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Mine is matrix homeservers maintenance [0], but it's not 100% passive, requires around 1-2 hours per week. Service "just started", so income is quite low for now. [0] https://etke.cc
You have yourself a testimonial, that made me chuckle! Being your own customer is fun though.
Sadly, not every customer wants to post review, because of privacy. I understand them, tho
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Would you mind elaborating on why you dislike ETFs? From my point of view, they provide retail trades the opportunity easily to allocate a portfolio among various sectors. Does your dislike of ETFs extend to "old-school" mutual funds, or is there something about ETFs in particular that turns you off of them?
The criticism is that they do not lead to efficient allocation of capital (the point of the stock market) but rather a feedback loop where the ETF fund has to buy TSLA and AMZN because they are in the top 500, and that makes them worth even more, keeping the in the 500s forever, and not because they produce value and were deemed a good choice by a professional investor that did his due diligence, but simply because o…
I’ve got a share portfolio that generates a couple bucks a day in short share lending. Literally just tick a box to give broker permission. Nothing is risky free but looked into it and as best as I can tell it’s a pretty good deal. No inconvenience, not much risk etc
The problem with this though is that you are giving ammunition to those shooting at you. If their gambit succeeds (shorting), the value of your shares diminish. The net effect of doing this might not be entirely visible as a "smaller fish in the pond", but it is there none-the-less.
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Additionally, BlockFi pays 8.6% APY on stablecoins. If you have any BTC, ETH, or LTC, they'll pay interest on those as well. Normally interest is paid in like-kind (e.g. a BTC balance generates BTC interest), but with the Flex option, you could have interest from all balances paid as one token. I chose to have everything paid in GUSD stablecoin, for instance, primarily to make figuring out taxes easier.
BlockFi's interest is a very attractive offer, but the risks you're exposed to aren't very transparent. What could happen that would impact the exchange rate of this 'Stable coin'? What risks exactly is one taking on for the 8.6% interest?
Never worth the risk unless there is a legal insurance provided by the government which there isn’t.
Other say how landlord ON USA are not that passive, but maybe do it in other countries? Here in Colombia being landlord is very good, because most use an agency that manage the property (collect the money and do some basic fixes). I probably have called the actual owner 1 or 2 times in a decade for approval for some fixes.
In Finland you don't buy apartments/flats, instead you buy a share of the company that owns the block. The housing-company takes a fee every month which is used for common-repairs, replacing the roof, etc. If you rent out your flat the tenant pays for their own insurance to protect their possessions, and the housing-company takes care of things like leaks, broken windows, etc. So being a landlord is mostly hands-off.…
Another problem, at least here in Sweden, is that the law prohibits making an "unreasonable" gain on rentals so you can't compensate on bad periods by raising the rent.
Buy crypto, and lend it at 20-1000% apy using something like harvest.finance
https://news.bitcoin.com/defi-protocol-harvest-finance-hacke...
I’ve got a share portfolio that generates a couple bucks a day in short share lending. Literally just tick a box to give broker permission. Nothing is risky free but looked into it and as best as I can tell it’s a pretty good deal. No inconvenience, not much risk etc
The problem with this though is that you are giving ammunition to those shooting at you. If their gambit succeeds (shorting), the value of your shares diminish. The net effect of doing this might not be entirely visible as a "smaller fish in the pond", but it is there none-the-less.
The causality here seems kinda confusing. People shorting an equity doesn't make it go down automagically. They don't have control over that.
They might be right that the stock will go down, but more likely, the shares are going to be used by someone riding trends of some sort.
If you're a long term investor, you don't care about short term trends. If you're planning on holding the stock for _years_, regardless of the performance over the next few months, then it's a nice way to generate income, and with less risk than doing something like selling Covered Calls on them.
I’m doing some eBay arbitrage for about $200 a month profit but I’m just starting. I call it arbitrage as I buy at consumer prices from a store online and sell on eBay for a profit. I profit even when paying listing fees, shipping and PayPal fees.
Publish books on Amazon. I've published 4 and make about $3k in profit per month, after paying for ads on amazon. Don't write them yourself, that's a lot of work. Instead, do key word research about what books sell in non-fiction categories (fiction is a whole different ballgame). Look for keywords that 1) auto complete in the amazon search bar, and 2) have less than 4,000 matching books, and 3) have an average Amazo…
Start a blog. I spent minimal effort making 5 blog posts a few years ago and it already pays for the cost of the domain through ads. Imagine what revenue 100 blog posts, or 1000 would bring in. https://www.codingwithricky.com/