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Wealth-Accelerator
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Portfolio beats work 📈👨‍🔬

Over the past 12 months, our portfolio has, for the first time, generated more income than my wife and I have earned through our jobs.

Of the 100,000 euros, 11,000 euros alone came from compound interest. Right now, its impact is really noticeable. I’m enjoying the moment and am curious to see where this tightrope walk between the AI revolution and the debt crisis will take us next.

Have a great Wednesday and stay on top of things ⚽️💪🏼

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Epi@Epi
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Just wait until your portfolio loses your entire annual income. Then you'll feel like you've worked for nothing. 😈
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Epi I don't think I'll feel that way.
Once I've spent 200k, I'm going to treat myself to a nice steak 😉
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🏊🏻‍♂️ • 🚴• 🏃‍♂️ Endurance Life@MozartsGeist
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@Epi However, this feeling can also arise for reasons related to the company's structure. ☺️
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Solitair@Solitair
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@Epi Here’s a little anecdote: I got a promotion in April 2025, which meant about 250 € more a month. Well, you all know what happened around that time. Keyword: Liberation Day. Within a short time, my portfolio plummeted by 140k at its peak, but I was expected to be happy about it.
That didn’t feel quite so good, but since I’m not really dependent on my portfolio, it didn’t bother me all that much.
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Solitair What really matters is having the resilience to stick it out.
I don’t think I’d have any trouble with that amount of volatility. But the small “dips” since 2020 have always been so brief that I can’t really imagine what it would feel like to be in the red for several years in a row.
That certainly isn’t exciting for anyone.
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Epi@Epi
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@Wealth-Accelerator Ich kann dir sagen, dass es ab drei Jahren kontinuierliche Verluste im Jahreslohnbereich psychologisch schwierig wird. Irgendwann hält man den Stress nicht mehr aus, verkauft alles und will nie wieder was mit Aktien zu tun haben.
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Epi With a 50-year investment horizon, that’s likely to happen more than once.
I’m really curious to see how it will feel. I think I’m prepared. But how would anyone really know? 😂
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Epi@Epi
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@Wealth-Accelerator Behavioral finance has an answer: Losses hurt about twice as much as gains of the same amount. So: Take your current joy, double it, and turn it into pain. 😏
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Epi I know the theory 😉
But I've also seen my balance drop by 50k in a short amount of time, and it didn't bother me one bit.
I get really excited about big jumps up. And I see temporary, high losses as just a relaxed part of the game.
Like I said, the length of time I’m “underwater” is what I find psychologically intriguing.
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Epi@Epi
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@Wealth-Accelerator Then you're already well-prepared. 👍
The underwater time itself isn't really the problem psychologically. What's much harder is the direction you're heading in during that time. When you keep going down and down, with no end in sight, that's when it gets tough.
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Epi That's what I'm assuming.
Then Getquin will be pretty empty, too 😅
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Solitair@Solitair
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Congratulations, all in all—including realized gains, dividends, and capital gains—I'm at 140k year-to-date. My meager civil servant's salary can't keep up with that.
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Solitair That's really intense. YTD, I'm also close to 100k. It feels a bit surreal, but that's why I got started in the first place.
I just thought it would take 15 years for something like this to happen, not 7. 🤯
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asset_sage_smmad@asset_sage_smmad
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I'm enjoying the calm before the big bang for as long as I can—I don't even understand why I'm still supposed to work 😆 This is the land of milk and honey.
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Baluga@Baluga
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@asset_sage_smmad The trick is simple: keep buying stocks when the market crashes. Then you'll profit twice as much when it rebounds. ;) That's what a real land of milk and honey looks like.
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user0f6b1709c7ef430d@user0f6b1709c7ef430d
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Stark - I like it !!!
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Pelo@pelo
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One of the best feeling 🚀
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Wolli@Wehyernese
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For me, it's over €110,000 in 12 months. Crazy. It makes it hard to take my work even halfway seriously and to go out of my way because of the comparatively low average salary.
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Wehyernese I still think it's really nice when my living expenses are covered by my job.
But I'm open to that changing in the future 😅
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🏊🏻‍♂️ • 🚴• 🏃‍♂️ Endurance Life@MozartsGeist
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A Portfolio Beats Stock Picking! 😊💪
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@MozartsGeist I had to learn that the hard way, too. Luckily, though, I felt like I understood the stock market pretty early on—only to suffer a total loss on both a stock and a cryptocurrency, which then shrunk my confidence in the stock market down to ETF size 😊😂
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Donkey Diktator@DonkeyInvestor
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Congratulations. Over the past 12 months, my portfolio has lost 2,703 euros 😅
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@DonkeyInvestor Wow! What's the main reason for you? Bitcoin?
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Solitair@Solitair
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@DonkeyInvestor Don't spend it all at once
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Echsenkönig A.@Bezehgombjuderstimme
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@DonkeyInvestor Well, I've made a start. That's already half a 400-euro job. And soon that'll double 👌🏻
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Donkey Diktator@DonkeyInvestor
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@Wealth-Accelerator My incompetence 👍. And a little bit of Bitcoin, too
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Donkey Diktator@DonkeyInvestor
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@Solitair I already did that
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Donkey Diktator@DonkeyInvestor
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@Bezehgombjuderstimme Did you see the minus sign?
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Echsenkönig A.@Bezehgombjuderstimme
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@DonkeyInvestor No! 😂 Okay, well, I still hope it turns positive soon. Were you speculating wildly, or what caused it to drop?
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Donkey Diktator@DonkeyInvestor
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@Bezehgombjuderstimme The Bitcoin chart looks extremely unfavorable over a 12-month period. YTD, for example, my portfolio looks much better, up 55k. In March, my portfolio hit its low point so far.
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Therealbroka@Therealbroka
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Congratulations. That’s THE dream!! Four more years like this, and financial freedom is within reach. Knock on wood—let’s hope we’re not in some massive bubble like in 2000/2001. That really scares me. A 20% return on a global ETF, driven mainly by AI stocks. I hope this is just me panicking unnecessarily, like I do every year. 🙏🏽❤️


May I ask how old you are and at what age you could imagine stopping work?
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Therealbroka Thank you!
We’re a modest 34…
And I’ve already drafted—or rather, simulated—a sort of plan here:

https://getqu.in/F6Ytf0/

I can tell you that, in principle, I already feel financially free. The only thing holding me back is my home.
If I were to sell it tomorrow, I think I’d be very close to that goal. And the second thing is perhaps the issue of health insurance.

Over time, I’ve lost the desire to stop working.
My wife and I have both taken extended periods of parental leave. We’re both currently working part-time, and I’ve already taken three short sabbaticals.
And I just finished reading the book *Die with Zero*, which represents a complete contrast to the accumulation of wealth I’ve pursued over the last 10 years.

I’m at the point where I’m enjoying the moment, where I’m starting to “enjoy” spending money again, and so on.

Still, I’d like to reach a net worth peak of around 2 million by the time I’m 45.

I think that’s possible without having to give up any more things beforehand.

I share your fear of a bubble! I can easily imagine that a single domino could take everything away from us again. But I also believe I’m prepared for that.
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Therealbroka@Therealbroka
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@Wealth-Accelerator Interesting simulation. I agree with you—no job is a burden on the mind, but the type of work can be adjusted. From high-paced large corporations with hefty executive salaries to working part-time at a bar just for fun… that’s what I mean by quitting because of financial freedom.

I’m guessing the daily fluctuations in your portfolio have been outpacing your savings rate for quite some time now, right? Doesn’t it make more sense to just let the money work for you and use all the money from your savings rate for spending right here and now?
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@Therealbroka I agree with you. That said, I’ve actually found a part-time program management role within the corporate group’s top management that works out really well for me.

And as you said, we kicked this off for ourselves pretty much exactly in September 2026, because that’s when we started getting things back on track. Our vacations have also reached a new spending level.
Still, I’m trying to keep some small savings plans going. Right now, to expand my exposure to gold. And even 250 euros a month makes a difference when I look at it in isolation.

But basically, we’re now at the point where we’re firmly allocating all our fixed income into our spending budget to upgrade our lifestyle or our freedom. And only “unplanned” income continues to go into our savings.
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GeldGenie@GeldGenie
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Damn, do you both work part-time (40%)?

Joking aside—congrats!! 🎉🎉 May the stock market continue to
be on your side 😎
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@GeldGenie No joke 😉
Both are currently working part-time 😋

Thank you! 👍🏼💪🏼
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GeldGenie@GeldGenie
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@Wealth-Accelerator Not a bad decision, but it wouldn't be for me. The opportunity cost would simply be too high for me. If it works for you guys—great! :-)
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Wealth-Accelerator@Wealth-Accelerator
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@GeldGenie It's mainly because we're taking care of a one-year-old who isn't in preschool yet 😉
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KaiRock@KaiRock
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What a milestone! Having your portfolio out-earn your job must feel pretty rewarding. Happened for me in less than a month.
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