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Portfolio Update December 2024 – Ending A Strong Year With Some Caution
By Finance Gnome  •  January 14, 2025
Happy New Year! 2024 ended with a bit of a whimper, after starting off December on a high with expectations of an early Santa rally. Despite the pullback though, the S&P 500 still ended the year up a whooping 24%. I have no complaints about how the stock market performed in 2024 and the tailwind that provided to our portfolios, both of which were up in excess of 40% for the year. As stocks powered higher, I took the chance to clean up the Family portfolio by selling off the smaller speculative position which finally were at or close to breakeven. As for the Personal portfolio, I started a few new small positions to spread out some risk because of how fast Tesla and Palantir surged. Bond yields continue to climb higher, which have pulled stocks back a bit since the start of 2025. There might be some uncertainty until Trump takes office and maybe even...
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By Finance Gnome
Hi, I’m Calvin! I’m a lucky husband and father of two wonderful kids. I work as an aerospace engineer at my 9 to 5. I’ve been investing since 2011, but my investing journey started off pretty terribly. Many of the stocks I bought lost me loads of money, call it tuition fees. Thankfully most of the time, I managed to bail out before losing everything.
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