I lost it all.
Then I built it back.
I post what I'm thinking about money, markets, and building wealth, so you don't have to figure it out alone.
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What I'm working on, before anyone else sees it.
How I got here
I grew up well below the poverty line. By the time I was 20 I had lived in 30 different rental homes, in 3 different countries. I know what it's like to start from nothing and figure it out the hard way.
I built something. I lost it. I built it back. More than once. I'm not posting a highlight reel here. I'm posting the actual process, unedited, because I think the polished version everyone else puts out is the reason most people never start.
Nothing on this site is financial advice. It's what I'm doing and thinking about, out loud, in real time.
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Sequence-of-Returns Retirement Slippage
Same average return, different order. See how much that can move your actual retirement date.
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Model a lopsided return profile against plain buy-and-hold, using numbers you control.
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Set your own bar for what counts as an 'up' year, then see how long the current run has gone.
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