I haven’t checked my net worth for four and a half months until recently. That wasn’t on purpose, because normally, since 2012, I check at least three times a week using Empower’s free app. The only reason I stopped was because I could no longer log in. One day, I was suddenly locked out of| Financial Samurai
During the recent stock market correction, I decided to buy the dip. But this time, I didn’t just buy my usual dip-buying amount of $25,000 to $100,000. I went much bigger. All told, I spent over $1 million buying the S&P 500 and various tech stocks like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon as I've been chronicling| Financial Samurai
Dear Readers, Welcome to Financial Samurai! My name is Sam Dogen (doh-gun), the founder and main writer for this site. Financial Samurai is one of the leading personal finance sites in the world with roughly one million organic visitors a month. Everything is written based off firsthand experience because money is too important to be| Financial Samurai
Nobody enjoys a stock market downturn, especially those who rely more on returns to survive due to a lack of active income. But as parents, we can use these sell-offs as an opportunity to help turn our kids into future millionaires. Although I’m a perennial optimist, I believe our kids are kind of screwed. The| Financial Samurai
The best way to get rich is to turn funny money into real assets. By turning funny money gains into real assets, you increase your chances of holding onto your gains. But what is funny money? Funny money is money that is built upon far out assumptions that may never come true. Funny money is| Financial Samurai
If you're looking how to quantify risk tolerance and how to determine the appropriate exposure to stocks, you've come to the right place. Financial SEER is a way to quantify your risk tolerance so you can try to make investment returns in a risk-appropriate manner. SEER stands for Samurai Equity Exposure Rule. This post is also for someone| Financial Samurai
Dollar-cost averaging is the act of consistently investing in a particularly security over a set interval of time. Whether you know it or not, you are likely dollar-cost averaging every time you get a bi-weekly or monthly paycheck. For example, at the beginning of the year, you may elect a fixed percentage of your pre-tax| Financial Samurai
Passive and active investing are two ways to make investment returns in the stock market. Since my first job in finance, I've always actively invested some of my funds to chase unicorns. The question is: what is the best split between passive and active investing in the stock market? If you are only a passive| Financial Samurai
Coming up with a sizable down payment is one of the key barriers to affording a home. Learning how to invest your down payment if you're planning to buy a house is a whole other issue. On the one hand, you want to invest your down payment conservatively so that's it's available once you find| Financial Samurai
If there's a car in your blind spot and you swerve suddenly, there's a good chance you'll get into an accident. Your accident will not only cost time and money to fix, you might also suffer an injury or even die. If you have financial blind spots, the consequences can be just as severe. I can't teach you| Financial Samurai
There is a never-ending debate between going to public or private school. Is private grade school and private university really worth it? I'm not so sure in this day and age of high inflation and free online education. Personally, I went to international private school while my parents were stationed abroad until I was 13.| Financial Samurai
In a previous post, I discussed the futility of working when your net worth is declining. During a stock market crash or recession, your Return on Effort (ROE) for working drops significantly. Therefore, the only way to increase your Return On Effort is to work less, not more. At some point in your life, you’ll| Financial Samurai
I recently caught up with Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise in person, about their venture product's latest investments in private AI (artificial intelligence) companies. With OpenAI closing a new round of funding valuing the company at $156 billion valuation after just raising money at a $80 billion valuation in early 2024, the AI space is| Financial Samurai
