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Safeguard Your Investments Against Impending CrisesI write to you with a sense of concern and urgency regarding the current state of global financial markets. As an astute investor, it is crucial to stay ahead of potential crises that could significantly impact your portfolio. In light of this, I would like to draw your attention to two potential scenarios that demand our immediate attention: hyperinflation and a financial crisis. 1. Long Gold for Hyperinflation 2. Long BTC for Financial Crisis To aid you in making informed investment decisions, I encourage you to calculate the probability of which crisis will hit first. By assessing the likelihood of hyperinflation versus a financial crisis, you can better allocate your resources and tailor your investment strategy accordingly. Consider consulting with your financial advisor or utilizing online tools to analyze historical data, economic indicators, and global trends. This exercise will empower you to make more informed decisions and protect your investments against potential market downturns. Remember, the key to successful investing lies in proactive decision-making and staying ahead of the curve. By taking action now and diversifying your portfolio with long gold and long BTC positions, you can position yourself to weather any storm that may lie ahead. In conclusion, I urge you to carefully evaluate the potential risks posed by hyperinflation and a financial crisis. Do not let complacency hinder your ability to protect your investments and secure your financial future. Act now, calculate the probability of each crisis, and make the necessary adjustments to your portfolio. If you require any further information or assistance in navigating these challenging times, please do not hesitate to comment away below. Together, we can navigate these uncertain waters and emerge stronger. Wishing you continued success and financial well-being.
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by bryandowningqln
Unlocking the 6 Levels to Financial Freedom If you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck or stuck in a job you don’t love just to pay the bills, it can be easy to feel as though you’re financially trapped. But financial freedom doesn’t need to be elusive—with some focused and consistent effort, you may be able to achieve financial freedom sooner than you expected. Below, we’ll discuss the different stages of the financial freedom journey Stage 1: Dependence ✔️ The “dependence” stage of financial freedom can last from your childhood and teen years even into your adult life. If you rely on a parent, a significant other, or someone else to pay your living expenses, you’re in this stage. Fortunately, as soon as you become solvent—that is, when your income exceeds your expenses—you’ve moved on to stage 2. Stage 2: Solvency ✔️ Solvency comes when you’re able to meet your financial obligations on your own. (If you’re partnered, you can still be considered solvent even if your partner’s income is necessary to meet your total household expenses—since you’re supporting two or more people instead of just yourself.) Stage 3: Stability ✔️ You’ll transition from solvency to stability once you’ve created an emergency fund of a few months’ expenses, repaid high-interest debt, and are continuing to live within your means. While stability doesn’t require you to be debt-free—as you may still have a mortgage, student loans, or even credit card debt—you’ll have a savings buffer to ensure that you won’t go into debt if you encounter an emergency or unexpected expense. Stage 4: Security ✔️ You’ll feel financially secure once you’ve eliminated your debt (or have enough assets to pay off all your debt) and could weather a period of unemployment without worry. At this point, money is not just a safety net, but also a tool you can use to build the future you’ve been planning. At this point, you may consider investing in other assets besides retirement accounts — a taxable account, rental real estate, or even your own small business. Stage 5: Independence ✔️ Once your investment income or passive income is enough to cover your basic needs, you’ve achieved financial independence. A financially independent person can retire at any time without worrying about how to cover their costs of living, even if they may have to downsize their lifestyle a bit. Stage 6: Freedom ✔️ The line between financial independence and financial freedom can be a fine one; for many, it’s simply the difference between having enough to cover your needs or having more than enough. Once you have financial freedom, you don’t need to pinch pennies (unless you want to), and you can take more risks with money you’re willing to lose. Now that you know the stages of financial freedom, think about where you are. How much do you need to get to the next level? What do you want to learn in the next post?
TVC:GOLDEducation
by UnitedSignals
5
🍀Trading VS Investing🍀 🦥When it comes to making money in the finance world, there are two main paths to choose from: trading and investing. Both of these approaches involve buying and selling financial products in order to generate a profit, but there are some important differences that are worth considering if you're trying to decide which strategy is right for you. 🦧Let's start with trading. Traders are, by definition, people who make frequent short-term transactions in the financial markets. Their goal is to take advantage of fluctuations in market prices in order to make a quick profit. This means that traders are constantly monitoring charts, news sources, and other indicators in order to identify opportunities to buy and sell within a matter of days or even hours. 🐙On the other hand, investors are typically focused on the long-term potential of an asset. They're interested in buying assets that they believe will appreciate in value over a longer period of time, such as several years or even decades. While investors do need to keep an eye on the markets to ensure that they're not buying into overvalued assets, they're generally less concerned with short-term volatility than traders are. 🦋So which approach is right for you? Well, that depends on a variety of factors, including your risk tolerance, your time horizon, and your financial goals. If you're the type of person who loves the thrill of the chase and doesn't mind taking on a bit of risk, then trading might be a good fit for you. On the other hand, if you're more interested in building long-term wealth and aren't too worried about short-term fluctuations, then you might be better off with an investor mindset. 🐝Of course, it's also important to keep in mind that there's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to trading versus investing. Some people might find that a hybrid approach, where they mix elements of both strategies, works best for them. Others might prefer to focus on developing a mastery in one area or the other. 🐞Ultimately, the most important thing is to do your research, evaluate your own financial situation, and be honest with yourself about what you're hoping to achieve. With the right approach and a little bit of luck, either trading or investing can be a lucrative way to grow your wealth over time. 🌺Hope u like my article. Please let me know what you think💋 Love, Anabel❤️ Please, support my work with like and comment! Love you, my dear followers!👩‍💻🌸
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by AnabelSignals
10
Are Health Savings Accounts Worth Your Time? Absolutely.When you're well, sometimes it is difficult to imagine things suddenly taking a turn for the worse. 1.5 years ago, I was as healthy as could be. I thought medical problems were for other people, my checkups always came up roses. Then I fell ill with an autoimmune neurologic condition, likely autoimmune encephalitis, and I wish I had opened a Health Saving's Account (HSA) the day I turned 18. Funny how life teaches you those lessons. So what is an HSA? An HSA is an investment account whose contributions are tax-deductible and withdrawals are tax-free if used for medical expenses. This type of account is only available for those with high-deductible plans health plans. The IRS defines a high deductible health plan as: any plan with a deductible of at least $1,400 for an individual or $2,800 for a family. Literally ripped that last sentence straight out of google. Sue me. If you're uninsured, you're out of luck. So for those who have high-deductible health plans, it's a way to not only save for sudden health catastrophes, but also to grow your wealth. With Fidelity, there is no limit to what asset class you can partake in. Other HSA's may have limitations, acting more like savings accounts. When you make a contribution, that money is tax-deductible (so you're investing with "pre-tax dollars"), and will never, ever be taxed if used to pay for a medical expense. But what if your investments have gone down and you have to sell to pay for medical bills? Hint: don't. You can reimburse your own medical bills with NO time limit. That means you could pay $1,000 for surgery using a cash-back credit card (or whatever payment method), wait until your money grows in your HSA, then reimburse yourself tax-free in 30 years. That is, if you kept the receipt ;) By budgeting, like using YNAB, it's easy to keep track of medical expenses and reimburse yourself tax-free when it makes the most sense. Or, if you prefer, you can invest in more conservative instruments. Like CD's, which are paying as high as 4.7%. Or you can treat it like an actual savings account and enjoy Fidelity's 2.21% APY on uninvested cash. So for those keeping score: -Contributions are tax deductible -Medical expenses are tax-free when you liquidate your investment(s) to cover them, which you can do retroactively with no time limit -Growth and trading within the account is tax-free (unless you live in CALIFORNIA or NEW JERSEY. Don't ask me, but you will be taxed on trading like you would an individual brokerage account) -You can withdraw your funds like you would an individual brokerage account at 65 (that is, you'll be taxed but not penalized) There are pretty hefty penalties for non-medical withdrawals before you're 65: up to a 20% penalty and ordinary income tax on capital gains. Not pretty, so don't put money into an HSA that you'll need for other things. In addition, there are yearly limits to how much can contribute. For 2023, it's $3,850 for an individual plan, $7,750 for family plans. You can alternatively roll funds over from an IRA into an HSA (but not the other way around). I opened one today with Fidelity and will max it out every year. I use YNAB to budget, so I can keep track of my health expenses for 2023 easy peasy. It's always best to plan for the worst. Thanks for reading, and best of health to you. InTheMoney
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by InTheMoneyAdam
MArgin Trading vs Stock tradingEducational purposes ONLY! I butchered some information. First time doing a video and still learning in the game. *****PIP = Percentage in Price ****** also back then, to participate in Foreign exchange, you need to have a huge capital to have access. Now we can leverage from brokers (Banks that give us access to FOREX) Direct message me for any questions or concern. I hope you to drop some value and help others. I appreciate everyone who support my page :)
COINBASE:DOGEUSDEducation
by forexray25
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How Inflation Affects Our Savings & Our LivesFor the past few months, we’ve heard a lot in the news about increasing living costs. The cost of our essential goods and services – from our food to our electricity bills, housing, and electronics – is constantly rising. And our salary increases (if any) aren’t enough to cover the increasing cost of our basic expenses. I wanted to write this article for several reasons. I’m not trying to paint a gloomy picture, but rather to help people better understand the situation and how increasing prices affect our lives. So, as trivial as it may sound, let’s start with the basics and the basic definition of inflation. What Is Inflation? Inflation is the decline of the purchasing power of a currency over time measured amongst a pre-selected basket of goods. Now, here’s where it gets more interesting. The root cause of inflation is an increase in the supply of money in an economy. Our local monetary authorities (Central Banks and Governments) can increase the money supply, either by printing and giving away more money to individuals, by legally devaluing the currency, or by loaning new money into existence and purchasing government bonds from banks on the secondary market. In all such cases, the supply of money increases. Thus, your living expenses increase, your purchasing power decreases, and you get less for your money. There are some exceptions to this – but we will get into that a bit later when we look at possible solutions to this phenomenon. So, now, let’s review what we’ve seen for the past year, how inflation has affected our lives, and what our governments and central banks have done about it. What Are Governments Doing? Europe – The EU member countries agreed on a Pandemic Emergency Program. It’s designed to support the economies of member countries, and it’s worth 1.8 trillion euros. That’s a little over 2 trillion dollars. America – The US has several programs designed to help its economy. The first was a 3 trillion dollar program designed to help the US overcome the difficulties of the COVID19 pandemic. There are also several other programs going to the Senate for approval, all of which will further fuel the current inflationary cycle. What Level Of Inflation Are We Currently Experiencing? Well, this is a great question. It’s also a bit tough to answer. You might think that the easiest way to measure price increases is by comparing prices at the grocery store, at the petrol station, or with your landlords. And that makes sense. But you might not all see the same level of inflation from one item to the next. This is because the official inflation figures are calculated slightly differently, and they’re based on a so-called basket of goods. In the US, this “basket of goods” is managed by the Central Statistical Office. They decide what items to include in the basket and how often to change them. So, when the US inflation was calculated at 7.00% last week (the highest recorded rate in the last four decades), this was based on that specific basket of goods. That said, we’re seeing sharp increases in the official inflation data in many countries – with the UK hitting 5.40%, 5.70% for Germany, and 36% for Turkey. This means, regardless of each country’s chosen ‘baskets’, consumers worldwide are experiencing sharp measurable price increases. The more we get into the new year, the more we find ourselves asking when this vicious cycle will end. Experts are yet to agree on what kind of inflation we’ll see in the months ahead. However, the one thing that they all seem to agree on is that inflation is here to stay for the next two to five years. What Can We Do To Protect Our Savings And Plan For A Better Financial Future? There are a few options that you can consider. For those of you who prefer to take a more traditional approach towards money, well, these options might not be for you. But let’s explore all the options available to you, regardless of your age: 1 – Savings accounts If this has worked for you previously, I’m sorry to tell you that it might not work this time. Unfortunately, putting your money in a savings account is unlikely to be your best option when it comes to protecting your savings and your hard-earned money. This is because of the meagre interest rates on offer. When measured against the official inflation figures, with a 1% interest rate, you are still likely to be losing at least 4% – 5% of your actual purchasing power. While the official inflation figures might be around 7%, the level of inflation for your specific purchases could be as high as 12% to 15%. For simplicity of calculation, let’s look at an example. Say you had 100,000 USD or EUR in a savings account with your favourite bank, you would be making a whopping 1,000 USD or EUR in interest in a year (that’s assuming you are lucky enough to get a 1% interest rate from your bank). With inflation ranging between 12% to 15%, this means that you will be down between 11% to 14%. That’s a loss of about 11,000 to 14,000 USD or EUR per year. You won’t see that reflected in your bank account as numbers, but you will feel it when you go out to purchase goods. And let’s not forget that we are entering the 2nd year of high inflation – and that means twice the potential loss in buying power. 2 – Real estate In my country, we have a saying that if a person doesn’t know what to do with their money, they put it into real estate. It might still be a good choice; it depends on how you look at money. But with real estate returning between 7% -8% gross per year and with rising maintenance costs, it still might not make up for the 12%-15% increase in inflation. You might help to make a complete evaluation – one that factors in increasing prices and that factors in the size of your investment. If there is further inflation, or if you find yourself in sudden need of money, you may find yourself selling at a less than ideal price. Again, this doesn’t mean that real estate isn’t a good investment; it can be, based on your financial goals and investment horizon. Another thing to consider when evaluating your investment options is your purchasing power. It might help to compare the purchasing power of your investment now with the possible increase in the price of the property in the future. It might also help to keep in mind that if inflation goes up by 20% over three years, for example, then your property will need to go up by more than 20% in value for you to benefit from the investment. 3 – Bonds The FED is on track to raise interest rates in 2022. So, could government bonds be the way forward? 10Y US Treasuries are often considered the benchmark for a risk-free investment. That said, they don’t usually bring high returns. Let’s assume that, in a best-case scenario, you get the kind of high annual return we saw at the beginning of the century (5%-6%). Unfortunately, it still wouldn’t be enough to beat inflation and increase your overall purchasing power. 4 – Precious Metals Precious metals, in particular gold, have always been considered a great way to protect against inflation. One thing to consider: the financial markets haven’t been reacting very well recently to the idea of the Federal Reserve keeping a hawkish mood for the next year to come. In recent years, we have noticed how the inverse correlation between the stock market and gold has partially vanished during “cold” periods of general selloff. To avoid getting liquidated on their positions on stocks, big players would rather start selling massively their positions on assets where they have gained substantial profits, as it could be on gold. The result: massive drops also on the precious metal. This means that the old-fashioned hedge against inflation might have severe volatility in price during a bear market. 5 – Cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies are considered the new store of value. They have recently been compared to precious metals and sometimes been referred to as digital gold, especially when we talk about the king of cryptos – Bitcoin. Bitcoin has proven to be a great store of value, providing stellar performances in the past years, closing 2021 with +57%. Investors who have been able to jump on crypto projects at early stages have been able to get stellar returns in the sphere of 3 to 4 digits percentage. The only tiny issue with cryptos is that they require a cold-blooded investor, being able to “hodl” during periods like the current one, where they have been losing across the board more than 50% of the picks. It’s an investment that requires a very high appetite for risk. Be sure to take a look at our blog for more content. And don’t miss out on our free webinars. Next up: “How to protect your crypto investment against adverse market movements”.
ECONOMICS:USCCPIEducation
by Atlas-Horizon
A "Welcome to" Pinescript codingThis simple idea is an intro to @TradingView & @PineCoders Nothing fancy or complex, if you are already coding - you can skip this. simple MA build walk through & adding a second MA. If you want to get into coding, then here's the basic introduction. FYI - I am not a coder, 21 years trading experience and know a bit about the instruments - but new to actual coding, especially in Pine. Hope it helps someone! Disclaimer This idea does not constitute as financial advice. It is for educational purposes only, our principle trader has over 20 years’ experience in stocks, ETF’s, and Forex. Hence each trade setup might have different hold times, entry or exit conditions, and will vary from the post/idea shared here. You can use the information from this post to make your own trading plan for the instrument discussed. Trading carries a risk; a high percentage of retail traders lose money. Please keep this in mind when entering any trade. Stay safe.
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COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by Mayfair_Ventures
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BASICS OF SAVING & INVESTMENT | RULES YOU SHOULD NEVER BREAK Debt and living on credit is a universal norm. While the "wisest" among us are trying to persuade themselves how they "hack" the system buying on credit card smartly, the richest among us keep following totally different commandments . You must remember that debt makes you dependent , it makes you submissive to the system. To become truly free and wealthy, here are the simple rules that will change your life if you follow them: 1 - Spend less than you make 2 - Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving 3 - Invest the rest in the industries that you understand 4 - Never borrow to invest 5 - Stop trying to get rich quick 6 - Never let your emotions intervene 7 - Patience pays The rules by themselves are very easy and straightforward, however, most of us are not disciplined enough to follow. Learn them, try them, practice them and one day you will become free! ❤️Please, support my work with like and lovely comment!❤️ It truly helps! Thank you!
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by SignalProvider
8
Why The Rich Get Richer. It Is Your CHOICE What is the difference between the rich vs poor mindset? How do the successful differ from the rest of us? So many people do not obtain financial freedom because they do not have one thing: the right mindset. Everything starts with how you think about money, wealth, and success. It is not a matter of luck, birth, or connections. The biggest differences between rich and poor people can be traced back to mindset, outlook, and behavior. The rich and the poor don’t only differ in how much they have in their pocket, but also in how they think. Rich people have a way of thinking that is different from poor and middle-class people. They think differently about money, wealth, themselves, other people, and life . By doing so, you will have some alternative beliefs in your mind from which to choose. In this way, you can catch yourself thinking as poor people do and quickly switch over to how rich people think. A positive attitude, focusing on doing the right thing overlooking good, becoming a continual learner and careful risk management are all differences between the rich and poor. This reduces their odds of becoming poor after disaster strikes, and it helps them achieve their financial goals over the long-term. A rich mindset will tell you to be self-sufficient & build multiple streams of income . It will tell you to build a team of smarter people than you to leverage the efforts of talented people. The mindset of the rich is the most decisive reason why “the rich keep getting richer, while the poor get poorer.” Bill Gates has been quoted as saying, “If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become some mediocre company.” So, which mindset do you have? ❗️Please, support this idea with like and comment! Thank will help a lot! Also, subscribe to my social networks, the link is below!❗️
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by SignalProvider
14
My Personal Plan For 2021I’m Markus Heitkoetter and I’ve been an active trader for over 20 years. I often see people who start trading and expect their accounts to explode, based on promises and hype they see in ads and e-mails. They start trading and realize it doesn’t work this way. The purpose of these articles is to show you the trading strategies and tools that I personally use to trade my own account so that you can grow your own account systematically. Real money…real trades. My Goals For 2021 In this article, I want to talk about my goals for 2021, and how exactly how I’m planning to achieve the goals, so I thought it would be fun to write them down and share them with you. Now, as you know, goals need to be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. Now, I will show you my financial goals both for trading, because after all, this is what I love to do, but also for wealth building. After that, I will share with you the goals for my company, Rockwell Trading as well as my personal goals, and also my goals for this channel. FINANCIAL GOALS Trading For Income For my financial goals, let’s kick things off and start with trading. The plan here is to trade for income, and my target goal is to make $15,000 per month. This is meant to cover my living expenses. Now, here’s the deal. This is a rough estimate of how much I have in living expenses. So this means that I am looking to make $180,000 per year. For this trading plan, I opened a new account. I put in $250,000 into this new account, and it is a margin account. Since having a margin account doubles your buying power, this turns that $250,000 into $500,000 of buying power that I will use for trading to achieve this goal. To figure out how much buying power I needed, I needed to figure out my living expenses. So as far as I know, my living expenses are around $9,000 per month. You might be wondering, “If your living expenses are only $9,000 a month, why would I try to make $15,000 per month?” Well, very easy, there is this thing called taxes and I want to account for it. This cost is estimated. Quick side note. By now you may be wondering why I seem to be unsure of exactly how much my living expenses are. I will cover this later in this article. So, again, the goal here is to trade for income. My next goal is for wealth building. Wealth-Building Goals One of the avenues I like to use for building wealth and one I’ve very knowledgeable about is real estate. So the plan here is that this year, I plan to buy a 10 million dollar apartment complex. Now, I’ve already been investing in apartment complexes for the past few years, but the rough idea of the financials is: - 7 million dollars will be used through financing. So I will find a bank that is basically financing 30% of this. - I’m actually planning to raise 2 million dollars through investors. - The last one million dollars will be my own money that I’m putting into this deal. This is very typical for how investing in commercial real estate is done. Now, here is the plan. The goal is to sell this for 15 million dollars in three to five years. So we’re selling it for 15 million. Then, of course, we have to give back 7 million dollars to the bank, right? Because we’re borrowing 7 million dollars. 2 million go back to the investors because everybody needs their money back right? Then 1 million dollars will need to go back to me because I also want to make my money back. Now, this is only ten million dollars. That leaves five million dollars in profits that can be divided among the investors and me. So essentially, I’m planning on making two million dollars based on the one million dollars that I invested, which would be a very healthy return. Throughout this whole process, I’ll show you exactly how this process unfolds as it happens, and what apartments I’m looking at with video updates on my YouTube channel as they happen. My other plan for this wealth-building goal is possibly buying a resort in Mexico, and here’s why. Those of you who already follow me know with my company, Rockwell Trading, we do have a Mastermind program, and we have Mastermind meetings at least three times a year. Now, recently due to covid, we weren’t able to have these in-person meetings, but if buying a resort in Mexico is feasible, then not only could we host our Mastermind meetings here in the future, I can also rent these rooms out for Airbnb. Now while I have experience with real estate, I’ve never been in the hotel business, so this might be a really stupid idea, but maybe it is a good idea. Right now this is just a goal, and will look into the details deeper to figure out if this will be feasible. Cryptocurrency So we talked about trading for income and wealth-building with real estate. My next financial goal has to do with something that I definitely have on my radar is that this year, and that is cryptocurrencies. Some of you know that in the past, I’ve been very, very public about being completely against cryptocurrencies, but I can’t deny that Bitcoin had a fantastic run this year. Bitcoin is now trading above $30,000. So guess what? Seems I was wrong. Moving forward I will definitely be looking into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies more closely, and fortunately, I have access to some fantastic resources of experts on cryptocurrency that I will interview for myself. I will also share these findings with you on my YouTube channel, and future blog posts throughout the year. My Goals For Rockwell Trading At my company, Rockwell Trading, we offer The PowerX Optimizer Software, and I am determined to make this the very best software in the world. For this, I am planning to release PowerX Optimizer 2.0 in the first quarter of this year, and I’m also developing an awesome trading log that will be integrated with PowerX Optimizer. So why do you need a trading log? Well, with this trading log it will be easy for you to analyze your trades. We all need to analyze our trades, and so this is definitely something that I will tackle this year. One other feature that I want to look into is possibly being able to execute trades through PowerX Optimizer by integration with actual brokerages. As it stands right now, you use The PowerX Optimizer to find stock, and then you have to enter the trades into a broker platform separately. I want to see if I can make this process easier, because, I have the same challenges. I see it on PowerX Optimizer, and now I have to enter it into the broker platform, so not only making trading easier for myself, but for everyone who uses The PowerX Optimizer. I’m constantly thinking of ways to improve The PowerX Optimizer, because not only do I believe in it, but I believe in Rockwell Trading as a whole. I believe this company, Rockwell Trading, can be an Inc 500 company. I am super passionate about trading, creating the best trading tools, and showing you the very best trading strategies that you can use to grow your account. It’s because of this drive I have to provide awesome value for you, that makes me believe we can make their list of the fastest-growing companies. Now I’d like to move on and share my personal goals for 2021 with you. PERSONAL GOALS Writing More Books The first of my personal goals for this year is, I want to publish two more books. So the first book, as some of you are already aware, will be on The Wheel strategy, which is a trading strategy for trading options. Right now I’m in the process of giving the book one final proof-read before sending it to the printers, and I only have a few more chapters to go, but I will be rolling this one out shortly in the coming weeks. The second book I’m thinking about writing will cover wealth-building strategies, which will cover what I’ve been doing over the past years to become a multimillionaire. When I came to the United States in 2002 18 years ago, I had $30,000, and today I am a multimillionaire, so I know a thing or two about how to build wealth. I think this would be another great book to share with you, that you can get a lot of value from. Buying A Plane Here is an absolute crazy personal goal that I have for this year, and you might actually say that this is a stupid idea, but for years I have been dreaming & fantasizing about owning a private plane. I’ve decided that 2021 might be the year where I make this a reality. Now again, this could be an absolutely stupid idea. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty smart about how I spend my money, and I’m not planning to buy a 10 million dollar jet because here’s the deal. A private plane is an expense, not an investment, right? However, everybody is allowed to spend money however they want, and this might be one of the things that I decide to splurge on. For other people, it might be exotic vacations, for me, the idea here is a private plane. So it’s smaller like an executive plane, and this is the kind of plane that I’m looking into. I’m definitely not planning to fly it myself, so no worries there. I’m planning to have a pilot fly it for me because I have no idea how to do this. I will look deeper into this and see if buying a plane actually makes sense or not? These are some of my personal goals. Now, in terms of habits, there are also a few habits that I want to start doing this year. HABITS Keeping Track Of My Finances First of all, I want to track everything. What do I mean by this? Well, when I say track everything, I want to get better at tracking my wealth, which would be my net worth. Now I have a rough idea of what my net worth is, but I should be probably getting much better about this so that I know at any given time how many millions I have. You see, the challenge is once you have money, it’s not that important anymore, but I want to do this and I also want to get a little bit better about tracking my expenses. Remember earlier, when I was talking about how I wasn’t sure exactly what my monthly expenses were? This is where being better at keeping track of finances, as a whole comes into play. I said that I’m planning to trade for income on my YouTube channel and that I think I need $15,000 a month, but I actually don’t know exactly how much I need. So I need to get better about keeping track of my finances. Health & Fitness I also want to get better at tracking my weight and calories. I’m 51, so I’m getting older, so it’s important to take care of this. I want to track everything from my water intake, calorie intake, and what kinds of food I’m eating. I also want to keep track of my workouts, and as of now, my workouts are very, very easy to track because it is actually zero, so I want to be better at getting exercise as well. My YouTube Channel Now how does all of this affect you? I mean, why would you even care about all this? Well, this is the beautiful thing about my channel. If you’re interested in what I’m doing with these goals, I’m planning to post videos there throughout 2021. Five times per week, I will post a daily stock market update. I used to talk about what was going on in the markets during the “Coffee with Markus” live streams. These are now separate, daily videos, 5 days a week, and this will be in four minutes or less. Two to three times per week, I will continue the “Coffee with Markus” live streams, but without the market updates, as they will now be in the other videos. I am planning actually keeping you updated on the wealth-building strategies I was talking about, with video updates. I will post videos updating everyone on the progress of my goals, and, of course, I also will continue to post videos covering the very specific strategies that I will use for trading. When it comes to trading, I will continue to show you exactly the two strategies that I’m currently using, which is The Wheel strategy, and the PowerX strategy. If I decide to trade any other strategies this year, I will post videos about that as well. I will share videos with my real estate adventures, which as of right now, is where I’m planning to invest in a 10 million dollar apartment, possibly buying a resort in Mexico. I’ll be sharing everything with you, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I also want to cover topics I haven’t covered before, for example, credit cards. I have a bunch of credit cards and I’m using them wisely, so for instance, topics about credit cards like, “The Apple Card, is it worth it?” I have 3 American Express cards so I’ll cover whether or not they’re worth it. I also can tell you that right now I have 650,000 airline miles, so I will show you exactly what I’m doing to get all of these points because, with 650,000 airline miles, you can go around the world several times. Another topic of interest is that interest rates are low right now. So we will talk about, for example, LOC these lines of credit, or does it make sense to refinance your home? I have been looking into refinancing my home and I will let you know what I found of whether it makes sense or not, and other strategies to employ when interest rates are low, and then when interest rates are high. For example, when interest rates are high, I will cover high yield savings accounts as well as CDs. YouTube also has these so-called “shorts” and these are videos below one minute or less. These will be videos that I do as a quick reference guide. So for example, what is the bid/ask spread? What is Theta in options? Recap So let’s just briefly recap, I wanted to share my goals with you for 2021 and they are: - Will publicly trade here for income with a new $500,000 margin account, with the goal of making $180,000 a year. - For wealth building. I’m planning to buy a 10 million dollar apartment complex, and am looking into buying a resort in Mexico for the Mastermind meetings for Airbnb? - I will look into cryptocurrencies and see which cryptocurrency. Does it make sense to invest in Bitcoin? Are there any other cryptocurrencies worth investing in? Is it better to maybe invest in gold or silver? - I will look into publishing two books. - Improving the PowerX Optimizer Strategy. - I’m looking into if a private plane is a stupid idea or not. - Keeping better track of my health and finances. - Becoming an Inc. Fastest Growing Company. - Providing more content on my Youtube channel. So long story short, this will be an exciting year. I am super excited for 2021. This is the first time ever that I’m doing anything like this, and I will really be pulling back the curtain throughout to show you everything that I personally do. I hope that you find this not only interesting but that these are also strategies that you can employ in your life right away, but this really depends on what stage of life you’re at. You might be at a stage where you are still trading for growth, trying to build an income, and I will show you very specific trading strategies for doing this. It might be that you have a retirement account and you’re looking back right now. You’re getting your initial statement and you say, “You know what? This hasn’t been doing anything over the past year and I want to have better wealth-building strategies.” If so, there will be videos on my channel as well. Sometimes you might be wondering, “Does it make sense for me to open an American Express account or to have an American Express credit card?” Or something relating to this. And I will share all of this with you. Hope that you’re enjoying this. And this is what you can expect from me in 2021.
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How Much BTC Do You Need to Create Generational Wealth?Hi Tradingviewers, in this article I am going to break down this question into smaller items and try to give a concrete answer to the question: “How Much BTC Do You Need to Create Generational Wealth?” First, we’ll have to define what ‘wealth’ means. Then we need to define how we look at the ‘generational’ part. Lastly, we also need to take into consideration long term outlooks on Bitcoin. Let’s try and put some actual numbers on this and see how much BTC you would actually need. I’ve been on Twitter a lot lately (putting some more effort into my account!) and got inspired to answer this question as this was a very common topic on Twitter. The interesting thing is that I saw a lot of people talking about this, but nobody actually made an effort to go through the math. Without further ado, let’s dig into the numbers. First let’s look into some options to define wealth. Using data from the World Inequality Database and Statistics Canada), it takes about $488,000 to be considered part of the top 1% in the U.S in 2019. Let’s assume that this applies to the number needed in a family/household. Let’s make ~$500,000 our first option, I’d say belonging to the top 1% in the US would be a pretty fair definition of wealth. If we look further than the US, we can also use this same 1% methodology to define wealth on a global scale. In that case you would need at least $744,400 in combined income, investments, and personal assets according to the global wealth report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute. A slightly more ambitious goal compared to our first option but we could define this as ~$750,000. Another option to look at wealth is to look at financial independence . My preferred way to define financial independence is to have enough wealth such that you can completely live off the dividends. A common rule used by the FIRE community (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is the 4% rule. The 4% can be summarised as a safe withdrawal rate that will not lower your total wealth over the long run. Even when there are temporary downturns in the global economy. This assumes you invest all your money in the stock market. The median household income in the US is $61,937 per year. We could consider a passive income of the median household income as wealthy. If we divide $61,937 by 4% from the safe withdrawal rate above we get to a total of $1,548,425. So using this logic you would need roughly ~$1.5M in total assets in order to be considered wealthy. Now, let’s discuss the generational part. Honestly, I was surprised when I found the exact definition: “ generational wealth represents assets passed down from one generation to the next. If you can leave behind a notable inheritance to your descendants, that constitutes generational wealth. These assets can include real estate, stock market investments, a business, or anything else which contains monetary value. I had somehow expected it would be something more ambitious such as that for x generations they would all have to be considered “wealthy too”. Achieving generational wealth would then be relatively easy given method one and two. You would just need to make sure something is left of your $500,000 or $750,000 respectively. Option three even has it implied. The whole idea behind option three is to never actually spend any of your wealth, you’re simply living off the dividends. This leaves us with the most difficult one: how much Bitcoin would you need? The first and most obvious approach is to directly calculate the amount of bitcoin that represents our different definitions of wealth given the current price. If we take a Bitcoin price of $30,000 that would give 16 bitcoin for option 1, 25 bitcoin for option 2 and 50 bitcoin for option 3. Now let’s bring in some of the nuance. First of all if you’re expecting to live off your dividends you cannot have all of your wealth be in bitcoin itself as it doesn’t pay any dividends directly. Normally the wealth would be in the stock market or in real estate. Also, if you assume that the value of bitcoin will keep rising you would obviously need far less bitcoin today to achieve generational wealth later. For example, Bloomberg analysts have predicted a price target of $50,000 for Bitcoin in 2021, implying a $1 trillion market cap for just this cryptocurrency. JP Morgan analysts estimate the price of Bitcoin to grow more aggressively, as they estimate a value of $650,000 by the end of 2022. Let’s be more conservative on the date, but keep an aggressive price target for the sake of the argument here. If we take a $300,000 price target by the end of 2031 how much bitcoin would you need today to achieve generational wealth? This would give us 1.6 bitcoin for option 1 2.5 bitcoin for option 2 and 5 bitcoin for option 3. Specifically for option three it would still mean though that you would have to cash out all your crypto assets and convert them into dividend generating assets instead. Also, with a possibility to see hyperinflation later given that 35% of all dollars in existence have been printed during the last 10 months it is questionable whether thinking of generational sustainable health should even be expressed based on dollar figures to begin with. I wouldn’t know how to express it in any other way, but am really curious to hear if anyone has good alternatives on this point. I am really curious to hear your views on this. I used many assumptions here, how would you have approached this? Are there any flaws you see in my logic? Feel free to comment on anything, and please feel free to absolutely destroy it! I’d love to have the discussion. Just to summarize, based on this you would need today: 16 bitcoin to be considered among the top 1% wealthiest in the US 25 bitcoin to be considered among the top 1% wealthiest in the world 50 bitcoin to achieve generational financial freedom Trading-Guru p.s. You might have seen a few reposts of this article as Tradingview was struggling with a faulty spam detector. The moderators kindly helped blocking and unblocking some posts. Thanks @scheplick!
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Elements of a Successful Trading Plan 105SELF DEVELOPMENT/METHODOLGY/PSCHYOLGOY Elements of a Successful Trading Plan 105 5. Record Keeping Record keeping in Forex exchanging is similarly as critical as the exchanging plan and can incredibly expand the odds of achievement. In a perfect world, a person should keep some type of journal or diary to record every one of the exchanges he or she makes and their outcomes. By breaking down the records after some time, one can search for approaches to refine and enhance the exchanging plan for better outcomes. The diary, which is maintaining by the person, ought to become a precise record of each exchange he or she makes and needs to incorporate the accompanying data Recording the significant data at the season of entering an exchange encourages a person to adopt a deliberate strategy and guarantee that he is making the exchange for legitimate reasons – which is aligned as per the exchanging plan. After some time, he will develop a scope of information with reference to what prompts him to influence an exchange and this can be contrasted with the outcomes to see which techniques are working for individuals and which systems can be enhanced. A person can likewise utilise the data from the records to create certain insights about the exchanging, which can be useful while dissecting the exchanging history and searching for approaches to make strides. The accompanying insights, which are for the most part and are valuable to know: • Win Rate – The quantity of effective exchanges communicated as a level of all exchanges • Average Profits – The normal benefit of every single fruitful exchange • Average Losses – The normal loss of all losing exchanges • Net Profit – The aggregate benefits less any costs that are brought about • Top Currencies – The cash matches that give the best win/misfortune proportion and additionally the most benefit • Top Indicators – The signs used to settle on choices that have the best achievement rate Listed above is just covering a small handful of suggestions and somewhere to start:) Follow your Trading plan, remained disciplined and keep learning !! Please Follow, Like,Comment & Follow Thank you for your support :) This information is not a recommendation to buy or sell. It is to be used for educational purposes only!
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