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This isn't legal or financial advice, I'm a big nobody with life experience to share.
**First, go see a doctor and get a physical. Get standard bloodwork done, a lipid panel, kidney panel, the usual stuff. Nothing fancy. If you don't have health insurance, now you can afford the shit.** Teenagers to 30yos tend to not really go to the doctor until something feels wrong. Because seeing the doctor and getting tests is expensive af. **This is stupid now because you now have lots of money, so start prioritizing your medical health. Because so many of the leading causes of death today have almost zero symptoms until it is too late.** For example, colon cancer has almost zero symptoms until you are in the later stages and it's spread everywhere. It used to be a disease you keep an eye out for until your 60s. Now, people in their 20s and 30s are getting it. Due to a bunch of reasons, Americans eating less than half of the recommended daily amount of fiber, all the microplastics we ingest, all the inflammation we get in our food,. A simple risk assessment and colonoscopy catches that shit fast and early. Or how about hypertension or kidney failure, you have almost zero symptoms until it's too late and you're dead in your 30s. Just talking to a doctor and getting simple bloodwork done catches this shit early and easy. Cost is no longer an excuse for you. Physicals are covered by insurance under Obamacare anyway, so are colonoscopies, so there you go.
**Second, go buy yourself this thing called personal umbrella insurance.** It is super cheap, I pay about $70/month for mine. And it's fast and easy to buy. It's something broke people will never have to worry about, so be happy it's in your life now. **Personal umbrella insurance protects you from lawsuits by parasites by adding millions of dollars in personal liability coverage above the policy limits of your auto, renters and/or homeowners insurance.**
Your shitty auto, renters and homeowners policies have limits of a couple hundred thousand dollars max. You're a target now, you have substantially more money than most folks around you. If someone slips and falls at your place, if you get into a wreck, if someone accuses you of sexual assault and so forth, they are going to sue you. Their attorney is going scour your background and when they find out your assets and realize you have tons of money, they will go after way more than if you were some broke nobody. **Umbrella insurance protects you from bankruptcy through bullshit civil lawsuits.** I've personally seen way too many successful small business owners and doctors lose what they've built in nonsense negligence lawsuits.
**Third, don't make yourself an easy target. Keep your goddamn mouth shut about your profits.** Don't tell any friends or coworkers. Don't tell anyone in your family, not even your parents or siblings. They'll see you living better and spending more on them, just be honest and say you had a good year trading and avoid specifics. Or just lie and say you had a good year at work. Whatever. **There is one exception - if you come from a family of wealth or run with people who are wealthy. Then talking about it carries far less risk of problems. Unless they like to run their mouths to others. That's for you to decide.**
Momentarily feeling good by telling the people you love in your life is not worth the headaches it will generate down the line. People without any hope of improving their situation tend to resent the people of their lives who are able to. I've have people in my life who went from middle class to wealthy and who don't speak to their families anymore because they act like they are their personal piggy bank. They have no problems in the world now because they have money.
Personally, I haven't told my parents or any friends or partners. My parents have no clue. They know I do well and live comfortably. That's good enough for them and they don't pry. I've never really been with anyone financially well off for an extended period of time, so it's never gotten to the point of us needing to talk about finances. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
**TLDR - First, go see a doctor and get bloodwork and a physical, you can afford healthcare now, dummy. Second, buy umbrella insurance. Third, keep you mouth shut about your tendies.**