This is a useful link for calculating what you'll have saved for retirement (at what age you choose) and can be used to predict how long your money may last. You can manipulate variables to see how much you should be contributing, what you plan to live on in retirement and how you'll need to adjust if you're behind your goals.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/investing...ent-calculator
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This market is like the old medieval racks.

They turn the wheel a little more each day to add more pain.
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HOW'S THAT AMC SHORT SQUEEZE COMING ALONG MTG#10?
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I made almost $500 this morning off that sell off. In at $4.00 out at 4.60

AMC has turned into a swing trading paradise.

I've been playing several of these revers splits and doing pretty well.

CEOs have learned to Shotgun a reverse split and trap short positions into immediately having to cover. They need to do a ticker change to do it right.

Adam AAron the AMC CEO is going about it all wrong. He's AND idiot!

If he would have just shotgunned the APE shares, Immediate RS and change the ticker to ASS , it would have worked perfectly.
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My stocks are getting crushed like grapes during wine harvest.
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SOXS was the play today. Any time the SPY is tanking ,thats the one to be in. I sold mine to early and left money on the table.

Liquidated ALL my long term stocks a while back and only day and swing trade now. I was tired of watching my "Long term portfolio drain.
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I'm putting 750k into a 4.35% Ally CD.

This is the part you guys tell me how stupid I am.

Seems like a good deal to me. No risk. I dont have to pay a financial advisor to potentially lose money for me and I dont have to do.....anything. Thats the best part. 33k to sit on my ass. Sold.
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A CD is probably stupid idea versus putting the max FDIC deposit in a few different money market accounts that have limited and/or time-bound penalties for withdrawals.
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Dont know what that is. Link?

I had a money market locally last year and it paid shit.
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Probably depends on what your goals are. If you want to protect that $750k because you need it in the not-too-distant future, a CD is a good option.

If you aren't retiring for 30+ years, you'd probably be better putting it into investments. But, of course, that comes with risk, and there's a good chance it could be ulcer-inducing for a while as the market continues to have a lot of volatility.

But FWIW, you don't need a financial advisor to invest. Just open up a Vanguard or Schwab account and throw it into some index funds.
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It also depends on how much cash you need to maintain your current standard of living if you were to lose your main source of income. If you don't need $750K for a year to a year and a half then you're better off locking up the amount you absolutely cannot live without and keep the rest in various forms of liquidity to buy market tracking ETFs in at prices you think are discounts.
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I'd put it in "MAIN" before I did that. Been solid all year and steady as a rock. Pays 7% yearly dividend MONTHLY
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What is MAIN?
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Wtf is it

Dont need it at all for years. Dont know anything about market tracking EFTs. Guess have to look into it. Investing is so much work.
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Ticker symbol MAIN


Company Overview
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Main Street Capital Corporation (MSCC) is a principal investment company primarily focused on providing customized debt and equity financing to lower middle market (LMM) companies and debt capital to middle market (Middle Market) companies. The Company's principal investment objective is to maximize portfolios total return by generating current income from its debt investments and current income and capital appreciation from our equity and equity-related investments, including warrants, convertible securities and other rights to acquire equity securities in a portfolio company. The Company seeks to achieve its investment objective through LMM, Private Loan, and Middle Market investment strategies. Middle Market portfolio investments primarily consist of direct investments in or secondary purchases of interest-bearing syndicated loans or debt securities in privately held companies based in the United States. MSC Adviser I, LLC is the External Investment Manager.
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1300 Post Oak Boulevard, 8Th Floor
Houston, TX
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www.mainstcapital.com
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