If I just bought an index fund, I could have saved enough time over the last three years to learn a foreign language or more likely, to masturbate thousands of more times.

For those wondering I sold most of my stocks in early 2020 and was heavy into gold and long term treasury bonds so I did great during the march 2020 crash. And I started buying back into stocks, but not much because I thought things would go much lower. So the SP500 shot up while I stayed flat. By early 2022 I sold off all my bonds and moved heavily into commodity producers which seems to have kind of tied the SP500 for 2022 over the course of the year.

Made some shit plays like lost $30k in Redfin and Zillow, but made it up by shorting Tesla, so the yolo plays were not too productive on net. Made maybe $20k profit on yolo shit. Which really just helped me compensate for the lack of tech stocks in my portfolio since I thought they were in a bubble for 3 years and avoided them.

Oh and I had/have $40k of Russian equities that vaporized to near zero. I expect they’ll be unfrozen eventually and turn into $150k+ overnight.