Vanguard account opened!

After much contemplation, I finally opened up a Vanguard account today for investing purposes. It was hard to decide to do it, especially after receiving an email from my credit union that let me know about a 7 month CD that pays 5.6% APY. 5.6% guaranteed vs. trying to do better with a Vanguard account? Well, I did say that I wanted to gamble more in my life, right? So here goes!

I put an equal amount of money in the following seven index funds:

• Total stock market index
• Small-cap index
• Value index
• Mid-cap value index
• Small-cap value index
• European stock market index
• REIT

Other than this, I'm going to keep a reasonable amount in my EmigrantDirect account for easy access and put the rest in that 7 month CD at Lockheed.

We'll see how things progress!