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Levi Ewald
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Beginner Investors · 🔥 Hot

Read This if You're a Young Investor
The advice I keep seeing on Blossom for young investors is that when you're young you can afford to take more risk, and in general I agree with that. Where it goes sideways is in how people put it into practice. Increasing risk usually turns into increasing concentration, and lately that means a few AI names or bitcoin/crypto.

What concentration does is widen the range of what could happen to you, without paying you anything extra for it. You might hit it big and you might lose 80 or 90 percent of it, and both of those are very real possibilities.

You could take your whole paycheque to a roulette table and put it on red. You have definitely increased your risk. But run that a million times and your expected return is negative, because the wheel has a green zero on it. Run a diversified basket of stocks a million times and your expected return is positive. Both are risky. Only one of them has something paying you to take the risk.

Hendrik Bessembinder looked at 25,967 US stocks from 1926 to 2016 and found that only 42.6% of them beat one-month treasury bills over their lifetime, with just 4.3% of stocks accounting for all the net wealth created above T-bills. The median stock lost money. So when you concentrate, you're betting you're holding some of that 4.3%.

The usual argument is that a 20 year old can afford to lose it, because there's plenty of time to recover. Personally I'd argue the opposite. If you're 20 and you lose $10,000, at 8% over 40 years that's about $217,000 you don't have at 60. That's the price tag on the bet, not ten grand.

And most people are placing this bet inside a TFSA, which makes it worse. If you put $10,000 in and it falls to $1,000, you only get $1,000 of room back when you withdraw it. The other $9,000 of contribution room is gone for good. You can't claim the loss against anything either, since capital losses inside a TFSA can't be used to offset capital gains.

I understand the appeal of treating it as bonus money and hoping you picked right. But if you buy something diversified and keep contributing, you put yourself in a good position without ever needing the home run.
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Beginner’s Guide to Stock Market Terms
One of the best parts about the Blossom community is how open everyone is sharing knowledge and experiences.

To make things easier for anyone just starting their investing journey, here’s a simple glossary to help understand and simplify various terms.

Common Terms:

Dividend: A share of a company’s profits paid to shareholders, usually quarterly.

Ex-Dividend Date: The cutoff date by which you must own a stock to receive its next dividend.

ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund): A fund that holds multiple stocks or bonds, traded like a single stock.

Covered Call ETF: An ETF that owns stocks and sells call options to generate extra income (higher yield, limited / capped upside).

Earnings Report: A company’s quarterly financial performance summary.

EPS (Earnings Per Share): A company’s profit divided by its number of shares.

Market Cap: A company’s total value (share price × number of shares).

ACB: The total amount you’ve paid for an investment, including the purchase price plus any fees or commissions.

Book Value: The value of a company according to its financial statements (assets minus liabilities).

Yield: Annual dividend as a percentage of the stock/ETF price.

Liquidity: How easily an asset can be bought or sold without impacting its price.

Volatility: The degree of price fluctuations in a stock or market.

Index: A benchmark of stocks (e.g., S&P 500, Nasdaq, TSX).

Bull Market: A period of rising stock prices and optimism.

Bear Market: A period of declining stock prices and pessimism.

False Breakout: When a stock’s price moves above (or below) a key level, making it look like a new trend is starting, but then quickly reverses back.

P/E Ratio: Price-to-earnings ratio (stock price ÷ EPS), used to assess valuation.

Blue Chip: Well-established, financially strong companies with a track record of stability.

Diversification: Spreading investments across assets to reduce risk.

Broker: A platform or firm that facilitates buying and selling investments.

Limit Order: An order to buy/sell a stock at a specific price or better.

Market Order: An order to buy/sell a stock immediately at the current market price.

Bid/Ask Spread: The difference between the highest price buyers offer and the lowest price sellers accept.

Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA): Investing a fixed amount regularly to reduce the impact of market swings.

Capital Gain/Loss: Profit or loss from selling an investment for more/less than its purchase price.

IPO: When a company first sells shares to the public.

Index Fund: A fund designed to mirror the performance of a market index.

Short Selling: Selling borrowed shares, hoping to buy them back cheaper.

Margin: Borrowing money from a broker to buy investments, which amplifies gains and losses.

Margin Requirement: The minimum amount of your own money (equity) you must maintain in a margin account to open or keep a leveraged investment position.

Margin Call: A demand from your broker to deposit more funds or sell assets because your account equity has fallen below the required margin level.

Time Horizon: The length of time you plan to hold an investment before needing the money. Short horizons = more risk-sensitive, long horizons = more room to ride out volatility.

Stock Split / Reverse Split: A split increases the number of shares (e.g., 2-for-1) while lowering the price per share. A reverse split reduces the number of shares (e.g., 1-for-10) while raising the price per share. Your overall value doesn’t change just the math.

Long (Being Long): Buying a stock or asset because you expect the price to go up.

Short (Being Short): Selling a stock you don’t own because you expect the price to go down, so you can buy it back cheaper later.

TER: The total yearly cost of owning a fund, including the management fee plus other costs like administration, audits, and legal fees.

MER: The annual cost that a fund charges for management (includes any leverage costs if used).

Management Fee: A portion of the MER that goes directly to the fund managers for running the fund.

Withholding Tax: A tax deducted on dividends/distributions from foreign investments (e.g., U.S. dividends to Canadian investors face a 15% withholding in TFSA/Non-Registered accounts).

Total Returns: The full picture of an investment’s performance, including both price gains and dividends/distributions.

CAGR: The average yearly growth of an investment over time.

NAV: The price of one share of a fund (stock or etf)

NAV Depreciation: When the fund’s share price goes down over time.

Mutual Fund: A pool of money from many investors used to buy a mix of stocks, bonds, or other assets.

Bond: A loan you give to a company or government, and they pay you back with interest.

Asset: Anything valuable you own that can generate money.

Portfolio: Your collection of investments.

Option: A contract that gives you the right (but not the obligation) to buy or sell a stock at a set price.

Future: A contract to buy or sell something at a set price on a future date.

REIT: A company that owns real estate and pays investors income from rent.

Alpha: A measure of how much better (or worse) an investment did compared to the market.

Beta: A measure of how much an investment moves compared to the market.

Sharpe Ratio: A way to see if returns are worth the risk taken.

Hedging: Protecting your investments from risk.

Rebalancing: Adjusting your portfolio back to your target mix of assets.

FCF: Free Cash Flow

Understanding these terms makes investing far less intimidating.

If anyone feels other terms should be included, please share in the comments.

I’ll update this post so we can build a complete beginner-friendly resource together!


*Sorry tagged a few etfs for reach 🫣
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MT @freedomwave
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Beginner Investors · 13m

Long term investment portfolio allocation
I am reviewing my long term investment TFSA portfolio. I would be happy to hear any suggestions for what I currently think is a good allocation:
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Ryne Williams
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Passive Income · 1d

What is the most recent stock you added to your portfolio? Let me know in the comments! 👇

Personally speaking, mine was Rollins ($ROL). I started buying it about a couple months ago and have been DCAing into it every week since then.

So far, it’s still a relatively small position, but we’re coming up on 100 shares. I’ll probably try to double that before I consider it a “full” position, at least based on my portfolio size as it currently stands.
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Andy Passive Income
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Passive Income · 17m

XFunds GLDN & SLVX weekly distribution
🔒Ex-date Monday 💰Paydate Tuesday

$GLDN $0.0472⬆️
$SLVX $0.0724⬆️

Last week :
$GLDN $0.0441⬆️
$SLVX $0.0669⬆️

2 weeks ago :
$GLDN $0.0403⬇️
$SLVX $0.0593⬇️

3 weeks ago :
$GLDN $0.0415⬆️
$SLVX $0.0633⬆️

4 weeks ago :
$GLDN $0.0406⬇️
$SLVX $0.0616⬆️

5 weeks ago :
$GLDN $0.0408⬇️
$SLVX $0.0613⬇️

6 weeks ago :
$GLDN $0.0414⬆️
$SLVX $0.0651⬆️

7 weeks ago :
$GLDN $0.0413⬇️
$SLVX $0.0634⬇️
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Michael Brownstein
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Passive Income · 🔥 Hot

Income Funds Paid for Vacation!
I’ve been using my income funds to help pay for my vacation to Poland 🇵🇱
I have what I call the Four Horsemen and they are $OVL $TDAQ $GPIQ and $QQQI / $XQQI and a few satellite positions!

Not Financial Advice!
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Lamar
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Beginner Investors · 1d

Buying the dip
If a stock (or a whole sector, like memory) that has been surging dips, and there is no change in the overall fundamentals/thesis, that's the time to buy. Everyone was saying "memory is dead" just because of a sell off that was largely caused by margin calls and leveraged trades in Korea. I'm really glad I didn't listen to them and bought the dip.

Block out the noise and do your research, people.

$DRAM $SKHY $STX $MU $SNDK
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Kat HH@kayboymama
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Beginner Investors · 22m

High yield savings
Hey fellow investors ☺️
Need help and information about the CASH:CA ETF.
I’m struggling finding a HYSA for emergency fund cash and was wondering has anyone else used this ETF??
Open to suggestions and all your thoughts. I’m trying to keep things in 1 or 2 banks instead of having accounts at several different places. Currently with BMO self investing.
Additionally, I have a small biz account with TD and was hoping to take the money I save for taxes and any money left over and invest from a biz perspective. Being new at this I need help🙏☺️
Anyone have suggestions of what I can do to make my sitting tax money work for me?
TIA 🙏
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Market News · 22m

Joshua Kushner’s new investment
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital just disclosed a huge new $AMZN position.

The firm bought 904,038 shares during Q2, worth roughly $215.5 MILLION at the end of the quarter.

Thrive is best known for investing in private tech companies like OpenAI and SpaceX, so seeing it make a public-market bet this large stands out.

And the timing is interesting.

They built the position before Amazon reported AWS growth accelerating to 37% YoY.

One of the biggest private-tech investors is now making a major bet on $AMZN.
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Nicholas Cuppett
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Rate my Portfolio · 15h

Rate my portfolio
Would you change anything

$SPMO 40%
$VOO 30%
$VGT 20%
$AMZN 5%
$GOOGL 5%

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Passive Income · 27m

AMAT Beat, Raise, Selloff? 👀
Keeping an eye on $AMAT after an ~8% two-session drop despite record Q3 revenue and adjusted EPS, with Q4 guidance above consensus.

The main risk is whether high expectations, near-term margin pressure and China exposure justify the valuation reset.

There may still be details the market is pricing in that I haven’t caught yet; this is a watch, not a verdict.
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ETFs · ⭐ Featured

Here is the ultimate beginner portfolio
I see many beginners posting that they’re new to investing and don’t know where to start. 🤔 As someone who was in a similar situation just a few months ago and learned, here are the 4 ETF types (& ETFs) that are popular among long term investors 😃 :

1) S&P 500:
US: $VOO / $SPY / $SPLG
Canadian: $VFV / $ZSP / $TPU

2) GROWTH / TECH:
US: $QQQ / $VUG / $VGT / $SCHG
Canadian: $QQC / $HXQ / $TEC / $ZUQ

3) DIVIDENDS:
US: $SCHD / $VYM / $DGRO
Canadian: $VDY / $XEI

4) ALL IN ONE / BASKET / Global Exposure:
US: $VT / $AVGE
Canadian: $ZEQT / $XEQT / $TGRO / $VEQT / $ZGQ

I noticed many people following this type of a basic / uncomplicated portfolio and are doing really well for themselves 🔥

For % allocation, you can divide evenly among the ETF categories or allocate a higher % based on your preferences. Just DCA regularly and you should be good. 😎

Some people even just put it all into an all in one etf like $XEQT. This is also a good approach - it is much simpler and it works. Ultimately, it comes to whatever you prefer 🙂

Oh and yea, there are overlaps, but I don’t think there is anything wrong in that though - it would just count as doubling down on good things. 💯

I’m sharing with you all what helped me, but don’t forget to do your own research too! 🙏🏼
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Capped Upside
I know this concept gets brought up as a joke sometimes, but I just had a serious conversation with a beginner about it, so I’m inspired to offer some clarity.

When people say covered calls have “capped upside,” I think two different ideas sometimes get mixed together.

First, capped upside does not mean your entire portfolio return is capped.

It refers to the upside of the underlying above the strike price during the life of the option.

If you own something at $100, sell a call with a $110 strike and collect a premium, you can still benefit from the underlying rising from $100 to $110.

Your return can be a combination of:

Capital appreciation + option premium

If the market moves sideways, the premium can help.

If it falls modestly, the premium can soften the loss.

If it rises but stays below the strike, you can participate in that rise while also keeping the premium.

It’s only once the underlying rises substantially beyond the strike that you start seeing the opportunity cost of the covered call relative to simply holding the underlying.

I think this matters because otherwise “capped upside” can accidentally turn into a strawman where people hear it as:

“Covered call investors can’t benefit when stocks go up.”

That isn’t true.

The second point is why many people still favour simply owning the underlying for long-term investing.

If you own an asset because you believe it has substantial long-term appreciation potential, repeatedly selling calls against it means repeatedly creating periods where some of that upside can be surrendered in exchange for premium.

Sometimes that trade works very well.

Sometimes the premium more than compensates you for the upside you gave away.

But over a long investing horizon, an asset that experiences large upward moves gives you more opportunities to run into that cap.

That is the actual trade-off.

“Capped upside” doesn’t mean no upside.

It means you are getting paid a premium in exchange for agreeing to give up some upside beyond a defined point.
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ETFs · 1d

Goldman Sachs Acquiring Neos ETFs 💰💰💰
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN 💸

The margins are just too good to pass up! 🤑🤑🤑

Especially when you consider the loyalty of the new wave of investors who dismiss the negative impacts of high fees, who ignore the structural drags on performance, who believe high distributions are more than a feature (they are not) and who ultimately are content paying more fees for lower return.

Imaging being able to build an inferior product, sell $32 billion to consumers and be able to cash out $2.3 billion. 👀

Capitalism is alive and well!! I’m thinking of bringing back floppy discs and rotary phones. 🙌

As I’ve said in previous posts/comments - the CEOs of high fee ETFs thank the finfluencers for their marketing efforts and YOU for your loyalty! 🙏

(PS. I’d expect to see more transactions like this to follow as more of these CEOs cash out before the next downturn and before investors wise up. It seems there’s no rush on the last point.) 🤷‍♂️

$SPYI $QQQI $BTCI $IAUI
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Weekly income portfolio update
Happy Friday. Market is down a bit today, but its ok. I think I got my income portfolio where I want it, and with holdings that I plan to keep forever. All of my holdings pay a distribution, but most are now indexed. I will always have a few single stock income funds, but only ones that have a positive total return, and a minimum 1-year history. My overall income is down a bit, and it may even go lower as I go more and more indexed, but I'm trying to keep it above $60,000 a year, because that is my minimum amount to live on, if I had to. My goal is to build this up to $130,000 annually, and I'm now giving myself 2 years to get there, but hopefully I'll get there much sooner. I will post a weekly update for anybody curious about this experimental investment portfolio. It's important to keep in mind, that I do not need this money now, which is why I'm willing to experiment like this. I'm running this portfolio more of a 2nd business, rather than a retirement growth account, which I already have an IRA for that. Most of my funds use a lot of ROC, which helps on taxes, so I'm hoping this all works out, and I can just keep the account snowballing until the time comes that I need the income.
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Analysis · 41m

$SPCX Talk #3
Anthropic vs. SpaceX: biggest IPOs in history (after Anthropic goes public in Sept/October this Year!)

🚀 SpaceX raised $85B
💾 Anthropic is anticipating $60B
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Intuitive Machines Q2 2026 Earnings
The craziest day for $LUNR since inception, after dropping 20% at market open, then recovering 20% within 20 minutes and ending the day green at +3% 😂

Here’s a quick recap of $LUNR Q2 2026 earnings:
• Cash & Equivalents: $367M
• Revenue: $206M, +309% YoY
• Net Income: $(63)M vs. $(38)M YoY
• Adj. EBITDA: $(14)M vs. $(25)M YoY
• FCF (6Mo): $(146)M vs. $(14)M YoY
• Backlog: $1.8B, +727% YoY

Crazy backlogs, yes +727% YoY!! $LUNR has generated $1.7B in bookings this year, including $1.2B in new bookings this past quarter through today.

The backlog is literally half their market cap! Probably one of the most undervalued space stocks looking at peers.

They are lower in cash than I expected, but the ATM offering is only ~50% of the way and seems to be at an average of $25. We can expect the other half of the dilution to happen as the stock recovers. This is one of the perks of an at-the-moment offering as it adds more flexibility.

IM-3 mission is now delayed to Q1 2027 and will still deploy the first lunar relay satellite, but IM-4 is now slated to deploy all four remaining lunar relay satellites, so we can expect revenue from that much earlier than expected. This also implies more revenue from that $4.8B IDIQ contract and more revenue earlier after satellites are deployed.

They are still guiding for $900M-$1B for full year 2026 along with positive EBITDA.
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Financial Security is the Objective
The “Power of 3” Personal Finance Strategy Part II

My personal finance thesis:

Real financial security should be measured by sustainable cash flow coverage of core living expenses — not by asset values alone.

After 30 years of studying personal finance, managing and operating large businesses, I’ve come to believe many people are using the wrong scorecards.

A portfolio can rise.
A house can rise.
Net worth can rise.
Income can rise.

And yet real financial security can still be getting weaker.

Why?

Because we do not live inside our brokerage statements.

We live in the real world of:
- housing costs
- food costs
- healthcare costs
- utilities
- insurance
- taxes
- transportation
- and changing purchasing power

Wealth matters. Assets matter. Net worth matters.

But if those measures are not connected to actual living and living expense coverage, they can create a FALSE sense of security.

A person can have a larger portfolio, a higher home value, and a bigger nominal net worth — while at the same time having less real purchasing power and less durable financial security.

That is why I use this measure:

Financial Security Coverage

The question is simple:

How many times does your sustainable cash flow cover your absolute core living expenses?

In my view, that is one of the clearest and most important measures of real financial security.

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Why traditional wealth measures can mislead

In recent years many people have seen:
- stock portfolios rise
- home values rise
- retirement balances rise
- nominal net worth rise

Someone may say:
- “I hit $1M in my portfolio.”
- “My assets doubled in five years.”
- “My net worth is up massively.”

That may all be true in nominal dollars.

But the more important question is:

Has your real financial security improved at the same rate?

Often, the answer is not nearly as much as they think.

Because while asset prices rose:
- inflation eroded purchasing power
- living costs rose
- insurance rose
- healthcare rose
- taxes rose
- replacement costs rose

So yes, statement values may be higher.

But if the cost of sustaining your life rose sharply too, then the practical meaning of that wealth may be far smaller than the headline number suggests.

This is the illusion of nominal wealth without purchasing power awareness.

Asset growth matters. But wealth should not be measured only by what it is worth on paper. It should also be measured by the cash flow support and life coverage it can provide in the real world.

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My framework: Financial Security Coverage

Financial Security Coverage = Sustainable Cash Flow / Absolute Core Living Expenses

My target is 3.0x.

If my absolute core living expenses are:
- $7,000 per month
- $84,000 per year

Then my target is:

$84,000 x 3 = $252,000

So I target $252,000 in sustainable, after-tax cash flow capability.

Not gross income.
Not paper gains.
Not one-time wins.
Not inflated asset values.
Not temporary market strength.

Sustainable. Durable. Net cash flow.

Why 3.0x?

Because in my view that is where you have:
- essential life coverage
- contingency
- flexibility
- meaningful margin of safety
- cash flow left over to save, invest, and compound wealth
- near-complete financial durability under stress testing

At 1.0x, you are covering life.
At 2.0x, you have meaningful breathing room.
At 3.0x, you have what I consider durable financial security.

Sharp readers will realize that reducing the denominator — expenses — is one of the fastest ways to improve security.

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Reality check

In my view, many people are operating between 0.85x and 1.15x core living expense coverage.

That means they are:
- below full coverage
- right at the line
- or only slightly above it

This is why so many people feel pressure even when income looks decent or assets have risen.

A small disruption can destabilize everything:
- medical costs
- car repairs
- rent increases
- insurance increases
- income loss
- tax changes
- business slowdowns

Any honest personal finance framework has to begin with empathy.

Most people are not failing because they are reckless.

Many are struggling because they are living with very little margin.

That is a STRUCTURAL issue.

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Definitions matter

ABSOLUTE CORE LIVING EXPENSES:

The essential costs required to maintain life at a durable baseline:
- housing
- utilities
- food
- healthcare
- insurance
- transportation
- minimum debt service
- essential household expenses
- baseline taxes

This is not luxury.
This is not status spending.
This is the number required to keep life functioning.

SUSTAINABLE CASH FLOW:

This should be after tax, durable, and repeatable.

Examples:
- reliable salary
- durable business income
- pension income
- recurring rental cash flow
- recurring distributions
- conservative portfolio income assumptions

It should exclude or heavily discount:
- one-time gains
- temporary spikes
- windfalls
- irregular bonus dependence
- speculative cash flow
- unrealized paper gains

A lot of people look secure on paper.
Far fewer are truly secure in cash flow.

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The second layer: Direct and Indirect Cash Flow

I now think the most accurate version of Financial Security Coverage should include both:

1. Direct Cash Flow
The sustainable, after-tax cash flow you receive now:
- salary
- business income
- rental cash flow
- pension income
- recurring distributions

This answers:
How well is my life covered by the cash flow I currently produce?

2. Indirect Cash Flow
The sustainable cash flow your assets could support:
- stocks
- bonds
- retirement accounts
- taxable portfolios
- other investable assets

A simple proxy is a conservative withdrawal rate such as 4%.

If someone has $2,000,000 in investable assets:

$2,000,000 x 0.04 = $80,000

If core living expenses are $84,000, then:

$80,000 / $84,000 = 0.95x

This answers:
How well could my life be covered by the cash flow capacity of my assets?

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Why this is a better measure of wealth

Most people measure wealth by:
- portfolio value
- home value
- net worth
- income

Useful, yes. Complete, no.

A better question is:

What level of sustainable life support do my income and assets actually provide?

That is why I believe Financial Security Coverage is a more accurate and more important measure of wealth and security than asset values alone.

It translates both:
- income
- assets

into the one metric that matters most:

Coverage of Real Life

And unlike nominal balances, it forces us to think about:
- inflation
- purchasing power
- changing living costs
- market volatility
- income durability
- resilience under stress

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Why tracking it Year over Year matters

This framework becomes more powerful when tracked annually.

Year-over-Year changes in:
- direct cash flow coverage
- indirect cash flow coverage
- total living expense coverage

reveal what is really happening and a far more accurate measure of Wealth and Financial Security

If the ratios improve, it may mean:
- income is strengthening
- assets are becoming more supportive
- purchasing power is holding up
- expenses are becoming easier to carry

If they deteriorate, it may mean:
- inflation is outrunning cash flow
- expenses are rising too fast
- income is less durable than expected
- assets are worth more nominally but support less real life
- financial security is weakening despite appearances

This is the difference between paper progress and real progress.

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How I interpret the ranges

Below 1.0x — financially exposed
Cash flow does not fully cover core living expenses.

1.0x to 2.0x — functioning but VULNERABLE
Essentials are covered, but margin is limited.

2.0x to 3.0x — real RESILIENCE
Core life is well covered, contingency improves, and optionality begins.

Above 3.0x — robust SECURITY and compounding power
This is my target zone: real coverage, real flexibility, real resilience.

Moving from 0.95x to 1.15x matters.
Moving from 1.15x to 1.50x matters.
That is real improvement.

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My conclusion

After 30 years of personal finance study, I believe this:

Wealth should not be measured only by asset values.
Security should be measured by sustainable cash flow coverage of core living expenses.

And the most complete version of that measure includes both:
- Direct Cash Flow — what your life produces today
- Indirect Cash Flow — what your assets can support tomorrow

Track both.
Measure both.
Watch them year over year.

Because the real question is not:

What are my assets worth on paper?

The real question is:

How well can my finances sustain my life, now and in the future, in a world of changing costs and changing purchasing power?

That is why I use Financial Security Coverage.

And my target is 3.0x.

That is my thesis.

My definition of Financial Security:
https://link.blossomsocial.com/7uYa/ir4906pb

Expanded post on cash flow:
https://link.blossomsocial.com/7uYa/i0eun8py

Expanded post on tracking living expenses:
https://link.blossomsocial.com/7uYa/qkgdki8p

Financial Control Part I — Emergency Cash:
https://link.blossomsocial.com/7uYa/k3e80c3w
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Brian Tong
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Market News · 44m

Questrade IPO Centre
First come First Served

Questrade is allowing investors to invest in Polymarket and Stripe!

$5,000 minimum.

Eligible: pre-tax income over $75K (or $125K with spouse) in each of the last 2 years
or
Eligible: financial assets over $400K, net of related liabilities
Qualifying with a spouse: Ensure your marital status is up to date before submitting your documents.
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Zane
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Beginner Investors · 1h

The AI trade is not one trade. It's a stack. 🧱

⚡ POWER: $BE $WULF $TE
☁️ CLOUD: $NBIS $IREN $CRWV
💾 MEMORY: $MU $SNDK $SKHY
💡 PHOTONICS: $AAOI $LITE $CRDO $SIVEF
🤖 ROBOTICS: $CCXI $VPG $OUST $AMBA
🚁 DRONES: $ONDS $UMAC $LPTH

POWER feeds CLOUD. CLOUD runs on MEMORY. MEMORY moves on LIGHT. The robots and drones at the end are where the spend finally earns its keep.

Scarcity migrates up this stack. GPUs in 23. Memory in 25. Photonics now.

The question that pays: which layer runs short next? 👀
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Perry's PIIverse
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Passive Income · 7d

Heads UP - Changing my Blossom Handle
Hey everyone that follows me or interacts with me here in Blossom. Today I decided to make a branding name change on both my YOUTUBE and BLOSSOM identity. And I wanted you all to be aware in case some of you think after I change it - that someone is trying to copycat my account. THEY ARE NOT - THIS TIME. It's LEGIT!

So... over the past year, my youtube has grown substantially and the ecosystem of everything i create in my YouTube channel and even my persona here in Blossom has become bigger than just ME - PERRY. my "PIIVERSE" brand has become the identity of my entire INCOME INVESTING STRATEGY videos, posts, and talks. As such, I have already made the change in my YouTube (from the old PERRYPII) and now here in Blossom (from the old PERRYF) an aligned handle of PIIVERSE.

My YouTube channel now looks like https://www.youtube.com/@PIIverse
and my Blossom handle is now @piiverse

Transition is never easy but making this name change to PIIVERSE and aligning it across channels is strategically important. SO..... WELCOME TO THE PIIVERSE :)
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Beginner Investors · ⭐ Featured

Summaries of some of my favorite investing Books 💯
For those who don’t have the time
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ETFs · 2d

I quit investing in companies that are killing us.
I am selling all my $VEQT and switching to Wealthsimple direct indexing because it allows you to exclude certain stocks from your Index. Blackrock and Vanguard have separated us from thinking about how our investments can sometimes negatively impact the world without us knowing, because it’s all tucked away out of our sight.

I strongly believe that if everyone stopped simply buying the index without considering business ethics we would have a much better world. I know everyone just wants to make money,the good news is that if we all started doing this then the more ethical companies values would go up gaining more of the pie as these unethical companies fall out of the index.

I switched to direct indexing for all my Canadian and US index funds , essentially building my own ETF that is similar to VEQT, but I have carefully went through and exluded all Gambling Companies, any Oil & energy companies that don’t invest in renewables ($XOM Exxon Mobil, $CVX Chevron etc.) , as well as anything else that is obviously contributing to the degradation of our society and making us sick here in North America with processed garbage.
($MCD, $COLA, $PEP etc…)

If there are any other companies you find that are hurting our people, please let me know in the comments and why they don’t deserve our investment. I know $PLTR seems like a troublesome one I may have to exclude.

Together we can make the world a little bit better.
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Will W
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Beginner Investors · 7d

95% of The Way There...
Two days ago my portfolio hit $950K invested. Started 2026 at 806k imvested..

I don’t really celebrate every $50K milestone, but this one feels pretty cool.

I’m now 95% of the way to $1 million invested.

It’s taken me about 10 years to get here. I see people like @nettspend who contributes regularly at such a young age and know all those regular contributions, staying invested, and honestly, just letting time do its thing will fosure make younger folks on here millionares one day.

I remember when having $100K invested seemed like such a huge number. Now I’m sitting at $950K and getting pretty close to that $1M mark. Gonna have to celebeate some how..feel free to throw me ideas of how we should celebrate? haha

$50K to go. 👀

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XEQT logo

7.0% held

HHIS logo

8.0% held

VFV logo

0.0% held

MSTE logo

7.9% held

ULTY logo

5.6% held

VOO logo

0.0% held

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ROL logo

-1.32%

2.3% held

GLDN logo

+1.43%

0.0% held

SLVX logo

+0.00%

0.0% held

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OVL logo

+0.72%

14.0% held

TDAQ logo

+1.53%

10.4% held

GPIQ logo

+0.84%

13.5% held

QQQI logo

+0.84%

13.9% held

DRAM logo

+4.38%

0.0% held

SKHY logo

+7.66%

0.0% held

STX logo

+3.91%

0.0% held

MU logo

+5.47%

0.6% held

AMZN logo

-0.49%

10.0% held

SPMO logo

+1.00%

18.5% held

VOO logo

+0.67%

30.7% held

VGT logo

+1.14%

19.7% held

AMZN logo

-0.80%

0.0% held

AMAT logo

-5.54%

0.0% held

VFV logo

+0.50%

0.0% held

ZSP logo

+0.38%

0.0% held

QQC logo

+0.90%

0.0% held

HXQ logo

+0.66%

0.0% held

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SPYI logo

+0.20%

0.0% held

QQQI logo

+0.60%

0.0% held

BTCI logo

-0.28%

0.0% held

IAUI logo

+0.43%

0.0% held

If you had to bet, which will prove to be the stronger performer for the next 5 years?

$SPCX

$ANTH

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LUNR logo

+3.60%

37.9% held

How much cash flow coverage do you have VS living expenses

Below 1:1

1:1

1.5:1

2:1

3:1

73 votes · 4d left

BE logo

+4.15%

0.0% held

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+6.82%

0.0% held

MU logo

+1.83%

0.0% held

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+16.40%

0.0% held

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+0.00%

0.0% held

MCD logo

+0.00%

0.0% held

PEP logo

+0.00%

0.0% held

XOM logo

+0.00%

0.0% held

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