Another day, another dollar. I’m in what some in the financial independence community call the boring middle. My plan is working; I’m earning, I’m saving, I’m investing. I actually made more this month outside of my regular job than I’ve ever done before. Stock trading has done well for me and it’s something I did not expect at all. I appreciate that I still have the beer money sites as a back up, though and I continue to utilize them.
In the mean time, I have updated how I track my portfolio. The assets section of this page is more automated now. I was doing it all by hand before, but now I’m pulling in the data automatically and using the last actual dividend payout as the metric for my monthly earnings. Some of the funds I hold, rather than the individual stocks, have varying payouts. This causes a little volatility and so my monthly payout has been reduced by a dollar for now, but of course this past December I got a few huge payouts, so it evens out, but this may make my monthly tracking a bit tougher. For now, I think I’ll allow myself to cross off my goals for the year when I actually hit them, even if they should change the month after.
In any case, I appreciate that I have been able to stick with this for more than a year and look forward to seeing how far I can get this year. Slowly, but surely I imagine this will progress into a nice income portfolio with solid companies that have a history of raising their dividends.