So, about halfway through this year I sold my second home. Which freed up some money for me to play with. What it really did was pay off my home equity line of credit and left me with about $50k. So in late June I started to play around in the market with it, then bought an engagement ring, then played around some more, then bought a $23k harley davidson 2016 Road King, then played around some more. Here is my last five months. Now, before you go oooh and ahhh, I have to tell you that while my individual stock picks have been great, everything else has been shot to hell. My kids 529 plans are flat zero for the past 24 months, (actually I have added about $16k to them and they have not moved up at all in two years - so more shares but same value), my tsp is at about 1.5% for the year (like WTF) and my Vanguard mutual funds are showing me that for the first year I will be able to claim a negative on my tax returns. (Holy jeezaloo already)
I really think I have to take another $50k out of mutual funds and invest them into stocks. Yesterday I bought TDW again and netted me $4100 as I sold it today. On the brighter side, I do get to pay 28% tax on my stock returns.
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