simplicity of index investing” by Jacques Wintermans

Thanks to a three week Christmas holiday I finally had the time to do some reading. Of the four books I choose to read in these next three weeks, the first one that I wanted to get my teeth in was the Dutch book “De schitterende eenvoud van indexbeleggen: wat de banken u niet vertellen” which loosely translates to “The marvelous simplicity of index investing: what the banks don’t tell you” written by Mr. Jacques Wintermans.

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Looking into my stock portfolio

Portfolio update: new savings account & stock purchases

We are only the second week of January and I can already give a major update on my portfolio and milestones progress. This is in part due to the decline we saw at the end of 2018 and the opportunity it offered me to enter at a lower price for quite a few stocks.

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