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One month in the books, and I'm up 18% on my investments year to date :) How's everyone else's investments doing?  
One month in the books, and I'm up 18% on my investments year to date :) How's everyone else's inves

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Retirement accounts up around 3% (includes contributions), or were this morning anyway
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@vegetation I would be surprised if your returns included contributions.  
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? I use a spread sheet. Jan 31 balance vs Dec 31.  
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I'm flat in an MPT portfolio. And the market is negative, which begs the question, what are you guys uncertain in?  
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@toniatonic I'm not uncertain in anything other than @overtop's point. Our accounts are up for the year, but that includes contributions.  
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Ah, ok, well, keep up the good work in getting those contributions going. I'd be super interested in seeing how that gold butterfly has fared since 1 Jan
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@toniatonic what's an MPT portfolio?  
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Ah yes, this is how I manage my portfolio. Didn’t realize there was an official name for it  
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Up 2. 7% since Jan 1. Wah wah.  
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@brezin hey that’s still great for a monthly return!  
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True! I’m pretty new to investing so sometimes I forget some of the finer details.  
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When you’re new, any gain higher than a savings account yield is a win! And they don’t even pay 2. 7% ANNUAL interest right now, let alone 2. 7% in a month  
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Yeah ha I forgot that APY is per year, not per month
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@spencer8887 what is in your portfolio?  
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@azarria94051 I use alternative investing strategies to buy and sell stocks, mainly Options trading, to do high probability trades that produce income and get paid for lower pricing to buy stocks and higher pricing to sell stocks. Such as this example from my simulated portfolio last year:  
https://youtu.be/SuCS978lpC0
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This is the current allocation in my real money portfolio:
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@spencer8887 options = got it
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@azarria94051 Options, Stocks, and Futures  But I’m siloed with Options right now because they’re the only asset class that can take advantage of expanded volatility like we are experiencing currently.  
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@spencer8887 Do you use technicals and if so, which ones? thanks
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@azarria94051 yes absolutely. The biggest technicals I use are major Support and Resistance. That’s what I use for setting levels on my neutral-market income trades. And then chart patterns around the major Support and Resistance levels to gauge short term directional movement for growth trades.  
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