I try to spend as little time thinking about investments, but some times it gets the better part of my brainz. The metric I focus on most is passive income: how much I earn by just being.
I update my Google Document a couple of times a month. In the document, I have:
- individual data: the points above are a sum of dividends, interests, and the like
- a 10 period rolling average
- a regression
- and, a 95% confidence interval.
I know focusing on one metric is not a good idea; however, as an advocate for sustainable designs and graphs with dense and easy to understand material, this is my favorite metric. I usually see people track net worth. To me, that is a more complex way to imagine retirement/laycation cashflows.
I have only seen one retiree’s cashflow, the Canadian Dream’s. I’m interested in non-conventional, home-made trackings. To me, conventional is a brokerage statement.
adam said,
December 1, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
have you used mint.com? it’s actually really good!
aquadump said,
December 2, 2009 @ 10:12 am
hrrmm, looks interesting. thanks!