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Quote from: Dorkylickjj on April 02, 2024, 04:50:33 PM

.....and other thigns like having an emergency fund which at times would take 3 months or 6months of income to build and having reserves and floats to carry around that would help us have a financial cushioin and maximise our investment in bitcoin.

I understand what you are saying, Dorkylickjj .. but it is still unclear..

Technically, you are correct.

An emergency fund it 3-6 months worth of income - yet more accurately, an emergency fund would be 3-6 months of expenses, and sure if you build up an amount of an emergency fund that is actually 3 months of your income, then it likely should end up going a little bit longer than 3 months - depending upon if you might be able to reduce your expenses during any actual emergency that would end up taking place... and if anyone ends up having an actual emergency, he likely is going to dread if he were to ONLY have 3 months and wished that he were to have more, yet we know that it likely tends to take quite a bit of resources to build up an emergency fund, even one as small as 3 months.. yet it is something that really provides a lot of security and ability to take greater risks and to be more aggressive in terms of investing into something like bitcoin.. ..

Another thing is that many of us likely imagine that if we are brand new to investing and we are living in a way similar to many people, we might start out with only 2-4 weeks worth of float, reserves and/or emergency funds, and so we might have frequently considered that 2-4 weeks is quite a bit of "extra cash" just sitting around and just there for various shortages in cashflow, and we might be able to get by for years and years and years with such pracices of sparsely maintaining savings and/or any emergency fund.

So if we are wanting to build up our current emergency fund, float, reserves to be at least 3 months and likely to have a bit more than 3 months in there, then it well could take us 6-18 months to build it up to such higher levels.. .. just depending on how much discretionary income that we have and if we might simultaneously be wanting to get started investing into bitcoin and building our emergency fund, reserves and float at the same time that we are making our earliest investments into bitcoin and sat stacking.

I think I'm getting closer to having a better understanding of this, the larger your emergency fund is the more financial cushioin you have for investing into bitcoin and let's say that I have been building up an emergency fund for up three months from my income like about 5% going into that and I'm investing a total of 15% weekly into bitcoin, then my emergency funds would actually need a higher time to mature to be a good financial cushioin for me in my investing or do you feel its a good idea to make them equal, allocating equal amount to both building up emergency funds and investing in bitcoin, since my investment is technically unsafe if I don't have a good emergency fund, and yeah I'm just well above 20, still in collage so I don't think I can cut down my expenses any further than I am able to.

You are right; a good emergency fund will help you hold your bitcoin for the long term because it will be enough to take care of your unforeseen problems, and you will not think about selling your bitcoin to solve those problems. Since you are still in college, I will advise you to reduce the money you will be using to accumulate Bitcoin weekly to 10% and increase your emergency money to 10% so that it will be enough to care for your unforeseen problems and allow you to hold your bitcoin for the long term.

Yes I agree with you @mayor of ogba, allocating 10% to his investment is a good idea considering the fact that he is not financially strong enough to go beyond that which May affect his investment by being stranded along the road, having certain level of preparedness as regards to building up a strong emergency funds is actually what will help you not to depend on your investment to solve emergencies, it is better to go wimpy as low as 10% than having a retarded investment growth or being cut out along the line.