Day 31: Success!
I've noticed various posts talking about the stock market positively and when I pulled prices in my accounting software (doesn't require me to actually look at the prices) I did notice my net worth moved up. Alright, so let's take a look, I'm assuming we're at 3000+. Yesterday's close was 3037.56. Cool. And the 30th was 3046.77, a new high. Neat. A little anticlimactic, I guess, as that is only a 2% change compared to the end of September. A good month, for sure, but nothing mind blowing. Ignoring the stock market insulated me from a couple ~3% dips last month, so that was nice to not think about.
The headlines that came up when I checked were pretty amusing. Two from MarketWatch, one saying the market is going up and another saying why it went down. Useless news.
I am quite happy with this experiment. I am going to try and only check the S&P 500 with purpose and sparingly going forward and I'll do it in private browsing mode so I don't get it suggested when I am casually browsing.