Thoughts on The AI-driven Market Since ChatGPT was first announced in late 2022, the market has been trending up. For example, the S&P500 index is up roughly 45% since December 2022. Microsoft, an investor in ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI, is up more than 84%. Nvidia, the company that designs the chips that other companies need…
Our 2023 Financial Wrapped!
Now that we’re in 2024, it’s time to go over our finances and how much our investment changed in 2023. We’ll also go over our dividends amount, how much we received and how it compares to 2022. So let’s dive right into it! Portfolio Overview In January 2023, we started with around $75,000 across our…
How Visa Makes Money and Why We Invested in It
Over the past few months, we’ve been consolidating our portfolio to companies that we think have great business models, can grow their fundamentals, and ultimately will reward shareholders in capital gains and dividends. An example of this would be Visa, one of the companies that we’ve started investing in in the last few months. We’ll…
Q2 2023 Portfolio Update
Here is our portfolio update for Q2 2023 along with July as well!This is long overdue 🙂 Major Changes One major change in our portfolio for the quarter was that we completely sold our position in Broadcom (AVGO) at an average price of $834 per share for a total of $7,390.98. This represents a gain…
Q1 2023 (and April 2023) Investment Updates
Hello hello! It has been a while since we did an update 🙂 Our portfolio has grew a lot since our last update in January. Our most notable transactions were Amazon, Ally Financials, Crowdstrike, and 3M. We have sold all of our holdings in those companies and reallocated the money towards other holdings. Also, we…
Our 2022 Financial Review: Where We Were and Where We Are~
When we started this blog a year ago, we started with around $28,000 in savings and $46,000 in investments, totaling to $74,000. Now, after 1 year of regularly saving and investing, we currently have around $50,000 in savings and around $77,000 in investments, which combines to $127,000. What this means is that within just 1…
What You Should Know about Dividend Investing
Happy Holiday everyone, I’m back! When I started investing back in 2020, I only invested in growth stocks (think Tesla, Netflix, Nvidia, etc.), which more often than not happen to generate no profit or free cash flow. I was looking at the high potential upside in a short amount of time and did not even…
Investing 101: So, how do I invest?
Hello again! When I talked to some of my friends about investing, they always seemed interested and wanted to learn more. However, they always asked me this question: So, how do I invest? Well, since I’ve talked about the different types of investment accounts and also different types of investments, it’s finally time for me…