15 years in a 401k 4 years trading on RH 2 years watching my managed IRA underperform Time to self-direct, and manage my own finances $550k funded in my new TD account on 2/21/2020 ... and the market crashed the next week.

A ‘RED RISING’ movie is in the works at Paramount • Francis Lawrence (‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’) set to direct • The story follows a young miner living on Mars who attempts to bring down the color-coded class system (Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)

Crazy story… 👀 I spent 13 months trying to help a client buy a business. We couldn’t find the money. It was a well-established niche business in Hawaii. Great reputation. A place my family had vacationed many times. The pandemic had hit it hard, but my client already operated a similar business on a neighboring island. He understood the industry and the market. On paper, it was a perfect fit. And this guy was determined. We spent more than a year trying to make the financing work. I respected him so much that I kept working for free. I wanted to see him get there. Thirteen months after our first consultation, he emailed me on a Monday. Still looking for equity. Still trying to find a way. One week later, tragedy struck Maui, and the business was destroyed. Fortunately, no business-related injuries or deaths were reported. But the community suffered losses that make a failed acquisition feel very small. I kept coming back to that Monday email. We had spent 13 months frustrated that we couldn’t get him into a deal that could have devastated him financially. I still think about that whenever something I’ve worked hard for falls apart. You can do everything you can to make something happen and still be fortunate that it didn’t! (The business was located in this photo)