Can You Build Wealth With the Price of Two Coffees a Week?
One of my favorite investment approaches has always been strategies that allow flexibility in stock selection. Buying solid companies at reasonable prices and receiving dividends on top of that is a bonus many investors underestimate.
Whenever I say that long-term wealth can be built with the cost of just two coffees a week, many of my friends laugh.
That’s fine. Everyone is free to laugh usually at their own expense.
That’s fine. Everyone is free to laugh usually at their own expense.
Here on the blog, we’ve already examined how a monthly investment of €200–300 behaves over time. In a previous post, I also explored how dangerous active trading can be if you lack experience,
discipline, or simply the luck that markets sometimes demand.
When talking about investing, it’s important to put returns into perspective.
When talking about investing, it’s important to put returns into perspective.
A professional investor who consistently achieves 35–40% annual returns is already considered exceptional. In reality, even significantly lower returns are still excellent — especially when you consider that around 85% of CFD traders lose money within their first three years and often leave the markets altogether because of it.
That’s why the most valuable thing we can do is analyze our own investments and learn from both success and failure.
The goal is to build sustainable returns with as few trades as possible, allowing dividends and time to do most of the work.
Any changes are reflected within a maximum of five minutes.
What’s the Plan?
That’s why the most valuable thing we can do is analyze our own investments and learn from both success and failure.
What Can Two Coffees a Week Really Build?
In this experiment, I’m exploring what can be achieved with:- the cost of two coffees per week
- a small selection of carefully chosen stocks
- modest dividend income
- occasional, limited trading
- and above all, a strong focus on DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging)
The goal is to build sustainable returns with as few trades as possible, allowing dividends and time to do most of the work.
Important Disclaimer
All investments shown in the table below are live investments, displayed at real-time market prices directly on the blog.Any changes are reflected within a maximum of five minutes.
Please note:
- All positions are taken on a real trading account
- Gains and losses are entirely my own
- This content does not constitute financial advice
- Copying or imitating the strategy is done strictly at your own risk.
There’s no secret here.
The objective is to generate returns with minimal trading activity, while prioritizing dividend income and disciplined capital allocation.
This isn’t about getting rich quickly.
It’s about building something realistic, repeatable, and sustainable even if you start with nothing more than the price of two coffees a week.
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