How much, if any, have you made back from the crash of a few years ago? Did you knee jerk and change any of your investments after the crash? Where are you currently investing your money? Are you making investment adjustments as we go along or are you just trying to be consistent and staying the course? What is your overall feel for the market? Are you being aggressive or are you being conservative? What investments seem to be working well for you lately if any?
I have mine diversified in a lot of different markets through my wife's 401k (they match dollar for dollar 5%) and my TSA at work (some of which is placed directly into a fixed 2% account). We also set aside another ~6% into a general savings account. The rest is "invested" in sweat equity in my home. It's working. My home value has increased ~20% in three years.
I have made everything back and added a ton. I did 52% to the plus side on my Ira last year. Currently I am up 25% this year.
Few different stocks, my big winner was MNST. Monster drinks, I got in around 40 three years ago. Went to 200 and split 4 to 1. It got back up to 100+ month ago and split 2 to 1. Now it sits at 65. Also am in few cloud computing companies and chip makers.
I should add the return on the other investments are decent. I'm positive on all, but not gaining the % that Germ is.
It depends on which crash you want to go back to. LOL. When I sold my business and retired I got out of all my get rich quick stocks and went a more conservative route. My wife used to dabble a lot and followed the market religiously. When she died I pput all the dabble money into conservative too. I hardly look anymore. I have someone handling it all for me. I pay them a fee and they make it grow. I'm higher than it's ever been and that includes the big crash back in the ???? when was that??? 2002 or something. Before that one hit I was riding high. I told my wife it was almost scary. Maybe we should sell a bunch of these big winners. I had one stock that went from 17,000 to 87,000 in no time. I then watched it fall to 10000. LOL I had days of making what some people would lovve to make in salary... to loosing twice that over night. LOL I open the envelope now once a month and see what's happened. I close the envelope and file it away. In not too long they're going to make me start drawing this money. Not looking forward to that... that means more taxes as just about everything is in IRA's, Keoughs, Roths or whatever. Now I just live on SS, VA Disability and money from a cash account that's dwindling. I don't look... just file the envelopes... that's my plan short of a "Bazillion".
I'm in for the long haul. As soon as the market tanked I started dumping is much cash as I could. I'm setting pretty. History will repeat itself. That and I made a pretty big investment in Apple right after the launch of the Gen. 1 iPhone. We all know how that has worked out.
