At the end of last year I pulled all my funding out of ETFs because of the CGT/meerwaardebelasting and uncertainty around foreign brokers. I had a decent return from the last 2-3 years of ETF investing, but now I feel myself reluctant to buy back in.
Like many of you, I see the Fire movement as a means to become free and invest my time the way I please, no longer obligated to sell my time and headspace for money.
But I have become too obsessed. I will look at the ETF chart every day, often multiple times a day (even now without my money in it). If it goes down for a few days, I will feel down and depressed, my dream further out of reach. If it goes up, I have faith.
I don't like how much power it holds over my welbeing. Nobody knows what the future will bring and should the market collapse 20-30% due to global circumstances and take 2-3 years to rebuild I think it will affect me really badly. I understand this creates a new buying opportunity and the course is slow and steady, but I'm not sure if I have the stomach for it anymore.
The best investment I've ever done must be my house, which I bought with a low mortgage and has almost doubled in value over the last 10 years, but the best aspect of it I find is that there are no direct visible charts that go up and down and affect my mood. It's just money in the bricks that steadily rise over time and don't affect me on a daily basis.
I don't know what I'm trying to say really, I guess I'm coming for advice to see how you guys deal with this uncertainty. I want to invest, but I also don't want it to affect my daily mood anymore. I'm not able to just not look at it, I will always continue to do so.