The dollar is heading for its worst year since 1973, falling more than 10% year-to-date while nearly every other major asset class explodes upward. Just last night, Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $125,000, pushing its total market value to $2.5 trillion, as Cryptopolitan reported. Gold is now close to $4,000 an ounce after […]
I’ve shifted most of my investments into EU/APAC assets and ETFs. The slope disjoint from before/after Terrific Tariff Time (when I pulled the trigger on swapping to that approach) is visible.
How do I do something like this? I have savings to be going to school for the next couple years in Europe but my money is all tied up in USD currently. It’s like watching someone shovel my savings into a fire. It’s going to be at least a month before I can get a bank account here to transfer my money over but I want to figure out how to get it out sooner
For a bank, I’ve transferred a few thousand to Wise and converted it to Euros. I’m up like 10% in about 7-8 months, compared to just leaving it as dollars.
For trading, just see what ETFs your brokerage offers that target EU/APAC/whatever other region you want to target. And furthermore, if you want to pick securities individually, do the research and ensure that they’re not US-based/traded securities. You can trade non-us stuff on most US brokerages.