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Assuming I have a time horizon >10 years.

Edit: thanks for all the replies!!

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[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

Nah, just piss it away.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, saving is like a muscle you need to do it to get better with it. It's far easier to turn 50/months into 200/month as your income grows, than starting at 200/month.

[–] obstbert@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, finding some free ETF saving plan and investing 50 a month will give you some experience in investing. You can learn about, what's an ETF, what's diversification and how you react personally to seeing the number go up and down.

One has to start somewhere.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago
[–] 474D@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just put extra money in a 5% high yield savings account. It's not exciting, but there's no risk and it will pay off over time

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s also hardly any reward (comparatively speaking). Yields are crazy high right now on savings accounts, but they’re going to continue to drop, vs investing in the stock market (over the long term) is much more likely to maintain a much higher rate of return. Even at 5%, you’re really only getting about 2% growth since inflation is stuck at 3% right now. That compares to a long term average in the stock market of 7-9% after inflation.

Not to say that OP should do that, necessarily. Especially if they haven’t built their emergency fund which is far more important than investing, until you have a safe amount.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're probably right, as I'm not an expert, so thanks for your input. I am still worried of how the stock market will change with the upcoming trainwreck

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you bought bitcoin for $50 every month in the past 10 years, do you know how much you'd have today?

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