Occasional check (not weekly) plus tax-smart rebalancing keeps risk in check without overtrading.
“I set up automatic monthly contributions in early 2023 and basically stopped paying attention. Just opened the app for the first time in maybe 14 months. Some things I did not expect:
NVDA is now 31% of my portfolio. I bought it in 2022 when it was down and then mostly forgot about it. I apparently also own Palantir. I genuinely do not remember buying Palantir. My total return over the last 3 years is around 94%. I am almost certain I would have done worse if I had been checking every week.
Now I don’t really know what to do.
NVDA feels too concentrated, but I also feel weird selling something that has carried the account this hard. I’m also nervous about rebalancing because I don’t know what the tax situation looks like. The other thing I noticed is that my moomoo has prediction markets now. Maybe the mistake was not having those buckets separated before, which made me wonder if I should separate my brain into two buckets: long-term holdings I mostly leave alone, and tiny event-based positions for specific views I actually want to follow.
Is “keep ignoring it for another 3 years” a valid strategy? Asking genuinely.”
I’ve been on autopilot for 3 years and just checked my account for the first time in a while
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