I opened the app at 6:57 in the morning. Nothing else had started yet. I was not looking for anything. My thumb just went there.
The total amount is hidden. I turned that setting on myself, some time ago, and I have never turned it off. So the first thing I see is not money. It is a dashed line where the money should be, and a percentage next to it.
The percentage says the whole thing is up more than fifty percent since I started. The graph goes up from left to right. There are small dips in it, and I remember almost none of them.
Everything is green except the bonds. The bonds are the safe part, the part I bought so that I would not have to worry, and they are the only ones losing. I looked at that for a while. I did not reach any conclusion about it.
The dollar is 163 yen this morning. So part of that rising line is not really rising. It is the yen getting smaller under it. I know this. It does not change the shape of the graph on my screen.
I keep waiting to feel something. Proud, maybe, or nervous. Neither one comes. The number is bigger than it was. Whether that is good or bad, I honestly cannot say.
I closed the app and went to make coffee. It is up. That’s all.