June 2015 – net worth and expenses
June is over. Lets start with the good side: the expenses were very good with only 2.6k. But our net worth took an almost 5% hit. The recent up move followed by a sharp decline on Monday was really painful to my options positions. Compared to the end of last month I lost about 17.3k. In the net worth calculation the loss is not that big, because I now get some tax money back (at least virtually). I had another bad month last year in October. This time I’m feeling better.
- brokerage accounts 179.3k (+7.7k)
- mutual funds 0 (-25.7k)
- cash 12.7k (+2.8k)
- alternative investments 30.1k (-0.2k)
- taxes -3.2k
- total 218.9k (-10.9k)
The gain in the brokerage accounts is misleading. I sold all mutual funds and put 25k into my brokerage account. The next step is to open a new account and start investing in ETFs.
Monthly expenses
- January 2.5k
- February 2.7k
- March 2.7k
- April 3.2k
- May 3.5k
- June 2.6k
Expenses were really good (means: low). Nothing extra ordinary this month. We had some higher than usual expenses for petrol. Also, in a few days I will be posting a summary for my June project – non-essential expenses. I can reveal here, that the amount will be around 800 Euros, which is not that much different from my figure after the first few days.
Side note: I changed something (really just a minor thing) compared to all other net worth reports. Did you notice it?
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