Wanted to share Investment Journey (since cant share with anyone in real life)
Hi folks of reddit - I am a fellow FIRE enthusiast who is planning to FIRE in a year or two. I have been stashing away every penny I could (high now, was lower in 2020 , average say 1 lakh per month - and a one time infusion in 2025) in past 6 years away into basic stuff - mutual funds, blue chip stocks and Gold (SGB) - I am not a very intelligent investor (pun intended) but I do follow buy and forget. My only goal was to save as much as possible and then jump out of the rat race. But recently I decided to review performance and I was pleasantly surprised - with the rallies in market couple of years back and the gold rally last year - my portfolio has done surprisingly well - more than I was expecting. I kind of wanted to share this with someone but I don't talk to anyone about my personal finance, so the anonymous reddit folks are the only ones I could tell this - also I hoped this might inspire someone to trust the process - that even if you are not very savvy investor you can trust the process and make some money.
I basically fed my my NSDL CAS statements from 2020 till July 2026 (only the monthly balance - not the details) and asked Claude to analyze it and below is the result. Here it is. brief context - 35M, unmarried, tech job.
