My ability to buy real estate was in large part because I shorted bank stocks in 2006-2007 instead of buying RE like most young professionals my age were doing.
Individual stocks aren’t your thing
I purchased XOM on 1/21/22 for 72.13 and am up 13% since then, plus a 1% quarterly dividend.
I like GOOG, which has done very well this week.
I have some business income coming in. I am putting the largest amount of it into tax free munis. EVM pays 4.4% free of state and federal tax.
The second largest use are value stocks, XOM, SU, T, TD, BNS and VZ. They are all around p/e of 10 and pretty solid companies.
The third largest use are shorting tech stocks that lose tons and tons of money. I may lose money on this, but if the tech bubble keeps up, I will more than make up for these losses with RE appreciation.
INTC has not been a winner. YNDX was for a while, but now below my average. GO has been a big loss, but I am glad I averaged down when it was 23. I really love their Point Loma location.
My current biggest winner unrealized is a put on coinbase that’s up 173%. But I had others expire at 0, so really have about broken even there. My best stock right now is WFC, up 144% since 9/23/20. It is such a solid company I wasn’t worried about buying in big. I don’t know how people can put a big part of their net worth into unprofitable tech companies.
