Well, in my mind I'm treating any sort of active trading as I would a source of income that I think fits into my web of goals. I have excess mental capacity and time capacity at work to put towards something, but I can't work a typical part-time job due to my irregular schedule and the fact I have to physically be in the office. Again, I'm still in the very early stages of educating myself, so I may ultimately decide that it's not a good fit for me or I'm not a good fit for it. I'm planning on trading with 5-10% of my portfolio with strict stop limits and exit price targets while the rest is in typical permanent portfolio-ish investments. There's a good chance I'll have enough money to traditional FIRE in the next year or 2 of full-time employment anyway even if I'm not playing around with a small trading portfolio, but I'd also like to have a few different sources of income for resiliency purposes.GandK wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 4:28 amThis issue is tough, and advice can be dangerous. Education has got to be the beginning.
My husband and I have been FI for almost 3 years now, and traveling full time for 2. There are investment decisions we make that would be remarkably bad for a lot of other people.
I talked to my landlord and another source of income could be helping him with landscaping and other property maintenance, but it sounds like that work will mostly not be until the spring.
In the short term, I believe I've hit a temporary wall with lowering my expenses. My hope is to be able to knock $100-200 off my rent for helping my landlord and maybe ditch my car if I can get transferred to a different section at work, but it doesn't seem like those will be in the immediate future.