u/batmann-007

had a recurring btc buy going for ages, never really touched it.

was setting up an ETF recurring buy today and genuinely expected it to just overwrite the BTC one because thats what i assumed the app worked like.

turns out no. you can have separate recurring buys for different assets on different schedules. so now i've got btc every week and an etf once a month, both running in parallel.

maybe everyone else already knew this and im late to the party, but i'd always assumed one recurring plan per account was the whole model. made me realise i've barely poked at the investing features in the app tbh.

usually i'd just buy the thing and close it

my last two non-isekai projects got maybe 200 views combined across both posted an isekai teaser as a joke three weeks ago, no real plan behind it, already at 1,200 views and climbing

I don't even mind writing isekai, some of my favorite stories in the genre are genuinely doing interesting things with the trope. it's more that I feel a little cornered into writing the thing that performs instead of the thing I actually wanted to write next. anyone figure out how to have both, or do you just accept the genre you're good at feeding and write your passion projects on the side with no expectation anyone reads them, gonna make a blend of new genre if this goes on lol

I've been using bitpanda for a few years now and realised something recently if you'd have asked me back then what makes a good investor i'd have said something like finding the best opportunities or spotting the next thing before everyone else, being early, being right. if you ask me today i'd probably say being able to ignore the noise which sounds boring and it kinda is. but the older i get the more i think that's actually the whole game

the amount of headlines, predictions, hot takes we see every week is honestly insane. every single day theres a chart that says we're at the top, another one that says we're going 3x from here, some etf launch that changes everything, some macro guy on twitter calling a crash. its exhausting even when you're not trading actively

at some point i just stopped trying to react to every one of those picked a handful of things i actually believe in, set a rough allocation, and kept adding on a schedule regardless of what week it was. missed some rallies. also didn't panic sell into any of the dips that ended up not mattering three months later

investing became a lot less stressful after that, kinda ironically but I thought paying more attention would make me better at it. turned out paying less attention was the upgrade. like if i look at what i'm holding vs what i held two years ago its actually pretty similar. what changed was the amount of energy i was giving to each of those positions