{% extends "base.html" %} {% block title %}{{ _("Stages") }} · Wealth Dashboard{% endblock %} {% block heading %}{{ _("The three stages") }}{% endblock %} {% block lede %}
{{ _("Early on, what you put in is what grows the pile. Later the two pull together. Later still the return on what is there outweighs anything you could add, and the pile carries itself. One ratio tells them apart: what the market does in a year against what you put in in a year.") }}
{% endblock %} {% block content %} {% set names = {1: _("Saving builds it"), 2: _("Saving and returns pull together"), 3: _("Compounding carries it")} %} {% set blurbs = { 1: _("A year of returns is less than half of what you put in. The monthly amount is the lever; the return barely moves the needle yet. Keep it boring and keep it up."), 2: _("A year of returns and a year of savings are of the same order — anywhere from half to twice each other. The crossover, where they are equal, is here. Both levers matter now, and a bad year can undo a year of saving."), 3: _("A year of returns is more than twice what you put in. The pile carries itself; what you add is a rounding error against what the market does. From here on, the risk you carry matters more than the amount you save.") } %} {% macro ratio_chip(r) %}{% if r is none %}—{% else %}{{ '%.2f' | format(r) }}×{% endif %}{% endmacro %} {% set st = projected.stage %}{{ blurbs[st] }}
{% endif %}| {{ _("Year") }} | {{ _("Start of year") }} | {{ _("Put in") }} | {{ _("Market did") }} | {{ _("Ratio") }} | {{ _("Stage") }} | {{ _("End of year") }} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{ y.year }} | {{ money(y.opening, base_currency) }} | {{ money(y.put_in, base_currency) }} | {{ money(y.returns, base_currency) }} | {{ ratio_chip(y.ratio) }} | {% if y.stage %}{{ _f("Stage {n}", n=y.stage) }}{% else %}—{% endif %} | {{ money(y.closing, base_currency) }} |
{{ _("Monthly compounding at the rate given, contributions at the end of each month — the same arithmetic as the Forecast. A rate is an assumption, not a promise: the world's stock market has averaged about 7 % a year over a century, with decades on either side of it.") }}
| {{ _("Year") }} | {{ _("Start of year") }} | {{ _("Put in") }} | {{ _("Paid out") }} | {{ _("Market did") }} | {{ _("Ratio") }} | {{ _("Stage") }} | {{ _("End of year") }} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{ y.year }}{% if y.partial %}{{ _("so far") }}{% endif %} | {{ money(y.opening, base_currency) }} | {{ money(y.put_in, base_currency) }} | {{ money(y.income, base_currency) if y.income else '—' }} | {{ money(y.returns, base_currency) }} | {{ ratio_chip(y.ratio) }} | {% if y.stage %}{{ _f("Stage {n}", n=y.stage) }}{% else %}—{% endif %} | {{ money(y.closing, base_currency) }} |
{{ _("Market did is the value at the end of the year minus the value at the start minus what went in, plus the dividends and interest paid out — everything the money did that you did not do. A single year says little: a bad year in stage 3 looks like stage 1, and that is the point of stage 3.") }}
{% else %}{{ _("No securities records yet.") }}
{% endif %}