Well, it's a few days late, but here are my latest retirement figures.*Overall, I'm not very pleased, and I am fairly confident that nearly anybody is probably not pleased with how their accounts have gone in the last month. I haven't added to either my old 401k or my Roth IRA, and they both have made precipitous drops in the last month (I lost about $2800 in my old 401k, and you know what? It didn't even call me in the morning).
Still, I am happy and blessed to be this far along towards retirement, but I guess one never really loves to get taken along on the whims of the market (at least not when it goes down).
My plan for August is to get another three to four hundred smackers in my Roth while the market is down. I am fairly confident in the mutual funds that I've chosen, so (allegedly) it's just a matter of waiting this dark period out. We'll see if I'm doing any better come next month.
*I thought I'd wait for S&P to downgrade the U.S.'s debt before I posted. It seemed the most equitable.
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