8K in gains yesterday alone.

I made over 8K in gains in 1 day in my stock market portfolio - it feels really weird to say that. There’s such a stigma & odd energy about being really specific with earnings or numbers. 

Apple Intelligence was announced & I used to work for Apple like almost 15 years ago haha. Plus it might lose all its value tomorrow.

But I do have a long-term divided stock trading strategy. 

I don’t often talk specifics of finance.

Probably because: 

1. It feels weird & like taboo still to speak openly about it. (Theres a chance it could change & it’s very volatile so not 100% reflective of the overall end result. I’ll explain in a second. 

2. It’s scary to say it out loud bc of the possible misjudgment. There’s days where I lose 5K in a day but thats how holding long term has to work, it has to average out over time. But damn am I glad that a % of my then salary went into stocks instead of my own bank account that had 20 yr old me in control of that then. 

I do love this world. The Financial Freedom pathway has been the construct of my entire life. It’s a lifestyle that I actively chose to achieve in 2017 and it wasn’t easy getting there but I’m happy currently with how I’ve diversified my income streams.

I say that with the caveat of my specific style of quality of living - no large debts, no mortgages to pay off, no property assets, liquidity in the market. I don’t JUST have my work, my agency, I have other investments (not in property) that make money each month - something we’ve had for over a year that’s generated returns. 

Is this something that I should share more openly? Maybe how I’ve managed to achieve this financial freedom & still maintain a high quality of living?  

Knowing me, I’m also just a business nerd in general, I may not be the best in ’chisme’ (a spanish slang for ‘gossiping’) but I’ve always been in tune with the business world goss. Which companies are making what moves, which brands are doing remarkable campaigns/ cool shit. That stuff gets me going. 

Probably from my entry into Startups when I first began my career. The innovation, the doing things differently & the pure uniqueness of the whole startup world. Little did I know back then, that it just meant 10 x the amount of work, because you had to bootstrap and be triple as efficient with less resources. HahahNo hate though, it was rough but it’s made me who I am now. 

All this to say that the stock market is super intriguing to me. I do not actively trade (at the moment). Besides the light stock here and there, I try to throw in a % of my earning each year into the brokerage account so that it continues to take gains from the stock market rather than losing at least 4% from inflations & the banks. Every year it’s been positive - mostly in Tech & AI stocks, ETFs too. 

I want to tell you about the algorithmic trading bot we’ve used for the past year. It so amazing, actively trades every day, super low touch. & 4-20% gains monthly. Buttt I’ll get into that another time. 

For now I just want to finally come out & admit the markets are such a great way to diversify income. 

It feels like this is a part of all of our lives, yet we don’t learn any of it in school. Nothing is taught to us about how to go about money. How to invest it, how to really keep making it - we all just get thrown down this idea of getting a job is that one way of generating income & then get property. 

I’m surprised the education system doesn’t make money & finances a core focus of our growing up. Knowing how to really manage my money is something I would have benefited from.

Every person has their own money journey. & theres such different cultural perceptions & standards based of governments & laws, taxes too - theres more being said out loud about how you make money in the US because the entrepreneurs can be loud about it. So we are hearing more. 

Personally I’d love to know more openly about what investments are working, worth the risk, worth the reward. I think it’s valuable to have options of where we put out money and just have a chance to increase that in different ways. 

It is a scarier topic but I think we need to talk about it more.