Hi, my name is Max, I'm 18 years old and I'm interested in social media and the stock market.

That's exactly why I'd like to document my financial career on Getquin from now on and talk about it with you. As you can probably tell from the name, my goal is to retire at the age of 50. I would like to make this possible through my share portfolio. Thanks to an inheritance, I had the opportunity to skip the hard road to the first €100,000. However, as I was only 15 years old at the time I found out about the inheritance, I had a lot to learn first. Now I'm 18 years old and already know a bit more. Over time, the stock market has become my hobby and hardly a day goes by when I don't spend time with it.

How it all began

As already mentioned, my interest in the stock market was triggered by the inheritance I received in 2019. Since the deceased relative also had a great interest in the stock market and had invested very successfully for many years, my father thought it would certainly be in his interest if I invested the money too. Fortunately, my father is also very experienced in the stock market, so he was able to explain a lot to me. So it wasn't long before I bought my first ETF with him. This was classically the $IWDA (+0,2 %) . I also bought a fund for the Asian region $JQ8Y72 . At the time, this was a recommendation from a friend's bank. However, I sold this fund at some point with a loss of around 25%. That wasn't the best start, of course, but it did teach me how to deal with losses. In those early days, I learned a lot about the stock market from YouTube, but also from other platforms such as Der Aktionär and Finanzen100.

The first individual shares were added in 2023. That was back then $GOOGL (-0,22 %) and $DHL (+0,42 %) . This was followed by other tech giants such as $AMZN (+0,03 %) , $MSFT (+0,48 %) and $AAPL (+0,29 %) . I now have 17 different individual stocks. Looking at my portfolio, most of them will probably be familiar to you, but there are also some smaller stocks like $EUZ (-1,5 %) , $NHH (+0,32 %) and $LNN (+3,11 %) I bought because I find them exciting for the future.

Past and future

Fortunately, my portfolio has performed really well in recent years, in my opinion. This year, too, I am going into the new year with around 20%. Tech stocks in particular have performed strongly and generated decent returns. As I am very optimistic about the tech giants for the next few years, I will continue to hold them in my ETFs despite the doubling. As things stand today, however, I have 2 positions that I would like to change. $DHL (+0,42 %) will probably be the first stock to leave my portfolio. Personally, I just don't have the feeling that the company is developing as strongly as many of my other shares. Of course the DHL share is great as a dividend stock, but I want to focus on growth first. That's exactly why I'm going to $GGRP (+0,37 %) reallocation. The current replacement is the $FUSD (+0,42 %) . I like the quality focus behind these ETFs, but I don't need GGRP's shifted focus on dividend stocks, as I don't really care about dividends at the moment.

In September 2025, I will start my apprenticeship as a bank clerk. From then on, I plan to finally set up my first savings plan. As I'll still be living at home at this point, it should be easy to save a high proportion of my trainee salary. But I'm also making sure that it's not too high - after all, I don't want my quality of life to suffer because of my savings.

Building up additional income

I have been very interested in social media since 2020. When I was 14 years old, I started an Instagram page and reached over 25,000 subscribers within 1-2 years. During this time, I was doing really well financially and I experienced some really great things. For example, I raffled off 120 liters of beer to my community with a brewery. But I'll write a post about that in my subscriber feed soon. After all, the whole thing doesn't really have anything to do with the stock market, which is why I don't want to burden the homepage with it. However, if any of you are still interested, feel free to follow me and read the story soon.

There I will also explain again why I can no longer use the site.

I'm currently trying my hand at YouTube. I'm using artificial intelligence to create videos in the hotel niche. The results are surprisingly good. More on that soon ;)

I'm also currently trying to build up my reach on Instagram. I recently opened an account on Instagram, which should address the same topics as this Getquin account. If you are interested, you are of course welcome to drop by. I'll try to add the link to the account here:

Generation Aktienrente 📈| Vermögensaufbau mit 18 (@aktienrente.mit.50) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

With the help of these projects, I hope to be able to build up a more or less passive income in the future, which I can then put directly into my share portfolio. However, to be honest, I also enjoy them as they are, which is why an additional income is not absolutely necessary.

Nevertheless, I will upload regular updates to my feed, which will document my current projects and their developments in detail.

End

This brings us to the end of my first article. I hope I have been able to arouse the interest of at least a few of you and would of course be delighted to receive feedback and suggestions for improving my portfolio and my plans.

I wish you all a happy new year!